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The Three Stooges were an American comedy act in the 20th century. Commonly known past their first names, Larry, Moe, & Curly (sometimes spelled "Curley"); Larry, Moe & Shemp; and other lineups became famous for their work in movies and starred in many brusque features that consisted of masterful ways of showcasing their extremely physical and sometimes controversial make of slapstick comedy.

Although The Three Stooges are best known for their physical one-act, the group'southward dialogue is also highly quotable, with many of their lines (or signature nonverbal vocalizations) having become popular catchphrases. Here are some examples:

Moe Howard [edit]

• Why I oughta...
• Hurry upwards!...
• Become decorated!...
• You imbecile!
• Yous knucklehead!
• You lamebrain(south)! (Whether he is talking to one or two Stooges)
• We're gettin' no place fast.
• Oh, a wise guy, eh?
• Get outta hither!
• Spread out!
• I'll murder ya!
• Why you lot...
• You nitwit!
• Oh, you lot're an intelligent imbecile!
• What's the big idea hither?!
• Recede
• What'south the matter with you lot?
• Pick out two.
• Close Up!
• Quiet!
• Explicate it to 'em. (Before the other Stooge can say something) That's enough!
• Go goin'!
• Hey, fellas!
• Yous run across that? (puts his fist out for Larry, Curly or Shemp to slap his fist downward so information technology can air current in a circle and bonk them on the caput)
• Don't yous mean a chrysanthemumumumum?
• Buh humbug
• My coin!
• No poor allowed!
• How do you expect me to work here?
• Take your time just hurry up!
• (When one of the other Stooges is asleep) Hey, you! Wake up and go to sleep.

Curly Howard [edit]

• Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!"
• Oh, a wise guy, eh?
• Soitenly!" (certainly)
• "Nyaaaaaahhhhhhh!" (Freaked out)
• La-la-la, la-la-la... (Humming)
• HRRRRRRMPH!" (Frustration)
• Rrrowf! Rrrowf! (when angry or defiant)
  • Other attempt: (Ruff! Ruff!)
• I'1000 a victim of soicumstance" (circumstance)
• Say a few syllables! (To Moe when trying to wake him). They're the incorrect syllables!
• Woo-woo-woo-woo! (When frightened) (He sometimes runs around or away when saying this)
  • (or Whoop-whoop-whoop-whoop!)
  • (or "Woop-oop-oop-oop-oop-oop!")
• Poifect!" (perfect)
• Oh male child!
• Hey, Moe! Hey, Larry!
• Hey, fellas!

oh... oh... oh look

• I'll moidalize him
• "Hotchachachaaa
• "Moe, Larry, the cheese
• "Hey Judgiewudgie
• "Hey toots
• Oh, stubborn, eh?
• Indubitably
• "Oh, a backbiter!"

Larry Fine [edit]

• I'm sorry, Moe, it was an blow!
• What's the idea?
• I didn't wanna say yes, but I couldn't say no.
• Leave him solitary!
• Hey, where's your nobility?
• Ooo wise guy eh?
• What a brain...
• Hey cutting the clownin'
• This is a nice identify. It reminds me of the reform schoolhouse.
• "I'll do information technology when I'm good and prepare!" (Moe,threateningly:"Are you ready?") "Yeah, I'm ready..."

Shemp Howard [edit]

• "Eeeb-eeeb-eeeb-eeeb!"
• Waah, due west-ohh!(A wolf-whistle towards women that sounded like a steam whistle)
• Hey, Moe! Hey, Larry!
• Mee-mee-mee-mee! (Frightened or surprised): Uttered very fast, difficult to transcribe exactly; some other attempts:
  • Heep-heep-heep-heep!
  • Hee-hee-hee-hee!
  • Bee-bee-bee-bee!
  • Vee-vee-vee-vee!
  • Meep-meep-meep-meep! The Stooges also would make these noises as if they were snoring in scenes in which they are depicted as asleep.

All Stooges [edit]

• Hello (Moe, low tone), Hellooo (Larry, a major third higher, with Moe still holding his 'o'), Hellooooo (Curly, a fifth higher than Moe, forming a major chord with Moe and Larry)!" The Stooges would too use this aforementioned tune for "Come in" or "Contact.
• Nyahhh-ah-ah! (Stooges frightened)
  • Other attempts: "Nyuhhh-uh-uh!
  • Yuhhh-uh-uh-uh!
• For Duty and Humanity!
• Moe: "One for all!", Larry: " All for 1!", Curly: " I'm for myself."
• Moe: (to Curly) "There's nix to exist scared most." (Sees what Curly sees) Both: " Nyahhh-ah-ah!"

