Stooge Goofs and Technical Blunders

Episode Title	Released	Featuring	No. of Goofs
SOUP TO NUTS	1930-09-28	Ted Healy and His Stooges	1 goofs
When Ted and the Stooges leave after breaking the window of a tailor shop, the stuttering tailor yells "You have to buy me a new mirror!"Â� Shouldn't he have said "window"Â�, not mirror?
NERTSERY RHYMES	1933-07-06	Ted Healy and His Stooges	3 goofs
During the "Woman in the Shoe" sequence, a woman is center stage singing, and dancers are passing her on each side and ascending a staircase. One dancer is wearing a three-cornered hat and carrying a tray of food. In the long shot, he passes the singer by and heads for the stairs. The next shot is a closeup, and he passes her by again. In the opening sequence, Curly insists on a bedtime story, and Ted strikes Curly onÂ the forehead with the open palm of his hand knocking Curly backwards and waking up Larry and Moe. No sound effect accompanied the strike. Then, Ted bops Curly on the head 4 times with his fist, and each time a musical "bong" sound is heard. The fifth time, he once again strikes Curly on the forehead with the open palm of his hand, but this time the "bong" soundÂ IS heard. During the "Turn of a Fan" number, the center fan is composed of 15 lovely ladies arranged in a 180 degree arc across the stage - 7 on the left, 7 on the right, and one standing straight up in the middle. Then, the closeup of the center fan shows only 13 ladies in an approximate 150 degree arc - 6 on the left, and 6 on the right of the one in the middle.
BEER AND PRETZELS	1933-08-26	Ted Healy and His Stooges	2 goofs
During the opening scenes, Ted spies Bonny as she is passing by, then wistfully for a few seconds after she passes by, then quips to Larry, "You haven't got long to live, son". The scene immediately cuts to Ted and Bonny walking arm-in-arm with the boys close behind. After the boss catches Healy and the Stooges singing and eating the customer's food, they stand up and Ted blames Curly and slaps him. Then Ted says "Don't talk back to me"Â� and is about to slap Curly again, but the camera cuts to the next shot before the slap happens and Ted's arms are suddenly to his side.
ROAST-BEEF AND MOVIES	1934-02-10	Curly Howard (Solo)	2 goofs
The opening scene show the transom over the door being opened and a private conversation drifts out, but then the scene cuts to inside the room and there is no one at the doorway shown opening the transom. During the "Chinese Dance" sequence, the overhead shots of the ladies moving in-and-out of the inner and outer circles of dancers reveals a circle painted on the dance floor that is the median circle between the two dancers circles.
CORN ON THE COP	1934-04-28	Shemp Howard (Solo)	1 goofs
After our tramps make the wrong assumption that the house they are searching for is the apartment of the angry policeman, they immediately enter, finding the exterior door unlocked. The very next scene shows the angry cop's wife opening the door to the tramps revealing a picture-lined hallway in the background. There is NO indication of a doorbell or knocking as she is answering the door, but the hallway beyond indicates that her front door does NOT face the street, suggesting an apartment.
WOMAN HATERS	1934-05-05	Moe, Larry and Curly	11 goofs
When the camera is panning over to Moe and Curly as old men, you can see the shadow of a boom mike in the background. At the end while Larry is singing "My Life, My Love, My All"Â�, you can see Moe elbowing Curly (apparently to let him know that another hit is coming). In a scene when the boys take Larry away from his wife... Moe offers to take her back to her room because she is not feeling well. As they go inside, look at Curly's pants... they're split. In the next scene they're fixed. When the Stooges leave Mary's room, Mary opens her mouth and is going to say something, but it suddenly cuts to Curly doing his funny walk down the hallway. In the scene where Marjorie White is trying to hide Curly, she throws her hat up to the top berth, but it accidentally falls back down and she has to throw it up again. At the end when Larry walks in asking to join the Woman Haters club, his coat is unbuttoned, but then in the next shot, his coat is buttoned suddenly and he is now wearing a "W.H."Â� pin on it. During the Stooges' fight at the beginning in the Woman Haters Club, Moe's coat is buttoned at first, but the camera cuts to another shot and his coat is unbuttoned suddenly. When the Stooges fall out of the berth together, Larry actually broke a finger in real life. In the scene with Larry and Mary (Marjorie White) singing "My Life, My Love, My All"Â�, Larry is supposed to sing the line "And when I'm finished with my crooning"Â� by himself, but Marjorie White sings it along with him at first, then quickly stops. As the conductor (Walter Brennan) is walking off-camera after the Stooges initiate him for the Woman Haters Club, you can see Brennan trip on the floor before getting out of the camera view. You can see a scar on Larry's nose throughout the whole short.
PUNCH DRUNKS	1934-07-13	Moe, Larry and Curly	15 goofs
As Curly knocks Casey Columbo up onto the fan, the restaurant door behind him is closed. As the shot moves to Columbo on the fan, the door is open. When the camera returns to Curly again, the door is closed. During this very short sequence, no one appears at the door, either in or out, to account for it. During the scenes as Curly's being hit, then punching Moe and the boxers, all the other background customers, and their tables and chairs, appear and disappear as the camera shots change. When Moe and Curly run up to Larry in the lake, Curly accidentally slips and falls back in the water. When the wheel of the car crunches Moe's foot, he yells "My foot!"Â� but his mouth doesn't move. Although not visible at first above the wall cabinet containing the cash register, the restaurant clock is stuck at 12 o'clock throughout all the intial restaurant scenes. When the referee is introducing Curly "K.O. Stradivarius"Â� before the fight, in the projected background of the audience behind him, you can see one audience member stick his middle finger up at the camera twice. Apparently, the editors weren't watching so carefully"Â¦ During the scenes where Curly's being abused by Moe and the boxers, and when Curly knocks out the boxers, the place is in an uproar, with other customers running away to avoid being caught up in the mayhem. But Casey Columbo, the restaurant manager who, just a minute earlier, was upset about Curly being late for work, calmly does his paper work while all the mayhem is in progress, and only comes over to Curly after it's all over. When Moe and Curly are helping Larry out of the water, Larry's violin is floating away from him in the water, but in the next shot, the violin is in his hand. When Larry has a radio on his head and crashes into the wall, the radio is placed on his head differently than it was in the previous shot. In the initial restaurant scenes, a hat rack is located near the door, with a dark-color hat on a top peg, and a light-color hat on a lower peg. As the next few camera shots occur, the light-color hat moves from one peg to another on its own. As Curly hears the 'weasel' tune for the first time, the hat rack no longer has any hats on it, and it's been moved away from the door where it first seen. In the next couple of camera cuts, as the people scatter during the fight, the hats are back on different pegs before a customer grabs the light-color hat as he runs away. In the beginning of the short as the camera zooms in towards Moe while he's talking, his hands are empty, then it cuts to another camera angle and he suddenly has a fork in one of his hands. The man who falls off the back of the truck when Larry drives it away ended up breaking his leg from the fall in real life. When Moe and his gang of boxers are beating up Curly, the first punch sound effect is played too early. Listen closely while Larry high-tails it down the street searching for a means to supply Curly with "Pop Goes the Weasel" music. You will hear a conversation in the background. If you miss it the first time, don't worry...they show that scene a total of 3 times in this short! At the end, we see several unconscious people scattered across the ring next to Killer Kilduff, but they didn't show how those people got there.
MEN IN BLACK	1934-09-28	Moe, Larry and Curly	10 goofs
When the Stooges emerge from the store room riding the horse, the shadow from a boom microphone appears on the wall on the left side of the screen. After the boys are in Dr. Graves' office the second time, they're called over the loud speaker to leave. As they rush to exit, each has a wooden mallet in his hand, & Curly is swinging his arms up & down quickly. As they leave, Moe & Larry are still holding a mallet, but as Curly reaches for the door to exit, he's still seen swinging his arms, but his mallet is already in the cloth holders on the leg of his scrub pants, apparently because the script called for him to close the door, & it might've been tough to do so with the mallet in his hand. When Dr. Graves is ordering the Stooges to go to Room 81, Larry is standing right next to Graves, then in the next shot he's suddenly halfway outside the door already. When the janitor sees the Stooges rushing towards Dr. Graves' office, he kindly shatters the glass on the door to let the boys jump through. Moe and Larry jump through, but Curly actually puts his hand on the doorknob to open it, like his usual brainless self. But before he can open the door, the camera cuts over to the inside of the office and Curly is already inside the room suddenly. After the boys leave the superintendent's office for the second time, they run down the hallway into the store room, but Curly runs into the closed door & falls down. As he falls, his mallet pops out of the cloth holders on his scrub pants, & he leaves it there to go into the store room. Immediately afterwards, as the boys leave the store room on the horse, the mallet Curly dropped is no longer on the hallway floor, but it's back in the cloth holders on his scrub pants. When Moe sees the doctor's stethoscope, he says "Gimme that s...that thing there."Â� It sounds like he almost said "stethoscope"Â� but remembered that he was actually just supposed to refer to it as "that thing"Â�. In the emergency call 'calling all cars' scene, an orderly with a tiny cart passes in front of Moe, then rushes to the left on the other side of the water fountain as if going somewhere, then passes out of view. But, he went nowhere, because the place he went left into is the tiny alcove with the loudspeaker board, behind the nurse's desk. As the superintendent sends the boys out of his office to Room 81, the poor repair man is seen bending down in front of the door. As the boys run out & break the glass for the third time, the repair man stands up & turns around, appearing to show a large chunk of glass had ended up in his back right pocket. But, a closer look just before, & as, the boys break the glass, shows the reflection off that piece of glass already sticking out of the repair man's pocket before the glass is broken, especially as Moe runs past him. (Much easier to see in the colorized version) As the short begins, the clock in the upper left corner of the loud speaker call board starts off at 1:50 pm, goes to 2:40 pm quickly, then back to 1:50 pm for the rest of the short, where it's still seen at the end as the boys destroy the call board. When Moe gets off the horse, he accidentally kicks Larry in the back.
THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS	1934-12-08	Moe, Larry and Curly	15 goofs
When Lucille Ball hands the drink to Phyllis Crane she says "Here's one for you, Phyllis." When the Stooges meet up at the hill and are moving the automobile to retrieve Molly's hat, the shadow of the boom mike is visible against the cement wall to their left. At the beginning of the football game when the Stooges are passing the ball to each other over and over, at one part, Larry throws the ball towards Curly and just as he's about to catch it, the camera cuts to the next shot and the ball goes to Moe all of a sudden. When a passer-by says to Curly, "I haven't got a dime, it's the depression with me!"Â�, his lips aren't moving during the beginning of that line. After Curly and Larry tackle the referee, Larry asks "How's that, Moe?"Â�, but his lips don't move. When the Stooges are blindfolded and trying to find the girls, we can hear Curly going "Beep-beep!"Â� throughout the scene, but his mouth isn't moving to that sound. When the referee turns to Moe and says "Oh, he did eh?!"Â�, Larry has his helmet off, but in the next shot, his helmet is suddenly back on. When Curly and Larry are beginning to run up to the referee, Larry's helmet looks like it's about to accidentally fall off, but it's fully on in the next shot. When Larry is supposed to repeat "Okay"Â� over and over as Moe keeps barking him orders, he almost says "Yeah"Â� the first time. Right before Moe gets punched out by Joe Stacks, we see Moe with a dazed look on his face already as if Stacks did something to him prior to the punch, but they didn't show it. When the Stooges huddle by themselves, Moe is bent over with his feet standing on the ground, but when the camera shows a closer shot of the boys, Moe's now kneeling on the ground. Then when it goes back to the original shot, Moe's feet are standingon the ground again. When one of the gangsters punched Larry in the jaw, Larry actually chipped a tooth in real life as a result. Curly broke his leg in real life as a result from crashing inside the dumbwaiter. You can see wires in the back of the Stooges'pants when they're being shot in the behind. When the Stooges are spraying the three ladies with seltzer water, Phyllis Crane just stands there with a frozen expression and takes it, but after a few seconds, she realizes she's supposed to be laughing like the other two actresses are.
HORSES' COLLARS	1935-01-10	Moe, Larry and Curly	13 goofs
When Curly asks for the bottle, the bartender places the bottle next to Curly, but in the next shot, it's suddenly next to Moe. When Larry tosses up the $5 gold piece, a crew member's hand can be seen at the far top right of the screen tossing up the change. When Moe asks Decker "Got a $5 gold piece?"Â�, Curly's shirt is unbuttoned, but it's buttoned suddenly in the next shot. After Decker says "Thieves, huh?"Â�, you can hear an echo of that line. There is a noticeable cut in the film when Nell announces the Stooges as "Gentleman." Moe looks to his left and starts to acknowledge Curly, then there is a cut and Moe is glanced to his right. Perhaps there was a forgotten line or the cameraman forgot to stop the filming. When the ropes that Moe and Larry are tied to break, in the background you can see Decker unconscious with a drum busted over his head, yet they never showed how that happened. During Curly's first wild "Moe, Larry, the Cheese!"Â� outburst, he pushes Hyden Zeke's back into the wall, knocking him unconscious. Then a minute later when Zeke comes back to, he has a black eye, but Curly didn't even hit him in the eye. When the Stooges bow down to Nell, Moe bops Curly on the head, then all of a sudden, it cuts to Larry holding his face in disgust as Moe glares at him with a mean face as if he hit Larry, yet they didn't show it. After Decker shoots two people who won't pay for their drinks, the bartender goes to a chalk board that says "Decker: 115 - Opponents: 0"Â�, then he erases the "5"Â� in "115"Â� and puts in a "7"Â�, making it "117"Â�. However, a while later in the film when the Stooges ask the bartender for drink, the camera shows a close-up of the bartender and behind him, you can see the chalkboard and the number is suddenly back to "115"Â�. When Moe says "Take it easy, Butterfingers!"Â� and pokes Curly in the eyes, it looks like he really hit Curly's eyes (as opposed to poking his eyebrows like it's normally done). As the boys arrive in the bar & stiff the bartender for their drinks, Decker is seen to stand up to confront them. But as the camera angle changes, & although he already stood up once, Decker is seen to stand up again as the boys move farther away from the bar & he confronts them. When the Stooges are looking at the picture of the detective's wife, Curly has a pipe in his right hand, but in the next shot, it's in his left hand suddenly. You can see the wires holding Moe and Larry up as they're being hung by a rope.
RESTLESS KNIGHTS	1935-02-20	Moe, Larry and Curly	9 goofs
When Curly goes back to one of the guards to snap his finger at him, he accidentally slips and falls on the ground. There is a cut in the film when the stooges are untying the queen from in between the wine barrels. After the Stooges lose the sword fight and are led away by the guards, their swords are scattered all over the floor. Then Curly runs back, falls on the floor, and gloats at the guard. In the next shot when the guard chases Curly away, you can see that the swords have suddenly vanished! At the beginning when the Stooges show up from under the bed, Curly's hat looks like it's going to fall off, but in the next shot it's on correctly. When Curly elbows Larry on the head, Larry holds his head in pain, but in the next shot, his hands are suddenly on the ground. When the Stooges salute the queen, Larry misses his cue and salutes a little too late. Despite the episode's title, the Stooges are not knights, but musketeers! In the part after the Stooges escape their execution, when they stop running, Moe is standing closest to the left side of the screen, with Larry in the middle and Curly on the right end. Then the camera shows a quick shot of a hand from above dropping a jug and when it goes back to the Stooges, Curly is suddenly standing at the left end of the screen, and he is bending over for some unknown reason. As the opening music fades out, you can hear a faint squeak.
HIS FIRST FLAME	1935-03-09	Shemp Howard (Solo)	2 goofs
In the opening scene, Emmy is on a sidewalk bench reading a book about how to win a Man's heart. She then looks to her left and spies Smokey Moe. The scene cuts to Smokey Moe strolling down the walk, but he is approaching from her RIGHT, the opposite way she is looking. Smokey Moe is wearing his firejacket when responding to a fire at his own house. The scene cuts to Emmy catching cans of his "fire-putter-outer" powder from the upper floor. The scene then cuts back to Smokey Moe who has suddenly lost his jacket, which is now lying on the ground beside him.
POP GOES THE EASEL	1935-03-29	Moe, Larry and Curly	24 goofs
At the beginning of the short after Moe gets hit in the head by his placard and is whistling for Larry and Curly, you can see the shadow of the boom mike in the bottom left corner of the screen. A shadow of a boom mike is visible behind the stooges on the sidewalk just before the split to grab the brooms to start sweeping. A shadow of the boom mike is visible above Curly's head to the right as Moe drags Larry away by the hair after being rescued from the open window. A crew member can be seen in the reflection of the window where the little girls are playing hopscotch. A crew member is visible in the window of the "Sheet Music Store" in the scene when the boys enter and exit the Art Studio the first time. There is a cut in the film right before the stooges run out of the narrow doorway and trip up the cop with the broomstick, When Curly comes from behind the curtains dressed up as a woman, the detective has a cigar in his mouth, but it's suddenly gone in the next shot. When Moe gives the sign to the other peasant and leaves, you can see a man in the background coming across the street and walking to his car while putting his coat on. Then in the next shot, the man and his car in the background are suddenly gone. After Curly says "You're the cause of this!"Â�, Moe says "What about it?!"Â�, then Curly is supposed to hit him in the face with clay. But Moe can be seen closing his eyes in anticipation way before the hit. As Moe is asking Larry and Curly if they found a job, his tie accidentally falls off. When the man Moe gave his street sign to gets a job instead of him, Moe punches himself. The man throws the sign out of the car window, facing up, with the writing facing one way, but when it hits Moe a second later, it's still facing up, but turned around 180 degrees. At the outset of the wet clay fight, it is between Moe and Larry. Curly's artist robe is clean. Larry throws a wad at Moe who ducks and the wad splats on Curly's forehead. The shot shows the splat, but also a dark wet stain on the breast of his artist robe. During the entire sequence, Curly was never struck with a clay blob on the breast of his robe. The spot just magically appears. After the man says to Curly, "I wouldn't worry about it; it still tastes the same"Â�, he and Curly both turn their heads and look at something off-screen with strange looks on their faces, but it cuts to the next scene before we can see what they were looking at. When Curly throws a blob of clay, it cuts to the next shot and we see it hit a model. Something must've been cut in between those two parts because the same model could be seen in the background right behind the Stooges when the clay was thrown, and Curly didn't throw the clay toward the model, so how did it hit her? When Larry asks "How are we gonna get outta here without ruinin' this paint job?"Â�, the door behind the Stooges is not painted. Then the camera shows the detective opening the door from outside and when it shows the Stooges again, the door behind them is suddenly painted. According to a comment by BeAStooge on the message board, a scene explaining the painted door was cut from the final print. In the scene when the boys first start slinging clay at each other, you can see the woman modeling in the background trying not to laugh several times. When the Stooges are running through buckets, Moe accidentally slips on the last bucket. When Larry asks "How are we gonna get outta here without ruinin' this paint job?", the door behind the Stooges opens and the cop appears. The boys then race across the freshly painted floor followed closely by the cop. The very next scene shows the Stooges dashing into a wardrobe and emerging dressed as women. Neither the boys OR the cop left any "wet paint" footprints on the floor when entering the room. At the early stages of the wet clay fight, Larry accidentally splats Moe again. Moe retaliates by splatting Larry, who then throws a wad at Moe, and Moe ducks. The next shot shows the wad of clay splatting Curly on the forehead, then Curly pulls the wad off. This shot is repeated several cuts later when the first art student throws a wad of clay at the boys. As Curly introduces Larry as his sister, immediately afterwards, as Curly says, "And this..", it cuts to a close-up of he & Moe, where he continues to say, "..is my mother." But, notice his lip movements after introducing Larry. He actually appears to continue to say, "And this is my mother", before it cuts to the close-up, but there's no audio to follow his silent lip movements. The Stooges run from the cop into the wardrobe and they come out dressed as women. They schmooze the cop until they are discovered, then run away. After a very brief scene showing the Art Instructor speaking to a patron, the next scene shows them running into the studio dressed in their original artists robes. After the detective wipes the paint off his face, he starts looking for the Stooges and the actor playing him accidentally slides on the wet floor and almost falls over. When the Stooges are dressed as women, Curly talks in a feminine voice, but when he introduces Larry as his sister Crumette, he accidentally speaks in his normal voice. When the cop sneaks into the art class for the first time, Moe yells, "The cop!" even though the cop hadn't even opened the door yet! How did Moe know the cop was on the other side of the door?
UNCIVIL WARRIORS	1935-04-26	Moe, Larry and Curly	4 goofs
When the general asks the Stooges if they remember their names, you can hear somebody coughing in the background. At the end when James C. Morton's character says "I wonder what's become of Operators 12, 14, and 15"Â�, the soldier standing to his left mouths that line at the same time. After the Stooges dash out of the house when their identies are revealed, you can see Major Filburt running out of the house after them, then the camera shows the Stooges running in the woods. When it cuts back to the outside of the house, Filburt runs out of it again. You can see the wire that pulls up the cannon when the soldiers are "lifting"Â� it, and also, the wirethat pulls the Stooges (or their dummies, rather) out of the cannon when they get blown out of it.
PARDON MY SCOTCH	1935-08-01	Moe, Larry and Curly	11 goofs
After Curly, Mr. Martin, and Mrs. Walton fall down from their chairs and pull the table cloth down with them, we can see the butler helping them up. Then the camera cuts over to J. T. entering the room and suddenly, the butler is already standing next to him taking his hat. When the Stooges are talking to Mr. Martin at the counter, Moe bops Curly in the head during one part and after Curly runs his hand over his hat in anger, the top of his hat sticks straight up in this weird way. Moe notices this and almost starts laughing. After Curly pours some liquid in the chemical mix, it begins to smoke and the Stooges all jump back, and Curly has his arms apart with the bottle in one of his hands. Then it cuts to a closer shot of the Stooges and Curly's hands are suddenly at his chest and the bottle is gone. When the Stooges arrive at the party dressed as Scotsmen, one of the bagpipe players in the background accidentally drops the bagpipe mouthpiece. Then we go to the next camera shot, and the bagpipe mouthpiece is back in his mouth all of a sudden. When the Stooges arrive at the party, Moe's hat strap falls loose. Moe actually broke several ribs in real life when doing the aforementioned stunt where he falls off the table. After Mr. Martin takes a sip of his drink, his hat flies off and he has a look of shock on his face, then he begins to shake his head. As he's in the middle of his head-shaking, the camera cuts to a closer shot of him and suddenly, he has the same look of shock on his face again from before, then he shakes his head again. String/Wire is visible on the end of the banana when it enters Billy Gilbert's mouth. You can see a band-aid on Moe's right pinky when the Stooges are adding all the chemicals to the drink. You can see the wire that pulls the table in half when Moe falls off of it. As the are Stooges bringing out their barrel of scotch, we see J.T. yelling and several other guests trying to calm him down, but why was he yelling in the first place?
HOI POLLOI	1935-08-29	Moe, Larry and Curly	9 goofs
Phyllis Crane must have had an awful headache after this short was completed. In the dancing scene, Moe, dancing with Phyllis, slips and falls on Larry's loose shoe - not planned I'm sure, and poor Phyllis falls with Moe. Her forehead and face hit the floor with the full force of both hers and Moe's weight. An audible gasp is heard from a cast member just before the scene is abruptly cut. Ouch! Curly's stunt double during the dancing scene has a head full of hair for some reason! After Moe gets all the cans dumped on him, he has his hat on and a cigarette in his mouth, then the camera shows Curly and Larry briefly and when it goes back to Moe, his hat and cigarette are both suddenly gone. When the boys are reading from the books, they all start at the front. Moe, of course, has his book upside down. But when its flipped right side up, he is now looking at the back of the book. After Curly sprays the lady with the champagne bottle, the camera shows a close up of Moe and Curly and you can see Larry in the background. Then the camera cuts to another angle and Larry's suddenly standing in a completely different place. After Professor Rich pokes the man next to him in the eyes, it cuts to the next shot and the man who just got eyepoked is now holding the side of his face in pain as if he was slapped, but they didn't show it. When Curly and his dancing partner decide to 'sit this one out' at the party, Curly proceeds to lather up his face and start shaving. Notice the amount of lather on his face during the close-up of him, and how much thicker it is when the scene cuts away. When the two professors walk out of the restaurant, Professor Nichols says that he'll call a taxi for them, but a few minutes later after they meet the Stooges, Professor Rich says, "There's my car, let's climb into it"Â�! If Rich had his car there, then why did they almost take a taxi home? When the spring is attached to Curly and Professor Nichols' behinds, you can also see a wire inside of it.
THREE LITTLE BEERS	1935-11-28	Moe, Larry and Curly	14 goofs
Before Bud Jamison gets out to loading dock to meet his new employees, as Moe and Larry lift the first barrel to Curly, you can see the prop mounting bracket and pole supporting the barrel Curly's straddling, to keep him from falling off that unstable group of barrels. Boom Mike Shadow can be seen swinging out of view on the right side bottom of screen on the road going up the hill as the stooges escape from the golf course. When we see the barrels rolling down the hill, they show a hill looking down that looks like a one-way street. But in the next scene, the same street is suddenly wider with train tracks down the middle. According to poster BeAStooge from the messageboard, there were three streets involved in the filming of that scene, and were brought together as one in the editing room. When barrels rolling thru intersection the second time, what appears to be Crew members can be seen in the reflection of the picture window in the corner store under the Exlax Sign. When the foreign gardeners are complaining to the cops about the Stooges, the camera cuts over to the Stooges and they're over by the golf ball washer helping Curly put back on his clothes. However, when they were shown a few seconds ago, they were nowhere near the golf ball washer and Curly already had his clothes on. When one of the foreign gardeners walks up to Larry, his hat is on his head. Then the camera cuts to a close-up of him, and his hat is suddenly his hand. When the barrels are rolling down the hill, the cop directing traffic lifts his leg up before a barrel knocks him over. This is because the barrels were being pulled by wires, and he was standing on a wire. After the cop gets knocked over by a barrel, he sits up from the ground, but in the next shot, he's still lying down on the ground, then he sits up again. When Moe is raising the beer barrel up to Curly on a rope, it sounds like you can hear the director shouting in the background. When Curly leans his golf club over the ball washer, it accidentally falls down, but it's back up in the next shot. After Moe's club knocks off Curly's tassel from the top of his hat and it rolls into the hole on the green, the string is visible just as the tassel enters the hole. When the beer truck pops out of gear and rolls backwards spilling all the barrels, scene shows stunt doubles racing up the hill towards the truck. With Curly on the curb side and Larry on the outside, then when scene shows the actually stooges, Curly and Larry have switched positions and then when scene shows the stunt doubles racing back down the hill they have switched positions again. When Moe says to the guy "Pick out your ball, stranger!"Â�, Curly has his golf club in his right hand. Then the camera shows a closer shot of the man, and Curly's club is suddenly in his left hand. Then it's back in his right hand in the next shot. You can see the wire holding up Moe when he's standing on top of the barrel, the wirepulling one of the beer barrels when a whole pile of them fall out of the truck, and the wire attached to the ball from the top of Curly's hat when it falls in the hole.
ANTS IN THE PANTRY	1936-02-06	Moe, Larry and Curly	9 goofs
While Curly is trying to lift the piano off of Moe, the camera shows a close-up of Mrs. Burlap's friend and in the background, you'll notice one party guest standing behind her with a shocked look on his face over watching the Stooges' antics. But in the camera shots before and after, that man isn't standing anywhere near Mrs. Burlap's friend, and he's actually laughing at the Stooges' antics. When Moe says "Easy!"Â� and kicks Curly as they're climbing up the ladder, you can see Curly start to lose his balance on the ladder, then there's a jump cut in the picture and Curly's suddenly okay. When the piano starts to fall, Moe begins yelling, but his yell gets abruptly cut off when the camera switches to the next shot. Also, you can see the wire that pulls the piano as it falls. As Moe crawls under Beulah's bed, he knocks over a strapped shoe at the foot of the bed. When Beulah changes one shoe, she leaves one black shoe behind, upright, while the one Moe knocked over is still upside down. In the next cut, as Moe tries to keep Curly from sneezing, the shoe Moe knocked upside down has moved closer to the bed & is turned on its side. As Beulah returns to the bed, both shoes are now upright. In the next split second as Beulah sits on the bed, the strapped shoe is now turned around as Moe puts a mouse in the black shoe. Then, as Beulah puts on her black shoe with the mouse in it, the strapped shoe's been turned around again. After Gawkins the butler says "Come with me, gentlemen"Â�, Moe and Larry follow him, but Curly walks the other way. Before there's any explanation of why Curly does that, it cuts to the next scene abruptly. Just as Beulah enters her bedroom, Moe & Curly crawl under the bed head first, facing the headboard. A couple of seconds later, both are completely turned around & now facing the footboard to do the moth scene. We see Moe place a bear trap on Mr. Mouser's chair when he's trying to talk him into giving the Stooges another chance, and we expect Mouser to sit down and get his behind caught in the bear trap, but it never happens. When Curly and Moe are hiding under the bed, the moth that is tickling Curly's nose can be seen attached to a string. After Larry leaves the window, & as Moe & Curly go up the ladder, they leave the poor cat in the bag down in the bushes. You can see it squirming around. Not long afterwards, the workman, from whom Curly stole the ladder, takes it back, & the bag & cat are gone. A second later, when Larry returns & Moe & Curly fall out of the window onto the ground, the bag & cat are back, but in a different position. Good thing, too, because Curly's suitcase fell into the bushes - exactly where the cat was before they went up the ladder.
MOVIE MANIACS	1936-02-20	Moe, Larry and Curly	10 goofs
When the wheat cake hits the ceiling, you can see the hand of the crew member that throws it. When Moe says "I'll direct the thing myself,"Â� Curly is standing next to the leading lady, but in the next shot, he's standing next to the leading man. Then a few seconds later when the leading man walks away, Curly walks over to Moe and stands right next to him, but in the next shot, he's suddenly standing behind Moe. After Moe says "Use your head!"Â� and kicks Curly in the behind, Curly begins heavily panting as if he's going to do something wild, but it cuts to the next scene before we see what happens to him. When Larry (as the leading man) says to Curly (as the leading lady) "I have come for you"Â�, Curly turns his head to Larry, then holds pliers up to Larry's nose as if he's going to do something with it, but it suddenly cuts to the next shot and now Curly's not looking at Larry anymore and the pliers have disappeared. When Moe is telling Mr. Swinehardt about kisses, at first, Larry's standing next to Moe, then in the next shot, he's nowhere near Moe, then in the next shot, he's next to Moe again, and so on... After the Stooges lock themselves in the lion den, they lean their heads against the door to hear if anybody's coming. While they do this, Larry has no hat on. Then the camera cuts to the next shot, and not only does Larry now have a hat on suddenly, but he and Curly have switched places! After Curly says "Aw, I never get any rest!"Â�, it cuts to the next shot and you can see that Curly suddenly has his sleeve rolled up, revealing three watches, but there's no mention of them. Apparently, there was originally a three-watches gag similar to the ones used in DUTIFUL BUT DUMB, RHYTHM AND WEEP, and STUDIO STOOPS, but they removed it from the final cut. During the kissing technique scene, when one of the ladies is about to kiss Curly, she says "Oh, Mr. Howard!"Â� But the Stooges were supposed to be under false identities at the movie studio, so we don't see how she knew Curly's last name. According to BeAStooge from the message board, the original script had the Stooges as staff scriptwriters for the studio. The kissing scene was shot before the film was revamped, and they forgot to change the "Mr. Howard"Â� reference. When Moe is saying various different names for "Swinehardt"Â�, he says "Pighardt"Â� twice in a row for some reason, probably because he briefly forgot what to say after that. In the boxcar scene, when Moe puts down the "pressed pants"Â� and begins chasing Larry with the hot iron, the wood/cardboard used to stiffen the pants is visible.
