Favorite Three Stooges Shorts
by acsminkey | created - 20 Jan 2018 | updated - 27 Feb 2022 | PublicThe first half of the list features my favorite Curly shorts and the second half features my favorite Shemp shorts, while also a few Joe Besser shorts.
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1. Disorder in the Court (1936)
Unrated | 16 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
The stooges are witnesses at a trial where their friend, a dancer at a nightclub where they are musicians, is accused of murder. The stooges manage to disrupt the proceedings but save the ... See full summary »
Director: Jack White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Nick Baskovitch
Votes: 2,306
2. Three Little Beers (1935)
Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Sport
The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bud Jamison
Votes: 929
3. A Plumbing We Will Go (1940)
TV-G | 18 min | Comedy, Short
To escape the police, the Stooges pose as plumbers contracted to fix a mansion's plumbing, which inevitably causes destructive chaos.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Wilson Benge
Votes: 1,203
4. Boobs in Arms (1940)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, War
The stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers. In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Richard Fiske
Votes: 598
5. Calling All Curs (1939)
G | 18 min | Short, Comedy
The stooges run a pet hospital and get an important patient, Garcon, a rich ladies poodle. When dognappers posing as reporters steal the poodle, the boys are in a tough spot. First they try... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Beatrice Blinn
Votes: 563
6. Yes, We Have No Bonanza (1939)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Western, Short
Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dick Curtis
Votes: 584
7. An Ache in Every Stake (1941)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy
The three stooges employed as icemen attempt to deliver ice to a mountaintop house and are forced to cater for a birthday dinner there.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Wilson Benge
Votes: 658
8. How High Is Up? (1940)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bruce Bennett
Votes: 557
9. Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (1938)
Not Rated | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically wreck, running up quite ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bobby Burns
Votes: 587
10. Loco Boy Makes Good (1942)
18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges decide to get some easy money by having Curly slip on a bar of soap in a hotel lobby so they can sue the owner. Curly slips as planned but the hotel turns out to be run by an ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Appleby
Votes: 462
11. Dizzy Doctors (1937)
Not Rated | 19 min | Comedy, Short
The Stooges get a job selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover that Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Eva Murray
Votes: 712
12. In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941)
18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit. The day before the execution they are tricked into marrying three rich girls who need husbands to collect ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Appleby
Votes: 590
13. Dutiful But Dumb (1941)
17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are photographers for Whack magazine ("If it's a good picture it's out of Whack") who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Eddie Acuff
Votes: 554
14. Micro-Phonies (1945)
Passed | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Music
The stooges are working in a radio station where a pretty girl has just made a recording of "Voices of Spring" under an assumed name. She wants to hide her singing career from her ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Christine McIntyre
Votes: 746
15. Punch Drunks (1934)
G | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Sport
The stooges discover Curly's hidden talent for boxing, which appears only when he hears the tune "Pop Goes the Weasel". With the help of Larry's violin, Moe attempts to turn him into a champion.
Director: Lou Breslow | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Granger
Votes: 1,504
16. Higher Than a Kite (1943)
18 min | Short, Comedy, War
After being accidentally dropped behind enemy lines, the Stooges disguise themselves and steal important plans from the Nazi high command.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dick Curtis
Votes: 553
17. They Stooge to Conga (1943)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, War
The stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lloyd Bridges
Votes: 565
18. Three Missing Links (1938)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
The stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After wrecking the bosses office, they get jobs as actors in an African movie. Curly plays a gorilla and Moe and Larry are primitive ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Monte Collins
Votes: 547
19. Idiots Deluxe (1945)
Approved | 18 min | Comedy, Short
Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe relates how Curly and Larry took him on a hunting trip for his nerves. Out in the woods they confronted a bear which Curly and... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Vernon Dent
Votes: 560
20. A Gem of a Jam (1943)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Hart-Burns and Belcher. Some crooks arrive seeking medical attention after their boss has been wounded in a shoot out with the ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dudley Dickerson
Votes: 495
21. A Bird in the Head (1946)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are working as paperhangers in the home of Professor Panzer, a mad scientist looking for a brain to use in his experiments. The professor wants to put a human brain into a ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Vernon Dent
Votes: 478
22. A Snitch in Time (1950)
17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are carpenters who are re-staining some furniture they've delivered to a boarding house. The plot gets complicated when the boys confront some crooks who are hiding out there. ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Jean Willes
Votes: 362
23. Hold That Lion! (1947)
17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are tricked out of their inheritance by Icabod Slipp, a crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the train.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Kenneth MacDonald
Votes: 573
24. Three Arabian Nuts (1951)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are delivering some Arabian antiques, which include a magic lamp complete with genie. Three Arabian bad guys are after the magic lamp, but the stooges defeat them once they get ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Philip Van Zandt
Votes: 399
25. Malice in the Palace (1949)
16 min | Comedy, Short
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent
Votes: 1,100
26. Heavenly Daze (1948)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges from selling a phony invention... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent
Votes: 453
27. Who Done It? (1949)
16 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
The stooges are private detectives looking for a missing millionaire. They wander around the millionaire's spooky mansion confronting various crooks and a dangerous dame. The stooges ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre
Votes: 528
28. Spooks! (1953)
Approved | 16 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
The Stooges are private detectives hired to find a missing girl. They disguise themselves as pie salesmen and end up wandering in a mad scientist's mansion trying to find her. They confront a gorilla and various other creepy characters.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Norma Randall
Votes: 505
29. Studio Stoops (1950)
16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are movie studio publicity men trying to promote Devore, a pretty starlet. They fake a kidnapping, but police don't believe it. When she is really kidnapped, the stooges must rescue her. Shemp ends up on an extending telephone.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre
Votes: 348
30. Goof on the Roof (1953)
16 min | Comedy, Short
The Stooges take care of a house while their friend is getting married. Their friend wants them to get a TV and have an antenna installed on the house. The Stooges have a great idea. They ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Frank Mitchell
Votes: 383
31. Corny Casanovas (1952)
17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges don't know it, but they are all engaged to the same girl, a gold-digger who plans to get an engagement ring from each of them and then abandon them. When all three show up at ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Connie Cezon
Votes: 369
32. Scotched in Scotland (1954)
Passed | 15 min | Short, Comedy
Would be detectives, the stooges get a job guarding a Scottish castle while the owner is away. The servants are crooks intent on robbing the castle of its valuables. Though they do their ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Philip Van Zandt
Votes: 300
33. Pest Man Wins (1951)
16 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. The boys are hired, but must dress as guests to work unobserved. They disrupt the party and a wild pie fight ensues.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Margie Liszt
Votes: 344
34. Fuelin' Around (1949)
16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are carpet layers working in the home of a scientist, Professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre
Votes: 384
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