Joe Besser [edit]

• Not so haaaaaard!
• That huuuuurts!
• Oh, cutting it ouuuuuut!
• Non so loooouuuud!
• You crazy you!
• That's salubrious! That'south practiced for you! (gets striking past something) That's bad for me!
• Come up on and fight like a human!

Curly-Joe DeRita [edit]

• Okay, buddy male child.
• Buddy, boy
• One of these days, you're gonna poke my eyes out. (to Moe)
• I'thousand not! I'grand stuck in the cymbal! (to Moe)
• You know how to injure a guy, Moe!

Emil Sitka [edit]

• Hold easily, y'all dear birds!
  • Brideless Groom, 1947
• I'm gonna get y'all! Fifty-fifty if it takes me another lx years!
• Your drink, madam. (Pie hits him in the face) Pardon me, madam.

Quotes & gags [edit]

• I'm gonna change my socks. What an experience! (Moe, Larry, Curly or Shemp in several shorts)

• Moe, Larry, the cheese! Moe, Larry, the cheese! (Curly in the 1935 short, Horses Collars)

• A burnt stake is improve than a common cold chop. (Curly, on why he would rather be burned at the stake instead of decapitated)

• Anacanapon! (Moe, demanding a surgical instrument)

• Seenophran!" (Moe, demanding some other surgical instrument)

• Cotton wool!! (Stooges to each other whenever performing surgery)

• Remind me to kill/murder yous subsequently! (Moe, to others)
  • I'll make a annotation of it! (Larry or Curly)
  • Hey, I don't have a pencil! (Larry or Curly)
  • That's okay, I'll do it now! (Moe wacks him in the head)

• Spread Out! (Moe, to others)

• "Hey Lorna, How ya practise'in?" (Shemp introduction to Lorna Doone)

• Niagara Falls! Slowly I turn, step by stride, inch past inch. I walked up to him, I smashed him like this, I hit him, I bopped him, I tore him to pieces, and and so I knocked him down! (Moe or Larry)

• Hey! Wake up and get to sleep! (Moe)

• Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard.(over the public address system in a hospital).

• I'yard tryin' to recollect, only nothin' happens!" (Curly)

• Mammy! (Larry gets on his knees to Moe)
• Pappy! (Moe gets on his knees to Larry)
  • (Double-slaps Larry later on that) GO ON!

• Leave (ta here)! (Moe to others)

• Tell me your name and then I tin tell your female parent. (Moe)
• My mother knows my name. (Curly)

• (After Moe tells the others to do something)
  • Curly and/or Larry: I'll (have, clean) information technology when I'thou ready!
  • Moe: (menacing look) Are ya ready?!
  • Curly and/or Larry: Yeah, I'm ready.
  • or
  • Curly and/or Larry: Wait a minute! What're you gonna do?
  • Moe: Nothin', what about it?!
  • Curly and/or Larry: Oh, I just thought I'd ask.

• Oh, a chisler, eh? (Moe to Larry, Curly, or Shemp)

• Curly shaving ice: "Were you wearing a pink bow necktie? No, well here's your lip."

• Also Curly shaving ice: "Are y'all married or happy?"

• Boy, that'southward funny! (Curly Joe)
  • Then's your face! (Moe to Curly Joe)
  • You really know how to hurt a guy, Moe! (Curly Joe to Moe)

• My father died dancing; on the end of a rope. (Curly)

• I'll accept some burnt toast 'n' a rotten egg. (whatever of the Stooges)
  • Burnt toast 'northward' a rotten egg? (any of the Stooges)
  • Yeah, I got a tape worm, 'north' thats good plenty fer him. (whatsoever of the Stooges)

• Moe: Put yer manus on yer mentum (After Moe gets Larry or Curly to put his correct fist upward to his chin), yer articulatio genus upwardly here (and puts his right knee up to his right elbow).
  • Curly and/or Larry: What happens now?
  • Moe: This!
  • (and so Moe kicks their correct foot causing his correct fist to hit his chin)

• Ngah-ngah-ngah! (Curly frightened)

• Why you...! (Moe or Curly, to others)

• Come 'ere! (Moe, to others)

• Hey, porcupine! (Moe, to Larry)

• (Later Moe pokes them in the eyes)
  • Curly and/or Larry: I can't see! I can't encounter!
  • Moe: "What'sa matter?"
  • Curly and/or Larry: "I got my eyes airtight."
  • (Moe pokes them in the optics again)

• (Unremarkably when Moe wants to open a canteen of beer or something like information technology)
  • Moe: Close your optics. Open your mouth. Depress your lower jaw.(Moe slams the bottlecap off with the Stooge's lower teeth, presumably ripping them out.)