HALF-SHOT SHOOTERS	1936-04-30	Moe, Larry and Curly	23 goofs
After the first shell is launched and the General is outside demanding "who fired that gun," the shadow of the boom mike is clearly visible on the bottom right of screen. A shadow of a boom mike is visible behind Curly on the back of cannon gun in the scene when Moe is blaming Larry and Curly for hitting the admiral's flagship. When the Stooges are screaming in pain after MacGillicuddy blasts the gun, Larry's line "I can't hear!"Â� is very obviously dubbed in - the line doesn't match his lip movements at all and you can even hear what he's really saying under the dubbed line! During the loving cups scene, when Moe asks "Wait a minute, where's Larry?"Â�, his mouth isn't moving. When Larry closes the cannon door, him crunching his fingers in it wasn't supposed to happen and you can hear him yell "Ahh, my finger!!"Â� When Sgt. MacGillicuddy bonks Larry and Moe's heads together, Larry's hat falls off, but in the next shot, his hat is back on. In the same scene, you can see Curly in the background getting up from the ground as Moe and Larry's heads get bonked together, but in the next shot, Curly's still lying down, then he gets up again. When MacGillicuddy orders the boys to stick their heads in the trough, Moe is standing closest to the screen, with Larry in the middle and Curly on the far end. Then the camera shows a brief close-up of MacGillicuddy and when it goes back to the Stooges, Moe and Larry have suddenly switched places. After Moe eyepokes Curly in the beginning, Moe lays back down, but in the next shot, he's still sitting up. We see the Stooges cart in a buggy with three cannon shells on it, but they shoot and hit 1) a tower, 2) a house, 3) a bridge, and 4) the admiral's flagship. Where did they get the fourth shell to fire at the flagship? At the end of the scene with the Stooges begging the man in the restaurant for food through the window, we see mashed potatoes splattered on the window from the inside, but how did it get there? After Curly says "Soitenly, what do you think we're here for?"Â� to the army registrator, Larry opens his mouth to say something, but it abruptly cuts to the next shot before he speaks. After the Stooges fall flat on their faces on the ground, it cuts to the man from the restaurant yelling "Hey!"Â� to the Stooges. At the same time, there's a guy behind him getting up from the ground, grunting "Hey, what's the idea?!"Â� as if Vernon's character pushed him to the ground, but they didn't show it. After Curly says "Upstairs in the front room"Â�, the general is saying something, but there's no sound. The Stooges load the gun for the first shot with a shell and powder. After they fire it, you see them load only the shell and no powder for the second shot. In one of the parts where the Stooges fall backwards on the ground after firing the cannon, you can hear Larry groan as if he really hurt himself. In the part where the Stooges try grabbing the turkey away from the mutt but end up falling flat on the ground, in the window above the Stooges, you can see a reflection of Vernon Dent standing in the street watching the scene, when we're supposed to believe that hischaracter was still inside the restaurant. Right before the Stooges stick their heads in the water, Larry's hair already looks as if it's wet. When the Stooges stick their head in the trough, MacGillicuddy sticks his gun in the water, but in the next shot, he's still holding his gun, clicks it, then sticks it in the water again. After the Stooges put several loving cups on the table for Sgt. MacGillicuddy, Moe walks behind Curly and then stops. But in the next shot, he does the walking up behind Curly and stopping all over again. You can hear Moe laughing out loud as he walks up to the donkey, but he isn't even moving his mouth. When the camera first shows the Stooges sleeping, Moe is in the middle faced skyward with Larry and Curly each on opposite sides facing him. But in the next shot, all three of them are suddenly faced towards their left. At the beginning of the scene in the general's office, the actor playing the general has something in his eye and is trying to rub it out. Early in the short, Moe and Larry are awakened by a sergeant. They jump up, grab their rifles and shoot. Larry's rifle, however, doesn't fire. (either that, or he never pulled the trigger)
SPEED	1936-05-08	Ted Healy (Solo)	1 goofs
During the time trials race, the racecar experiences a broken fuel line that ignites and fills the cockpit with deadly gas fumes and thick smoke. The medic truck and Frank arrive. The medics find Terry near death and in immediate need of medical attention. Frank decides to rush Terry to the hospital in the racecar. Frank AND Terry are in the same cockpit, but no smoke or fumes are present the entire trip to the hospital.
DISORDER IN THE COURT	1936-05-30	Moe, Larry and Curly	19 goofs
After Moe asks Curly "Then what are you disturbin' the court for?"Â�, he raises his hand to eyepoke Curly and Curly's supposed to do the eyepoke block, but he doesn't do it in time so Moe has to pause for a quick second. When Moe sticks Curly's head in the letterpress and starts tightening it, you can detect a fake head in the close-up shot before it cuts to the next scene of Curly removing his head from the letterpress When Curly pulls the trigger of the gun, he's not supposed to know that it's going to fire, but if you look at his face, you can see him wincing in anticipation of the shot. The court bailiff opens his mouth early, as Curly launches the bass bow, apparently either in anticipation of Curly launching the bow, or it was a jump in the film. (This is a result of the shot being shown in reverse; the bow was actually in the baliff's mouth first, then pulled away, then the film was shown in reverse. MJZ) When the hose explodes, you can see that the hose is made of balloon-like material and not the same material seen in its original form. There are noticeable jump cuts in the picture when Curly fires the gun above Larry's head, and when Larry pulls the gum off of Moe's nose. At the end, when the photographer runs up to the Stooges and Gail Tempest, Gail is standing in between the Stooges and she has her hat on. In the next shot, she's suddenly standing behind the Stooges and her hat is gone. As the boys begin to play their instruments in court, it seems Moe missed his cue to begin playing. The harmonica music begins several seconds before Moe puts the harmonica into his mouth. After Moe squeezes Curly's head in the letter press, Curly says to Moe "What's the matter - you wanna kill me?!"Â�, then Moe moves his arms like he's going to slap Curly on the head, but the camera cuts over to the next shot suddenly. When Curly is stretching the gum around in his hands after the judge tells him to stop chewing it, the camera cuts to a brief shot of the judge looking on and when it goes back to Curly, the gum is now rolled up into a ball that is much bigger than the gum he was just stretching in his hands. When the Stooges play their instruments at the beginning of the re-enactment of the murder, the wide shot of all three of them shows Curly playing the spoons on his left leg. However, in the very next shot, a close-up of Curly, he is playing them on his right leg. During some parts of the "Take off your hat"Â� routine, Curly forgets to raise his right hand when he's told to. When Gail Tempest reveals the skimpy outfit she has on under her coat, in the background you can see the bailiff quickly looking at Gail then looking away, then looking back up at Gail again in shock. The camera then shows a close up of the bailiff and he does the whole double take all over again. Curly has trouble taking the Oath and is told to sit down in the witness chair. When he does, the chair slips backward off the stand and he falls. The stunt double is the right shape, but his "Bald-Curly" head-piece is very noticable. There is a glaringly obvious over-dubbed line. Larry tries to hit a parrot with a heavy object and smashes his violin. He yells, "Oh, my Strativarius! .. my beautiful Strativarius!!" but his lip movements and facial actions do NOT match with the lines. When Moe & Larry are playing Tic-Tac-Toe on the chair, the final chalk marks they place on the chair before the lawyer sits on it aren't the same marks as those that appear on the rear end of the lawyer when he stands up after sitting on the chair. The gunshot shoots off Moe & Larry's ties... but not in the correct order. The "bullet" goes right to left, but the ties fly off in order of left to right. You can see the wire that pulls the letter press handle as it's spinning around. When Curly is telling the story to the court in his "vernacular"Â�, he's wearing a derby on his head, but when the defense attorney says "Kindly speak English and drop the vernacular"Â�, Curly's derby is now in his hands.
PAIN IN THE PULLMAN, A	1936-06-27	Moe, Larry and Curly	9 goofs
After Curly coughs up some crab pieces, Hilda Title starts laughing and tries to hide it from the camera by bowing her head down. During the crab-eating scene, Moe had some problems in real life in getting himself to eat the crab pieces because of his aversion to shellfish. You can even tell by looking at his face during the scene that he didn't want to do it. After Curly kisses the sleeping woman, she wakes up and moves her arm like she is about to slap Curly, but the camera quickly cuts away to Johnson and when he walks over to Curly and the lady a minute later, then we finally see the slap. When Larry says "Hey, hock a chynick for me too, will ya?"Â�, you can tell he's really saying something else. When the Stooges knock the ladder from under the carpenter, we hear him yell "HEY! HEY!!!"Â� but watch his lips -he's really saying something else (probably obscenities!) When Curly says "I thought she wanted to play post office!"Â�, his mouth doesn't move. When the Stooges are about to be thrown off the train, you can hear all of them yelling, yet their mouths aren't moving. When Curly cracks "Oh, a baldheaded heartthrob!"Â�, Paul Pain's roommate is laughing along with the Stooges, but in the next shot, she suddenly has a serious look on her face. One of the times Larry is pulled down from the berth, they use a stunt double for him and it's obvious by the big part in the middle of the double's hair that he's not Larry.
FALSE ALARMS	1936-08-16	Moe, Larry and Curly	7 goofs
A boom mike is visible in the picture window on the street just as Curly is about to fall on the cake. When the boys are taking their shower, Moe's hair is covered with soap. But when they rush out of the shower after hearing the bell, the soap is suddenlygone from Moe's hair. When Curly says "The birthday cake!"Â�, his lips don't move. When Moe and Larry arrive at the "fire"Â�, Larry gets out of the car before Moe and asks Curly "What's the matter?"Â� Then the camera cuts to the next shot and Moe gets out of the car, and following him is Larry getting out of the car again! When Curly falls down the firepole, they use a stunt double. Curly's double lands on top of Moe and the double's hat falls off, but when Curly takes back over his place in the next shot, his hat is still on, then it falls off again. When Moe throws the bucket of water at Curly, Curly ducks and the water hits Stanley Blystone instead. Yet when the boys run over to Blystone, his uniform is completely dry. When Moe is helping Minnie (June Gittleson) out of the car, Gittleson accidentally kicks the actress behind her in the jaw.
WHOOPS I'M AN INDIAN	1936-09-11	Moe, Larry and Curly	12 goofs
After Bud Jamison realizes he was swindled by the magnet in Larry's moccasin, & the boys make a hasty escape, four shots are fired before the boys make it out of the saloon. However, the second shot wasn't accompanied by an audio sound effect. Curly breaks the fishing rod when he slams it on the shore. As the camera dissolves to the beginning of the wedding scene, we can see Curly at the end of saying a sentence, but we don't hear what he's saying or see the beginning of it. When the sheriff says "Three sets of footprints, maybe they're in the cabin"Â�, his mouth isn't moving. When the Stooges walk in the bar dressed up as Indians, we hear them say "How!"Â� several times but their lips aren't moving. There's a noticeable jump cut in the film right when Curly fires his rifle underwater. As Bud Jamison goes back to the saloon & looks around for the boys/Indians, a small group of musicians accompanies the dancing girls on stage. There are two close-ups of Bud standing near the stage. In both, you can hear the trombone notes played in the background, but the trombonist isn't playing the instrument because it's not even close to his lips. After Moe cracks Curly's club over his head, Curly takes one broken half of the club that'sdark colored and straight in his left hand, then he walks away. Then the camera cuts to the next shot and the club Curly's holding is suddenly lighter in color and crooked and it's now in his right hand. After Pierre forces Moe and Larry to dance, it cuts to Curly and when it goes back to the other shot, Pierre is suddenly holding his face as if Moe and/or Larry hit him, but they didn't show it. When the lantern falls and smashes on Pierre's head, he drops to the ground and his hat falls off, but it's back on his head in the next shot. When Pierre (Bud Jamison) is supposed to open the door, Jamison's hand accidentally slips from the doorknob at first. Curly gets frustrated and marches out into the lake to shoot the fish.Â After he disappears under the water, he fires off three shots, but he was carrying a double-barrel shotgun.
SLIPPERY SILKS	1936-12-27	Moe, Larry and Curly	9 goofs
A boom mike is visible in the reflection of the windshield of the car that Vernon Dent is exiting. You can see the hand of a crew member that throws the cream puff at Mrs. Morgan. A noticeable jump cut in the film as Moe and Larry are tackled to the ground. After Larry knocks the Chinese cabinet in the air, the camera cuts to Moe and Curly, and Curly's holding his head as if he was hit by Moe, but they didn't show it. After Mr. Morgan yells "My cabinet!"Â�, he runs up to Moe and starts strangling him. Then there's an abrupt cut to Moe and Larry stepping outside of the building. They didn't show how Moe got away from Mr. Morgan. When the camera first shows Larry, he has fourbrushes in his mouth, then the camera cuts to the next angle and he suddenly only has twobrushes in his mouth. When the Stooges walk in their gown shop, they huddle and then walk up the three ladies in the shop as if they're going to do or say something to them, and Larry takes his hat off. Then the camera cuts to the next shot and suddenly, the Stooges haven't done or said anything to the ladies and Larry's hat is back on. You can tell there is padding inside the back of Curly's pants when Moe and Larry are pulling the roofing nails out of his behind. When Larry says to Moe "Very artistic"Â�, his hands are in front of him and he's holding scissors, but in the next shot, his hands are suddenly behind him and Moe is now holding his pair of scissors.
GRIPS, GRUNTS, AND GROANS	1937-01-15	Moe, Larry and Curly	11 goofs
In the scene of the dressing room, Larry checks the door and sees Bustoff's boss coming down the hallway. As Larry closes door and races back to the table where Bustoff is laid out, the shadow of the Boom Mike is clearly visible moving against the left wall towards the sink in the corner. In the locker room where Bustoff's body is lying out cold on the floor, he has no shirt on and he is faced down on the floor. But when the stooges panic and start running around the lockers, Bustoff somehow has a shirt on and a cap. After Ironhead drops Curly on the ring when Moe puts perfume on Curly's face, the actor playing Ironhead looks as if he's about to laugh. When Moe and Larry are supposed to twist Curly's ears at the same time, Moe almost forgets. When Curly steps on the outside of the wrestling ring, Moe puts a stool right next to Curly, but Curly accidentally knocks it over as he walks away. The mug that Ivan Bustoff is drinking from inside the diner obviously changes to a paper mug in the next scene as he is finished drinking, thus he is able to squash the mug with his bare hands. When Moe is done tickling Curly's foot, Curly's shoe is still off, then the camera cuts to the next angle, and his shoe is already back on. When Curly and Larry are explaining to Moe about the dumbbells and locker falling on Bustoff, Larry is holding a dumbbell in his left hand. When scene changes to Moe saying "he's out like a light..." the dumbbell in Larry's hand is missing. When the Stooges are being chased by railroad detectives, they run around a corner and knock over a baby carriage. Stunt doubles were used for the Stooges in that scene, and a thin double for Curly gives it away. When the Stooges get up from the ground after ducking from the railroad detectives, Curly has a hard time standing back up. When one of the two boxing managers knocks the drink out of Bustoff's hand, Bustoff (Harrison Greene) is supposed to get up from his chair and start beating up the manager. But after standing up from the chair, Greene forgets what to do next. Then after a few seconds of awkward silence, there's a jump cut in the film and then he starts beating up the manager like his character was supposed to.
DIZZY DOCTORS	1937-03-19	Moe, Larry and Curly	14 goofs
When the guys get out bed, Larry knocks an ashtray (?) off the night table. It's back on once one of their wives splashes them with water. As the ambulance pulls into the hospital with the stooges inside of it, the opening to the building you can see the gurney and a chair at the entrance. The chair disappears when the stooges exit the ambulance and hop on the gurney in the entrance. When Larry begins wiping the cop's uniform, he has a worried look on his face, then the camera shows a close-up of him and suddenly has a big smile on his face. When Curly is slicing the bread, the first slice accidentally falls off the table. When the Stooges are supposed to skid to a halt in the hallway, if you look closely at the floor before they do it, you'll see the black heel marks left by previous takes. The takes were probably not used because one of them slipped and fell, or perhaps actually ran into a supporting actor. A noticeable jump cut in the film when the Stooges are overhearing the boss asking for salesmen. When the Stooges are riding down the street in the windblown gurney, the sheet they put up is made of light cloth material at first. But when they knock down the cop, the sheet is now suddenly made of harder material. When Harry Arms yells "Police! Help!"Â�, he's standing to the left of the Stooges, but in the next shot, he's suddenly standing to the right of them! When Moe says to Harry Arms "Hey, mister, polish your car with Brighto - makes old bodies new!"Â�, Larry is digging in his right pocket, then in the next shot, he's suddenly holding a bottle of Brighto in both of his hands. When Curly crosses the street in the car and meets up with Moe, a bottle magically appears in Curly's hand when the camera cuts. When the Stooges run up to the elevator, Moe puts his hand on the elevator door as if he's going to pry it open, but in the next shot, his hands are suddenly to his side and the door opens by itself. When the Stooges dash out of Harry Arms' (Vernon Dent) office after he remembers them from earlier in the short, Arms yells to his two assistants "Those are the birds who wrecked my car! Get "Ë�em, boys!"Â�, but that line was actually dubbed in by Jules White, the producer of this short, and he sounded nothing like Vernon Dent's voice. When Harry Arms and his assistants trip over a stretcher, the stunt double used for Vernon Dent looks nothing like him. When the Stooges crash through their window at the end, watch the order as they run. First, when they begin running, Curly's first, followed by Moe and Larry. Then it shows a shot of a window and the boys still running, and Moe is suddenly first now. Then the camera cuts over to the inside of the house, and we see Larry jumping into the window first!
THREE DUMB CLUCKS	1937-04-17	Moe, Larry and Curly	8 goofs
When Moe and Larry throw Curly through the wall, they used a dummy in Curly's place in real life. But for some dumb reason, Curly's dummy had a head full of hair! You can see the face of Curly's double at the end when the Stooges are dragging him away. When reading the letter from Ma aloud, Moe says "...off that old oil land..." when the letter actually just says "...off that oil land..." Right before Curly whacks the gate open with the mallet, you can see the gate already pull slightly open. When Larry blows oil out of the tube that Moe's holding in his hand, you can see a hose connected from the tube to the inside of Moe sleeve, where the oil really came out of. After Moe hits Curly on the head with a chisel, the camera shows a close-up of Curly holding his head in pain, then his eyes light up for some reason, then it cuts to the next shot and Moe says "Yeah!" to Curly as if Curly said something. When Curly was thrown down the elevator shaft, in real life he accidentally sliced his head open on a sharp plank that was left on the set. After he recovered, a dark patch of hair was applied over his head wound so we wouldn't see the wound on camera. However, we can clearly see his patch of hair in two scenes: one where the Stooges are in the hat shop and Curly tries on various hats, and the other when Curly keeps running into the guard at the bottom of the staircase. In the jail scene, when Moe tosses his socks to Larry for him to wash, you can see a long string attached to the left sock as it lands on the bench.
BACK TO THE WOODS	1937-05-14	Moe, Larry and Curly	15 goofs
When the stooges are using the tree branch to launch their missiles, you can see a long cord/string attached to the branch to assist it in swinging it forward. When the judge slams his gavel, the top accidentally breaks and flies off. When the stooges drop their steel ball n' chains on Bud Jamison's foot, he moves his foot right before they land. When Curly throws the bucket at the Indians, the bottom of the bucket breaks off after it hits the ground. When Curly brings over a bees nest to Larry and Moe, we hear Moe exclaiming "Ah! "Ë�Tis a hornet's nest!"Â� but his mouth doesn't move. Moe's hat keeps accidentally falling off when the Stooges are doing their "about face"Â� routine, and the barrel of Larry's gun knocks Moe's hat off a few seconds later when the Stooges are marching backwards out of the room while singing "A-Hunting We Will Go-eth"Â�. As Moe hands the governor the credential which says "Giveth them the works"Â�, Moe takes a peek at it himself. So if he knew what the letter said, why did he smile at Larry and Curly afterwards as if he thought nothing was wrong? When Moe and Curly knock out the Indians dancing around the tree that Larry is tied to, some of the Indians land at Larry's feet, but in the next shot, they've been moved to the side all of a sudden. While Curly is dancing, his shoe accidentally falls off during one part. Lots of missed hits in this short. First, when Larry slams his rifle on the ground along with Moe, it was supposed to hit Curly's foot, but it missed. Then, when the Stooges take off their hats and bow to Faith, Hope and Charity, only Moe and Curly bump heads, but Larry acts like he was hit, too. And a little later in the film when Curly drops his rifle down and shoots down a turkey, the rifle doesn't really hit Larry's foot. At the end of the court scene, Larry turns to say something to the judge, but the scene fades out before he speaks. After the camera shows the Indians in the lake, the camera cuts back to the Stooges and Curly is holding his face as if he was just hit, but they didn't show how he got hit. After the governor yells "Fie! Fie!"Â� when he sees the Stooges and the three ladies dancing, he's moving his mouth and saying something else but his dialogue is muted. In the canoe scene reused from WHOOPS I'M AN INDIAN, Moe's original line to Curly, "C'mon, hurry up!"Â� is redubbed in this version as "Make-eth haste, quincehead!"Â�, but you can see that the new line doesn't match his original mouth movement correctly. We see the Stooges dump hot coal down the pants of only three Indians, yet there are five Indians soaking in the water afterwards.
GOOFS AND SADDLES	1937-07-02	Moe, Larry and Curly	13 goofs
At the saloon after Curly pants heavily and turns his hat to the side, he begins walking away, then the camera cuts to the next shot and he's still standing in the same place as before. After the boys jump in the wagon, & while being chased, there are ample examples of modern utility & phone poles/lines, along the chase route, in the foreground & background - pretty modern for the 'Old West'. As the bullets fall into the meat grinder, there's a lot of meat coming out of the grinder, but all the meat is suddenly gone in the next shot. When Curly says "I wonder if this is the place"Â�, the following gun shot takes place too early, making it hard to hear Curly say "place"Â�. In the opening scenes, as the boys jump out of the tree, Curly's double is seen landing on the general's table & his hat falls off. In the next camera shot, as Curly starts to get up, his hat is already back on as he reaches up as if to make sure it's on. In the wagon, as the monkey comes out of the box, his tiny hat is shoved back almost on his back as he begins to jump up onto Curly's head. But, in the next camera shot, as he jumps on top of Curly's head, his hat is already on top of his head. When the Stooges escape from Longhorn Pete's saloon, Larry, then Curly, and finally Moe run toward the window. There's a camera cut and Larry and Moe jump out, but Curly is now several feet behind Moe and still running toward the window. Cut to an outside shot, and Moe jumps out the window a second time, followed by Curly. Still haven't figured out how Larry and Moe ended up on the horses they way they did, considering that Larry jumped out the window to the left, and Moe jumped to the right. As the scene changes to the saloon, a blond dance girl & a customer with a large, black hat are at the end of the bar. Pete's henchman, Tex, then enters & asks the bartender where Pete is. As Tex walks away from the bar to see Pete, the blond & black hat customer turn to move all of three feet to the middle of the bar. Tex goes in to see Pete & explains seeing the boys. As the scene cuts back to the bar, the blond & black hat customer just now make it the three feet to the middle of the bar - almost 30 seconds after they started to move. A string is visibly attached to the monkey's hat when it is shot off inside the shack. In the credits, cast list, &/or synopsis of the short, Moe is listed as 'Wild Bill Hiccup', & Curly as 'Buffalo Billius' or 'Billious'. But, in the note they tie to the pigeon, Moe is shown as 'Wild Bill Hicup', & Curly as 'Buffalow Billious'. During the card game, Curly and Moe pass their two aces to each other. However, after the first exchange, Moe opens his hand and discovers he has only two aces ... the ace of spades and the ace of clubs. Curly opens his hand and discovers that he also only has two aces ... the ace of spades and the ace of clubs!! You can see the wire that pulls the ball of mud out of Moe's ear. When the camera fades in on General Muster (Ted Lorch) at the beginning of the short, you can see Lorch looking off-camera a couple of seconds for his cue.
CASH AND CARRY	1937-09-03	Moe, Larry and Curly	6 goofs
Curly's right breast pocket holds a carrot that seems to appear and disappear during the opening scene to the junkyard till their departure to the bank. When Curly sees the "X"Â� mark on the pillar, there are a whole bunch of cobwebs on his head, but they're all gone suddenly in the next shot. Curly's mouth doesn't move when he cries "It attacked me!"Â� During the part with Moe being hit continuously by Larry and Curly's digging tools, when Curly is supposed to hit Moe on back of the head with the shovel handle, he accidentally misses at first. When the cop yells "Get "Ë�em out!"Â� after the Stooges drop the bags on his foot, it looks like Curly mouths the same line. There is a noticeable cut in the film when Curly has the gold bars rip through the cloth sack.
PLAYING THE PONIES	1937-10-15	Moe, Larry and Curly	6 goofs
The bucket the stooges are using to hold the water for Thunderbolt to chase around the track you can see near the end of the chase that the bucket has no bottom to it. All of Larry's yelling when he has the rake caught in his behind is obviously dubbed in. It doesn't match his actual mouth movements and you can even slightly hear his real yells if you listen carefully. Curly casts his fishing line in the water then he puts one hand above the fishing pole reel, and the other hand below the reel, but in the next shot, both hands are suddenly above the reel. After Moe eats the Chili Pepperinos, he runs to the water trough and drops the clock and his hat on the ground. Then, Curly does the same thing right after him and runs the same path to the trough. But the hat and clock are missing from where they landed on the ground. After the swinging door hits Moe on the face, the camera cuts to a close-up of him getting up from the floor, and he has actual tears rolling down his eyes as if he was really hurt. When one customer is downing a whole pitcher of water after eating too many pepperinos, you can see the hose that the water drains into below his elbow.
SITTER-DOWNERS, THE	1937-11-26	Moe, Larry and Curly	4 goofs
When Curly falls out of the tree, the board that was used to get him down is still standing up, but it's suddenly flat down on the ground in the next shot. Moe almost cracks up as he watches Curly wildly wave the sit-down strike banner in Mr. Bell's face and fall backwards. I think Larry lost it, too, since it looked like he was trying to hide his face. When the wives knock the Stooges off of the pre-built house, they use stunt doubles for the Stooges. After crashing to the ground, the doubles get up from the floor, but in the next shot where the Stooges take back over their places, they are still lying on the ground, then they get up again. The names of the Stooges' fiancees suddenly changes during this short. When the Stooges first arrive at the ladies' house and address the ladies' names, June Gittleson is Corabell, Marcia Healy is Florabell, and Betty Mack is Dorabell. Then a little later in the short when each Stooge draws one of the women's names from the hat, June Gittleson is suddenly Florabell, Betty Mack is Corabell, and Marcia Healy is Dorabell! Further complicating matters, when Marcia Healy is knocked out by the cement block, Curly calls her Corabell... Marcia played all three girls.
TERMITES OF 1938	1938-01-07	Moe, Larry and Curly	6 goofs
During the meal scene, the flute player in the group playing the background music is seen playing the instrument when there's no music being played, & also when the music is playing, what he's doing isn't in sync. You can see water stains on Lord Wafflebottom and the wall before he even gets sprayed with the repellent. When we first see the Stooges, Larry is helping Moe set up a rope, but in the next shot, Larry's hands are suddenly seen to his side and he's now just observing Moe set up the rope. During the musical scene, Curly breaks the flute in half, but in the next shot, the flute is back together. When Lord Wafflebottom gets repellent sprayed in his face through the hole in the wall, he cries "What the...!"Â� but at the same time, you can hear him yelling "OOOOOOH!!!"Â� The "OOOOOOH"Â� was obviously dubbed in. At the end when the Stooges take off in their car, the passengers door opens up by an accident.
WEE WEE MONSIEUR	1938-02-18	Moe, Larry and Curly	2 goofs
A noticeable jump cut in the film after the boys crash into the cell bars and fall on the floor. Right before Curly's fishing hook grabs on to the back of a man's pants, you can see a hole in the pants where the hook is trying to snag.
TASSELS IN THE AIR	1938-04-01	Moe, Larry and Curly	8 goofs
After Moe says to Larry "I gave it back to ya, didn't I?"Â� and slaps him, you can hear someone laugh in the background. After Moe tickles Curly's chin with the paintbrush, he puts the brush down on the table, but it falls off. When Moe says his name and then translates it into piglatin, he has his hand backwards and then flips it frontwards. But when he's saying Larry's name and translates it into piglatin, he does the same hand flip gesture in reverse but Curly does it the correct way. There's a noticeable jump cut in the film right as the buckets land on the Stooges heads. Moe is sayingsomething as he walks over to the boss, but you can't hear him due to the loud bucket noises from Larry and Curly in the background. Towards the end, we see the butler with paint all over his face, but they didn't show how that happened. When Mr. Smirch begins saying "Maggie, do you realize..."Â�, he has a pipe in his mouth, but in the next shot, the pipe is suddenly in his hand. Curly's jacket goes from buttoned, then unbuttoned when he and Larry are playing checkers with the paint cans.
FLAT FOOT STOOGES	1938-05-13	Moe, Larry and Curly	8 goofs
Right before Moe is about to pull the string, his firehat is on backwards, but it's on the right way in the next shot. Also, he's too early on his cue and is almost about to pull the string too early while Curly is still speaking. When the Stooges are gathering all the volunteers to help pull the fire engine, you can hear a screaming voice in the background that sounds a lot like the chief's daughter. But she was supposed to be unconscious at the time, in the burning room upstairs. Moe's hat accidentally falls off when he finally pulls the string, and you can see him clumsily trying to catch it before the camera cuts away. After Moe spits in Curly's face as he says "A petunia?"Â�, Curly awkwardly pauses for a while, then he says "It's...you know..."Â� It looks like he forgot a line and tried to ad-lib his way out of it. During the turkish bath scene, Moe refers to the same horse as both a "him" and "her". Two line flubs are left into the film: One is where Curly accidentally messed up by saying "The horses fall on the harness, a....the harness falls on the horses"Â�, and the other being Moe's "What do you expect a fire mouse...I mean, uh...firehouse mouse to smell like?"Â� goof. When Chief Kelly's daughter jumps out of the window, one of her shoes falls off, but in the next shot of her landing on the net, that shoe is back on. Not sure if this was intentional or not, but there is no writer listed in the opening credits.
HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND DUMB	1938-05-20	Moe, Larry and Curly	8 goofs
When Larry falls and sits on the spilled hot water, he yells and you can also hear Moe yelling in the background for some odd reason. It was probably an earlier yell from him dubbed in at the wrong time. When Moe asks Curly to open his mouth, Larry has hands on Curly's shoulders. Then the camera cuts to a closer shot of Curly, and Larry's hands are suddenly on top of Curly's head. When the Henry the VIII bed crashes apart, Moe ends up on top of it, but in the next shot, he's suddenly under it. When the camera shows a close-up of Moe eating the pancakes, his hair suddenly looks different and messier than it did in the shot before. When Moe asks Curly to open his mouth so he can put the pliers in there, Curly opens his mouth with no trouble, but just a few seconds earlier, he couldn't get his mouth open at all due to the glue. Something gets caught in Moe's eye when the champagne is spraying out of Curly's ears. When Curly turns up a champagne bottle and downs it, the bottle is empty, but the "glug-glug" sound effects still roll merrily along. When Curly says "It's a good thing it's time for the Coffin Nail Cigarette Program or I--"Â�, he's supposed to stop right when the announcer on the radio interrupts him and starts talking, but Curly stops too early before the announcer even says anything.
VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR CURLY	1938-07-02	Moe, Larry and Curly	7 goofs
After the lunchman says "Luncheon is served"Â�, look at the top left corner of the screen and you can see a shadow of the boom mike moving. When Curly starts singing along with the girls during the 'Swingin The Alphabet' scene, the girls sing "Curly's a dope" even though he is supposed to be mistaken as one of the professors. When Curly spits the pickle juice at Mrs. Catsby, the camera cuts over to him too late. When Curly begins to sleep, he has a smile on his face, but it's gone suddenly in the next shot. After Moe sings "Bicky Bye Bo Bu"Â�, he closes his mouth but you can still hear him singing the end of "Bu"Â�. When the Stooges rush out of the gas station with their equipment, the three professors suddenly have food out, but they didn't in the previous shot. During the filming of the scene where Curly is hanging over the roasting fire, he actually suffered first-degree burns when the straps holding him came loose, causing him to get slightly burned by the fire before the crew members could get him off.
THREE MISSING LINKS	1938-07-29	Moe, Larry and Curly	6 goofs
When Curly eyepokes the medicine man, the actor must have temporarily forgot to react because it takes a second or two for him to act like his eyes have been poked. When Moe thinks that Larry has sprayed water on him, Larry's hat is on, then the camera cuts over to Curly for a few seconds, and when it cuts back to Moe and Larry, Larry's hat is suddenly gone. As Curly, in the gorilla suit, tries for the second time to get Moe & Larry to open the door of Dr. Ba Loni Sulami's hut so he can avoid the 'real' gorilla, unknowingly already let inside, the fake gorilla foot pad on the bottom of Curly's right foot is pushed off the the side when his foot slips out of it, & he's actually standing on the inside leg of the suit. After Curly says "Fired and hired in one day!"Â�, he looks at something off-screen in shock, but the camera cuts to the next scene before we see what it was. Moe helps Curly with the tent pegs, a mud puddle suddenly appears. It wasn't there before. When the Stooges are cleaning up the office, Moe closes the door and it accidentally hits Larry in the behind.
MUTTS TO YOU	1938-10-14	Moe, Larry and Curly	6 goofs
When Mr. Manning is asking his chauffeur where his wife went, you can see a reflection of the boom mike on the car. When Larry fires the gun, the dalmatian jumps in fear. There's one part where the camera shows a close-up of Moe sniffing the air and making a face where you can tell that he smells the baby's diaper, but the bit abruptly ends right there and goes to the next part, so there's no finish to the set-up. As the dalmatian is being washed, you can see Larry in the background looking off-camera at Moe and moving his mouth, but you can't hear anything at first. Then when we hear him say "Take it up!"Â�, it doesn't match his actual mouth movement. When the gadget with all the gloves around it lowers, it accidentally hits Bess Flowers on the head. In the first couple of interior shots of the laundry cart, with Curly dressed as Mrs. O'Toole (keep in mind he's wearing a skirt and nylons) his legs are wiiide open. Someone must've told him it wasn't 'ladylike,' because in the final shot of Curly in the cart, his legs are visibly closed.
THREE LITTLE SEW AND SEWS	1939-01-06	Moe, Larry and Curly	5 goofs
When Curly keeps being pulled by the spring and he falls down and hits his head on a table, you can hear people off-camera laughing. When Curly says "...and beans!"Â�, it doesn't match his actual mouth movement. After Larry mistakenly knocks out Moe instead of Count Gehrol, in the background you can see Curly begin to get up from the floor, but in the next shot, he's still lying down, then he gets back up again. Why does Curly offer Ms. Arden a cigar, then suddenly say "Uh..."Â� and take the cigar away from her? You can see the wires that holds the bombs flying past Curly, and the wires holding up the Stooges as angels at the end.
WE WANT OUR MUMMY	1939-02-24	Moe, Larry and Curly	8 goofs
When Larry and Moe begin wrapping Curly up as a mummy, they wrap his arms against the sides of his body, but in the next scene when they're done wrapping up Curly, both of his arms are free. When the alligator bites Curly in the behind, Curly has a crown on his head, but it's suddenly gone in the next shot. When the camera shows a close-up of the alligator crawling into the room, the shot freezes for a few seconds. After Dick Curtis' character says to the Stooges "So you're detectives..."Â�, the camera cuts to the next shot and Moe is suddenly looking at Curly angrily as if Curly said something wrong, but they never showed what he said. At the end of the echo scene, Curly yells something that sounds like "Schmote!"Â� twice, then he yells "Moe, Larry!"Â� Apparently, "Schmote"Â� was supposed to be "Moe"Â�, but I can't see how "Moe"Â� could come out sounding like that. Was he saying a Yiddish term? When Curly falls on top of the mummy, his hat and the mummy's crown fly off, but they're both back on in the next shot. When the alligator bites Curly in the behind, it's obvious that "Curly's" behind isn't real if you look carefully. When the bad guys step on the rug and fall through the hole, their yells sound remarkably just like the Stooges!
A-DUCKING THEY DID GO	1939-04-07	Moe, Larry and Curly	5 goofs
Larry says "We can't hold out much longer, r--"Â� then his line suddenly gets cut off as the camera cuts to a close-up of him saying "This is the last one"Â�. When the Stooges are ripping off a man's clothing while trying to convince him to buy a duck club membership, there's one part where we see that his left sleeve has been ripped off, but they didn't show it actually getting ripped off. After Curly says "My mind's a blank"Â�, it abruptly cuts to Moe saying "...you!"Â� The beginning of whatever Moe said must've been cut. After the Stooges screech to a halt on the hallway floor, Moe slips and almost falls down. After Moe mistakenly knocks Curly in the water, he asks "What are you doin' in swimmin'?"Â� and right in the middle of his line, some water accidentally sprays in his face.
YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZA	1939-05-19	Moe, Larry and Curly	12 goofs
When Curly sprays seltzer in Moe's face, the remainder of that scene seems like it was improvised or Curly and Moe forgot their lines: After Moe gets sprayed, he looks at Curly and is about to say something, but then he and Curly pause for a short while, then Moe says "You know what you did?"Â� Then after hitting Curly a few times, there's another strange pause and Moe says to Curly (pointing to Larry) "Grab "Ë�im!"Â� and the scene ends. When Curly first enters the saloon, you can see the shadow of the boom mike following him in the upper left of the screen. When Curly tosses a beer over to Larry, it's in a see-through glass. But after Larry mistakenly spills the beer in Moe's face, the glass is now different. When Curly turns to Maxey and asks him for one beer, Maxey has a cigar in his mouth, but it's suddenlygone in the next shot. When Curly throws a rock at Moe's head, Moe is holding a unlit stick of dynamite in one hand and a lit match in the other, but in the next shot, the dynamite stick is already lit and the match is gone. After Curly says, "I whistle for the dog, and my wife comes out," he puts his hand down on the counter, but it's back off the counter at the beginning of the next shot. When the boys are on the cigar store horse being towed by the car during the chase scene and Curly almost slides off the back, as Moe and Larry are pulling him back on the stunt double's rubber Curly 'wig' is pretty wrinkled. When Larry asks "What happened?"Â� and Moe responds "Nothin', yet!"Â�, he extends his arm to slap Larry and before we can see it happen, it suddenly cuts to the explosion. When the Stooges are dancing together during the "She'll Be Comin' Around the Mountain"Â� musical, there's one part where Moe and Curly bump into each other and afterwards, they stare at each other in a way that makes it look like they were angry in real life. Then they're both late on their cue for when all three of the Stooges are supposed to clap their hands on their knees to the music. When Larry is chopping the firewood you can see the shadow of the piece of wood in the trees in the upper left of the screen as it flies up. Then it appears you can see the shadow of a stage hand's arm as he catches it and throws it back at Larry. When Curly gets a pot stuck on his head, we are supposed to believe that the Stooges are outside, but you can see a reflection of studio lights on the pot. You can see a band-aid on Curly's left hand throughout this short.
SAVED BY THE BELLE	1939-06-30	Moe, Larry and Curly	3 goofs
When the Stooges land on the back of the horse at the end, Curly looks like he's about to laugh, but he holds it in and stays in character. As the Stooges arrive at Singapore Joe's camp, the parrot cage - which is either strapped to or resting on the horse's back - begins to fall off the horse, but the scene quickly jumps to the next scene before we see the cage fall to the ground. After Larry takes the hammer out of the pie, the camera cuts to the next shot and you can hear the very end of a ringing noise of which sounds like the beginning was cut.
CALLING ALL CURS	1939-08-25	Moe, Larry and Curly	17 goofs
When Moe rips the anesthesia mask off Curly's face, Curly isn't wearing any operating gloves, but in the next shot a glove is on his left hand. When Curly kicks one of the dognappers, the dognapper has his jacket on just one arm, but in the next shot, his jacket is all the way on. When the Stooges begin operating on Garcon, why is Larry the only one wearing a mask? When Curly says "One little kitten lost its mitten"Â�, his mouth isn't moving. When Moe is supposed to spray soap from the soap dispenser in Curly's face, you can see the soap spray out too early before Moe even triggers the dispenser. After one of the times the dog motions the Stooges to move back, the Stooges do that and Curly's hat falls off, but he catches it. Is Garcon a male or female dog? Curly calls it a "she" right after removing the thorn, but Moe calls Garcon a "he" when he says that Garcon must rest for a few hours after the operation. When Moe eye-pokes Curly, he launches into his "I can't see! I can't see!" routine, but halfway through the routine, Curly opens his eyes for a brief moment. There are noticeable jump cuts in the picture when Curly is coughing up bubbles. When Larry tries to apologize to Mrs. Bedford for bringing back the wrong dog, she cuts him off with "you get my dog back or I will have the police on you." After Moe hits Curly on the head with a bone, the camera shows a brief close-up of a dog while we hear Larry off-camera saying "Hey, leave him alone!"Â� Then when the camera goes back to the Stooges, Larry is holding his head in pain as if Moe hit him, but they didn't show it. You can see a shadow moving on the wall when Curly is trying to pull the thorn out of Garcon with pliers. When Curly rides the cart out of the room in Mrs. Bedford's house, there is a crash off camera. The actress playing Mrs. Bedford begins to crack a smile, then there is a cut to her fainting. When Moe takes the soap dispenser away from Curly, he's pointing it at himself and he accidentally sprays a little on his chest. Then it cuts to the next shot and the dispenser is suddenly already pointed at Curly. When the bones are served at the dinner table, Curly takes the lid off the tray twice. When Moe knocks out Larry with the bottle, Larry falls flat on the floor. Later, Larry is still out, but he is now sitting up against a wall. When the Stooges are looking for Garcon, you can see strings on the tail of the dog that's helping them, when he's motioning to the boys with it.
OILY TO BED, OILY TO RISE	1939-10-06	Moe, Larry and Curly	10 goofs
When the Stooges return to the Widow Jenkins' farm after recovering the deed, Moe goes through the door first, followed seconds later by Curly and Larry. However, in the next shot, when they enter the dining room, Curly is the first to enter. Near the end when the Stooges are fighting over the steering wheel, Larry has this smile on his face like he's going to break character and start laughing, but it's Moe's shoving him out the way afterwards that snaps him out of it. After Curly points out the car to Moe and Larry, the camera shows a close-up of the car and on it, you can see a reflection of the Stooges running towards it. But when the camera goes back to the Stooges, they're still standing in the same place as before, THEN they run up to the car. During the scene with the Stooges and the three swindlers in the car, after Curly says "Oh, hit a woman, would you?!"Â�, the camera cuts to a brief shot of the road. When it cuts back to the car, the Stooges and the swindlers have switched locations all of a sudden. When the crowbar spins around and is supposed to hit all three Stooges on the back of the head, it doesn't hit Moe, yet he still reacts. When Moe was supposed to get oil squirted into his face, he forgot to close his eyes and the oil accidentally got inside his eyes. Afterwards, they had to get the first aid man to pry his eyes open and take all that crap out. When the camera first shows the Stooges throwing wood into the bottom-less wagon, you can see a chicken under there, frantically trying to get away before it gets hurt. When Eddie Laughton steps in the mud, he takes down the sign on the nearby pole & folds it once, in half, then scrapes the mud off his shoe, then throws the sign to the other side of the car. However, when the sign lands on the other side, it shows a second fold near the bottom of the sign Laughton didn't make. When the saw hits Moe in the stomach, you can tell that there is padding inside of his coat to protect him from getting hurt. During Curly's battle with the wagon door, you can see the wire attached to the door that was used to pull it up.
THREE SAPPY PEOPLE	1939-12-01	Moe, Larry and Curly	12 goofs
When they show Curly sitting on a bucket with a board lying on his head, his hat is on correctly, but a few seconds later when Moe and Larry walk up to him, Curly's hat is suddenly on sideways. When Curly buzzes the countess (Ann Doran) with the razor, Doran laughs for a quick second. As Curly asks for burnt toast and a rotten egg, Larry has the phone earpiece down at his side with no patch cords plugged into the switchboard. In the next shot, Larry has the earpiece to his ear, a patch cord already plugged in, and he's using one of the ring keys. A noticeable jump cut in the film when Curly crashes off-screen after yanking the phone wire. Wen Curly plugs in the razor at the table, he seems to take no action to turn it on & it starts to buzz immediately. When he's offered a biscuit by Bud Jamison, he places the razor on the table and does shut it off, and the razor's buzzing sound fades away. After Moe sarcastically says "Yes, isn't he a scream?"Â�, the camera cuts to another angle and Larry is holding his head in pain as if he was hit, but they didn't show it. When the boys are in the office taking the message from Mr. Rumsford, Moe says they'll be over in a flash in the flesh. He doesn't get Mr. Rumsford's address and they still find the place anyway. If you look closely you can see that the glass door of the Doctor's office is pre-cracked before Curly hits it with the ladder The black tamale stains on Moe's face keeps disappearing and reappearing during the cream puff fight. After Curly hit Moe in the eye with the champagne cork in front of the punch bowl, Moe approaches Curly & says Curly shouldn't handle dangerous weapons. When Moe demands, "Let Me Have It!", notice Curly mouthing the same line as Moe says it. When Larry & Curly drink the punch out of the punch bowl through the stethoscope tubes, the slurping sounds dubbed in do not quite match their mouth movements. At the switchboard, a second before Curly is hit with the stethoscope, Larry has two patch cords plugged into the switchboard, & the phone earpiece up to his ear. Immediately after, when Curly's hit with the stethoscope, the patch cords are in two different holes, & the earpiece is laying on the switchboard. Immediatey after that, when Moe shoves Larry out of the way, the two patch cords Larry put in are gone. Additionally, other than the earpiece cord Curly pulled through the switchboard on a string, Moe doesn't plug in any cords before Curly falls down in the opposite corner of the room. Yet, when the Stooges return to the switchboard, a separate cord is already plugged in, then it, too, disappers as soon as Larry walks in front of the switchboard.
YOU NAZTY SPY	1940-01-19	Moe, Larry and Curly	8 goofs
As Moe is speaking in mock German towards the end of the speech scene, you can see Larry trying not to laugh. After the scene where Curly shoots Moe "In the excitement, you fool!"... you can see Curly's mouth moving to Moe's lines. When the storm troopers are marching away, one of them almost falls over backwards. Also, Lorna Gray almost laughs while watching the storm troopers marching. When Curly raises his arm with the golf bag on it, the strap on the bag accidentally hits Larry on the head. During the speech scene to Moronika, the pattern of Moe's hair suddenly changes in several different camera angles. The country that the Stooges take over is spelled "Moronika"Â� early in the film, but in a letter Moe gets from the king later in the film, it's spelled "Moronica"Â�. It's also spelled that way in I'LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN, the follow-up to this short. In the opening credits, writer Felix Adler's name is misspelled as "Felix Alder"Â�. While Moe is scrubbing perfume on Curly's head, Larry is about to tap Moe on the shoulder a little too early, but he realizes it isn't time yet so he stops himself.
ROCKIN' THRU THE ROCKIES	1940-03-08	Moe, Larry and Curly	6 goofs
After Moe and Larry come up out of the water and Moe tells Larry to get to his post, they were both soaking wet. Yet when Larry helps Curly with his line, Larry's all dry. When the camera shows a close-up of the ice cubes falling into the bucket, there are several noticeable jump cuts in the film. When Moe says "Quiet, Airedale!"Â� to Curly, Moe's hat is off. Then the camera shows a brief close-up of Chief Growling Bear and when it cuts back to Moe and Curly, Moe's hat is on. Why is the Stooges breath not visible during the ice-fishing scene? Did Curly really mess up when he said "A lizard...I mean...a blizzard!"Â�? After Chief Growling Bear says "Not bad!"Â� after looking at the ladies, he turns his head and his headdress accidentally hits the actor behind him in the face.
A-PLUMBING WE WILL GO	1940-04-19	Moe, Larry and Curly	12 goofs
After Curly crashes into the basement, he is soaked to the bone. Then after Moe turns his nose with the monkey wrench and says, "Get another piece of pipe!", Curly is suddenly bone dry! After Officer Kelly kicks Curly, Curly runs off-camera and begins woo-wooing, but as soon as he starts, he abruptly gets cut off as the camera dissolves to the next scene. When Curly is pulling the wire out of the pipe in the basement, his forehead is a little dirty. When he drags the pipe to Moe, his face is clean. Late in the short, Curly re-enters the bathroom (after falling through the floor) and the pipe maze is gone. Where did it go? Curly enters the upstairs bathroom and chases off the fellow taking a shower. He then removes the showerhead, and spends a great deal of time connecting pipes together trying to stop the flow of water. He's standing in the tub for a short while. But a full shot of him shows the tub completely filled with water. Since when does a person take a shower with the drain plug in? When Moe first yells after he burns his hands on the hot pipe, his yells don't match his mouth movements. Before Curly falls down into the basement, Moe's hands are empty, but in the next shot when Curly falls into the basement, a wrench suddenly appears in Moe's hand. When the Stooges first enter the basement and run around in circles on the wet floor, Moe accidentally slips and falls down, but quickly gets up from the floor like nothing happened. When Moe takes off his jacket as he and Larry first attempt to fix the leaking pipe in the basement, he pulls his tie loose and it is hanging off on his right. In the very next shot his tie is hanging straight, and the knot is neatly tied at the collar again. In the street magician's scene, Curly is seen in one of the magician's boxes with the gorgeous assistant & closes the door. Monty Collins is surprised, but recovers quickly, & again fires a 'magic shot'. As he does so, the camera cuts to the audience, where Bud Jamison comes into view. As Monty Collins is heard talking in the background before he opens the other box, & although there's nothing to laugh at, a few people in the audience are seen to laugh, but there's no audio. Then the camera cuts back to Monty Collins opening the other box to reveal the boys inside. Only at that point is the whole audience both seen & heard to laugh appropriately. During the street magician scene, camera shots are shown from behind & in front of the crowd. But, as each shot changes, so does the crowd, with people either changing positions, or new people appearing or disappearing within that short street scene. According to Moe's 1977 book, there was a mysterious shadow on the bottom the screen that was noticed during the screening of the film. The next day during shooting, Moe glanced at the camera and saw director Del Lord playing with a strand of his hair while he was crouching below the lens. Obviously the hair clump's shadow was filmed along with the short, and Columbia had to spend several thousand dollars to re-shoot the whole picture!(Exaggerated - only the affected scenes were reshot, not the entire picture. The story in Moe's book specifically indicates that the problem occurred while viewing 1 prior day's dailies.)
NUTTY BUT NICE	1940-06-14	Moe, Larry and Curly	6 goofs
When Curly throws the lightbulb to the ground, we hear it shatter yet the light stays on for a quick second. Right before the Stooges crash the door open, you can see the door already slightly pull open from the inside. In the scene when they run away from the detective, in the storefront, the box labels for Kix are upside down. After Moe gets hit with the cream at the end, he closes his mouth, yet you can still hear him singing with Curly and Larry. At the end, when Curly tries to swipe some cream on Moe's face, he accidentally misses the first time and has to reach for him again. After Moe smashes the lollipop on Curly's head, the camera shows a quick shot of Little Betty, and when it goes back to the Stooges, Moe is in the at the end of saying a sentence (sounds like he says ""Â¦ickle"Â�), but they didn't show the beginning.
HOW HIGH IS UP?	1940-07-26	Moe, Larry and Curly	5 goofs
Larry cracks up when Curly yells (probably an ad-lib) "Don't mind me! Don't mind me!!"Â� When Moe is standing on the ledge of the car to help pull Curly's sweater off, Moe accidentally falls but Larry catches him. You can hear Moe give an out-of-character "Thanks"Â� to Larry afterward. Several noticeable jump cuts in the film when the fly is dangling around Curly's open mouth. When Moe sees the rivet in Curly's sandwich, there aren't any bite marks on the rivet, yet Curly took a few bites out of it earlier. When Curly keeps sliding back due to the grease under his feet, you can see the wire pulling him back.
FROM NURSE TO WORSE	1940-08-23	Moe, Larry and Curly	5 goofs
When all the doctors are fighting to get the oxygen mask on Curly, Larry has his mop wig on, but in the next shot, his wig is suddenly off. After the Stooges get in the taxi cab, there's a noticeable jump cut in the film right before the cops go in the cab. When Moe grabs Larry by the hair, you can see the money accidentally falling out of his hair, but it's back in his hair in the next shot. In the reused scene from DIZZY DOCTORS, the sound effect of the cop being knocked down by the Stooges in the windblown gurney was played too early. After Moe and Larry bump into the man carrying the dishes the third time, they're supposed to run down a hallway, but Larry almost runs down the wrong way at first.
PLEASED TO MITT YOU	1940-09-06	Shemp Howard (Solo)	1 goofs
Co-star Guinn Williams accidentally breaking his character when he laugh directly into the camera after Shemp's unexpected ad-libs in the potato peeling scene
NO CENSUS, NO FEELING	1940-10-04	Moe, Larry and Curly	7 goofs
During the football game, there's a shot of the crowd cheering with confetti flying in the air before the game has even finished. After Moe hits Curly in the kitchen, he leaves his census book on the table, but it's folded under his arm in the very next scene. When the Stooges crash into a fence, there are people walking behind them, but they're suddenly gone in the next shot. The football in the back of Curly's shirt disappears with no explanation. Right before Moe's about to punch Curly in the nose at the beginning of the film, Curly has his eyes closed and is not supposed to see the punch coming, but you can still see him grimace in anticipation of the punch. When Curly puts the grater down on the table, it falls right back off. Was Curly supposed to stab his hand with the ice cream cone when he was trying to get it off his face?
COOKOO CAVALIERS	1940-11-15	Moe, Larry and Curly	8 goofs
When the Stooges are giving Rosita a mudpack, the hardened mud on Rosita's face keeps changing from light to dark in different camera angles. After Curly says "Tarpon monoxide"Â�, the camera cuts back to the unconscious dog, but he is lying on the floor in a different position than he was in the previous shot. After the Stooges stop and Moe & Curly jump down from the car, it looks like Curly went to put the horn he was blowing back into his front right pocket and then either missed or skipped it all together. When Curly sprays himself in the face with paint, he gets some on the area around his eyes, but it's suddenly clean in the next shot. At the beginning when Moe and Curly are yelling out "Fish!"Â� on top of the fish truck, Larry is in the drivers seat of the truck and facing straight ahead. Then the camera cuts over to a close-up of him and he's suddenly facing outside the door window. After the Stooges finally smash the hardened mud on Rosita's face, Curly has a round thing on the side of his head that wasn't there in the shot before. As the Stooges are putting the mud on Rosita's face, Moe and Curly start arguing and hitting each other with mud. It looks like that wasn't supposed to happen and Moe and Curly were really angry at each other during filming or something. Also, notice that Larry starts laughing out of character the first time Moe hits Curly, and right as Moe's about to leave, Curly swipes some mud on Moe's face (and there's no sound effect for it), followed by Moe turning back to Curly giving him a mean stare. Then it cuts to the next shot and Moe is suddenly cutting Rosita's fingernails. We never see the after-effects of the hair remover spilling all over the dog.
BANK DICK, THE	1940-11-29	Shemp Howard (Solo)	4 goofs
Just after the doctor and Egbert leave Snoopington's hotel room, the next scene shows Egbert telling Og that the bank examiner has been taken care of. Og then indicates to Egbert that there is something on his face. When Egbert turns towards the camera, there is a fake mustache hanging on the side of his face. Yet, there are no intervening scenes showing how the mustache got there. During the car chase scenes, Egbert drives parrallel over a trench being dug with workers using pick axes. The trench is approximately waist deep until the car reaches the end of the trench, where a worker is suddenly in a trench that is as deep as he is tall. When Egbert goes up to the inebriated bank examiner's hotel room, the examiner rises up in bed and looks into the mirror. His glasses has the string handle on the right side of his face, but in the mirror's image, the string is on the opposite side of his face. (even accounting for a mirror-image reflection) In the scene where Egbert Souse enters the bank president's office, the president offers his hand for a handshake palm up, but in the close-up of the handshake, his hand is palm down.
BOOBS IN ARMS	1940-12-27	Moe, Larry and Curly	16 goofs
When Curly first gets his head stuck in the cannon, his hands are to his side, then in the next shot, his hands are suddenly on both sides of the cannon. When the enemy general says a line in piglatin, his mouth doesn't move for the first two words. When Curly first gets his head stuck in the cannon, they accidentally play audio of Moe saying "Hey, waitaminnit!"Â� too early before he actually says it. When the Stooges greet themselves to the lady at the door (Evelyn Young), you can see that Young is trying to reach for her hanky for when she is supposed to cry a few seconds later. When Curly says "Nothin' to do but live off the fat of the land"Â�, his hat strap falls loose. When the Stooges are awaken on the battlefield, they stand up and are all supposed to salute at the same time, but Larry salutes too late. After Curly grunts "Oh, a snobbess, eh?"Â� to the lady in the street, it suddenly cuts to the Stooges looking down at the ground for some reason, and Larry's standing in a completely different place than he was in the previous shot. After bumping Richard Fiske into the sidewalk elevator, & the Stooges run into what they think is a bread line, the third person in line taps the second person in line, apparently to draw the second person's attention to the sudden appearance of the Stooges. Unfortunately, even though the third person taps the second person at least twice before the scene changes, the second person either missed his cue or the third person ad libbed the taps & was ignored. When the Stooges are in the bags, there's one part where Moe spits water in the sergeant's face. But we never saw the sergeant spray water in Moe's bag, so where did Moe get the water from? You can hear this weird sound on the microphone for a few seconds during the part where they show the army marching. When the husband is chasing the Stooges through various doors, you can see the door in the middle pull open from the inside, even though nobody goes through it. During the part where the sergeant is saying to the Stooges how he's going to make them soldiers whether they like it or not, Curly is seen pulling an apple out of his pocket and holding it up. Then the camera cuts over to a close-up of the sergeant, and when it goes back to Curly, the apple is suddenly gone and there never was a mention of it. Obviously, there was supposed to be a bit with Curly trying to suck up to the sergeant by giving him the apple, but it must've gotten cut. When the Stooges are walking inside the enemy headquarters, Larry trips over the rug and almost falls. When Curly places the rifle over his right shoulder the first time, it almost hits Richard Fiske on the head by accident. When Curly comes out of the bag to throw water on the sergeant, he has some water caught in his eye. When water sprays out of the lady's ears, it's supposed to hit Curly and Moe on the face, but Moe had to move his face closer because the water missed him entirely at first.
SO LONG, MR. CHUMPS	1941-02-07	Moe, Larry and Curly	13 goofs
As Moe and Larry are breaking prop rocks over Curly's head at the end, Larry actually puts a real rock on Curly's head, promptingCurly to ad-lib "Hey, wait a minute! That's a <i>real</i> one! I'm no fool! Nyuk, nyuk!"Â� Larry and Moe both crack up. The second time the Stooges sweep their brooms toward each other, they're supposed to collide, but if you watch carefully, you'll notice that their brooms actually miss each other, then suddenly in the next shot, they're colliding. When the guard gets slapped by the Moe, Larry, and Pomeroy's paintbrushes, he has his hat on, but when Curly walks up to him, his hat is suddenly gone. After Curly hits Moe with his broom, Curly's hat accidentally falls off. A noticeable jump cut in the film when Curly finally gets the flypaper off of his hand. A noticeable jump cut in the film right as the guard takes a bite out of his sandwich. When the Stooges are bowling, they take the balls off of their leg chains, but later in the short, the balls appear back on the chains without any explanation. When the Stooges are walking down the sidewalk and notice a cop, in the background you can see a man about to walk down stairs, but when the camera cuts over to a close-up of the Stooges, the man in the background is suddenly gone from the flight of stairs. Then in the next shot, the man is already at the bottom of the stairs. After Larry says to Moe "That's a coincidence, how'd you get under the paper?"Â�, Moe opens his mouth to say something but it cuts to the next scene before he speaks. While the bullet is ricocheting all around the place, Curly is saying something but you can't hear due to the sound effects. The shot of Curly getting splattered with a paintbrush when the Stooges and Percy Pomeroy are painting each other's uniforms is played twice in a row. When Gyp DePeople is pointing a gun at the Stooges, Curly and Larry have suddenly switched places from where they were standing in the previous shot. When the lamp shade falls apart due to the slamming of the doors, you can see the wirepulling the shade apart.
