Rick nineg: In regard to the car/taxi blooper, it's possible that the professor who was about to call the taxi didn't know his colleague had driven his own car. If the other professor was about to say: "It's not necessary, my car is just across the street. You can ride with me." he was cut off by the encounter with Moe, Larry, and Curly.
The fans of the 3 Stooges typically didn't notice the bloopers nor did they care. The scenes were often so funny that you might miss the details while you're amused. Felix Adler must have been beside himself with amusement at how many of the scenes came off.
Hoi pilloi refers to the rich, snooty crowd. In the last scene Moe said this is our punishment for associating with the hoi pilloi. I had always heard it referring to the snobbish, snooty, better than thou crowd, not the working class people. Love your work, you certainly have a good eye to catch the bloopers.
I just watched have rocket will travel. They apparently recreated the party scene from this to end that movie. And no it wasn't just the same re-edited. The spring gag was joe derita.
AMAZING eyes & ears!!!!! I have watched this particular episode dozens of times, but somehow have never noticed the obvious..thank u for pointing them out tho, I loooove this type of thing!!
I love those three stooges series! So many good memories with my grandfather, thank you for posting these videos and bringing me back good ole memories. Keep up the awesome job!
Rick, 3:25 the Aspiration sculpture and fountain the Stooges dropped into. Built in honor of Rudolph Valentino. I pretty sure I learned it from one of your episodes.
rick nineg The Hollywood sign is particularly interesting. In 1935 it was spelled Hollywoodland sign. Are you able to zoom in in the original video that you have to see if you can make out any of the additional letters of the word “land” in the sign.
There's also another blooper in Hoi Polloi. In one scened where Moe is going behind a curtain after Curly (I believe)...if you listen to the audio, you can hear a woman off camera vocally slating the scene. I've listened to it countless times trying to figure out what she's saying but it's very noticable.
Larry said in one of his last interviews that his face was like leather and had so sensation after all the slaps. Take a look at 4:15 Now thats a SLAP.
I remember seeing Hoi Polloi, Half-Wits Holiday, and Pies and Guys in the same Stooges TV marathon when I was a kid, and being confused at first because I thought they were replaying the same short. Then I realized that they'd just made three slight variations of the exact same story. 😆
Phillis Crane doesn’t trip on Larry’s shoe. If you look closely Moe trips over the shoe and pulls down Phyllis as he is holding onto her. Btw, I totally adored Phyllis Crane. I think she was in 6 or 7 shorts. Hilarious when she played off Curly as in uncivil warriors.
Really loving your comments and research. Occasionally, you will name the exact street location where a scene was filmed. Since you are in LA, would it be feasible to get a photo of the same location as it looks today? Perhaps the neighborhoods have changed so much that there would be resemblance. At any rate, it is an idea. I know you put an incredible amount of work into your channel. Thanks. It makes us all more hopeful!
it was already done last year. Since I can't post a link here, search above under "Filming Locations - Three Little Beers Three Stooges". It shows the entire short in black and white, but stops and shows the color shot of the location today. It was very interesting.
To be fair, the Stooges got the plot from Pygmalion, and so did Trading Places. The Stooges also remade this short themselves. Twice. Twelve years after Hoi Polloi, they filmed the same story again as Half-Wits Holiday, and then again eleven years after that as Pies and Guys.
there's something else you didn't mention in the scene with the dance instructor. When they jump out the window and fall in the fountain it's obvious that it'3 4 dummies.
Them reading the book like a lad was then done again with curly in half wits holiday on May 6 1946 but released in 1947 then they did the scene again but with joe besser instead of curly
I never knew that fall was due to the lady tripping over Larry's shoe. I thought it was scripted. I rarely caught fishing lines but sometimes I could see them. However, I always knew when a stuntman was used. If anything happened to the Stooges it held up production so they were used often. :o)
Rick, can you imagine the beating their bodies took while doing vaudeville? Good thing they were young when doing it. At least in shorts they had stuntmen and sound effects. :o)
@@ricknineg If you pause the video at 3:54 and go to the last frame before the cut, you can see a wig come off the lady. This leads me to believe it was a stunt woman and a planned gag. (You also can't see her face when the cut begins, which is also probably because she's a stunt woman).
Curly had a stroke during the filming of this episode which ended his acting career and a few years later died. Moe talked about it on a Mike Douglas interview.
How different Stooge history would've been if Curly did suffer that career-ending stroke in 1935 instead of 1946. Especially if, as was the case 10 years later, Curly's performance had been impaired by poor health leading up to the stroke.
@KenKurkowski , yes, but Curly's stroke wasn't part of the plot. Moe made a mistake, an understandable mistake, and @Dirtblasterscarpetcleaning repeated it as though it must be fact because Moe said it. Moe gave quite a bit of misinformation in that interview. He was telling entertaining stories, not facts. But people assume he was being factual. Many books and articles quoted Moe's erroneous timeline about the Stooges' formative years with Ted Healy uncritically, never doing any research to verify his dates or versions of events.
@@kevinwachs5905I didn't think Half-Wits Holiday reused footage from Hoi Polloi...but the third time they filmed this story, Pies and Guys, did reuse footage from Half-Wits Holiday.
Mr. Nineg... I have been watching the Stooges for over 60 years. My favorites... But I would like to discuss with you some interesting Stooge 'happenings' that I am sure that you would not have thought of. I actually started a book in regard to the lads.... Not sure how to contact you. Facebook... or another way. Don't want to give out my email address here. Thanks .... hope to hear back from you.
Oh Rick, I sent you an email through You Tube, but I'm going to ask here right in front of everybody so you HAVE to consider what I'm about to ask: Can you do either a whole video or at least a segment on Symona Boniface? She is the most unappreciated straight-person in the history of the entire Three Stooges series - and God knows how many pies she got hit with. And not only that, her grave wasn't even marked until 2005 - 55 years after she left us. I think a video tribute would be the right thing to do.
+cadauctions31 This is incorrect. He had many strokes but the one that essentially stopped him from working was after Half Wits Holiday, not Hoi Polloi. The Half Wits borrowed stock footage from Polloi.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lm6F5-qYONo.html Go to 6:06 Moe howard is on the Mike Douglas Show, and he says he had a stroke right at the end of a picture his wife wrote called Hoi Palloi. Then he goes on to say that they tried to get his spirits up but they couldn't, so Shemp came in.
cadauctions31 Curly had a stroke on Half Wits Holiday. Here's is the info from The Three Stooges website: threestoogespictures.info/half-wits-holiday-starring-the-three-stooges/
cadauctions31 Poor Moe mistook Hoi Polloi with Half Wits Holiday. Hoi Polloi was made in 1935, and Half Wits Holiday in 1946. The two shorts had the same plot. It’s well known that Curly’s stroke occurred during the filming of Half Wits Holiday.
