"Boys, I'd like you to meet Lorna Doone." "Hi ya, Lorna; how ya doin?"
That kind of corny (but funny) line, delivered by Shemp, is just one of many in this very good Three Stooges comedy short. In fact, it's these kind of episodes that make me smile when I think of The Three Stooges.
Generally speaking, I always thought they were at their funniest when ghouls and goblins, crooks, monsters and-or wild animals were chasing them.
That's what happens in this story after the boys answer an "ad" from Scotland Yard - for experienced yardmen. They think they are detectives but the Yard knows better and the Stooges' first assignment is to get "missing papers." No, it's not espionage. The "missing papers" means they are to be garbage men out back, picking up papers on ground. Oh, well, they aren't discouraged. They still hope to be promoted to detectives
Their first chance comes soon as an "operative memo" flies out the window into hands of The Stooges. It says something like "send three operators go to the Scottish "Glenheather Castle." Apparently some crooks have infiltrated the place. The Stooges dress in disguise, wearing kilts. "Hoot man" says McMoe, followed by McShem and McLarry.
The lads are assigned to guard the oil's (Earl's to anyone outside New York) money but Shemp is afraid of ghosts. The thieves - the hired help - pick up on that wear and has all three of the boys afraid to go to bed. The story turns out to be just that: ghosts in the castle. Rather, men dressed in Halloween-type outfits.
"I don't feel so good," says one of the Stooges. "I just take something for my nerves." "Like what? "Like a trip home."
For those who have seen a million of these episodes, this is the one where involving a guy in a black voodoo mask, a moving bed, which goes from one room to the other; paintings with a real person in them, dressed as a pirate and so forth. All of it is great fun to watch.
That kind of corny (but funny) line, delivered by Shemp, is just one of many in this very good Three Stooges comedy short. In fact, it's these kind of episodes that make me smile when I think of The Three Stooges.
Generally speaking, I always thought they were at their funniest when ghouls and goblins, crooks, monsters and-or wild animals were chasing them.
That's what happens in this story after the boys answer an "ad" from Scotland Yard - for experienced yardmen. They think they are detectives but the Yard knows better and the Stooges' first assignment is to get "missing papers." No, it's not espionage. The "missing papers" means they are to be garbage men out back, picking up papers on ground. Oh, well, they aren't discouraged. They still hope to be promoted to detectives
Their first chance comes soon as an "operative memo" flies out the window into hands of The Stooges. It says something like "send three operators go to the Scottish "Glenheather Castle." Apparently some crooks have infiltrated the place. The Stooges dress in disguise, wearing kilts. "Hoot man" says McMoe, followed by McShem and McLarry.
The lads are assigned to guard the oil's (Earl's to anyone outside New York) money but Shemp is afraid of ghosts. The thieves - the hired help - pick up on that wear and has all three of the boys afraid to go to bed. The story turns out to be just that: ghosts in the castle. Rather, men dressed in Halloween-type outfits.
"I don't feel so good," says one of the Stooges. "I just take something for my nerves." "Like what? "Like a trip home."
For those who have seen a million of these episodes, this is the one where involving a guy in a black voodoo mask, a moving bed, which goes from one room to the other; paintings with a real person in them, dressed as a pirate and so forth. All of it is great fun to watch.