DUTIFUL BUT DUMB	1941-03-21	Moe, Larry and Curly	7 goofs
When Moe is lighting the giant cigar for Curly, Curly is holding the cigar with his left hand, but it's in his right hand suddenly in the next shot. The magazine the Stooges work for is called "Whack"Â�, but once the boys arrive in Vulgaria, the magazine is called "Focus"Â� on their cart. When Moe and Larry are chanting "Heave, ho!"Â� as Curly is trying to puff the cigar, Moe looks like he's going to laugh. When Curly is firing a pistol at the oyster soup, he shoots a bottle and it falls off the counter. But if Curly was using a real gun, wouldn't the bottle have shattered instead of falling backwards? A lot of noticeable jump cuts in the film during the entire oyster sequence. When Curly is playing the harmonica behind the radio, he pulls it down from his mouth for a second, but the music is still playing! You can see the wires that pull Moe and Larry's shorts off when the invisible ray shoots them off.
ALL THE WORLD\'\'S A STOOGE	1941-05-16	Moe, Larry and Curly	6 goofs
After Curly says "Oh, jumpin' beans!"Â�, somebody off-screen (sounds like Moe) busts out laughing. As Larry and Curly are scrubbing the floor, the camera cuts over to another shot and we suddenly hear the end of Curly's groan but we never heard the beginning. As Moe uses a power chisel to break up the cement in Emory Parnell's mouth, he stops the chisel, saying he's getting nowhere fast. However, as he stops & says that, Emory Parnell, who was probably holding the fake cement with his teeth, seems to lose his grip on the cement & it moves to the edge of his mouth, appearing ready to pop out, as Curly comments about blasting. In the scene at the dentists office, look closely as Moe falls in a chair, he actually puts the 'clickers' on the seat of his pants himself. Not really a "goof", but when Mr. Bullion introduces the Stooges to his wife as refugee children, Larry is called "Mabel", which was Larry's wife's name. You can see a band-aid on Curly's leg during the film.
I'LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN	1941-07-11	Moe, Larry and Curly	6 goofs
When the globe is kicked at Chizzilini's head, his hair is all black, but it was white in the scenes before. Also, if the globe broke laterwhen Curly smashed it over Moe's head, why didn't it break when Curly kicked it at Chizzilini's head? When Larry smashes the tray over one of the Axis partner's heads, the sound effect comes in too late. When Mr. Ix-Nay says "May we be struck down on this spot!"Â�, his mouth isn't moving. The same thing when Moe says "We must study this map very carefully"Â� and when Curly says "I'll hit that 13 ball so hard, it'll fly in a million pieces!"Â� A noticeable jump cut in the film right before Curly catches the globe that he threw in the air. At the very beginning, two guards appear at a door to the royal mansion, and a bugler. The bugler raises his bugle, but the fanfare starts playing a few seconds before he starts blowing on the horn. When Curly kicks the globe, it hits the camera just before the scene cuts.
AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE	1941-08-22	Moe, Larry and Curly	13 goofs
After Curly asks Moe "What does blood smell like?"Â�, he has a lot more "blood"Â� on his face than he did in the shot before. When Curly first bumps into Vernon Dent's character due to the spring on their backs, Dent looks up with mean expression on his face, but in the next shot, he's suddenly looking down and smiling. When the butcher knife is thrown at Curly, you can see the string on the handle in one scene and then it's gone in the next. After Curly gives the lady an ice cube and says "Free sample!"Â�, the lady looks like she's going to throw the ice cube back at Curly, but the camera cuts away before it happens. When Curly puts an X in the 9th frame of his scorecard, he tells Moe he has a perfect score. Moe tells Curly he needs another strike and hits him. To get a perfect game, Curly really needs three more strikes. When the cook throws the knife at Curly's head, he starts to move forward when the knife is in the wall. The knife comes out of the wall because it is in his hat. In the next shot, the knife is back in the wall. The same shot of Vernon Dent running down the stairs is played twice in a row. This might not be a mistake, though. Maybe they just wanted to make it seem like he was running longer. You can see the ice on Curly's head is already cut in half right before Moe cracks it open. Also, before Moe does that, you can see Larry holding the two halves in place, then letting it go after Moe "cracks"Â� it off. Right before Curly pinches the salt, he's wearing his ring. Then, the angle changes and his ring is gone once he pinches the salt. In many scenes, they use solid boxes as the ice blocks, and you can easily tell the difference. In the shot at the end where the Stooges slide down the stairs, you can see children at the bottom of the staircase running away. Since this scene was shot on location, there were probably local children watching and the director chased them off when they started filming the ending shot. When Curly is dragged out of the back of the ice truck, the seat of his pants are obviously very thickly padded. When Vernon Dent arrives with his second cake, he gets out of the cab right at the bottom of the stairs. The only problem with that is the Stooges had the ice wagon parked in the same place, which can be clearly seen in the prior and following shots, where the Stooges are carrying the ice box back up the stairs.
IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE	1941-10-16	Moe, Larry and Curly	5 goofs
Moe says "Listen wh--"Â� then he abruptly gets cut off as the camera cuts to a closer shot of him saying ""Â¦we gotta get outta here!"Â� You can see the front door of the mansion slightly push open right before the Stooges knock it open. When the Stooges shake hands with the wives and are about to flip them over, Moe has his hat in his hand, but in the next shot of the Stooges flipping the wives over, Moe's hat is suddenly on the ground. After the senator splatters a pie in Tiska's (Dorothy Appleby) face, Moe comes over and says "Love thy neighbor!"Â� and everybody, including Tiska, is supposed to throws pies at Moe. Appleby was about throw one but she couldn't see because of the pie all over her face, so she put the pie back down while everybody else hit Moe. While the lion hunter (Eddie Laughton) is telling his story, some pie drips into Laughton's mouth and he trips over the word "wounded"Â�.
SOME MORE OF SAMOA	1941-12-04	Moe, Larry and Curly	7 goofs
After Moe uses his belt to open the alligator's mouth, the natives chase the Stooges off andMoe's carrying his belt as they are leaving. But he's suddenly wearing the belt when they reach the boat. The apple in Curly's mouth changes from light to dark in several shots. Also, him saying "Soup bone"Â� must've been dubbed in because he couldn't have said it so clearly with that apple in his mouth. Curly wears a tiger stipe "Tarzan" suit that changes to a leopard skin for the very last shot of the film. When Curly is circling around in front of the hut after getting away from the cook, he has flour on the front of his shirt. Then when he's in the hut fighting with the spirit, he doesn't have flour on him. Finally, when he comes back out of the hut with the Puckerless Persimmon Plant, he has flour on him again. When Moe beats Curly on the head with a malletto shorten him back to normal size, you can hear the sound of a jack in the background for a few seconds, which is what they used in real life to lower Curly. When the Stooges are switching places during their tree operation, Curly accidentally hits his face on one of the tree limbs. When the alligator is crawling over to Curly, you can see the tape covering its mouth.
LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD	1942-01-08	Moe, Larry and Curly	7 goofs
When Larry lies across all three of the carpets, after a while all three of the carpets become one! Elinor Vandivere plays the dignified woman in Waldo Twitchell's party. A couple times, she can be seen on the dance floor (with Al Thompson), and then it cuts to Twitchell's table where she is sitting with her date (Charles Dorety). When Curly is pulling all those handkerchiefs out of his pocket, we see Moe holding a rubber snake, but they never showed where he got it from. When the Stooges each begin to lay a carpet on the floor and roll one end of the carpet towards the wall, the other end of each carpet is supposed to roll back to the boys and hit them on their feet, but Larry's carpet stops rolling mid-way. It's fixed in the next shot. As the camera dissolves to the Stooges inside the hotel, we hear Moe saying "--start slippin', we start suin'"Â�, but they didn't show thebeginning of his line. As Curly tosses the soap on the floor, Moe puts his hat on, then in the next shot, the hat is suddenly back in his hand again. When Curly is supposed to say "Soap! Just what we're lookin' for!"Â�, it sounds like he says "soup"Â� instead of "soap"Â�.
CACTUS MAKES PERFECT	1942-02-26	Moe, Larry and Curly	12 goofs
When Moe is trying to pry Curly out of the mine shaft with a crowbar, you can tell that the crowbar is really made of a soft material because it bends on Curly's face. When Curly says "What's all this fuss about?!"Â� at the end, you can see Larry cracking up in the background. When the Stooges are walking into the street and shouting, "Goodbye, Ma", you can see a chicken left over from the previous scene, at their house. When Curly is supposed to eyepoke Vernon Dent's character, his hit was way off and he actually hit the top of Dent's hat. We see the Stooges crawling out of the mine, but a little earlier in the film, Moe broke the ladder leading down into the mine, so how did the Stooges get out? Moe's hair pattern suddenly changes several times during different camera angles of him during the digging scene. You can tell that the Stooges are standing in front of a screen projector when the truck behind them nearly knocks them over. Right before Curly pulls down the gold lever on the wall, the lever moves up by itself. When the two claimjumpers (Vernon Dent and Ernie Adams) run after the Stooges, Ernie Adams accidentally trips over something and falls off-screen. When the arrow stabs Vernon Dent's character in the behind, you can tell there is padding in the seat of his pants. You can see the wire that pulls Curly's hat backwardswhen Vernon Dent's character shoots at him. When Curly is flying in the air, there are visible wires holding him up.
WHAT'S THE MATADOR	1942-04-23	Moe, Larry and Curly	7 goofs
Not necessarily a goof, but an interesting observation. In the scene where the Stooges are in the telegraph office sending a telegram to Mexico, the officer behind the desk begins immitating the Stooges as they chant "Mexico Here We Come ... G-Yeah!" even to the extent of turning his head from side-to-side in time with the boys dancing, and shouting the "G-Yeah" part along with them. At the very beginning of the episode, Curly twists his hat and there is a ratcheting sound effect. He turns the crease in his hat brim to the back when he does this, then all three enter the booking office. The very next scene shows Curly's hat with the brim crease in front again. The boys are in Delores' hotel room ... when they come out of the closet the second time, Curly is NOT wearing his hat and can easily duck under the bed covers. When next Curly comes up out of the covers for a look around, his right jacket sleeve is pulled up to his elbow, making it believable for Jose to pluck his arm-hairs when he discovers that Delores is replaced under the covers by a man! When the boys exit the bus in Mexico, a woman exits also. Curly turns to her and says, "Ah, Delores ... lookin' for me?" She then explains that her husband is very jealous, and thanks them for entertaining her on the "strip". The scene(s) of the boys getting to know Delores do not exist in the final film, leaving it to the viewer's imagination how she was entertained by the Stooges during the trip. In the scene just after the announcer says, "We hope you like them too many. Thank you.", the band director is waiving his baton to a beat that is much faster than the included music track is playing. There is a noticeable stunt double for Curly when he crashes through the glass door. When Curly is running away from Jose in the bedroom scene, he accidentally trips over the blanket on the floor and almost falls down.
MATRI-PHONY	1942-07-02	Moe, Larry and Curly	12 goofs
The actress is referred to as Diane by Moe, but as Diana by Vernon Dent! When the Stooges are hanging upside down from the guards' spears, you can clearly hear what appears to be director Harry Edwards telling Larry "Larry, grab a hold on"Â�. Larry was the only one who wasn't grabbing onto his guard's trousers, so once the yell was heard off-screen, Larry quickly grabbed hold of the guard. We see a large sign pasted over the Dollar Day sign, but later when Moe takes off the large sign, the Dollar Day sign isn't behind there anymore. When Moe says "You wanna get me in trouble? Easy, buddy, easy!"Â�, his mouth isn't moving. After Diana comes out of the jar when she thinks she hears the signal, she quickly ducks her head back in the jar. But in the next shot, she's still looking out the jar, then she sticks her head back in again. When Moe puts paste on the wall, the long shot shows him painting Curly's face, but the close-up shows Curly's face down and the top of his head getting painted. After the guard asks "So you think they're three nice guys, huh?"Â�, Curly's mouth is moving, but we don't hear anything for the first few seconds. You can see the outline of the cut-out on the side of the pot that Diane is hiding inside before the guard crashes through it. The previous scene of Larry about to drink the poisoned wine is repeated in between the scenes when the Emperor asks Curly for a smooch and when the Emperor says, "Leave here, we want to be alone."Â� When the camera shows a close up of the emperor in the scene where he's introduced, he's squinting his eyes, but in the long shots of him, he's not squinting. When one of the guards asks the knocked-out guard if he saw the Stooges, you can see a hand on the back of the knocked-out guard's collar, but none of the Stooges are holding his neck yet. A wire is visible on the rope, or snake that the snake charmer is charming outside the Stooges' store.
THREE SMART SAPS	1942-07-30	Moe, Larry and Curly	4 goofs
In the opening sequence, Moe is paired with Stella (Julie Gibson), Larry with Mella (Julie Duncan) and Curly with Bella (Ruth Skinner). At the wedding, Moe and Curly have switched girlfriends... Curly marries Bella, and Moe marries Stella. Larry is about to re-stitch Curly's split pant leg, then the camera cuts to the next shot and the split on Curly's pant leg suddenly looks different. When Moe is tying the chain around Curly's waist, Curly's holding one arm up, but in the next shot, he's holding up both arms, then in the next shot, he's back to holding one arm up again. At the beginning when the Stooges are singing together, Larry sings out-of-sync from the other two during one part.
EVEN AS I.O.U.	1942-09-18	Moe, Larry and Curly	2 goofs
When Seabasket the Horse bites Curly in the behind, Curly yells and the horse gets frightened by the yell and jumps suddenly. You can see the wire that pulls the towel out of the horn.
SOCK-A-BYE BABY	1942-11-13	Moe, Larry and Curly	7 goofs
Watch Larry's face one of the times Moe yells "SCISSORS!!!"Â� to Curly during the pin-pin-scissors scene. When Little Jimmy burps out loud, his mouth doesn't open. When Moe picks up Jimmy and says "Lemme see now"Â¦"Â�, his mouth doesn't move. When one of the cops get hit on the head with an ironing board repeatedly, his yelling doesn't match his actual mouth movements. After Moe tells Curly that he's not scrubbing the celery correctly, the camera abruptly cuts to Moe and Curly looking at something off-camera in delight. When Larry puts the bag of groceries down on the table, it accidentally knocks a book over. Moe notices this and puts the book back up, but then Larry accidentally knocks it down again afterwards! When Larry says to Little Jimmy "Fit for an airplane worker"Â�, you can see Moe and Curly in the background both cutting some pieces of spaghetti. But when the camera cuts to a closer shot of them, the spaghetti is suddenly gone and they're both doing something else.
THEY STOOGE TO CONGA	1943-01-01	Moe, Larry and Curly	11 goofs
When Larry lifts the board sign over his face to block Moe's punch, his hat accidentally falls off. When Curly hits who he thinks are Hitler and his Japanese assistant (but are really Moe and Larry in disguise) on the head with a hammer, a lamp behind him accidentally falls down. When Curly's pulling wire out of the wall & is having trouble, he calls Larry over & tells him, "Come 'ere! Gimme a help! Hold this!", instead of "Gimme a hand!" Noticeable jump cuts in the film when Curly's nose is being grinstoned, when Moe is getting spiked in the eye, ear, and head, and when Moe shoves a hammer in Curly's mouth. Just before Curly hits Moe andLarry, thinking they're German and Japanese, notice Curly's left arm is outstretched toward the lamp behind Moe. Moe then appears to give some sort of hand gesture with his left hand just before the lamp starts to fall. Although he kicks the lamp shade away, Curly grabs the lamp and carries it with him toward the window. The next shot shows Curly at the window without the lamp. The next shot, when Curly goes back to Moe and Larry, the lamp is back on the table, with the shade in place, as if it was never disturbed. Since Curly bumped the lamp shade first, if he knocked it over accidentally, his reaction to grab and save the lamp was almost unbelievably lightning fast. When the Stooges walk up to the maid standing outside the door, Curly only has a toolbag in his left hand, but in the next shot, a pipe threader is also in his left hand. The climbing spike scene was obviously difficult to film, judging from the jump cuts. But the cuts were more obvious because Moe's hairstyle kept changing from combed forward to parted on the side. A hand briefly appears on screen tossing the bowl of batter onto Dudley Dickerson's head. As the submarine jumps up and down in the water, you can see the wire attached to the sub, as well as vertical splash marks in the water in front of the sub where the wire lands after it's pulled. When Curly disconnects one of the wires holding his telephone pole seat, you can hear the wire immediately hit the studio floor, but we're supposed to believe that Curly's about 30 feet in the air. When we see the squadron of planes approaching the submarine they are all WWI era biplanes with open cockpits. But when they show the close up of the pilot spotting the enemy sub, he is in an enclosed cockpit.
DIZZY DETECTIVES	1943-02-05	Moe, Larry and Curly	14 goofs
After Curly spins on the ground, when Larry is helping Curly up, you can see Larry is laughing. When Moe pushes Curly back in the room where he heard the cat scream, Curly's hat accidentally falls off and Moe ad-libs "Get that hat!"Â� After Moe bonks Larry and Curly's heads together, there's this strange awkward pause, then Moe says (and it sounds like he's ad-libbing) "Why....you...RAT!"Â�, and then Curly and Larry bump Moe back and forth. It looks like there was a line somewhere in there that gotleft out. After the Ape Man bursts inside of the room that the Stooges are in, Curly says "I've had enough of <i>him</i>, too!"Â� But he never said "I've had enough of..."Â� to anybody else prior that that line, so why did he say "him, too"Â�? In the stock footage from PARDON MY SCOTCH, Moe's carpenter coveralls are splattered with paint. In the new footage, after he calls Curly and Larry down from above, they're spotless. Near the end of the short, Curly gets out of the guillotine and goes over to Moe and Larry in the trunk. Curly picks up the mannequin head, then the shot changes to the gorilla, and then back to Curly without the head. When Curly sees that Larry is getting beat up, he rushes up to help him and if you listen carefully, you can hear somebody...well...listen yourself and you'll know what I mean... When Moe smacks the Chief with the prop phone, it leaves marks on Bud Jamison's face as though it were freshly painted. Dill calls Jamison's character 'Commissioner.' But the title on the door says 'Police Inspector.' 'Inspector' agrees to an earlier reference by the detective. When Curly says "Hey, I cut off my head; I'm dead!"Â�, he's really saying something else. When Curly says "Listen you!"Â� to Moe, he holds his right index finger up to Moe and right before Moe bites it, Curly switches it with his left index finger. Why did he do this? When Mr. Dill hits the three walnuts that Curly sets up for him, he doesn't break the middle one. But when Curly picks them up, they're all broken. You can see the wire that pulls the cat's tail back and forth. When Mr. Dill makes the glass of water jump into Curly's hat, Curly is suddenly looking at the commissioner when he was looking at Dill in the previous shot.
SPOOK LOUDER	1943-04-02	Moe, Larry and Curly	15 goofs
When the camera shows the balloon coming out of the trunk after Curly opens it, the face drawn on the balloon has all of its teeth. But when the camera shows the balloon snagging onto Curly's back, the face drawn on the balloon is suddenly missing a tooth and it stays that way for the rest of the scene. After Curly puts the No Peddlers sign on the thin lady's house, he walks backwards and accidentally trips on a suitcase. When Dunkfeather gets slammed with the pie at the end of the episode, he blinks LONG before it hits him. When Curly and Larry push the bookcase onto Moe's head, several books fall off and hit Curly on the head. The numerals on the clock chiming 5:00 in Russia are in Japanese. Noticeable jump cuts in the film when the three spies are peering from behind the bushes and when the plug on the rocking chair is going in and out of the socket. If you listen carefully in the part where the Russian clock is going "Yo ho ho ho"Â¦"Â�, you can hear a cat meowing in the background (supposedly the same cat they show walking on the piano keys later in the film). Maybe the cat was scared of the Russian clock. After Prof. Dunkfeather says "The salesmen were in a conference..."Â�, the scene cuts to the Stooges and we see them jumping as if they heard the mysterious pie-thrower's cackle, but we don't hear it until a few seconds later. When the camera fades into the opening scene, you can see the picture finishing a dissolve from a previous scene that must've either been deleted or moved to later into the film. When the camera cuts over to Moe and Curly as Moe says "Be careful with that!"Â�, Moe's hair suddenly looks different from the way it was in the previous shot. After Moe gets hit with a pie, he drops the club in his hand, but in the next shot he's still holding the club, then he drops it again. When Curly shoots the Stooges hats off the first time, his and Moe's hats get blown off at the same time, but the sound effects make it seem like they got their hats shot off one at a time. If it's 5:00 in Russia, then wouldn't all the clocks chime a different hour due to time zone changes? In addition, it wouldn't be 5:00 in all of Russia. You can see the wire that pulls the bird out of the clock. This short has a lot of "Wrong Voices"Â� mysteries in it, and some of them may have been intentional: First, when Curly yells after his hat gets shot off the first time, we hear Moe's yell instead. Then, when the master spy gets hit with a pie, we hear the mysterious pie-thrower's cackle in the background, but he sounds just like Curly. Then, when Curly is running around in circles and stops when he hears the mysterious pie-thrower cackle (NOT Curly's voice this time), we hear a groan in the background that sounds like Moe's voice, though he was supposed to be in another room at the time. And finally, when Curly yells after the balloon explodes, we hear Moe's yell instead (his same yell dubbed in from earlier in the film when he saw the spy in the devil costume staring at him through the window).
BACK FROM THE FRONT	1943-05-28	Moe, Larry and Curly	10 goofs
Larry says "There's the ship! Anchors over there, se--"Â� then the rest of his line abruptly gets cut off as the camera cuts over to Moe talking. When the Stooges are first shown on their mini-boat, Moe is looking through a pair of binoculars, then the camera shows a quick close-up of the dog paddling in the water and when it shows the Stooges again, Moe's binoculars are suddenly gone. Noticeable jump cuts in the film right before Curly keeps getting splashed with water through the porthole. We see the first tally being written on the wall after the first German soldier gets knocked out. Then the next soldier gets hit, and when it goes back to the tally board, we see the third tally being written on there, but they never showed how the second tally got there. Moe must be a terrible kisser in real life, because after he kisses his girlfriend in this short, in the background you can see the actress playing his girlfriend trying to wipe it off or something. When the captain falls back on the couch, right before the flower pot above him falls down, we hear another smashing sound in the background, but they never show what it was. In the credits above Jules White's name, it says "Produced and Directed"Â� but it's missing "by"Â� At the end, right before Moe drops the gate on the Nazi soldiers in the water, he says "Why you n...ratzies!"Â� It sounds like he was going to say "Nazis"Â� at first before he remembered he was supposed to say "ratzies"Â�. When the Stooges are climbing up the cargo net of the ship, you see the dog on Curly's shoulders jump off and run away on the deck as they reach to the top. Then the camera cuts to the next shot of the Stooges jumping onto the deck and the dog is suddenly back on Curly's shoulders, then Curly lets the dog off again. The girlfriends introduce the boys as 'Dinky', 'Blinky' and 'Stinky'. But for the rest of the film, they're back to using their usual names of Moe, Larry & Curly.
THREE LITTLE TWIRPS	1943-07-09	Moe, Larry and Curly	10 goofs
When the rope ties around the Stooges' necks, it gets caught on Curly's hat at first. Then a little later when Curly takes out the spear that's hanging above his head, he accidentally takes his hat off with it. When Curly is climbing up the pole, you can hear the sultan laughing evilly off-screen before he actually starts laughing evilly. When Mr. Herman arrives in his car, he looks over at the Stooges and notices the big hole in the middle of the poster they're hanging up, and he gets angry. Then the camera shows the Stooges quickly putting up a new poster, and when Mr. Herman walks up a minute later, he's smiling and he says "Looks pretty good, boys!"Â� But he just saw the previous poster with the hole through it, so why is he happy all of a sudden? He must have short-term memory! When Curly is supposed to mistakenly hit Larry and Moe behind him with hammers, he clearly misses Larry yet Larry still reacts as if he was hit. When Mr. Herman closes his car door, it doesn't close all the way afterwards. Also, you can see someone sitting in the backseat of the car. When Curly takes off his jacket during the bearded lady scene, he has on a short sleeved shirt with suspenders, but in the next scene where he and Larry hide in a horse costume, Curly's suddenly wearing a long-sleeved shirt with suspenders. Then when the camera shows him and Larry inside the horse costume, he's now wearing a short sleeved shirt with no suspenders. What the heck kept going on with his shirt?! When Curly is trying to stay balanced on the tightrope, you can hear him yelling two different ways at the same time. One of those yells was dubbed in. To explain what's going on with Curly's shirt, take a look at the scenes when he and Larry are in the horse skin. At first, Curly has small sweat stains on the front of his shirt. Later, the stains are gone. When Moe starts to push him out of the skin with his foot, he's covered in sweat. They had to have kept changing his shirt due to his perspiration, which explains why it goes from short sleeve to long. When Curly comes out of the horse costume, his right eye looks swollen for the rest of the scene. You can see the wires holding Curly's stunt double when he's walking on the tightrope.
HIGHER THAN A KITE	1943-07-30	Moe, Larry and Curly	14 goofs
When Kelly walks up to the car, the window on the passenger's door is closed, but when Kelly gets in the car, the window is suddenly open. As the Stooges are climbing out of the hole in the ground, Larry crushes Moe's face while leaning on him to get out of the hole, and Moe grunts "I'll moider you when I get out of this!"Â� Then the camera cuts to the next shot, and Moe is suddenly out of the hole before Larry. After Curly uses the forked end of the crowbar to get Moe out of the pipe and fails, Curly begins using the other straight end of the crowbar. The camera shows Moe yelling inside the pipe as the straight end of the crowbar keeps hitting him on the face, then it shows Curly and Larry yanking the crowbar, and when it shows Moe in the pipe again, the forked end of the crowbar is pressing up against his face! Weren't they just using the straight end of the crowbar? When Moe looks in the exhaust pipe, his hat is on. Then the camera shows a quick shot of Curly stepping on the gas in the car, and when it cuts back to Moe, his hat is suddenly gone. Right before the engine blows soot in Moe's eyes, you can see the area around Moe's eyes isalready blackened. A noticeable jump cut in the film when Kelly's car runs the Stooges over. As Curly is trying to bite open the hand grenade with the pin in it, the camera cuts to the next shot and suddenly, the pin has already pulled out of the grenade. When Larry and Curly try to heat off the pipe on Moe's head, Moe has his hands on the pipe, but in the next shot his hands aren't on the pipe, then in the next shot, his hands are back on the pipe again. When Larry says "Maybe they're droppin' the pipe in the ditch"Â�, Curly mouths that line at the same time. When Curly and Larry twist Moe out of the pipe, they are turning him towards the right, but when the camera shows a close-up of Moe's head in the pipe, he's suddenly being turned to the left. Curly has trouble opening the hood on the car. He picks up a crow-bar and tries to pry open the hood. The crow-bar bends back and forth in his hands. It must be made of rubber because he gets hit with it a few moments later. When Marshall Boring (Vernon Dent) comes riding into town on his scooter, as he stops on the curb, Dent accidentally elbows Dick Curtis...well...below his belly! When Larry lifts the car hood off of Curly's arms, you can see the wire pulling it up. When Moe pokes Curly in the eyes, we hear a honking sound effect instead of the usual "plunk"Â� sound effect. Either the sound effects men mistakenly thought that Moe hit Curly's nose instead of poked him the eye, or maybe since this is one of the first Stooge shorts to use a sound effect for the eyepokes, they were still working on different variations for the sound effects before settling on the plunk.
I CAN HARDLY WAIT	1943-08-13	Moe, Larry and Curly	18 goofs
After Curly cries "My poor little, sweet little, adorable, lovable, sweet little, bushy-wushy tooth!"Â�, Moe almost cracks up and he puts his hand over his mouth to hide his near-laughter. When Moe tells Curly to clean the ham, you can see the ham is sort of falling apart, but as Curly is washing it, it's obviously not the same piece of ham. When Curly gets in Moe's bed, he covers himself with a blanket. Then after Moe gets into the samebed after helping Larry, there is no blanket on Curly. When Curly and Larry are pretending to play bread like an accordion, Moe makes a mean grin, but when the camera shows a close-up of him, he's actually making a mean frown. Then when the camera goes back to a shot of all three of the Stooges, Moe's back to making a mean grin again. At the beginning of Curly's dream when Curly falls out of the top of the bunk bed, they use stunt doubles for all the Stooges. The Curly double is supposed to fall on Larry and Moe's doubles and pull them to the floor, but you can see the Moe double actually roll out of the bed before the Curly double reaches him. When Moe says "Lemme see"Â� and looks in Curly's mouth, you can see Larry behind Moe, climbing out of his bunk bed. Then the camera cuts to a closer shot of Curly and Moe, and Larry is suddenly gone. After Moe double-slaps Curly and Larry for yodeling, Larry accidentally elbows the coffee pot and almost knocks it over. When Moe slaps Larry for his "How is he, pretty heavy?"Â� comment, Larry is standing next to Moe, but he's suddenly standing behind him in the next shot. After Curly throws the dynamite into Moe's pants, he covers his face in anticipation of it going off, but he looks back too early and it goes off while he's looking straight at it. When Moe and Curly are breaking into the safe, Curly says "Hey!"Â�, then the camera cuts to the next shot and Curly is suddenly holding his face in pain as if Moe hit him, but they didn't show it. When the camera shows a close-up of the open safe with food inside of it, we see Moe observing it with one hand on his chin, then the camera cuts to the next shot and Moe's rubbing both of his hands together suddenly. As Dr. Yank approaches Moe's mouth to extract the tooth, you can see Moe open his mouth by himself on cue, but he was supposed to be knocked out. When Larry yells to Curly "Be quiet and go to sleep!"Â�, he's really yelling something else. At the beginning of the shot where Moe says to Curly, "You're a coward!"Â�, Curly suddenly has his left index finger pointed at Moe, but he wasn't doing that in the previous shot. When Moe focuses the flashlight on Larry, you can tell that the light is really coming from an off-camera spotlight, especially since we can hear a loud click in the background whenever the spotlight comes on. When the dynamite stick that Curly throws lands in Moe's pants, you can see a wire pulling open the back of his pants. You can see the wires pulling the knot on top of the towel wrapped around Curly's head as it twirls in pain. When Moe drags Curly off-camera by a string tied to his bad tooth, Curly is crouching forward and howling in pain, but in the next shot, he's suddenlystanding up straight and smiling.
