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Carl's Jr. Restaurants - We Didn't Invent Messy Food

Air Date/Released Saturday, October 31, 1998
Station/Studio Commercial
Featuring Miscellaneous Appearances

November 1998 Carl's Jr. fast food charbroiled burger restaurants launched four 30-second commercials featuring The Three Stooges. The boys' antics are climaxed with Carl's slogans "We didn't invent messy food, we just perfect it," and "If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face."

The commercial for the Super Star sandwich features clips of the pastry fight from THREE SAPPY PEOPLE (1939), plus a montage of quick clips from others. In addition to THREE SAPPY PEOPLE (1939), included are…

“If it doesn’t get all over the place, it doesn’t belong in your face.”
DUTIFUL BUT DUMB (1941), IDIOTS DELUXE (1945), G. I. WANNA HOME (1946), CRASH GOES THE HASH (1944), PARDON MY SCOTCH (1935), BUSY BUDDIES (1944), IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE (1941) and AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE (1941)

“We didn’t invent messy food, we just perfect it.”
G. I. WANNA HOME (1946), TERMITES OF 1938 (1938), DIZZY DOCTORS (1937), HOI POLLOI (1935), SPOOK LOUDER (1943), FALSE ALARMS (1936), THREE PESTS IN A MESS (1945), UNCIVIL WAR BIRDS (1946), BUSY BUDDIES (1944), MUTTS TO YOU (1938) and MOVIE MANIACS (1936)


In The Three Stooges Journal # 137 (Spring 2011), in an interview with Adrian Booth Brian (aka Lorna Gray), she mentions this commercial. After it began airing, she filed a grievance with the SAG (Screen Actors Guild) and received a few thousand $ for her appearance.

Cast: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard
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