DIZZY PILOTS	1943-09-24	Moe, Larry and Curly	13 goofs
When Larry hands Moe a cigar, it's in Larry's left hand at first, but it's in his right hand suddenly in the next shot. When Moe tries to strangle Curly after his "King's English"Â� comment, Moe's supposed to say "Shut up!"Â� but Curly says it along with him for some reason. Many of Moe's yells when he's floating in the air are obviously dubbed in. When Curly throws out one of the airplane's levers, you can hear it immediately hit the studio floor even though the Stooges are supposed to be airborne. A noticeable jump cut in Curly's position when Moe's fighting with him over the tub. After Moe falls in the well, the camera cuts over to Larry and Curly, and Larry suddenly has a cigar in his mouth that he didn't have a few seconds before. When reading the letter aloud at the beginning, Moe says "proved"Â� when the letter says "proven"Â�. When Curly tightens the vice on Moe's hand, he turns the handle clockwise, but he also turns it clockwise to loosen the vice. When Moe rises from the hydrogen gas, he hits his head on a ceiling crossbeam, causing a stain on the beam. Trouble is, there is already is a stain on the ceiling beam where he is about to hit his head. In the shot where he is about to escape the hangar from an opening in the roof, the stain on the beam is gone. After Moe slaps Larry for his "You two guys goin' steady?"Â� crack, Curly gets something in his mouth. When the Buzzard goes into a tailspin, another plane streaks by with colored smoke trailing behind. They must have used footage from an airshow. After Curly fires the shotgun in the air, he accidentally backs his elbow into Larry's chest and Larry has a quick pained look on his face right before the camera cuts away. When Moe gets lifted up by the propeller, you can see the wire that pulls him up.
PHONY EXPRESS	1943-11-18	Moe, Larry and Curly	7 goofs
When Curly heads back to the shack after the bad guys get caught in the hidden bear traps, you can see something hanging out of the back of his pants. Then when he walks in the shack, there's nothing on the back of his pants. When Moe turns over while the sheriff is opening the bottle, Moe has water all over him, but he hasn't gotten sprayed by the sheriff's bottle yet. When Curly peers his head out of the stove, his eyes wander around the room then he sees Red Morgan and his assistant. Then the camera shows a close-up of Curly and he does the whole "eyes-wander-around-then-see-Red"Â� gag again. You can see a bandage on the back of Curly's neck during the film. You can see the wire that pulls off the sheriff's toupee at the beginning. The bad guys are yelling in pain after they step into the bear traps that were set by the Stooges. After Curly runs back into the cabin for the hidden money, and Red Morgan (Bud Jamison) and accomplice come in, you can't hear the bad guys yelling any longer, even though they are supposedly right outside the cabin. When the bad guys are yelling in pain after stepping in the bear traps, it sounds like you can hear Curly yelling along during one part for some reason.
GEM OF A JAM, A	1943-12-30	Moe, Larry and Curly	7 goofs
When the cops return, there's a police car behind them, then the camera shows the Stooges looking out the window, and when the camera goes back to the cops, the car behind them is suddenly gone. After Moe takes the hand-drill and sticks it in Curly's body hidden under sheets (which is really a dummy), Moe cranks the drill too hard and the sheet covering Curly's dummy begins to twist and rip and the dummy itself begins twisting and ripping, too! As Moe and Larry are backing towards each other while Curly is in the middle, a noticeable jump cut occurs in the film, then Moe suddenly appears in a different position. After water sprays out of Curly's mouth the first time and hits Moe, you can hear this strange loud squeak sound that most likely came from the source of water that was hidden behind Curly's mouth. When Curly shakes himself after falling into the plaster, there isn't any plaster in his hair, but when Dudley Dickerson turns around to see Curly behind him, Curly's head is completely covered in plaster. There are 3 crooks. The cops take Joe, the wounded crook, into custody after the Stooges drop him out a window. Later, the cops are still looking for 3 crooks. After Moe pulls the fish out of Curly, the x-ray machine is off but you can still here the nosie that it was making.
CRASH GOES THE HASH	1944-02-05	Moe, Larry and Curly	9 goofs
During the fight scene near the end, the shot where Curly kicks the butler in the behind, then stomach-butts him is played in fast-motion for comedic effects. But the audio of the butler's groans are heard too early before Curly even does anything to him. On the box of dog food, the product is called "Puppo Dog Biscuit"Â�, but on the actual biscuit, it's spelled "Puppo Dog Bisquit"Â�. When Larry unknowingly tears Mrs. Van Bustle's dress off, he is holding two glasses and in the background, you can see Curly standing behind a table looking at Mrs. Van Bustle's bare legs and slapping his face in embarrassment. Then when Mrs. Van Bustle runs back to reclaim her skirt, the glasses Larry were carrying are suddenly gone and in the background, Curly is now standing in front of the table and laughing at Mrs. Van Bustle. When the turkey jumps off the table, it accidentally knocks down a dish. After Moe takes a photo of the butler and the Prince robbing the safe, Moe says "I got ya..."Â� then he pauses and a few seconds later, he continues "...with the goods and you're goin' to jail!"Â� He must've forgotten the rest of his line for a moment. When Moe has his nose caught in between the door crack, he yells "Get my nose outta here; I'm suffocating!"Â� Then Curly goes over to help him, but Moe pulls his nose out before Curly does anything. At the beginning, Mr. Bull saying "<i>They</i> got the story!"Â� is accidentally played twice. You can see the wire holding Curly before Mrs. Van Bustle lifts him up and kisses him. When the turkey keeps jumping out of the way as Curly tries to carve it, you can see the wiresthat make the turkey jump.
BUSY BUDDIES	1944-03-18	Moe, Larry and Curly	9 goofs
When Curly (actually a dummy) gets thrown over the fence the first time, you can see the hand of the crew member that throws the dummy. When they show Curly bouncing on the telephone pole with his suspenders, his coat has suddenly disappeared. Obviously, Curly couldn't wear the coat for the gag since he had to bounce on his suspenders, but they never showed how he got out of his coat. When the champion is spinning the "cow"Â� around, they show a close-up of Curly and the referee and they're both about to duck, but in the next shot, they're still standing straight up. A noticeable jump cut in the film when Curly removes the poster section of the billboard. Same thing later in the short right before the chair hits Curly on the head. Right before Curly coughs up the feathers, you can see a few feathers flying around already as if they were left from a previous take. Curly's "Nyaaaaah!"Â� when he sees plaster all over Moe's face is played twice. The same thing happens earlier in the shortwhen he sees eggs over Moe's eyes. As Curly looks at the poster he just hung up, he asks "What kind of language is that?!"Â� and Moe sets him straight by telling him "It's upside down!"Â�, which it indeed is. However, when the camera shows a close up of it, not only is it upside down, but it's backwards! As Curly is looking at the poster he just hung up, he backs up and accidentally bumps into Moe behind him. After the referee (John Tyrell) points off-screen supposedly to Curly and yells "You're disqualified!"Â�, Curly approaches him from a completely different location to argue the ruling and Tyrell then turns the right way to face Curly.
YOKE'S ON ME, THE	1944-05-26	Moe, Larry and Curly	7 goofs
It's the one where the boys trade some money and a car to a farmer for his farm. This particular goof happens in the scene when the farmer gets the sheriff and deputy to push start his car. Before they do, he tries to start it himself and when it doesn't, the last thing he says (under his breath) is "bastard." Curly messes up a line when he says "Hit me with that and we'll be...all be even."Â� He was supposed to say "Hit me with that and we'll all be even."Â� Curly says "The place is surrounded by Japs!"Â�, then the camera shows some Japanese escapeeswalking into the shack, and when it goes back to the Stooges, Curly's holding his eyes in pain as if he was eyepoked, but we never see it. When Moe's father kicks him into the wall, Moe falls unconscious between Curly and Larry with his head located at about their waists. In the next shot, Moe's father throws water on them, and all three of the stooges heads are lined up so the water can hit all of them in the face. At the end when the two sheriffs arrive, a lot of the Stooges and sheriffs' lines don't match their actual mouth movements. After the ostrich egg explosion, the Japanese escapees are all supposed to be knocked unconscious and lying still, but when Curly grabs a shovel from one escapee, you can see one of the "unconscious"Â� escapees in the background moving his arm to scratch his face. When Curly gets bitten on the nose near the hay bale by the goose, you can see the two guide wires that assist the stage hands in guiding the goose's beak onto Curly's nose.
IDLE ROOMERS	1944-07-16	Moe, Larry and Curly	5 goofs
When Curly walks in the room carrying Mrs. Leander, he's holding her arms differently than the way he was when he first picked her up. Even after the wolfman takes the trombone away from Curly, you can still hear the music continuing to play for a few seconds. Moe and Curly run through a door, closing it behind them. A chair falls from the top of the door, but there was no previous 'setup' scene to get the chair placed there. When the wolf man bends the bars of his box, all but two 'spring' back into place after he squeezes through. When Moe yanks Curly to the room by the nose with a hammer, right as they enter the room Moe apparently thinks they are off-screen when they really aren't and we can clearly see him release the hammer from Curly's nose. Then the camera cuts inside of the room and Moe is still yanking Curly by the nose like he's supposed to.
GENTS WITHOUT CENTS	1944-09-22	Moe, Larry and Curly	12 goofs
When the Stooges are doing the Niagara Falls routine in Manny Weeks' office, as Curly falls over the chair you can see the shadow of a boom mike on the wall. You can see a shadow of the camera when it zooms into the banners that read "Moe, Larry, and Curly in: At the Front"Â�. When Curly begins rotating his head as he watches the record playing, both of his hands are to his side. Then the camera shows a closer shot of him and his left hand is suddenly on the record player. Then when it goes back to a farther shot, both of his hands are to his side again. When the plaster is falling from the ceiling, you can see Curly looking up to position himself under the light fixture for when it's supposed to fall and smash on his head in the next shot. As Larry is beating Curly up on stage the first time for saying "Niagara Falls"Â�, instead of saying "I grabbed him, I smashed him...etc..."Â� like Moe did when he was beating up Curly, Larry just mumbles gibberish and "There"Â¦there!"Â�, possibly because he forgot exactly what to say. When Moe and Larry are doing the Niagara Falls routine together on stage, when they both are supposed to say "Step by step"Â� together, Larry accidentally says "Inch by inch"Â�. Then you can hear him whisper "Step by step"Â� to himself afterwards in embarrassment. During the Niagara Falls play on-stage, after the first time Moe beats up Curly, Curly says "Just because I said "Ë�Niagara Falls'..."Â�, but he never actually said "Niagara Falls"Â� before then. After Moe yells "Niagara Falls!"Â� the second time on stage, we hear Curly woo-wooing, yet he's clearly yelling "Don't do that!"Â� at the same time. The woo-wooing was dubbed in. After Moe says "It's that woman, I'll kill her..."Â�, the camera cuts to the next shot and we hear Moe continue "...and him!"Â�, but he's really saying something else. At the start, when Curly hits Moe and Larry with the baseball bat, he clearly misses Larry. However Larry reacts to being hit despite it being way off. When Curly is supposed to say "I couldn't help it, I slipped!"Â�, it sounds like he messes up and says "sliched"Â� instead of "slipped"Â�. During the bath scene, Larry accidentally splashes water right in Curly's eyes.
NO DOUGH, BOYS	1944-11-24	Moe, Larry and Curly	7 goofs
When the Nazi spy first welcomes himself to the Stooges, Larry's hat is on sideways. Then it's on frontward in the next short. When the Stooges are doing their "Is that not a swastika?"Â� routine at the end, their mouth movements don't match what we hear them saying. During the water seltzer fight between Moe and Curly, Moe says "Serves you right!"Â� and Curly's supposed to give him the hand movement, but there's an awkward pause as Curly just stands there and forgets what to do next, so Moe begins to repeat "Serves you right"Â�, and half-way through the line, Curly finally remembers what he has to do and continues with the act. When the Stooges are all supposed to blow at the same time in an unconscious Vernon Dent's face to knock him down, Larry forgets to at first. When Moe is supposed to throw the cake in the Nazi spy's face, he pauses for a few seconds before doing it for some reason. After Moe, takes Curly's cigarette away from him, he gets out a cgiar and starts smoking it despite the fact he never even lighted it. When the boys are done with their acrobatic act, Curly tries to stand up, but he accidentally falls back down.
THREE PESTS IN A MESS	1945-01-19	Moe, Larry and Curly	6 goofs
When Curly slams the rifle against the wall, it fires once (taking off the hat of a man standing near a window). Moe talks to Curly, and Curly hits the rifle against the wall again and shoots a mannequin. Bolt Action Rifles can only fire one shot at a time, since you need to use the bolt to eject the empty cartridge and load in the new bullet. After the "Mammy/Pappy" dialogue, Moe (hands and face covered in ink) hits Larry and grabs his lapels. Larry's lapels are now covered in ink. In the next scene, Larry's suit is completely clean. When Curly says to the cop "Just trash", his mouth doesn't move. The math is wrong - 10,000 flies would give them $100, not $100,000. In the scene where Curly rips off each layer of shirts, one shirt gets partially untucked. In the next shot, the whole shirt is suddenly tucked in. You can see the wire that keeps pulling the dead body out of the hole.
BOOBY DUPES	1945-03-17	Moe, Larry and Curly	18 goofs
The shot of Vernon Dent's character falling into the ice cream cart is reversed, as you can see the writing on the cart is backwards. In the first scene, when the boys get out of the truck to check the radio, you can see the word "California" on the license plate. In two shots, the license plate is shown again with the word "California" blacked out. Curly takes Vernon Dent's uniform and which fits him perfectly. Yet when Vernon Dent has to put on Curly's clothes, they are way too small. After Moe says to Curly "Lettin' the water out?! You're gonna sink us!"Â�, he grabs Curly by the neck and starts to say his next line, but Curly cuts him off by saying (probably an ad-lib) "That's appreciation, that is!"Â� After Larry says "It's a good thing I had a spare boat"Â�, Moe is supposed to respond "What spare boat? With this guy on the back?"Â� but he's too busy helping Curly in the boat, so a few seconds later, he finally says his line. When Curly's fish jumps around the boat, it actually jumps in the water twice and then jumps back into the boat! At the beginning of the beach scene, you can see the shadow of a crew member placing a microphone in the background. When Curly drops his fishing pole in the water, you can see it hit the bottom. In the opening scene, Larry blows his horn holding it in his right hand as he blows twice into Curly's & Moe's ears. After he blows into Curly's ear for the second time, he moves left to catch Moe again, with the horn in his right hand, but as it cuts to the close-up of Moe & the actual second blow, Larry's now holding the horn in his left hand. After Moe throws the steering wheel at Curly but misses, Curly starts to yell "What are we gonna do now?!"Â� too early while Moe is still speaking, so Curly quickly stops. The fishing sequences obviously take place in a studio tank. The stage lights are reflected in the "ocean" water. When Moe's rear is being chopped by the propeller, there is excessive amount of cloth flying in the air; enough to make several pairs of pants! As Curly picks up the anchor, he accidentally knocks the fishing pole over with it, but in the next shot, the pole is back where it was. During one part of the fishing scene, Moe accidentally slips in the boat next to Larry and almost falls in the water, then there's an awkward pause for a few seconds, followed by Moe ad-libbing "Move over there! Move over there!"Â� to Larry. As Larry is saying "We're getting' someplace!"Â�, Moe accidentally splashes water in Larry's face, causing him to yell when he says "someplace"Â�. When Curly pulls the dock pole and has it accidentally hit Moe, you can see the boat wheel pop loose after Moe sways in a daze. When Moe smacks Larry in the neck with the horn in the beginning of the episode, Larry initially grabs his forehead, then he grabs his neck. When Curly begins drilling a second hole in the boat, he accidentally turns the drill the wrong way at first. Also, you can see sponge pads under his knees during that part, which was apparently put there so his knees wouldn't get hurt kneeling on the boat.
IDIOTS DELUXE	1945-07-20	Moe, Larry and Curly	11 goofs
During the cabin/breakfast scene where Moe accuses Larry of eating all the potatoes, look just above Larry's head. There are markings on the wall that appear to be chalk-marks a carpenter might make while constructing the set. After Curly says "Waitin' for the dressing and the cranberry sauce"Â�, Moe looks like he's going to squeeze the duck's beak on Curly's nose, but the camera goes to the next scene before we see it happen. When Moe throws the spaghetti at Curly, Moe has a string of spaghetti in his hair, but it's suddenly gone in the next shot. When Larry throws Curly a rock and Curly falls down, his hat is knocked on the ground. The next shot cuts to the bear, and then back to Curly, but now his hat is on back his head. A noticeable jump cut in the film when the bear crawls out the cabin window. When the Stooges first arrive at the woods, Larry says to Curly "I sure am happy we found this old cabin"Â�, then the camera shows a quick shot of Moe cooking inside of the cabin. Then when the camera goes back to Larry and Curly, Larry angrilyyells to Curly "Get busy there!"Â� as if Curly did or said something wrong, but they never showed it. The judge refers to Moe during the courtroom scene as "Mr. Moe"Â�, but shouldn't he have called him "Mr. Howard"Â�? When Curly plays the trombone, he puts the slide OUT during the high notes and IN during the low notes! You can see a wire on the trombone slide when it lodges on Moe's neck. You can see a wire on the bear when it's sniffing around the cabin. When Moe says "Now I'm mad! It's either the bear or me!"Â�, he has only his left hand on the rifle. Then the camera cuts to a closer shot of the Stooges and Moe suddenly has both hands on the rifle. Then when the camera goes back to a farther-away shot, only Moe's right hand is on the rifle.
IF A BODY MEETS A BODY	1945-08-30	Moe, Larry and Curly	13 goofs
After the detective says "Now..."Â� the camera suddenly cuts to a closer shot of him saying "--that settles it!"Â� in a completely different tone of voice. When Moe and Larry don't believe when Curly says he saw a ghost, Moe says "A skeleton with little feet, eh?"Â�, but Curly never described it as a skeleton with little feet, so how would Moe know? During the Scene when the stooges are running down the stairs, you can clearly see that is not Curly. After Curly mistakenly knocks out the detective with a chair, the camera shows a close-up of Larry picking up the water vase and we hear Moe off-camera say "Are you alright, mister? Sa--"Â� then his line gets cut off, then he says "C'mon, c'mon, fella! Say a few syllables!"Â� Curly's mouth doesn't move when he says "I'll break the door down."Â� When the camera cuts to a quick close-up of Moe as Curly says "Nice soup from a nice juicy bone"Â�, the look on Moe's face is suddenly different from the look on his face in the shot before and after. After Moe flicks the match on the back of Curly's neck, Curly's late on his cue for when he's supposed to "Ooh!"Â� in pain. The parrot climbs into the skull on the skeleton and flies away with it, but later in the short, we see the same skeleton with the skull back on. There was no explanation of how it got back there. When the detective says "And they stole the will!"Â�, he's really saying something else. Same thing when he says "Well..."Â� as Jerkington is giving the relatives their rooms, when Moe says to Curly "If he stabs you in the head, he'll wreck his knife!"Â�, and when Curly is woo-wooing when he and Larry see the dead body behind Moe. When the Stooges are singing "Let's go and get the moolah"Â�, Curly accidentally sings "dough"Â� instead of "moolah"Â� at first. When the Stooges salute the detective, Curly and Larry are supposed to hit Moe on the head, but Larry accidentally hits Moe in the eye instead and you can see Moe's eye looks swollen afterwards for a few seconds. When the detective walks inside the room that the Stooges are in, he's not supposed to know that Curly's going to hit him on the head with a chair, but you can see him tilting his head in anticipation of the hit. A wire is visible in the first shot where the parrot in the skull begins to fly with the sheet.
MICRO-PHONIES	1945-11-15	Moe, Larry and Curly	6 goofs
When Curly is lip-syncing to "Voices of Spring"Â� at the party, Moe and Larry both can be seen looking at each other and cracking up a few times. As the Stooges begin the lip-sync to the Lucia Sextet record, the camera pans over to Mrs Bixby on the couch. Her audio says, "The Sextet from Lucia", but her lip movements say something else. When Moe is hopping around after having the wrench dropped on his foot, we see him about to land on the pipe causing him to fall and hit his head on the radiator. In the next shot he is still hopping, but now he seems to have backed up in mid air and is suddenly a step away from landing on the pipe. When the Stooges do the Voices of Spring, Signor Spumoni has already unplugged the record player to prevent lip-syncing. Beautiful Alice performs the vocals hidden behind a curtain. Moe plays the flute, and not surprisingly, does it badly, except for the very last (5th) flute phrase in the song. Although he stops playing the flute and puts it down, the flute part continues, perfectly, just as it was heard on the record, even though the record player has already been unplugged. During the Lucia Sextet, when Signor Spumoni unplugs the record player, the piano also goes silent, even though the piano player is supposedly playing it live. The piano player also moves as if he is still playing. In the radio studio, the flute player doesn't quite gets his lips in sync with the music he's supposed to be playing. (This happens on the second flute verse; the flute player just has the flute up to his lips, but they are not set in a proper embouchure) (MJZ)
BEER BARREL POLECATS	1946-01-10	Moe, Larry and Curly	11 goofs
There is a change in the aperture (light being admitted through the lens) when Curly smacks Moe with the mop. In a reused scene from IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE and in a new scene afterwards, the Stooges wear license plates that have the year 1942 on them. Made sense in PIE AND PIE when that short was actually released shortly before that year, but this short was released years after "Ë�42. When Curly mistakenly spills hot water down Moe's pants, Larry gets some water stains on his shirt, but his shirt's suddenly completely dry in the next shot. When Moe asks Larry "Burnt toast and a rotten egg?!"Â�, at the same time Curly begins to say something, but he quickly stops. It is apparent that the 185 bottles of beer are empty, as you can see through them easily! When Curly walks out of the jail cell, the barrel under his coat looks smaller and rounder than it did when he was in the cell. After Moe tells Curly to go on and mop the floor, Curly grunts two different ways at the same time. One of those grunts was dubbed in. The shot of Moe coming up from the floor with an ice cream cone on his nose is accidentally played twice in a row. In the reused footage from SO LONG MR. CHUMPS, the Stooges are trying to look for convict 41144, but they deleted all references from the original version as to <i>why</i> they were even looking for him, and there's no explanation at all in the new footage either, leaving the viewers confused. When Curly stomach-butts Larry into the tub, Moe gets something caught in his eye. Same thing happens later in the short toRobert Williams after the beer barrel explosion when he yells "I'll hang you for this!"Â� When Curly smacks Moe with the mop, he hits him in the back of the head, but Moe grabs the side of his face.
BIRD IN THE HEAD, A	1946-02-28	Moe, Larry and Curly	6 goofs
When Curly says "The man liked my looks! Nyuk, nyuk!"Â�, Moe looks like he's going to laugh. You can see Moe move his foot away when Curly is supposed to drop the wallpapers on his foot. During the chase around the lab, Curly tosses a large bottle onto the floor so Vernon Dent will trip on it. When Dent falls, he falls onto an open set of teeth that snap shut on his rear end. From where did the perfectly-placed teeth come? Near the end of the short, as the Stooges are running out of the lab, the gorilla is still firing the machine gun. However, the gorilla is holding the weapon is upside down, with the drum magazine, hand grip & trigger assembly facing up, & the gorilla's finger doesn't appear to be near the trigger. The muzzle is below the bottom of the camera, so nothing is seen to indicate the weapon is firing, yet the weapon is still heard to be firing, & the gorilla is still making the physical movements one might expect to see with a weapon being fired. While running away from the gorilla, Larry pulls on the door knob but nothing happens. Moe pulls the door knob, & it comes off in his hand. But the door still doesn't open until Vernon Dent pushes it from the other side, revealing there's no door knob on the other side either, nor does there appear to be any lock hardware in the edge of the door to explain why it was so hard to open. When Larry first props the plank up against the wall, you can see what appears to be hinges or other devices at the bottom of the plank, actually lifting it off the floor, apparently so it'll fall, & do so exactly where it should. When Larry doesn't keep the plank up against the wall, & Moe comes over to do it, the hinges/other devices are gone.
SWING PARADE OF 1946	1946-03-16	Moe, Larry and Curly	10 goofs
During the scene where Carol tears up the Dispossesion Notice, she says to the Stooges "I could kiss all of you!" When they begin to line up for the smooch, watch the back wall at the lower-right of the screen and you can see the shadow of the head of the actor playing Danny bob in and out of view a couple of times before he enters the scene. In the Embassy Club rehearsal scene just after Carol accepts the job of serving a process paper, Danny Jr. is practicing his song. In the medium shots, he is holding the music sheet at waist level, but in the close-ups he is holding the music sheet at chest level. Early in the film, Curly says that he and the other Stooges can't read. But later in the film, we see Curly reading off of a menu with no problem. The scene after when Carol faints at the sight of the Stooges has Moe, Larry and Curly sleeping on top of a grand piano, with Curly closest to the keyboard. They all three turn over at the same time, causing Curly to fall onto the keyboard, then to the piano bench. This scene has a stunt double in Curly's place with a very obvious-looking "Bald-Curly" headpiece on. The scenes of Carol waking up with pajamas on and putting on her robe to answer the door shows her wrapping the robe tightly around her body when she approaches the door. But the very next scene, when she gets to the door and explains to Danny "I have it on", shows that the robe is no longer wrapped around her and reveals her pajamas from the front. In the Stooges very first scene, the club manager orders the boys to do the dishes. He strikes all three on the feet to get them to drop their newspapers they are reading, which they do. But in the very next scene, Curly is suddenly holding his newspaper at chest level. Also not a goof, but the scene of Moe, Larry and Curly taking the emergency job as waiters has Moose assigning them to stations. Moose says, "Larry, you take 9 and 10 ... Moe, 11 and 12 ... and Curly, 14 and 15." It appears the nightclub intentionally left out station 13! NOT a goof, but a scene so well put together and shot, it is worth mentioning!The scene of Danny (just after remarking about Carol as having "Opening Night Jitters") picking through the crowd during Opening Night shows him passing in front of a very large, long mirror. The mirror reflects people milling about and dancers dancing, just as you might expect it to. This means that the set had to be much bigger than the actual scene required to get all those proper images into the mirror. Also, the camera dolly and crew were carefully placed at approximately a 45 degree angle from the main action in the scene and therefore were never reflected in the mirror while shooting. Kudos, guys!! The very first scene shows Carol putting on her shoes and a kitten lapping milk at her feet. As the movie progresses, she is evicted and locked out of her apartment. The movie NEVER shows her getting back into her place to retrieve clothing, belongings, etc. WHAT about the poor little kitty trapped inside the apartment? During the scene where Carol gets a chance at an audition, the boys are ordered to go back to doing the dishes, but instead sneak back and lay down next to the band to hear her sing. Danny then silently tells the band to begin playing along with her singing. All these scenes take place while Carol is singing a slow intro to the song "The Sunny Side of the Street", but the shot of the band picking up their instruments and preparing to play along shows the boys nodding their heads in time to the faster-paced music which HASN'T started yet!
UNCIVIL WARBIRDS	1946-03-29	Moe, Larry and Curly	9 goofs
When Curly is being led away by the firing squad, Larry originally seems to miss his mark, then he backs up and stands at Moe's left side. After a camera cut, he's suddenly on Moe's right. The two other solders also switch sides. When Curly says "Where's my cap?"Â�, his mouth isn't moving. The ending scene had a lot of goofs in it. First, after the Stooges spill their drinks down their wives backs, the wives are all supposed to throw drinks in the Stooges' faces, but the actress playing Curly's wife forgot to dothat for some reason. Then after Moe's wife throws the drink in his face, some of it gets thrown right into his eye. And finally, the wives are then supposed to strangle the Stooges, but the actress playing Larry's wife hugs him at first for some reason, then she remembers that she's supposed to be strangling him. From Previous Entry: First, after the Stooges spill their drinks down their wives backs, the wives are all supposed to throw drinks in the Stooges' faces, but the actress playing Curly's wife forgot to do that for some reason.<p>Actually, this is NOT the case. Upon further inspection of the film you can see that Curly is holding his glass in his right hand. His wife is holding hers in HER right hand. When Curly dumps the drink down her back his LEFT hand comes up and grabs her RIGHT wrist, thus causing the glass to fall out of her hand so she could not throw the drink in Curly's face. You can tell by her actions and arm movements (from the back) that she then grabs the glass out of Curly's hand and throws what is left of the liquid in his glass into his face. There is a little splash but not too much, since most of it went down her back. After doing this she drops the glass to the ground before choking Curly, and you can hear the glass hit the rug on the floor. Curly accidentally gets some hay thrown in his eyes when Moe and Larry are searching through the hay for their clothes. When Curly blows his nose with the handkerchief, one of his fake sideburns accidentally falls off. Then it reappears in the next shot of him. After Moe and Larry tell Curly through the shack window to fake his death during his execution, Curly says "I understand"Â�. Then they show a small scene with the soldiers fighting over the ham, and when it goes back to the Stooges, they replay Curly saying "I understand"Â�. After the wedding, and before the toast... the medium-long shot shows Curly taking his glass in his left hand. When it switches to a medium shot, the glass is raised in his right hand. You can see a wire pulling the sled when Moe and Curly are pulling it.
THREE TROUBLEDOERS	1946-04-25	Moe, Larry and Curly	8 goofs
When Moe and Larry are helping Curly out of the collar, Curly's collar is suddenly on a lot looser than it was when Blackie's two henchmen put it on him. When Moe is putting the firecracker in Curly's collar, he says "Hold sti--"Â� then his line abruptly gets cut off when the camera cuts to the next shot. When the lit dynamite flies at Blackie and his henchmen when they're running inside the shack, you can see the wire that the dynamite slides on. You can tell that Curly didn't really shoot the balloon, because it would've instantly exploded, not slowly deflated. After the Stooges gang up on the justice of peace behind a pile of hay, it's supposed to look like Curly put on the justice's clothes in a quick second. But a noticeable jump in the film and a sudden change in the pattern of the hay gives it away that they stopped filming so Curly could get dressed. When the bazooka fired soot into Moe's face, some soot actually went into his eyes and the studio had to get the first aid man to pry Moe's eyes open and take out the soot in chunks. The Stooges were covered with road dust just before they went into the blacksmith shop. As they stepped through the door they were suddenly much cleaner. After Curly laughs when he shoots the cracker, we see him from the back and he takes off his glasses, but they're still on in the next shot.
MONKEY BUSINESSMEN	1946-06-20	Moe, Larry and Curly	6 goofs
When Curly falls off of the stretcher, we hear Bud Jamison's yell instead for some odd reason. Even weirder is the fact that Jamison was dead by this time. The yell must have been dubbed in from an earlier short with him. We also hear the same yell a few shorts later in RHYTHM AND WEEP after Curly drops a hammer on somebody's head off-screen. When Dr. Mallard (Kenneth MacDonald) is supposed to take the axe out from the glass case, MacDonald tries to reach it through the actual glass for a few seconds before opening the glass door. The glass must've been so clear that he didn't notice that it was there at first. During the scene with the Stooges at Dr. Mallard's office, you can see Moe elbowing Curly several times to cue him on when his next lines are. When McGann walks in the room, Moe and Larry drop two pipes on top of Curly's head, then both pipes fall on the floor. Then the camera cuts to the next angle and one of the pipes is suddenly leaning on Curly's head, and then the pipe keeps disappearing and reappearing in different camera shots. When Curly falls backward off the stretcher, he lands on his back with his legs sticking up, and we can clearly see him struggling to turn a somersault and right himself. When Curly asks "<i>I</i> picked?!!"Â�, he says it so loud, he accidentally blows Moe's bangs to the side.
THREE LOAN WOLVES	1946-07-04	Moe, Larry and Curly	8 goofs
When Curly taps the funnel into the jug of milk, the oven next to him holding a pot accidentally tips over. After the little boy says "Oh, so you just moved in on me, eh?"Â�, the camera cuts to the next shot and the Stooges are suddenly holding their faces in pain as if they were slapped by the boy, but they didn't show it. "CHEAP" is spelled as "CHEEP" on the BOWLING BALLS sign. Right when Larry says to Butch McGee "Here's your 25 berries!"Â�, Moe starts saying something at the same time, but he stops. Told in flashback, the Stooges are wearing the same outfits in both the present day and in the flashback scenes, which based on how old their "son" is, would be about 10 years! When Moe and Curly make faces to calm down the baby, Curly tries to make the face where he and Moe get frightened by each other's look earlier than it is supposed to happen. When Moe is supposed to ask Curly to open his mouth and then to depress his lower jaw, Curly depresses his lower jaw too early before Moe even asks him. Early on in the fight scene, we see Curly immediately beating up one of the three crooks and locking him in a trunk, then the rest of the fight scene focuses on Larry and Moe being beat up by the other two crooks, so why don't we see Curly helping Larry and Moe afterwards? Obviously, the writers were trying not to give Curly too much to do due to his illness, but they should've at least explained what he was doing for the remainder of the fight scene.
G.I. WANNA HOME	1946-09-05	Moe, Larry and Curly	10 goofs
When Moe is brushing the dirt off of the turkey that fell on the ground, you can hear somebody off-screen coughing. After Moe's "egg shampoo"Â�, he says "Well, that's that"Â¦"Â� and you can hear someone cracking up off-camera. Moe sends Larry up to the fork in a tree to gather chicken eggs. However, chickens are mainly flightless birds and would build a nest on the ground! When Curly is stuffing the turkey with crackers, he says "Something funny happened to me"Â�, but his mouth isn't moving. When Moe and Larry mistakenly hit Curly on the head with a shovel and glass, Curly holds his head and his <i>foot</i> in pain, but he never even got hit in the foot. After Moe cries "Now we're gonna go hungry! What's the matta with you guys?!"Â�, he's supposed to slap Curly and Larry, but he clearly misses Larry's face completely. As the boys exit the taxi, a woman extra, dressed in what appears to be a hat & animal-skin cape, walks right to left in the background. In the next scene, after all the time it would've taken to load all the household goods, & while Curly's pulling the car down the street, the same woman, in the same clothes, walks behind Curly, apparently to save paying another extra. At the beginning while Larry says "Oh boy, it sure feels good to be discharged at last"Â�, Curly starts to say his line "Let's hitch a ride"Â� too early, but he stops and waits until Larry is finished. When Curly's stunt double begins climbing up the pile of furniture, he accidentally slips off of it at first and has to start again. As Larry explains the bathroom/luggage storage area to the new brides, they open the door to go in. As they enter, a stagehand is seen in the shot, perhaps holding up the wobbly fake wall. He appears to realize he's noticeable in the shot & quickly ducks behind another part of the scenery, but since the scenery isn't very large or deep, he never quite makes it out of camera view completely.
RHYTHM AND WEEP	1946-10-03	Moe, Larry and Curly	5 goofs
After Moe splatters the pie in Curly's face, Larry looks like he's trying not to laugh. When the millionaire/crazy guy yells "Choo Choo! All aboard!"Â�, Curly gets a slight smile on his face like he's trying not to laugh. When Curly drops the hammer off the building, it hits someone down below. The accompanying yell is obviously from Bud Jamison, who died 2 years previously!! The scene where the Stooges first arrive on the roof of the tall building and meet the girls shows treetops in the background. However, during the scene where Curly says, "See those two men down on the street? ... they're my uncles." the audience is given a view of the street below indicating that the would-be jumpers are at least 15 or 20 stories above the ground. I cannot imagine a tree so tall that you can see it's top from 150 to 200 feet up! When the theater manager appears at the stage door the first time, he hurls the Stooges' props at them. He throws a basket which Curly catches, the basket landing in Curly's hands sideways and very roughly. Later in the scene, after Larry and Moe decide to go jump off a building, Curly argues to wait while he eats. He produces a perfect, unbroken pie from the basket that was just thrown at them.
THREE LITTLE PIRATES	1946-12-05	Moe, Larry and Curly	10 goofs
When Rita brings the Stooges in the governor's office, the governor is holding a fork in his left hand, but when they show a close-up of him, the fork is in his right hand, then it's back in his left hand in the next shot. After Moe says to the guard "You try that once more"Â�, we can hear Moe chuckle out loud, but his mouth doesn't move. During the fight scene, when Curly is doing his turkey gobble noise to the camera, his glasses accidentally fall off twice. When Curly says "Because a hot stake is better than cold chop"Â�, you can see Larry mouthing along some parts of that same line. There's a shot of Larry showing three knives in the wall before Black Louie even throws the third knife. When Curly falls upside-down out of his chair, we hear him woo-wooing, yet he's nyaah-aaaahing at the same time. The "nyaah-aaaah"Â� was dubbed in. When Curly is about to put the lollipop in his mouth, the governor is supposed to stop him by shouting "A ruby!"Â�, but Curly stops too early before the governor even says anything. When the knife target area is first shown, there is just a drawing of a target circle. Then about a minute later when the camera cuts back over to the target area, the circle drawing is suddenly now a stick figure man with hair. As Black Louie (Robert Stevens) is dazedly staggering around after Rita smashes a glass over his head, Stevens accidentally knees Curly and Curly makes a brief pained expression. When the Stooges all together are supposed to say "Ohh, the west wall!"Â�, it sounds like one of them (probably Curly) says "east"Â� instead of "west"Â�.
HALF-WITS' HOLIDAY	1947-01-09	Moe, Larry and Curly	6 goofs
Curly is holding Mrs. Smythe-Smythe's hand with his left hand when he begins biting the diamond off of her ring, but then the camera cuts to a closer shot of Curly and he's suddenly holding Mrs. Smythe-Smythe's hand with his right hand. When Curly says "I lost the combination. Nyuk, nyuk!"Â�, Moe and Larry are supposed to bonk him on the head and tons of silverware is supposed to fly out of his suit, but a knife falls out of Curly's suit right before Moe and Larry even hit him. Just after the scene where the Moe catches Curly with the silverware, Miss Lulu is talking with Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, who mentions she is interested in talking to the boys about the experiment. Miss Lulu tells her "well they're here, I know they will be very happy to speak to you". Its strange that Lulu says this, because Mrs. Smythe-Smythe knows the boys are there since Lulu has already introduced them to her. After Moe accidentally hits Ted Lorch in the stomach with the hammer, Lorch is holding his stomach and saying "I'm all right." However in the next shot, Lorch's hands are suddenly at his side. You can see the wire pulling down the pie from the ceiling. When Moe pulled the rug out from under the guest to hide the silverware, the man hit the floor very hard. But barely two seconds later, Prof. Quackenbush comes through the doorway, and there is no sign of the man, or the woman who was standing next to him.
FRIGHT NIGHT	1947-03-06	Moe, Larry and Shemp	7 goofs
In one part, Moe slaps Larry and asks "What's good for a fractured skull?!"Â� and Larry says "I don't know, either!"Â� Judging from Larry's reaction which looked genuine and the way he said his line, I think Moe slapping him was an ad-lib. When Shemp begins spilling moth balls, he has an axe in his hand. Then the camera cuts to a closer shot of him and the axe is suddenly gone. When Moose first sits down, you can't see a hole in the blanket covering the crates behind him where Moe is hiding. But a few seconds later after Moose gets knocked out by two bricks, you can suddenly see one (conveniently for Moe to reach the back of Moose's head through). You can see a moving shadow behind the paint can when a hole is shot through it. Similar to the "repeated shot"Â� goof in MATRI-PHONY: in the part where Moose is talking to the unconscious Big Mike and he looks up and sees Moe, we suddenly return to an earlier scene for a few seconds with Shemp sneaking past some boxes, then the camera cuts over to the next new scene. When the officers take the gangsters away, Shemp has his left hand on his chest. Then in the next shot, his hand is suddenly hanging to his side. When the camera first shows Chopper, he's lifting a dumbbell in his right hand and holding a magazine in his left hand. Then in the next shot, the dumbbell and magazine are in opposite hands all of a sudden.
OUT WEST	1947-04-24	Moe, Larry and Shemp	6 goofs
During the chase scene, as Moe and Larry run away after helping up two of Barker's henchmen, they dub in Moe and Larry's yells from a Curly short, but you can hear Curly woo-woo-wooing in there as well - and this is a Shemp short! When Quirt grabs Moe over the counter, Moe is supposed to grab his gun and whack Quirt over the head with it, but he has trouble reaching his gun for a few seconds. A noticeable jump cut in the film after Doc Barker says to Quirt "I saw it, it's worth millions"Â�. The doctor tells Shemp he has an enlarged vein in his right leg. But after Shemp gets up from the exam table, he makes three references to his left leg being the bad one. The first is in the doc's office when he falls after taking a step with the left leg. Then in the saloon, he twice touches the left leg. The first time when he says he feels as good as new, and the second time when he starts to tell Nell Honey about where his vein is located. When the camera shows a quick close-up of Shemp and Nell as Shemp says "Not <i>yet</i> we ain't..."Â� in response to Nell's "You're angels"Â� comment, Shemp's hair is neat and pushed back behind his ears, but his hair looks messier in the camera shot right before and after. After the Stooges run in the main bar room with a lit stick of dynamite, the camera cuts to a closer shot of the Stooges and Larry is running in the room again.
HOLD THAT LION	1947-07-17	Moe, Larry and Shemp	10 goofs
After the train porter, while hanging out the window, yells "HELP! HELP! AH'M LOSIN' MAH MIND!!!!!"Â�, you can hear someone laugh in the background. When Moe pushes Shemp away, he is holding money in his left hand. When he lands on the egg crate in the next shot, however, he isn't holding his money. You can see water stains on the wall before the fishbowl even falls down. When the camera shows a close-up of the newspaper article as Shemp is reading it, Slipp's first name is written as "Elmer" instead of "Icabod" like it is for the rest of the short. After the attorney says "You know, I think he's trying to pull something crooked"Â�, the camera cuts over to the Stooges and Moe is looking at Shemp as if he said or did something wrong, but they didn't show it. When Shemp mumbles something with his head in the fish tank the first time, you can see Larry mouthing it along at the same time. Just below the newspaper article main lead-in information about Slipp becoming the executor, which Shemp reads, the article continues in much smaller print, with no visual or logical break that might suggest what follows is a separate article. No one reads that smaller printed information, & it's a good thing, since it goes on to mention a lot of dead & wounded people as part of some completely unrelated story.Also, unless it's not part of the original "Hold That Lion!" footage & correctly belongs in "Loose Loot", when Slipp tears up what appears to be Larry's copy of the subpoena, he drops a piece on the floor. Right after that, when Moe enters the room & gets knocked out, & Shemp enters the room, the piece is gone, with no explanation of how it was picked up. It appears all the players were a little too far away from it to have kicked it out of the way during that short period of activity. Due to Shemp's real-life fear in working in the same scene with an actual lion, the crew had to put up a pane of glass in between the Stooges and the lion when they're in the same box together. If you look carefully during the scene, you can see the Stooges reflection in front of the lion. When the Stooges run inside of a berth away from the lion, they used doubles for the Stooges. Larry's double turns and faces the camera briefly and you can tell that he's not Larry. When Shemp holds up the newspaper, the article about the Ambrose Rose estate is upside down faced toward the camera, but in the next shot, the article is suddenly right side up faced toward Shemp.
BRIDELESS GROOM	1947-09-11	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
In the voice lesson with Ms. Dinklemire, the scenes with her, Shemp and Larry in the shot has Larry playing in time with the music. The brief scene with only Shemp and Larry in the shot has Larry playing out-of-sync with the music. During the scene where Moe and Larry are trying to free Shemp from the tangle of piano strings, they put down Shemp to get a better grip and Shemp slides across the floor and crashes against the piano. As he slides a small, flat scooter is visible beneath Shemp.
SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS	1947-10-30	Moe, Larry and Shemp	10 goofs
After Moe says to Shemp "What are ya standin' around for?!"Â�, it sounds like he's going to say something else, but the rest of his line abruptly gets cut off as they go to the next scene. When Moe is making the pancakes in the pants presser, you can hear the director yelling "Cut!"Â� right as the camera dissolves to the next scene. When Moe begins crunching Shemp's nose with scissors, Shemp is holding dollar bills in his right hand. Then the camera cuts to a farther-away angle and Shemp's right hand is suddenly empty. After Shemp says "I never ate a brown radish"Â�, Moe makes a mean face like he's going to hit Shemp, but then the camera cuts to the next angle and Moe is suddenly smiling. When Hargen's girlfriend sees him in his underwear, she starts laughing, then the camera cuts to the next angle and Hargen's girlfriend suddenly has a straight look on her face. After Moe slices the pancakes and puts them on the 2 plates (while Shemp is laughing at the funny pages.) He turns to serve them and a slice falls on the floor. We see Larry tying up one of Hargen's unconscious henchmen, but we never saw how Larry knocked him out in the first place (unless it was the kick in the stomach that knocked him out, which is unlikely). When one of Hargen's henchmen is getting his head steamed in a pants presser, many of his yells do not match his actual mouth movements. When Moe is crunching Shemp's nose with scissors, you can still hear crunching sound effects for a couple of seconds after Moe releases Shemp's nose. You can see a wire pulling the rolled-up pants when Shemp is ironing them.
ALL GUMMED UP	1947-12-18	Moe, Larry and Shemp	11 goofs
In the last scene when Shemp has the bubble emerge from his ears, they start to ooze out before he starts puffing. When Moe and Larry are beating Shemp on the head to help "bring out the idea in the back of his head"Â�, Moe takes a hammer and hits Shemp on the head with it only once, but there are two "bang"Â� sound effects. After the excited man knocks over another customer, the customer gets up from the floor, but in the next shot, he's still lying on the floor, then he gets up again. Emil Sitka messes up a line when he says "You haven't heard of me...the last of me yet!"Â� When Moe begins mixing the chemicals in the boot, Shemp's hair is messy, but it's neatly pushed back in the next shot. When Moe asks Shemp and Larry for the "gauger"Â� (a hammer) during the scene where they're feeding Flint the formula, Shemp and Larry repeat "Gauger!"Â� and hand it to him. Then when Moe's about to use it, the camera suddenly cuts to Shemp and Larry repeating "Onion!"Â� and handing Moe an onion. They didn't show Moe finishing using the "gauger"Â�, then asking Shemp and Larry for the onion. During the cake-eating scene, when Moe bops himself on the head continuously, there is no sound effect. They must've realized this error when reusing this scene later in BUBBLE TROUBLE since in that remake, they add sound effects for Moe's self-bops. When Larry says to Moe "Put that pestle down, man!"Â�, it looks like Moe is mouthing that same line. After Shemp swallows the jumping beans and he beginseeb-eeb-eebing, the camera cuts to the next shot and he suddenly has some stuff around his lips which wasn't there before. When Shemp hands Moe the marshmallows, he's about to say his "Has marshmallows got pits?"Â� line too early while Moe is still talking, so he stops until Moe is done. In the scene after the jumping beans "jump" out of the mortor, you can see a rod of some sort from under the table that helped push them out.
SHIVERING SHERLOCKS	1948-01-08	Moe, Larry and Shemp	6 goofs
When the cop removed the spoon from the "coffee"Â� (paint), the spoon should've been covered with paint. When the cop comes in the diner, you can see a badge pinned to his chest, but when he sits at the counter, it's suddenly gone. After Moe slaps Shemp when he thinks he stole his cracker, Shemp can be seen unintentionallychoking on his food briefly before the camera cuts to a close-up of Moe. You can see another hatchet mark on the door right under where Angel digs his hatchet in the door. When the hot bowl of soup lands on Moe's back, you can see a chunk of dry ice fall off his back as well, which was used to make the soup appear as if it were steaming hot. Near the end, when Lefty (Kenneth MacDonald) and his assistant are chasing Larry and Moe, MacDonald nearly trips over the carpet.
PARDON MY CLUTCH	1948-02-26	Moe, Larry and Shemp	5 goofs
When Larry is climbing up the pile of luggage, one bag on the top almost falls off, but he catches it. After Larry says to his wife "Next time you come in, knock first, and then DON'T COME IN!"Â�, he turns to the side and accidentally knocks over a pole next to him. When Shemp says "Well, that's that!"Â� and stops jump roping when he sees Moe and Larry sleeping, his hair is pushed back behind his ears, but in the next shot, it's suddenly hanging all over in front of his face. When Shemp and Larry are throwing suitcases in the car which slide out and hit Moe on the head, the second suitcase didn't hit Moe when it was supposed to. When the Stooges are lodging the tire around the tire shop worker's waist, Moe punches the worker in the stomach, but there's no sound effect.
SQUAREHEADS OF THE ROUND TABLE	1948-03-04	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
When Shemp is about to nail Moe's hat to his head right before the camera cuts away, Moe turns to Shemp with an out-of-character smile on his face like he's going to laugh. Early in the film, the two guards played by Joe Palma and Robert Stevens are clean-shaven, but later in the film, they suddenly have moustaches and beards. They sure grow facial hair quickly!
FIDDLER\'S THREE	1948-05-06	Moe, Larry and Shemp	5 goofs
When Shemp sprays Moe in the face with the water from the bellows twice, he does it backwards - he pulls the two handles apart on the bellows to make the water squirt out and he pushes them together to suck air in. All the other times the bellows are used, the handles are pushed together to make water come out and pulled apart to suck air in. After the Stooges crash through the floor and land on the floor below, Moe asks "Where are we?"Â� and Shemp is supposed to respond "Let's find out"Â�, but he doesn't until after a few seconds later when Larry says "Let's get outta here"Â�. During the sequence in the box, Shemp has two swords trap him; one vertically in front of his nose and one horizontally under his chin. However, the holes for both swords are already there before they penetrate the box! After Shemp sprays Moe with the water from the bellows the first time, Moe apparently thinks that Shemp is done and opens his eyes, but Shemp continues to spray the water and gets Moe right in the eyes! Inside the magician's box, we see Moe at the left side of the screen, with Larry in the middle, and Shemp on the right of the screen. However, when they burst out of the box, Shemp's on the left, Moe is in the middle, and Larry's on the right.
HOT SCOTS	1948-07-08	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
When Shemp gets nailed on the head with his "little marble" and falls up against the door, a spiked club falls off the wall, which was obviously not planned. When the Stooges see Lorna running off with the valuables, they start to run after her, but bump into the door, causing it to close shut on them. Then Moe is briefly shown shoving and screaming at the other two before the camera abruptly cuts to the next scene. It looks like this wasn't supposed to happen. When Shemp is fighting with who he thinks is Larry over the blankets, he tries to grab both the blanket and sheet together back to his side, but he accidentally ends up grabbing only the sheet at first and has to reach for the blanket again.
HEAVENLY DAZE	1948-09-02	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
When Shemp says "Gee whiz!"Â� after getting sprayed by the rain cloud, his mouth doesn't move. When the cloud spurts water on Shemp, the hole where the water emerges can clearly be seen. In the shot where the pen gets stuck in Larry's forehead, the pen ended up really puncturing Larry's skin and drew blood when the pen was removed. After the cameras stopped filming, Moe chased director Jules White around the set because he promised that Larry wouldn't get hurt doing the stunt!
I'M A MONKEY'S UNCLE	1948-10-07	Moe, Larry and Shemp	4 goofs
While the stooges are fighting the other cavemen, they launch the first mud ball. It hits a caveman (Cy Shindell) in the face. As he raises his left hand to wipe his face, you can clearly see his wedding ring. During Moe's duck-hunting battle, his hair pattern abruptly changes in different camera angles of him. When the Stooges are about to launch a mud ball at the cavemen with a branch, the camera cuts over to the cavemen hiding behind a boulder and we see a rock launched at them from off-camera. Then it cuts back to the Stooges and they're still setting the mud ball on the branch. So who threw the rock at the cavemen? When the Stooges are in bed and are all snoring on the bush at the same time, Larry snores out of sync.
MUMMY'S DUMMIES	1948-11-04	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
In the opening scenes where Moe, Larry and Shemp are preparing a chariot for sale, an unsuspecting customer arrives. They spend awhile trying to sell him the used chariot. In all these scenes, the chariot has vulcanized rubber-and-inner-tube tires!(Maybe NOT a goof, but definitely a direct SPOOF of Egyptian technology ... there is even a reference to so-called modern technology when Shemp says, "Hey Moe, I think this tire needs a recap". To which Moe replies, "So does your head! [bonk!]".) When the two guards are shoving their swords into the basket that Moe and Larry are hiding in, in one shot inside the basket we see a sword comes through on Moe's left side, but Moe's left side of the basket was up against the wall.
CRIME ON THEIR HANDS	1948-12-09	Moe, Larry and Shemp	1 goofs
After Harold the Ape makes Shemp cough up the diamond, the camera shows Dapper and Muscles quietly taking out their guns and getting ready to sneak up on Harold, then the camera cuts to the next shot and Harold already has both Dapper and Muscles in a grab-hold all of a sudden.
GHOST TALKS, THE	1949-02-03	Moe, Larry and Shemp	7 goofs
After the armor first falls down, it gets a huge dent in its chest plate, but it's suddenly gone in the next shot. When Moe drops his nickel into the suit of armor, he mis-speaks "Boy, you're really a <u>friendry</u> spirit." When the footage was reused for CREEPS (1956), the dialogue is noticeably overdubbed to correct the mistake. You can see the back of Shemp's shirt opening up before the frog even jumps down it. As the Stooges are running inside the room with the chess-playing skeletons inside, Shemp is holding his hat in his hand, but when the camera cuts to an inside shot of the room, the hat is suddenly on Shemp's head. When the spirit cries "I swear, I didn't do it purposely!"Â�, Shemp is holding a cigarette in his left hand, but in the next shot it's suddenly in his right hand. When Larry gets stabbed in the behind with the arrow, you can tell there is padding inside the back of his pants. When the door behind the Stooges begins to creak open, Moe's hair is wet and messy. Then the camera shows Moe and Larry from the side and Moe's hair is suddenly drier and neater. Then when it goes back to the other angle, Moe's hair is wet again.
WHO DONE IT?	1949-03-03	Moe, Larry and Shemp	5 goofs
When Shemp goes through his wild reactions to being poisoned, during several camera angles Christine McIntyre looks like she's trying not to laugh. When the Stooges hide in the room, Larry points out a window and the Stooges all rush toward it, then in the next shot, they run up to a phone and try to make a call. What happened to their attempt to leave through the window? At the end when Shemp hits Moe with the shovel, Moe falls down in the most unconvincing way in the history of motion pictures. When the Stooges crashed through the door, Moe ended up hurting his leg in real life. The strange way he runs in later scenes in the film makes it even more obvious. After Shemp knocked out everybody, and realizes he knocked out Moe and Larry too, he say "Moe!" to Larry, and "Larry!" to Moe.
HOKUS POCUS	1949-05-05	Moe, Larry and Shemp	12 goofs
When Shemp is putting Moe under a hypnotism spell, Shemp has his hat on. Then the camera shows a brief close-up of Moe, and when it shows Shemp again, his hat is off. When the man on the bike crashes into Svengarlic, they use a stunt double for the actor playing Svengarlic. However, that double isn't carrying a microphone in his hand, which is Svengarlic was doing in the previous shot. Shemp messes up a line when he says "Everyone knows that she...you owe her dough!"Â� When Shemp throws the table at the wall, his hair is messy, but when he walks up to it, his hair is suddenly neat and pushed back. We see Svengarlic hypnotize Larry to act like a cat and Shemp to act like a monkey, but they never showed what he hypnotizes Moe to act like. When Moe says "Nice beautiful talcum powder"Â�, his mouth is moving out-of-synch at first. When Moe says to Larry "Don't you use that tone of voice to me!"Â�, his voice fades a little when he says "tone"Â�. At the beginning of the scene with the Stooges in Mary's apartment, Larry has something caughtin his eye and is trying to rub it out. When the insurance adjuster walks in and introduces himself, Shemp is about to say his next line too early while Mary is speaking, but he quickly stops. When Moe brings in the talcum powder, he has it in his right hand at first, but it's in his left hand suddenly in the next shot. As Shemp is shaving Moe's face, he accidentally drops the razor, but he makes a good ad-lib to Moe afterwards ("Your face is too sharp!"Â�). You can see the wire that pulls the flagpole ball as it hits the Stooges on the head at the end.
FUELIN' AROUND	1949-07-07	Moe, Larry and Shemp	4 goofs
When the camera cuts to inside the professor's house, Larry has one hand holding the pipe in his mouth. Then the camera cuts to a closer shot of him and both his hands are suddenly in his pockets. After the Stooges, Professor Snead, and his daughter bust out of the jail cell, they quickly rush back in when the two guards run up to them, and the two guards are right in front of the cell. But in the next shot, they're suddenly a lot farther away from the cell than they were in the previous shot. When the Stooges are getting out of the jeep, Larry accidentally trips and hurts his foot. When Moe has Shemp take the tape measure to the other end of the room for a measurement, he asks Shemp how many feet he has. Trouble is, Moe is holding the end of the tape measure that has the information he wants.
MALICE IN THE PALACE	1949-09-01	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
When the cat "jumps"Â� on the dog under the table, it looks like the cat was actually being involuntarily hoisted over to the dog. The palace guard already has fruit bits on his face and chest before Shemp even starts throwing fruit at him. When Vernon Dent grabs Moe's hair with one hand & holds the long knife in the other, Moe's heard to say, "Wait a minute!" twice, but that audio only matches Moe's lip movements the first time. Moe actually appears to say, "Sir" after "Wait a minute!", as a lead-in to his next comment, "This would degrade you!"
VAGABOND LOAFERS	1949-10-06	Moe, Larry and Shemp	8 goofs
When Larry scares Mr. Allen, he suddenly has a lot more flour on him than he did before. When Moe is grabbing Mr. Allen and asking where the painting is, Mr. Allen's shirt flap accidentally falls off. A noticeable jump cut in the film after Larry says "Alright..."Â� then begins to walk away after Moe tells him to look for a valve. This film is supposed to take place at night, but in the shots of Larry outside looking for a valve, it's clearly daytime. This is because those shots of Larry outside were reused from A PLUMBING WE WILL GO, which took place in thedaytime. Mr. Norfleet is wearing a towel when he gets out of the shower, but as he walks out the door, you can see he's wearing shorts under the towel. The Stooges must have driven the jeep they used to escape from Anemia in "Fuelin' Around" all the way back home to use for their plumbing business because it has the same license number - 49 R 574. When the stretchable phone keeps extendingforward and hitting Moe, you can see the wire pulling it. The Stooges' business is called "Day and Nite Plumbers"Â�, but when Moe picks up the phone, he says "Nite and Day Plumbers"Â� by mistake.
JERKS OF ALL TRADES	1949-10-12	Moe, Larry and Shemp	5 goofs
Symona Boniface misses her cue for when to say "Hello"Â� on the phone when she's speaking to Moe. When the cabinet is supposed to open automatically and knock Moe and Larry down, it doesn't open far enough, so the crew member had to push it again. When Larry is supposed to hang the wallpaper up as a curtain, he has trouble doing so and causes the scene to go on too long, so he ad-libs "You gotta <b>use your head</b> to get this thing up here!"Â�, cueing Shemp to start going on with the next scene where he paints the wall with his paintbrush-hat. At the beginning, you can see Moe looking off-camera for his cue on when to say his first line. When Moe ducks right before the top cabinet is supposed to open, the 2nd to top cabinet is accidentally pushed open instead, and it bangs right into the side of Moe's head. You can see Moe awkwardly pausing for a few seconds before continuing with the scene.
DUNKED IN THE DEEP	1949-11-03	Moe, Larry and Shemp	9 goofs
When Shemp says "Suckers! Let them sleep on hard boxes!"Â�, his mouth isn't moving. After Borscht eats one of the metal disks thinking it's salami, his hands are empty, but in the next shot, he suddenly has another metal disk in his hand. As the Stooges begin dusting each other off, the camera cuts over to Borscht and in the background, we can hear Moe suddenly yelling "Wait a minute!"Â� then the camera goes back to the Stooges and Moe's about to bust a watermelon over Shemp's head. But they didn't show why Moe suddenly got mad in the first place. When Shemp gets hit with the mud at the end, the mud also splatters on the scenery of the "sky"Â� in the background as you look out the window. When the boat starts to take off, the Stooges run to the door to leave and Shemp tries to pull the door open, but it looks like he accidentally cuts his hand on the lock. He makes a pained expression right before the camera cuts away, and you can see him take a quick peek at his hand a few seconds later when the Stooges are laughing after they find out they're stowaways. When Borscht is putting salt on his "salami slice"Â� (which is really a metal sprocket), Larry reaches over and looks like he's about to grab the pepper shaker. Then the camera cuts over to Moe, who suddenly has the pepper shaker in his hand instead. When the boat is shown from the front, the scene is reversed - the spelling of the name of the boat is backwards. After Borscht pours the Stooges' drinks, Shemp is about to say his "Here's how"Â� line too early while Borscht is still saying something, so Shemp stops and waits until Borscht is done. He does the same thing again later in the short: Right when Moe says "No wonder Borscht acted so mysteriously"Â�, Shemp also starts saying something, but he stops and never gets a chance to finish whatever he was going to say. After Moe and Larry wake up, they're both supposed to say "What a rest!"Â� at the same time, but Larry says "What a nice sleep!"Â� instead, making it sound like Moe and Larry both said "What a rest sleep"Â�.
PUNCHY COWPUNCHERS	1950-01-05	Moe, Larry and Shemp	6 goofs
When Elmer is showing off twirling his guns, he misses at first with his left hand when he tries to put the gun back in the holster. When Kenneth McDonald was giving his henchmen new guns to replace the ones they lost, he must have forgotten where he kept them. He opened one desk drawer, then another before he found them. When Dillon and his henchman are about to be blown up by the dynamite, they turn towards the wall to duck the explosion. After the explosion, the camera pans down to their empty boots, which are now facing forward, away from the wall. When Shemp smashed the bucket on Kenneth McDonald's head in the chase scene, you can see the protective foam padding fall out of his hat. You can see the wire that pulls the horseshoes off the handle. The first henchman who is sent to Nell Honey's room trips on the rug when he first goes after her.
HUGS AND MUGS	1950-02-02	Moe, Larry and Shemp	4 goofs
After Mugsy punches his fist into the cage covering Shemp's head, the crunching sound effects come in too late. When Moe tries to hit Larry on the head with scissors, he unintentionally hits Larry's eye instead. Then a few seconds later when Moe grabs Shemp by the hair, Shemp raises his hand and his finger accidentally hits Larry in the same eye. After Christine McIntyre's character crunches Moe's foot, Shemp walks up to her and his hair is messy, but in the next shot, his hair is suddenly neat. Early on, the girls are hiding from "Red and the gang." Joe Palma plays the head of the gang, and his henchman call him "Lefty" when they meet on the street. But in the furniture shop, the girls call Palma "Muggsy."
DOPEY DICKS	1950-03-02	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
After Larry turns off the lightbulb in his hand with his tie, the camera cuts to the next shot and Larry's hands are suddenly empty. When the professor walks towards Shemp and Moe with a knife, why does Shemp ask Moe "What is that?!"Â� and Moe respond "I don't know"Â�? What were they referring to? When Shemp is fighting with the professor in the bedroom, he calls out "Moe! Larry! <b>Mary!</b>"Â� Sounds like Shemp either meant to say Moe or Larry again, because there is no Mary in the short (the name of Christine McIntyre's character is never actually said in the short, and according to IMDB and Bill Telfer, her character's name in the script was Louise)
LOVE AT FIRST BITE	1950-05-04	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
After Shemp bounces back up from the floor and punches Moe and Larry the first time due to the cement bowl, you can see one of the party decorations in the background suddenly jump. We see Katrina slip on the wet floor during her and Moe's dance together, but why didn't she slip on the same wet floor earlier when she was helping Moe up? During the cement scene, Moe's voice is sped up for about two lines, than goes back to normal.
SELF-MADE MAIDS	1950-07-06	Moe, Larry and Shemp	6 goofs
In the opening sequence, "Larraine" describes Moe as her boyfriend, and "Moella" talks about Larry; by default, that would pair "Shempetta" with Shemp. But for the rest of the story, the pairings are Larraine & Shemp, Shempetta & Moe, and Moella & Larry. After Moe opens the door and hits Shemp and Larry with it, he accidentally hurts his arm squeezing into the door. You can hear strange ringing noises in the background throughout the chase scene, especially during the part where Moe (as the father) is running around in circles in fast-motion. As the Stooges (dressed up as women) are skipping towards the door, Moe's heel accidentally slipped in real life and it twisted his ankle, and so as not to ruin the take Moe tried to hop into the next room to get out of the camera view. However, he ended up tripping over the bed inside the room, and then hit his head on the bed leg and knocked himself out! When Larry (as Larraine) says "Just to you, dear"Â�, he's (she's) really saying "Only"Â� instead of "Just"Â�. When the Stooges throw cake in the father's face, you can see the face of Moe's double and he doesn't look a thing like him.
THREE HAMS ON RYE	1950-09-07	Moe, Larry and Shemp	1 goofs
After Moe tells Shemp to get the rest of the layers for the cake, Shemp walks up to the oven and right as he takes out the pan, the camera cuts to a close-up of him and he walks up to the ovenand takes out that same pan all over again!
STUDIO STOOPS	1950-10-05	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
When Shemp throws sand in Louie's (Joe Palma) face, Palma's reaction is delayed by a second. After we hear Larry and Dandy Dawson fighting inside of elevator, the elevator opens up and you can see some kind of waving shadow on the top of the elevator, then it's suddenly gone in the next shot. Just before Moe fires his water gun at the kidnappers, a hose hidden under his jacket can be seen sticking out
SLAPHAPPY SLEUTHS	1950-11-09	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
After Moe knocks the crook out with a pipe, he puts the pipe back up on the shelf, but it falls back down afterwards. While Emil Sitka's character says to Shemp "Would you mind givin' it a crank? My starter's busted"Â�, Shemp starts to say his response too early, but he stops and waits until Emil is finished.
SNITCH IN TIME, A	1950-12-07	Moe, Larry and Shemp	4 goofs
When Jerry and Louie are done punching out Moe and Larry, Henry Kulky, for some reason, is looking up at the camera, but he quickly goes back pretending to be unconcious like his character was supposed to be originally. He is also seen with a smile on his face. There's a jump cut in the film right before the gun fires above Larry's head. When Larry takes a peek through the door to see if the crook is still alive, there's a jump cut right before the crook punches Larry. When Shemp throws the iron at Moe, you can see Moe about to block it with his arm. Then the camera shows a closer shot of Moe, and he's suddenly not trying to block the iron anymore.
THREE ARABIAN NUTS	1951-01-04	Moe, Larry and Shemp	4 goofs
When Moe hides inside a room while being chased by one of the Arabs, he has trouble opening the door for a second. As the "Genius"Â� walks in the room at the end with the wheelbarrow of money, the top of the door almost knocks off his turban. As Larry is walking around with the lamp, in the room behind him you can see the shadow of someone standing still, then walking away. It might've been Shemp, since he just left the scene a few seconds before this. When Moe is yelling for help as he's running away from one of the Arabs, it sounds like he yells "Shemp, Moe, Ma!"Â� Why did he yell his own name?
BABY SITTERS\' JITTERS	1951-02-01	Moe, Larry and Shemp	9 goofs
Was the kid supposed to squirt himself in the eye with the bottle during that one part? When the landlady opens the door to gloat at the Stooges, she nearly licks Moe's tongue! After Shemp gets his face covered with dust and feathers, the camera cuts over to him peeking through the keyhole, and the dust and feathers that were on him are suddenly gone. When Shemp and the father are fighting, Junior starts crying, but when Shemp walks up to Junior, we still hear him crying even though we can clearly see that he's not anymore. After Shemp does the handstand the second time, he gets up from the floor and you can see a clock sticking out of his suit, but we weren't supposed to see it yet. Then in the next shot, it's hidden like it should've been. When the camera shows a close-up of Moe as Shemp is putting a bib on the baby, Moe looks at Shemp with a mean expression on his face, but he's suddenly smiling and looking at his baby in the shot after. After Junior bites Larry's finger, Larry cries "Ya bit me!"Â�, then he looks off-screen at something in surprise, but the camera cuts to the next scene before we see what he was looking at. When Shemp starts sipping the soup, he is still wet from the bottle that Moe smashed over head earlier! After the baby smacks everybody on their right foot with the hammer, Shemp begins to react to his right foot hurting, but suddenly starts to hop on the right foot and grab the left one.
DON\'T THROW THAT KNIFE	1951-05-03	Moe, Larry and Shemp	5 goofs
When Moe runs away from his second trick mirror, he flubs the line by saying "Happy" instead of "Larry" the first time. After the husband shoots fried eggs into Shemp's face through the egg-cannon, Shemp pulls the eggs off of his face then there's a sudden cut to the husband yelling "Why you, I'll...!!"Â� It looked like there was something deleted between those two parts probably with Shemp doing or saying something mean to the husband, since it seemed silly for the husband to yell "Why you"Â� at Shemp just because he took the egg off of his face. Right before Larry (while inside the television set) stabs the husband in the behind, in the background of the next room you can see a quick flash. When Moe messes up Shemp's hair and makes it cover his eyes, Shemp is supposed to say "Where is everybody?"Â� but Moe says the line instead for some reason, making it look odd. You can see the wire that helps pull the skeleton out of the box.
SCRAMBLED BRAINS	1951-07-07	Moe, Larry and Shemp	5 goofs
Shemp slams the keyboard cover on the "extra hands", smashing his own fingers. When he withdraws and opens the cover, there are severed fingers playing the piano. However, the fingers are playing DOWN the scale when the music is going up the scale, and vice-versa. Just after Moe makes Shemp eat a piece of banana to get him to swallow the sleeping pill, Shemp sticks out his tongue with the pill stuck on the end of it. His mouth is closed when he does this, but the very next scene shows Shemp with his tongue stuck out and his mouth wide open. Just after the boys roll out of the crashed phone booth, Vernon Dent puts his head out of the booth panel which just in the scene before was filled with glass. After Moe tells Shemp to keep on practicing the piano, the camera cuts over to a close-up of Shemp saying "--my own hands"Â�, but they didn't even show the beginning of his sentence. Moe, Larry and Shemp mistake a shadow for a window and try to jump out of it, crashing instead into the wall. The next scene shows the boys with dazed looks (and chirping-bird noises) while in front of the window-shadow. The shadow of Vernon Dent is seen moving into the window-shadow just before the scene cuts to Vernon Dent himself, who has yet to begin walking towards the boys.
MERRY MAVERICKS	1951-09-06	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
When Larry hides inside of a room, we can hear him outside of the room yelling along with Moe and Shemp, but how could he if he's inside the room? As Shemp begins his "little brother this high"Â� routine, Moe is holding his arms up (because a gun is pointed at the Stooges). Then the camera cuts to a closer shot of the Stooges and Moe's arms are suddenly to his side. Then the camera cuts back to a farther shot, and Moe's arms are suddenly raised back up again.
TOOTH WILL OUT, THE	1951-10-04	Moe, Larry and Shemp	7 goofs
You can see Larry cracking up out-of-character in the background during several parts of the scene with dentist Shemp working on the first patient, particularly when Shemp drills his own mouth for a quick second. When the second patient (Dick Curtis) is on the chair snoring, during one part, it looks like Curtis is going to crack up because he has this smile on his face while he'ssupposed to be pretending to be asleep. When the Stooges walk in their dentistry office, Larry is wearing three hats and we can see him hang all three of them up on a perch. But a little later when the second patient comes barging in the office, there is only one hat hanging on the perch. The entire second half of this short was originally shot for MERRY MAVERICKS, but was taken out and used for this short instead. However, there's an error. In the first half, which was brand-new footage, all the Stooges earn a dentistry diploma, but when the MERRY MAVERICKS outtake footage comes in, Shemp is the only one who's the dentist and he even says that he payed 4 bits to get his diploma (which also never happened in the first half). When Shemp says "Okay, let's see what's next"Â� and walks over toward the table, he accidentally trips over something and almost falls down. As the Stooges are thrown out of the first building, Larry's stunt double is wearing different clothes from the bright, checkerboard-pattern suit Larry's wearing as he appears at the end of the stunt. The same thing appears to happen when they're thrown out of the restaurant. Larry's suit also appears to change yet again by the time the Stooges run into the dental school building. As Larry enters the building, the checkerboard pattern & distinctive dark edging around the edges of his tailcoat are gone. When Shemp is reading up on how to locate a tooth with a metal object, he tells Moe that his left arm is nervous, but it's his RIGHT arm that is shaking!
HULA-LA-LA	1951-11-01	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
When the Stooges see Varunu's head collection, we hear Moe yelling but his mouth isn't moving. At the end when Shemp is dancing near the boiling pot, he almost accidentally steps in the fire and burns himself, so he quickly jumps away from the pot in fear and then continues dancing like nothing happened.
PEST MAN WINS, THE	1951-12-06	Moe, Larry and Shemp	4 goofs
When Moe is supposed to spray the repellent on the mouse on Mr. Philander' shoulder, he pauses for a while for some reason, then there's a jump cut in the film and he finally sprays the repellent. The box of ants Moe uses in the new footage doesn't match the box of ants used in the reused footage from ANTS IN THE PANTRY. You can see a wire on the mouse that lands on Shemp's head and on Mr. Philander's shoulder. You can see the wire attached to the pie hanging above Moe and the woman. (Duplicate entry - this scene is actually stock footage; see "Goofs" in HALF-WITS HOLIDAY.)
MISSED FORTUNE, A	1952-01-03	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
After Shemp wins the radio contest, he says "I'll be right over" and hangs up the phone, but he never asked for the address to the radio station. Right after the women get water thrown on them and go to change, the Boys do a dance. Moe does his usual jumping and clicking his heels, but on the 2nd click, Moe falls right on his side. He does not break his fall in any way, as slapstick falls are generally done. If it was a planned fall, he would have put his arm or his leg down to break the fall. I slowed this down and looked! Moe seems to be in a little bit of pain, too! At start of show Moe tells Shemp to eat his hotcakes before they get cold, Shemp says he was doing this contest for Mystery Motor, and he said the prize was $10,000but later after he's announced the winner, THE PRIZE IS NOW $50,000.
LISTEN, JUDGE	1952-03-06	Moe, Larry and Shemp	7 goofs
While Shemp is pounding flour on the turkey and ad-libbing several comments, you can hear somebody laugh in the background. After Shemp crunches the eggs on the turkey, he says "Much--"Â�, then the rest of his line suddenly gets cut off as the scene goes to Larry. What looks to be a watch falls off the wrist of Mrs. Henderson (Kitty McHugh) as the birthday cake is rolled out at the end. After Moe hits Larry and Shemp on the head with a stick of wood, Larry holds his <i>hand</i> in pain instead for some reason. When Shemp and Larry jump in shock after Shemp sprays icing in Moe's face, Larry isn't holding the cake down, but the cake doesn't float in the air like should have. When the chicken flies out of Shemp's coat, you can't actually see the wire pulling it but you can see a shadow of the hand pulling the wire. When the cake first floats in the air, you can see the wire pulling it up.
CORNY CASANOVAS	1952-05-01	Moe, Larry and Shemp	5 goofs
After Moe pushes Larry into the bed, we hear Larry grunt "Stupid ol' buzzard!"Â�, but he's really only saying "buzzard"Â�. Then we hear him grumble "Fix a bed..."Â� but his mouth isn't moving at all. When Moe hits Shemp on the head with the hammer that Shemp used, it looks completely different from the hammer used before. When Larry is hitting Moe with the shovel repeatedly, there's an abrupt cut to Larry slowing down and getting tired all of a sudden only after a few hits. They probably cut some of Larry's hits out to save time. When Moe says "Ready, Aim, Fire!"Â�, he's really saying something else. You can tell there is padding inside the back of Moe's pants when Shemp and Larry are pulling the tacks out of his behind.
HE COOKED HIS GOOSE	1952-07-03	Moe, Larry and Shemp	6 goofs
When Cedric the Clam is supposed to spray Shemp in the face twice (once when Larry is holding it and the second time when Shemp himself is holding it), both times the clam misses and Larry and Shemp have to move it slightly so it sprays in his face correctly. At the beginning of the episode, Millie enters her apartment and sets down a golf bag on one side of a chair. Larry enters the scene and he and Millie have a conversation. She asks him to leave, and when he does, the golf bag has magically moved to the other side of the chair. In Larry's Pet Shop scene where Larry says, "I'll find this chiseler for you, and then you can give him THIS! ... and THIS! ..." Larry then begins giving Moe the works, but one belly punch is lacking an accompanying sound effect. When Belle is pulling the Christmas tree lights out of Moe's mouth (after he accidentally swallows it), the camera shows Moe's head from the side and the lights coming out of his mouth looks convincing until you can see one of them coming out from under his neck. When Belle is watching Shemp modeling around in his underwear, her hands are empty, but when the camera then cuts to a close-up of her as we hear the doorbell ringing, she suddenly has a newspaper in her hands. When Shemp is putting the bellows down after spraying soot in Moe's face, he accidentally gets a strand of his fake Santa beard stuck on the bellows and stretches it out.
GENTS IN A JAM	1952-07-04	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
When Moe crashes off-camera after Shemp and Larry's attempt to free him from the trunk, the camera cuts over to Moe with a pile of furniture on him and after he groans, you can hear someone off-screen say "Boys!"Â�, then Shemp and Larry walk on camera. The "Boys!"Â� was probably director Edward Bernds cueing Shemp and Larry. One of the middle scenes shows Shemp pouring flour, milk and eggs together, but does not show him whisking or beating them. He then causes the concoction to fly across the room and land on Moe's head, and the very next scene shows Moe wiping FULLY developed dough from his face.
THREE DARK HORSES	1952-10-16	Moe, Larry and Shemp	10 goofs
After Moe says to Larry "Get that squeegee and get busy, ya porcupine!"Â�, you can hear somebody off-camera coughing. After Larry says to Moe "No, a razor blade!"Â�, Larry begins demonstrating something with his hand but the camera cuts to the next scene before we see what he was doing. When the Stooges are throwing confetti around the room, Larry gets a whole bunch on his face, but all of it suddenly disappears in the next shot. When Shemp and Larry are applauding Moe during his nomination speech rehearsal, Shemp accidentally knocks over a cup. When Shemp is looking up in the air while waiting for the pie to come back down, there's a noticeable jump cut in the film right before he gets hit in the face with the pie. Did Moe really goof when he said "Vote for that Ham...uh...Hammond Egger!"Â�? While Larry is stuffing the turkey with crackers, Moe is messing up Shemp's hair, but a few seconds later when they all see the turkey walking, Shemp's hair is suddenly neat. After Larry mistakenly hits Moe in the face with the sponge the first time, Moe is supposed to grab Larry's arm and push the sponge in his Larry's face, but Moe misses Larry's arm the first time so Larry has to hit Moe again, then Moe grabs his arm this time like he was supposed to. Shemp goofed on this one. After filling the bucket with water for his "poor dogs", Shemp forgot to shut the bathtub water off--which you can hear running in the background throughout the entire living room scene. Needless to say, the bathroom flooded, causing alot of work for the stagehands. Maybe they should've filmed the goof as if it were planned! When Shemp pokes himself in the eye with the spoon the second time, the coffee wasn't supposed to spill up into his eye like it ended up doing, but he made a good ad-lib afterwards: "I got a hot eye! I heard of hot feet, but never a hot eye!"Â�
CUCKOO ON A CHOO CHOO	1952-12-04	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
There is a noticeable cut in the film when Shemp takes his first drink from the bottle. When Shemp says "Horrible...but delicious!"Â�, his mouth doesn't move. When the Stooges are fighting over the skunk, Shemp accidentally trips over a seat behind him and you can hear Larry say "Watch yourself!"Â� to him out-of-character.
UP IN DAISY'S PENTHOUSE	1953-02-05	Moe, Larry and Shemp	6 goofs
When Moe opens Pa's coat and a whole bunch of moth balls fall out, you can hear someone laughing in the background. Moe is supposed to punch Larry and Shemp in the stomach after both of them yell "Give us that money!"Â�, but you can see Moe prepare his arms for the punch too early before Shemp and Larry even say their line. In another reused scene from 3 DUMB CLUCKS, we see the Stooges land on top of their father, then after that, a new scene is added in where a cement path that wasn't anywhere in the reused footage suddenly appears in front of the Stooges. In one of the reused scenes from 3 DUMB CLUCKS, they accidentally leave in Curly's woo-woos and this is a Shemp short. The double for Shemp at the end is given a line to speak while doing a Jimmy Durante impression, but you can obviously tellthat he's not Shemp. After Moe gets the martini splashed in his face by Larry, his hair is all messy and wet. Then after he hits Larry, the camera cuts to another angle and Moe's hair is suddenly neat and dry.
BOOTY AND THE BEAST	1953-03-05	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
Once Moe and Larry find the crook on the train, Moe yells "Hey, it's "him!" which was a dub due to stock footage from HOLD THAT LION, but it sounds odd because the "Hey, it's" is from the stock footage, and "him" is part of the new dub. When Shemp is being carried away by Moe and Larry, at first we can see his right leg when we weren't supposed to yet. Then when he realizes this, he lifts it up to hide it.
LOOSE LOOT	1953-04-02	Moe, Larry and Shemp	8 goofs
After Slipp chases Shemp off-screen, we hear Shemp say "I'll fill ya full of ho--"Â�, then his line suddenly gets cut off, and a few seconds later when the camera cuts over to Slipp and Shemp, Shemp repeats his line fully: "I'll fill ya full of holes like a swiss cheese!"Â� When Joe, Slipp's partner (Tom Kennedy) is about to punch Larry, Moe blocks Larry's face with a shield and Joe ends up punching the shield. Then Kennedy just stands there for a few seconds before he remembers that he's supposed to be acting like he's hurt, then after a few seconds, he suddenly holds his hand in pain. When the camera cuts over to Moe while Shemp and Larry are beating up Slipp off-camera, we hear Moe yelling "Hey, outta my way"Â�, but his mouth isn't moving. When Larry is trying to squeeze into the hay box, his shoe accidentally falls off. The last bar of the opening music is played over again. When Slipp grunts "If I ever get my hands on you, you'll wish you've wish you've never been born!!"Â�, not only was "wish you've"Â� accidentally played twice in a row, but his mouth isn't moving at all for the entire line. After Shemp throws the egg yolk on Slipp's face, he says "By golly, I did it!"Â� Then he says something else, but we can't hear it clearly because Slipp is also saying something off-screen at the same time. After Slipp's henchman punches a hole in the door, & Slipp throws three punches through the hole, none of the punches appear to connect, but the sound effect for each punch is heard.
TRICKY DICKS	1953-05-07	Moe, Larry and Shemp	4 goofs
When Moe gets his tie shot off during the shootout, he's wearing a coat, but he's not wearing the coat in the shot of him before and after. The file cabinet scene is reused from HOLD THAT LION. In the new footage, the cabinets are supposed to be to the left, near B.A. Copper's door, but in the reused footage, the Stooges look in the opposite direction after a new shot of Copper telling them he had the file all the time. Near the end of the episode, the killer enters the bureau and starts shooting at the boys. He fires AT LEAST 30 rounds at them at a near continuous pace. Now THAT's a six-shooter worth owning! You can see a wire on the monkey when it gets shot out of the trashcan.
SPOOKS	1953-06-15	Moe, Larry and Shemp	4 goofs
When Larry says "The door - open it, Moe!"Â�, his mouth isn't moving. When Moe is telling Shemp to look through the window (so he can kick him inside the house), he says "There's nothing in there to get scared of"Â�, but his mouth doesn't move when we hear him say "of"Â� and the way he says "of"Â� sounds different from the way he says the rest of his sentence. Moe must've forgotten to finish his line, so they had to dub the last word in during post-editing. The second time the creators show the "3D" injection, the shot of the mad scientist before and after the effect shows him without glasses on. When the Stooges arrive at the house, Larry says "Be careful with the pies fellows, don't drop the pies" but the sound is dubbed in (you don't actually see his mouth at all.)
PARDON MY BACKFIRE	1953-08-15	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
When the gangsters are pushing the car in the garage, you can hear director Jules White's voice in the background, giving instructions to the actors pushing the car, telling them when to stop and then saying "That's fine"Â�. You can see the wire on the bottle that Shemp throws at the one of the gangsters. You can see the wires holding up the large cake that Moe throws at the camera.
RIP, SEW, AND STITCH	1953-09-03	Moe, Larry and Shemp	4 goofs
Moe finds a fifty dollar bill in Hargan's jacket and the boys begin searching the other clothes for money. The scene then abruptly cuts to Moe standing and holding the bill with a disgusted look on his face, and Shemp reaching through a pair of pants and taking the bill out of Moe's hand. The short opens with new footage of Larry drinking from a bottle with black and white letters spelling "Root Beer." Later when Larry takes another swig, the label on the bottle has changed to a white one (due to archive footage from SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS). Some of the reused scenes from SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS have Shemp with neat hair, but when it's followed by new footage, Shemp's hair is suddenly messy. At the end of the episode, the boys get the reward for Hargan's capture. Shemp says, "I'm so happy!" and begins crying. The scene cuts to where Shemp starts to blow his nose on Hargan's jacket and discovers a roll of money. However, during the cut Larry is also crying ... Why?
BUBBLE TROUBLE	1953-10-08	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
When Flint first turns into a gorilla, he has a cane hanging on his left arm. Then the camera shows a shot of the Stooges and Serena looking at Flint in shock, and when the camera goes back to Flint, the cane on his arm is suddenly gone. As Flint is "morphing" into the gorilla, a shot of the Stooges is shown with Mrs. Flint behind them, cowering. This is clearly a stand-in for Christine McIntyre. After Flint turns into the gorilla, the stand-in runs away off camera.
GOOF ON THE ROOF	1953-12-03	Moe, Larry and Shemp	6 goofs
Right after Shemp says "I hope ya choke" when Moe tells Shemp and Larry to get back to work while he makes himself another sandwich, you can hear someone off-screen saying "Go ahead." That must have been the director cueing the camera guy to cut to Shemp's foot tripping on the bar of soap. When Shemp says "This cockeyed thing won't work here - I'd better nail it to the roof"Â�, his mouth doesn't move. After Shemp puts the antenna in the corner on the roof, it accidentally tips over to the side. When Moe picks up the phone receiver, the phone accidentally falls off the table. As Moe begins reading the letter from Bill, Shemp's hair is a little messy. Then the camera cuts over to a closer shot of the Stooges and Shemp's hair is suddenly neater. When Shemp asks "Where's Moe? Where'd Moe go?"Â�, his mouth doesn't move during some parts of that line.
INCOME TAX SAPPY	1954-02-04	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
When Moe says "I'll murder you!"Â� after Shemp smashes a bowling ball over his head, his mouth doesn't move. Same thing later in the short when Moe yells "Give!"Â� right before the Stooges trash the officers with dishes, and a few seconds later when he says "Oh, a double-crossin' rat!"Â� as he's about to throw the plate of spaghetti at the officers. When Moe repeatedly slapped Larry's forehead after the charitable contribution gag, the hard slap sound effects weren't there for the first couple of hits. When Shemp is running away after smashing a bowling ball in half over Moe's head, he accidentally hits his head on a nearby lamp and almost tips it over.
MUSTY MUSKETEERS	1954-05-13	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
In one of the reused scenes from FIDDLERS THREE, the Stooges burst out of the magic box and in the background, you can see that Mergatroyd's hair is messy. Then they cut to new footage with a brief close-up of Mergatroyd, and his hair is now neat. Then when it goes back to the reused footage, his hair is messy again. In the new footage of Old King Cole's court it's very easy to tell that it is not Virginia Hunter playing Princess Alicia. Her double has a completely different hair style and she hides her face with a fan that Princess Alicia in FIDDLERS THREE never uses.
PALS AND GALS	1954-06-03	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
In the footage reused from OUT WEST, the line design that Shemp has on the back of his shirt is triangular. But in the new footage, the line design is straight. After Doc Barker dies from the whole fiasco with the sarsaparilla drink, a character played by Stanley Blystone suddenly appears with Barker's henchmen and stays for the rest of the short, but there's no explanation of where his character came from and who he is. In actuality, the writers added Blystone into the short as an excuse to reuse footage from the wagon chase sequence from GOOFS AND SADDLES (where Blystone played Longhorn Pete), but they should've explained who his character was. Doc Barker dies after drinking the "mickey," but thanks to stock footage, a few scenes later he is sitting at the poker table listening to Nell singing.
KNUTZY KNIGHTS	1954-09-02	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
When Cedric is supposed to bonk Moe and Larry's heads together, they completely missed each other's heads, yet the sound effects still played as normal. In the reused footage from SQUAREHEADS OF THE ROUND TABLE, Sir Satchel is played by Harold Brauer. But in the new footage, the same character is played by Joe Palma, and his face looks NOTHING like Harold Brauer.
SHOT IN THE FRONTIER	1954-10-07	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
After the Stooges get off of the horse, they all stand in a line and crack their backs, but the camera only focuses on Larry and Shemp, accidentally leaving Moe out of the scene. Then the camera pans over a little so we can see Moe. When we hear Shemp say "I'll chop ya to little mincemeat!"Â�, he's actually saying something other than "mincemeat"Â�.
SCOTCHED IN SCOTLAND	1954-11-04	Moe, Larry and Shemp	4 goofs
For some strange reason when the ink bottle spills all over Dean Gonga's pants, they dubbed in Moe's "Nyaaaah!"Â� too early. He doesn't even notice the bottle spilling yet and he doesn't say "Nyaaaah!"Â� until a few seconds later. There's a jump cut in the film right before the mouse trap snaps on Lorna Doone's hand. When Moe is cornered by McPherson and is talking on the phone to the operator, his voice has been redubbed, as has the sound of the dagger impaling his hat! Obvious stunt double for Ted Lorch aka MacPherson in the new footage as he passed away years earlier.
FLING IN THE RING	1955-01-06	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
Just after Big Mike threatens the stooges with a one way ride, the second set of henchmen take a swing at them. The one trying to hit Moe misses him and punches Big Mike in the chest. Big Mike isn't really sure if, or even where he was hit, so he first touches the right, then the left side of his face. When Moose smacks the "original" Big Mike in the old footage, he helps him up and the line "I'm sorry" is repeated twice to cover up the "boss" line, since there was a "new" Big Mike in the new footage. When Moe and Larry drag Shemp away at the end of the film, his shoes leave thin black skidmarks on the floor.
OF CASH AND HASH	1955-02-03	Moe, Larry and Shemp	5 goofs
When Lefty's partner Red Watkins enters the cafe, he has no mustache. In all of the other stock footage scenes he has a pencil-thin mustache. After the customer tells Larry his order, Larry walks away and misses his cue to tell Shemp the customer's food order. You can even hear him mutter an out-of-character "Oh, I forgot"Â� to himself when he realizes. The Stooges recognize Lefty's partner and chase him out of the cafe to the abandoned house. The next scene, at said house, shows both the bad guys reading the newspaper article which states that the Stooges reported to the cops the bad guy's identities. How did the article make that days newspaper when the Stooges just recognized one of them literally 5 minutes beforehand? This is a remake of SHIVERING SHERLOCKS, and there are several reused footage errors. First, in a reused scene where Moe and Larry walk out of a room they're hiding in, you can hear Moe asking "Shemp, is that you in there?"Â� but his mouth isn't moving and Moe and Larry aren't even standing by the door that Shemp is in. This must've been an editing mistake, because in the original version, Moe and Larry actually walk up to the door and then Moe asks "Shemp, is that you in there?"Â� Then in a reused scene where Angel yanks off Moe and Larry's jackets as they run away, a few seconds later there is new footage added in and Moe and Larry suddenly have their jackets back on.And finally, in a reused scene where Lefty and his assistant see the Stooges' article in the newspaper, the assistant asks Lefty "But how are we gonna find them?"Â� Yet in a new scene that was added in just before this one, he was at the Stooges' cafe, so he should've known exactly where to find them. Gladys (Christine McIntyre) first shows up when the Stooges give chase to one of the bad guys. There is no explanation as to who she is, or what she is doing there in the first place.
GYPPED IN THE PENTHOUSE	1955-03-10	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
When Shemp sneezes, he's holding a dish, but in the next shot the dish is suddenly gone. When Moe is repeatedly slapping Larry's face during the fight in the Women Haters Club, you can hear only light taps. Apparently, the "hard slap" sound effects were not added. After Larry's mirror breaks, if you look carefully you can see a thin knife sticking out of a small hole behind the mirror that was used to make the glass look like it broke on its own.
BEDLAM IN PARADISE	1955-04-14	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
A noticeable jump cut in the film right before the devil gets hit with whipped cream. The scene in the old footage of the cowboy in the picture shooting up a storm is cut. Yet, the scene where Shemp comments, "Well things are looking up" is retained, clearly showing the trailing smoke from the gunshots!
STONE AGE ROMEOS	1955-06-02	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
After Moe says "Shutup, tadpole!"Â� and bops Larry in the head, Larry grimaces in pain and holds his head, then the camera cuts to the next shot and Larry's suddenly smiling and has his hands to his side. After Larry plays checkers with the rocks, he places his elbow on the table and accidentally knocks over a picture.
WHAM BAM SLAM	1955-09-01	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
When the camera shows a close-up of Shemp's hand as he takes a pancake, you can see his wife's hand on the table, but in the shot before and after, her hands are under her chin. You can see a wire holding the refrigerator door open.
HOT ICE	1955-10-06	Moe, Larry and Shemp	2 goofs
The intercut old/new footage of Shemp does not blend. Old footage has him dressed neatly, with a nicely knotted tie, and buttoned vest and suit jacket. New footage has the tie loosely knotted, and vest and jacket unbuttoned; he is about 20 lbs. heavier. Frequent intercuts between old/new make the difference noticeable and jarring. In the footage reused from CRIME ON THEIR HANDS, Cy Schindell plays Muscles. In the new footage, Joe Palma doubles for Schindell. Not only is he a lot thinner than Schindell, but when he tries to hide his face behind Kenneth MacDonald's head, you can still clearly see his face during a few brief parts.
BLUNDER BOYS	1955-11-03	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
After Moe bops Shemp and Larry on the head after Shemp says "Make mine "Ë�cham-pay-nee'! Yum, yum..."Â�, Moe moves his mouth and continues talking to the camera, but we can't hear what he says because the camera dissolves to the next scene. When Shemp gets his head stuck in the ceiling and pulls himself down, they use a stunt double for that shot. However, when the double falls down from the ceiling, his Shemp wig accidentally falls off! When Shemp is on the horse vault, he's yelling two different ways at the same time. One of those yells was dubbed in.
HUSBANDS BEWARE	1956-01-05	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
When Shemp is supposed to say "See you later, fellas"Â�, he accidentally says "See you laters, fella"Â�. Moe and Larry are trick Shemp into getting married by pretending he will inherit $500 grand. However, what is the point of putting such a story announcing it in the newspaper? He's already at the Justice of the Peace getting married under to his ghastly bride. I'm surprised no one ever called out this real cheat of a scene. Moe grabs a can of clearly labeled "Salad Oil" to flavor the turkey before putting it in the oven. However, when he puts it down, it now clearly says "Kerosene". No explanation is ever given for the change.
CREEPS	1956-02-02	Moe, Larry and Shemp	4 goofs
The suit of armor used in the new footage looks rather different. The grates in the helmet are smaller and the "nose" is more pointed. After Larry says "It was a dandylion"Â�, the camera goes over to the Stooges' sons and you can hear Baby Shemp say "Oh no!"Â� and Baby Larry say "Phooey!"Â�, but neither of their mouthsare moving. When Moe drops his nickel into the suit of armor, his dialogue "Boy, you're really a friendly spirit" is noticeably overdubbed. It was overdubbed to correct a mistake made when that scene was originally shot for THE GHOST TALKS (1949), and Moe said "Boy, you're really a <u>friendry</u> spirit." When Sir Tom is beginning to tell his story, the Stooges are smoking while they are listening, but in the next shot which is reused footage from THE GHOST TALKS, they aren't smoking anymore.
FLAGPOLE JITTERS	1956-04-05	Moe, Larry and Shemp	4 goofs
When Moe asks "Which one of you slammed that door shut?"Â�, the sound of the falling buckets in the background makes it hard to hear what he's saying. In the reused footage from HOKUS POKUS with the Stooges reading the Svengarlic poster, the camera begins panning over across the room, then they insert new footage with the camera continuing to pan across the room and stopping on Svengarlic and his gang walking out of a door. You can tell when the cut for the new scene comes in during the camera pan. After Larry says "Maybe a cyclone did it"Â�, Moe is supposed to respond "Yeah, maybe it just blew shut like this..."Â�, but he looks at Larry and pauses for a few seconds as if he forgot his lines. Then the camera cuts to a closer shot of Moe and Larry, then Moe finally says the line - and also, his hair suddenly looks neater than it did in the previous shot. A remake of HOKUS POKUS, and new footage is inserted explaining that Svengarlic and his assistant are safecrackers and are using the Stooges as disposable dupes. But in a later reused scene from HOKUS when Svengarlic gets knocked out, Sven's assistant worriedly says "The boys are up on the flagpole!"Â� The assistant's genuine concern for the Stooges stuck on the flagpole made actual sense in the original version where he and Svengarlic were actually innocent and just using the Stooges as hypnotism subjects, but it seemed completely out of place in the remake.
FOR CRIMIN' OUT LOUD	1956-05-03	Moe, Larry and Shemp	1 goofs
In the reused scene from WHO DONE IT? where Larry is trying to barricade the door as the goon tries try to break in, followed by Moe, this version chops up the original scene in order to shorten it, but they made an error. One part, they show the goon unsuccessfully trying to open the barricaded door, then leaving. They we see Larry inside of the room, and we can see that somebody is trying to open the door. Then they cut back outside the door and Moe walks over to it, then tries to open it. Nobody was outside the door in that between shot of Larry inside the room, so who could've been trying to open it? In the original version, that shot of Larry in the room as somebody tries to open the door from outside was shown AFTER Moe walks over to the door and tries to open it.
RUMPUS IN THE HAREM	1956-06-21	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
In the reused scene from MALICE IN THE PALACE where the Stooges disguise as a monster to get the diamond from the Schmow, this remake cuts out the part where Shemp tells the Schmow to stand on his head in the lillypond, and this just cuts to the next shot after that. However, in the background we can still hear sounds of the Schmow bubbling in the water. At the end, when Joe Palma (doubling for Shemp) jumps out the window, he yells and you can tell that's not really Shemp because he sounds absolutely nothing like him. In the last scene as the guard is chasing Palma, Larry stops the guard and Moe hits him on the head, the guard is lying flat on his back, in the next scene he's sitting propped against the wall. In fact, it wasn't the same guard as in the earlier scenes.
HOT STUFF	1956-09-06	Moe, Larry and Shemp	3 goofs
In one of the scenes reused from FUELIN' AROUND, Rork and the other two spies are talking about how they'll take the "professor"Â� (who they think is Larry) over to Anemia, and in the original version after Rork says "Yes, colonel"Â�, they show a scene with the Stooges laying carpet. But in this version, they cut out the carpet scene, so right when Rork says "Yes, c--"Â�, he abruptly gets cut off as they cut over to the next scene. Then a few seconds later in another reused scene where Rork and the spies are talking about how they'll take Moe and Shemp along with the "professor"Â�, this version cuts out a small part where one of the spies points a gun at the Stooges and Rork tells him to put the gun away, but you can still see the spy point the gun right before it cuts to the next scene. As Moe yells in pain after he gets staples slammed into his hand, he has his hand in the stapler, then the camera cuts to the next shot and Moe is suddenly holding his hand in front of him. In the first new scene with the Stooges, Moe and Larry ask Joe Palma (doubling for Shemp), to follow a woman down the hall. Palma responds with a gruff "right!" which sounds nothing like Shemp!
SCHEMING SCHEMERS	1956-10-04	Moe, Larry and Shemp	4 goofs
After Larry hits Moe in the back of the head with a pie, he breaks character and laughs for a moment. Larry goofs up a line when he says "Who do you think you...I am, anyhow?"Â� After Symona Boniface is soaked during the "Niagara Falls" scene, Emil Sitka's redubbed line tells her to change her dress. The only reason for this seems to be to make the inserted shot of her getting hit with a pie from the "Half Wits Holiday" footage make some sort of sense.Who are all these party-goers getting hit with pies (from HWH footage)? None were the same as the party guests who showed up earlier in the short (via Vagabond Loafers footage). During one part of the pie fight between Moe & Larry and Mr. Allen, you can see a sheet covering the floor under Moe and Larry, but it's gone in all the other parts of the scene.
HOOFS AND GOOFS	1957-01-31	Moe, Larry and Joe	8 goofs
When Moe picks up the baby colt, the horse playing Bertie suddenly jumps and Moe seems distracted by it. Larry's mouth doesn't move when he says "Be good and we'll take you home tomorrow, okay?"Â� After Bertie gives birth to a baby colt, most of the Stooges' lines are obviously dubbed in as they don't match their mouth movements. When Bertie belches, Larry is standing next to her, but in the shot before and after, Larry is behind her. You can see the face of Moe's double at the end, and he looks nothing like Moe. When Bertie says "I can't go home with you, Joe"Â�, Moe mouths that same line. You can clearly see a pad up Joe's arm sleeve when Bertie bites him in the arm. After Mr. Dinklespiel leaves the Stooges' apartment and we hear him fall down the stairs, you can still see a shadow of him standing outside the Stooges' door.
MUSCLE UP A LITTLE CLOSER	1957-02-28	Moe, Larry and Joe	4 goofs
Joe says "They're wonderful snoopers, they're--"Â�, then his line abruptly gets cut off as the camera goes to the next scene. When Larry is covered with springs, he extends his arms and looks like he's supposed to mistakenly hit Moe and Joe in the face but the scene fades out right before it happens. After Joe cries "It's followin' me!"Â�, Moe walks up to him, then the camera cuts to the next shot and we hear Joe at the end of saying something, but they didn't show the beginning of it. After Joe spills the eggs, we hear him groaning in anger two different ways at the same time. One of the groans was dubbed in.
GUNS A-POPPIN\'	1957-06-13	Moe, Larry and Joe	4 goofs
When Hookup pushes Larry away, Larry has his hat on, but in the next shot, his hat is off. This short has reused footage from IDIOTS DE LUXE and in one of the reused scenes, Moe tells the other two off-camera Stooges that he wants his eggs sunny side down, and he adds "...and <b>don't</b> turn "Ë�em over!"Â� After that, the camera cuts over to new footage with Joe and Larry, and Joe says "Sunny side over, don't turn "Ë�em down??? This guy is nuts!"Â� But he was supposed to say "Sunny side DOWN, don't turn "Ë�em OVER"Â�. In the two-man quartet scene with Joe and Larry, the audio of their music is replayed from the two-man quartet scene in IDIOTS DE LUXE. However, when Larry's trombone slide flies off, they still leave in audio of a kettle drum beat even though in this version Larry doesn't beat it during that time. When Moe is chasing Larry and Joe with an axe, you can see him stop for a second because the soot he's covered with accidentally got into his eyes.
HORSING AROUND	1957-09-12	Moe, Larry and Joe	1 goofs
I'm not sure if this counts or not, but at the end when Larry comes out of the back of the horse costume, his hair is wild and frizzy like it usually is. But in all the earlier parts of this short, he has the combed back, gentleman-esque hairstyle that he sports in a few other Besser shorts as well. This may not be a goof, though, because his hair could have just gotten frizzy from being inside the horse costume.
RUSTY ROMEOS	1957-10-17	Moe, Larry and Joe	4 goofs
During the davenport fixing scene, cloth color changes briefly to a darker shade when Moe bends over the couch. When they add in new footage of Larry continuing to hit Moe over the head repeatedly with the shovel, you can tell the difference from the reused footage, because the "bang"Â� sound effect used for the shovel suddenly changes to a different one in the new footage. This film is a remake of CORNY CASANOVAS, with Joe taking over Shemp's place. In one of the reused scenes where Larry is repeatedly smashing a shovel over Moe's head, in the background you can see a picture of Shemp on a table! When Moe is screaming in pain as the tacks are being yanked out of behind, for some odd reason there's one part where they dub in Larry's yell for Moe. It's the same yell they dub in for Larry later in FIFI BLOWS HER TOP when Moe burns Larry's behind with an iron.
OUTER SPACE JITTERS	1957-12-05	Moe, Larry and Joe	6 goofs
When Moe says "Hmm, what do you know? How about that?"Â�, his mouth isn't moving. As the boys arrive at Gene Roth's desk & are introduced, the table with the Maoi statue is several feet to their rear & at a noticeably sharp angle away from them. Yet, when they toss their hats, they do so almost directly in back of them. Based on the location of the table, they would've missed it by a long shot, & needed the camera work to make it plausible. Also, when the boys take off their large helmets, they toss them back to the same area where they tossed their hats, but didn't hit the table. The helmets landed somewhere w/o making any noise. Temporary Sunevian zero-gravity, perhaps? Dan Blocker's name is spelled "Don Blocker"Â� in the opening credits. When Larry is mumbling while trying to explain to Moe that the goon is standing behind him, some of his mumbles don't match his actual mouth movements. When Moe ties the wire around Larry's neck and says "Don't go away!"Â�, Larry is then supposed to freeze in position, but he freezes too early before Moe even says the line. At the end, after the Stooges jump out the window and fall several stories, you can see one of their shadows still outside the window as the scene fades to black.
QUIZ WHIZZ	1958-02-13	Moe, Larry and Joe	5 goofs
At the end, the Stooges are trying to paste the torn check pieces back together. When Joe licks his hand and slaps it on his torn piece of the check, some spit accidentally flies into Larry's eye right before the scene fades out! Moe messes up a line when he says "Pour some me some water"Â�. After Moe rips off Joe's pants as Joe is drinking from a liquor bottle, Joe looks at Moe but he almost chokes on his drink for a few seconds before he says his next line. When Joe says to Moe "I oughta give you the hotface!"Â�, he has something caught in his eye. When Moe sees the knife in the wall right next to his face, his hair stands up on end, but you can see the knife wobbling around as well when this happens. This is because they used an air compressor under Moe to make his hair fly up and that accidentally made the knife wobble as well.
PIES AND GUYS	1958-06-12	Moe, Larry and Joe	2 goofs
After Larry says "There hasn't been a gentleman in our family in 50 generations!"Â�, Moe is supposed to respond "Quit braggin'!"Â�, but he pauses for a brief period and just looks at Larry with a mean expression before he remembers his line. When Sappington (Emil Sitka) brings the Stooges inside the house, he says to one of the professors "Pardon me, gen....uh...professor, the plumbers are here"Â�. It sounds like Emil almost said "gentlemen"Â�, probably because he was used to saying it so many other times in Stooge shorts.
SWEET AND HOT	1958-09-04	Moe, Larry and Joe	1 goofs
When Tiny (Muriel Landers) pushes Larry in the garbage can, Larry's leg accidentally gets caught under Landers' dress.
FLYING SAUCER DAFFY	1958-10-09	Moe, Larry and Joe	5 goofs
When Larry walks over to Ma, he's holding a coupon that he ripped out from the TV dinner box. Then the camera cuts to another angle and Larry's suddenly holding the whole TV dinner box, with the coupon still attached. When Moe says "Hey, Larry, look at this"Â�, his mouth doesn't move. After Joe cries "Somethin' spoiled my snapshot!"Â� and throws his picture to the ground, Moe and Larry laugh at him, but in the next shot, they suddenly now have angry looks on their faces. Before Joe even mentions that he brought a TV dinner, you can see Larry behind him taking the TV dinner package out of the grocery bag. Then the camera cuts to the next shot and Larry's hands are suddenly empty, then Joe mentions the TV dinner, followed by Larry taking the TV dinner package out of the grocery bag again. In the scene where the magazine president (Emil Sitka) presents Moe and Larry with $10,000 in a wheelbarrow, Larry runs off with the money and Moe yells "Hey, come back, you weasel!"Â� then starts to run after Larry, but he accidentally trips on a microphone wire before getting off-camera. This blooper is made even funnier when Emil Sitka, while talking into a microphone, sees Moe tripping and that causes him to stutter his line, then he ad-libs "Sorry, folks..."Â� to the microphone.
OIL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL	1958-12-04	Moe, Larry and Joe	6 goofs
When Moe says "Why, you imbecile, you wrecked my pajamas!"Â�, his mouth doesn't move. At the beginning, Moe and Larry both have their usual Stooge haircuts. Then about halfway through the cabin scene, Moe and Larry suddenly have their combed-back, gentlemen-esque haircuts that they sport in several other Besser shorts. Then they're back to having their Stooge haircuts after the cabin scene ends. There's also a cabin scene in HORSING AROUND using the exact same cabin set as the one in this short and with the Stooges wearing the exact same outfits, and Moe and Larry also have their gentlemen haircuts during that entire short, so it's possible that the second half of the cabin scene in OIL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL was an outtake from HORSING AROUND. When Joe is supposed to say "He steals from anybody"Â�, he forgets his line and just stutters, pauses, and looks around helplessly before Moe finally says the line for him. When Joe says "That was better than the first thought!"Â�, he's really saying something else. Also, that redubbed line cuts off Larry's previous line - Larry says "On second thought, we'd better take the upper, J--"Â�, then Joe's dubbed line abruptly comes in. After Joe stops the oil from flowing, Moe says "Shake hands with a pauper"Â� to Larry and they shake hands, then they stop shaking hands and look off-camera at Joe in shock. Then in the next shot, which is reused footage from OILY TO BED, OILY TO RISE, Moe and Larry are still shaking hands, then they stop to look at Joe again (originally Curly). When Moe throws the rope up to Joe, it accidentally hits Larry's ear.
TRIPLE CROSSED	1959-02-02	Moe, Larry and Joe	2 goofs
This short is a remake of HE COOKED HIS GOOSE, with Joe taking over Shemp's place, but there are a few instances where they forgot to edit Shemp out: First, when Larry is walking to meet Moe's wife, Joe is hiding in the closet wearing a Santa Claus outfit, but if you look closely at who quickly peeks around the closet door and whistles, you can tell that it's Shemp. Also, when Moe fires the gun up the chimney at Joe, they leave in Shemp's yell from the original scene. And finally, in the reused shot of Moe trying to pull the vase off of his head, you can see Shemp's face in the background peeking from under the bearskin rug. In addition, you can also see Shemp when he opens the janitor closet door and slams Moe.
SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS	1959-06-04	Moe, Larry and Joe	4 goofs
When the camera shows a close-up of Joe with eggs all over his face, he has his mouth closed, but you can still hear him continuing to cry in harmony in the background with Moe and Larry. In a reused scene from WHAT'S THE MATADOR?, Curly is riding on the bull and we're supposed to believe that is Joe in this version. However, they leave in Curly's woo-woo's from the original scene. Just after Moe throws two darts into Joe's behind, Joe (while still on the bull) reaches back and plucks the darts from his behind and tosses them away. The bull then throws Joe off his back, but the scene shows Joe (reused footage from original short) falling from the bull while still holding onto the two darts. The very next scene shows Joe standing up and confronting the bull, but the darts have disappeared. Near the end of the episode, Moe grabs some darts to throw at the bull and instructs Larry to do the same. They each grab a handful. Moe throws two before Larry throws any, and the cut in between each of Moe's throws shows the darts landing in Joe's behind. When the scene returns to Larry and Moe, Larry is just finishing his throw, but no dart is shown hitting Joe's behind.
HAVE ROCKET, WILL TRAVEL	1959-08-01	Moe, Larry and Curly Joe	9 goofs
When Larry says "She's gonna lose her job", the end of his line is muted for some reason. When Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe are climbing down the ladder in the spaceship, for some strange reason, they dub in Curly's woo-woo-woo's from another short. When the Stooges are climbing back inside the rocket the second time to get away from the boss, for some reason, they dub in Moe saying "I'm caught! Help me! I'm caught!" from later in the film (when he gets stuck in the bird cage). Similar to the "bad dubbing" goof in OUT WEST: when Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe are yelling as they're being dropped out of the bird cage, you can hear Shemp yelling as well. This is because they dubbed in the Stooges' yells from a Shemp short. When the monkey jumps on top of Moe and Larry, you hear one of them yelling, but neither of their mouths are moving. When Curly Joe is pouring salt into the big tub of chemicals, he almost accidentally drops the whole jar of salt in the tub. Moe was in the middle of saying something as Curly Joe's goof happened, so Moe was kinda distracted for a moment. When Larry is trying to find his lost shoe on the dance floor, after he gets kicked on the head, that same shot of him getting kicked is accidentally (?) replayed in reverse. This might have been intentional, though. When the camera first shows Moe adding chemicals into that big tub, you can see the shadow on the tub of somebody (maybe the cameraman) walking up, then backing away. Likewise, when Curly Joe is sitting down and trying to cross his legs, on the bottom of the screen, you can see a shadow of somebody behind the camera for a few seconds. When Larry floats in the rocket, you can see the wires lifting him.
STOP! LOOK! AND LAUGH!	1960-07-01	Moe, Larry and Curly	10 goofs
Winch goes to the windows that have the panes painted black and opens it. The scene cuts to an outside shot, and suddenly the window panes are a gray/beige/tan/brown color, NOT black. The scene cuts back indoors and the window panes are once again black.<br/> Winch is helping Knucklehead with his homework and paces over to a nearby window. First, the window panes are also painted black, and second, the window looks into another room of the house, NOT to the outside!<br/> During the Cinderella sequence, the Fairy Godmother loses her painted red lips when she walks outside to change a pumpkin into a carriage.<br/> During the first Stooge sequence, Curly abruptly changes clothes after the cop wakes them up from the street and they run to the Apex construction site.<br/> Winch goes into the kitchen to make some coffee, and appears to plug the coffeemaker into the kitchen table, NOT a wall outlet.<br/> The opening scene has Jerry and "Winch" in bed as the alarm goes off. Winch sits up and turns to Jerry to wake him. He leans on his right elbow, placing it directly under himself while leaning over Jerry. The scene then cuts to a close-up, and Winch's elbow has moved to a position halfway between Jerry and himself. (in order to work the puppet's controls, no doubt)<br/> Jerry is at the lunch table and there is a cabinet with a breadbox on top of it directly behind Jerry and between the kitchen counter. The cabinet is too close to the counter to allow passage behind. It's just too cheesy a prop to hide the two puppeteers behind while they manipulate Jerry.<br/> Winch picks up Jerry out of bed and walks him to the bathroom. The pillow Jerry was lying on retains the indentation of the arm that was manipulating his controls. This happens again later in the sequence when Winch walks Jerry to the closet.<br/> Jerry is trying to get out of going to school by pretending to be sick. He looks at the thermometer and says, "Uh-oh, normal", but his mouth doesn't move until the word "normal".<br/> During the bullfight sequence, when Curly is thrown from the bull, he suddenly has two darts in his hand.<br/>
SNOW WHITE AND THE THREE STOOGES	1961-07-01	Moe, Larry and Curly Joe	4 goofs
During Snow White's birthday party-on-ice, a large "swan-sleigh" appears and glides over to Snow White laden with gifts. When the swan-sleigh enters the ice, it is near the back of the rink where a painting of a castle-like building is in the background. The sleigh appears larger than it really is due to the forced perspective of the painting (to make the castle appear off in the distance). As the sleigh glides forward onto the rink, and eventually in front of Snow White, it "shrinks" into proper perspective. After the wicked queen condemns Snow White to a prison cell, her faithful guard vows to watch over her 'til she's freed. Yet, in the brief scene where Snow White thanks the guard for his loyalty, a view of the cell window is offered. The window bars do not span across or up-and-down the window, but end after a few short inches in spear-tips. Although dramatic in appearance, there appears to be enough room between the bars for Snow White to exit the cell through the window! When the transformed-into-a-witch queen flys out the window, the wire used to lift her off the ground and out the window is visible. After the Stooges rescue the young Quatro from the ruffian, they decide to beat it out of town. While traveling, all three revive the unconscious boy ... whose driving the wagon?
THREE STOOGES MEET HERCULES, THE	1962-01-01	Moe, Larry and Curly Joe	13 goofs
After the time machine lands, Quinn Redeker comments that they must be in the mountains of Eastern Greece. However, if they were supposed to have landed in Ithaca, as the plot implies, Ithaca is nearly the westernmost point in Greece - at least 200 miles west of the mountains of Eastern Greece. Also, shepherd Emil Sitka, told the travelers that he was on the island of Rhodes, & to get back to Ithaca, they have to go 1,200 miles east. However, since Rhodes is just off the coast of Turkey, it would be 1,200 miles west to Ithaca. At the end, during the chariot chase, there are two different pie-throwing sequences while moving at high speed. In the first, George Neise is hit with 4 pies & is covered pretty well with goop. But in the next cut immediately after, the first pie of the second sequence hits George with a nearly clean face. When Curly Joe and Larry begin pulling the wires off of Moe, Moe has his head tilted up, but in the next shot, his head is suddenly facing straight. When a lady is supposed to say to the Stooges (who are dressed in drag) "Well, get busy! You know what to do!", she just says "Well...", then there's a long pause as if she forgets the rest of her line, then there's a jump cut in the film and she repeats her line the correct way. As soon as the time-travelers arrive in ancient Greece, Larry lets the black-and-white audience know what color the "bad-guys" are wearing when he says, "The war's over, the guys in the green shirts chickened out!" When Odius is supposed to throw wine in Ulysses' face, it's obvious that he misses Ulysses' face. Mr. Dimsel adds some electrical/mechanical items to Skyler's drawing early in the movie, which later he confesses that he is a "graduate engineer" .. WHY??? WHY would he become a pharmacist after having a graduate degree in engineering??? During the slave-boat rowing sequences, the person in charge of "rhythm-keeping" pounds the drums at times when everyone is NOT stroking ... On the way back to Ithaca, New York, from Ithaca, Greece, the time machine detoured over the Los Angeles area first. At the end of the film, when Larry drops the bomb from the time machine, the time clock must've shown them passing overhead at around noon, March 18-21, 1936. The bomb Larry dropped in 1962 destroyed the same smokestack as the boys destroyed in 1936 with canon fire, during filming of 'Half-Shot Shooters'. Larry & Curly Joe come out of the store room with new plates after George Neise yells at everyone to clean up, & Curly Joe drops the plates. When Moe walks over to where Larry & Curly Joe are standing next to each other, you can see the moving shadow of a boom in the upper left corner of the screen, behind Larry, during the entire scene. When Hercules pushes the cell bar back down, causing it to hit Larry in the eye, you can see padding on the bottom of the bar that was used so Larry wouldn't get hurt. When Achilles the Heel and his assistant open a side of their jackets to show their knives, the actor playing the assistant accidentally opens up the wrong side at first. Early in the movie, the boys are working in Mr. Dimsel's drug store. Larry decides to throw a pharmaceutical substance over to Curly-Joe past Moe's head. The scene includes a "head-bonk" sound-effect that clearly is filmed missing Moe's head altogether!
THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT, THE	1962-08-01	Moe, Larry and Curly Joe	5 goofs
In the scene where Prof. Danforth's daughter is introduced, after she leaves, the camera is about to fade-out too early when there's still a few seconds left in the scene, so the fade-out stops. When Galveston says "I just want something different from ordinary cartoons", Prof. Danforth is walking away from behind him, but he's already behind the Stooges suddenly in the next shot. After Galveston says "It's gonna be the end of the trail", he opens his mouth and is about to say something else, but it suddenly cuts to the next scene. When the two MP soldiers about to crash straight into a bookstore, the camera shows a brief shot of the bookstore and the camera begins to rise up for some reason at the end. This is because that shot was reused from a few minutes earlier when the Stooges were about to crash the helicopter-tank-submarine into the same bookstore but flew above it at the last minute. Each time Moe slaps Larry on the head during the echo scene, the slap sound effects come in too late.
THREE STOOGES GO AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAZE, THE	1963-09-01	Moe, Larry and Curly Joe	6 goofs
When in the boat, Larry reads his fortune cookie aloud that says "You're going on a long trip", he almost falls over mid-line due to the motion of the boat. After Curly Joe runs through the door as Larry's playing "Pop Goes the Weasel" on a flute, Larry takes the flute out of his mouth, but you can still hear music playing for a few seconds afterwards. When the lights in the room go out and guns start firing, it sounds like you can hear 2 women screaming, but there was only 1 woman in the scene (Amelia). Moe flubs a line when he says "It's a bum rap, fellas. I...He never robbed a bank." When Larry is first playing the flute to get the snake out of the jar, Larry is holding the flute over the jar opening and Moe is standing next to him, holding a piece of wood up for hitting the snake with. Then the camera cuts to a different angle and Larry is suddenly holding the flute next to the jar and Moe's not holding the piece of wood up anymore. When Larry turns the tea kettle over, causing the tea to spill out on Moe's foot, Larry grabs a chair over to him. Then the camera shows a close-up of the tea kettle and we can see that Larry suddenly isn't holding the chair over to him anymore.
OUTLAWS IS COMING!, THE	1965-01-01	Moe, Larry and Curly Joe	6 goofs
During the close-up of Moe saying to the varmints "You wanna make up for what you've done?", his arms are to his side. Then the camera shows a farther shot with all the varmints raising their arms in the air and Moe has his arms in the air, too, suddenly. Then the camera cuts back to a close-up of Moe and his arms are back to his side again. After the first time somebody opens the saloon door and whacks it into Curly Joe's face, crushing his cigar, Curly Joe's hat is tipped backwards. Then in the next shot, it's fully on his head. During the scene of the bartender mixing the boys a Tarantula Fizz (with a Cactus Twist), the foam from the drink mixer splats and splatters on the boys, the tough cowboy and the bartender. However, different cuts throughout this scene have different splat patterns on their clothes. When Moe bops Larry in the head for saying "Leave him alone!", they use a slap sound effect for some reason instead of the usual bop sound effect. After Larry says "We'll think of somethin'. We always do", he's supposed to ask "Don't we?", but Curly Joe starts to say his "Why certainly we do" response too early before Larry even speaks, but he quickly stops. There's a confused, awkward pause from Moe when this goof happens. Trigger Mortis has a gunfight with Ken Cabot in the barroom, and Annie Oakley parts a curtain and aims her gun at Trigger. Trigger is in front of the curtains, but doesn't seem to notice Annie, even though the Stooges (who are beside the curtain) do.
NEW 3 STOOGES, THE	1965-10-01	Moe, Larry and Curly Joe	4 goofs
A jump cut occurs just as the boys reach the log. Moe's left breast pocket flap is unbuttoned the entire wraparound until after the bomb explodes - then it is buttoned. The foreground matte (the front half of the hangar and the boulders) shake up and down when the planes that leave the hangar exit the frame. Moe's hat jumps on-and-off his head several times during the episode, also Larry's hat is missing in one scene.The second time the bear returns to his cave, the door doesn't close all the way, also, the door is multi-functional - it can either swing on its hinges or slide.