• A variant of the previous catchphrase is when Moe but opens a bottle of beer without giving orders. The Stooge will be in pain when Moe says:
  • Moe: Quit sqwaking!
  • (any Stooge): Well, gimme back my front teeth!

• If another Stooge is knocked unconscious Moe sometimes props upward the Stooge'south head and says, Tell me your name so I can tell your mother (that you're hurt). The other Stooge then replies, My mother knows my proper noun! at which betoken Moe slaps him on the head.

• Vitamins A, B, C, D, E, F, gee I like nutrient! (Curly)

• The Stooges are crossing the Sahara and come to a sign post with markers that bespeak in the management of several far off cities, including Cairo:
  • Curly: I've got an uncle in Cairo.
  • Moe: Oh yea?
  • Curly: He's a chiropractor. Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk.

• Let's sympathize our watches! (Moe)

• (every bit Moe tries to explain Squealer Latin)

Moe: Moe...O-may. Larry...Arry-lay. Curly?

Curly: Curly Q!

(Moe and Larry recoil and expect at each other in disgust)

Moe(to Larry): "Male child, is he umb-day!"

Curly:Yous mean I'm umb-24-hour interval in Pig Language?

Moe: Yous're umb-day in ANY language!

• Curly: Aye-yeah!

Moe: Yep-yeah?

Curly:Yep-yep!

{Moe pokes Curly in the optics}

Curly: {Shouting} Aye-aye!

You Nazty Spy![1940] [edit]

The Stooges, recently made dictators of Moronika, are addressing a rally.

Curly: (bending to microphone) We will now pause for station identification. This is North-U-T-S.

Larry: (Moe brandishes a small mallet) When you hear the conk on the dome, it will exist exactly 3 o'clock, Bolonia lookout fourth dimension. (Moe strikes Curly on the head)

Curly: 3 o'clock, Bolonia watch time. ("Bolonia" is a reference to Bulova brand wristwatches.)

Larry: iii o'clock, Bolonia watch time.

Moe: (a'la a horror-bear witness journalist) Information technology must exist three o'clock! (laughs evilly, and then Larry and Curly join in).

From " Hoi Polloi" [1935] [edit]

Professor Richmond: Tin you lot spell cat?

Curly: Soitenly!

Professor Richmond: Spell it.

Curly: Cat. K-I-T-T-Y. Pussy.

Professor: Oh meet the little deer! Has the deer a little doe?

Larry: Yeah, ii bucks!(laughs)

(The Stooges are about to attend a fancy brawl)

Moe: At present then, gentlemen, think your etiquette. (He then gives both Larry and Curly a slap.)

Larry: What's that for?

Curly: We didn't do nothin'!

Moe: That's in case you do when I'1000 not around!

Moe: Some choice! Nosotros're either gonna exist burned at the stake or get the guillotine!

Curly: I'd rather be burned at the stake.

Moe: What for?

Curly: Because a hot steak is ameliorate than a cold chop!

Customer: What kind of an idiot do yous have me for, anyway?

Shemp: Why, is there more than one kind?

Shemp: You know, for two cents, I'd punch you lot right in the nose!

Bully: Oh, aye? Here'southward your two cents.

Shemp: Well, I raised my toll!

Moe: Them's fighting words in my country!

Cracking: Oh, yeah? What about it?

Moe: Zero. Lucky for you, we're non in my country...

Moe: (to Larry, who has a whole turkey on his dinner plate) Wait a minute. Are yous going to eat that turkey alone?

Larry: Nah. I thought I might go back later and get some mashed potatoes and stuffing.

Micro-Phonies(1945) [edit]

(Larry and Curly are pulling a wrench back and along betwixt them, making no headway on a job)

Moe: Wait a infinitesimal! You lot lamebrains tin can't do anything right can ya? Come on(Pulls Larry'south Hair) You come over here!(sets them up on opposite sides, where they repeat the earlier shenanigans)

Moe: Just a Second! Permit me have that wrench! Let me take it! You lot imbeciles!

(Larry drops wrench on Moe's human foot,Moe hops on one foot, slips on pipe, hits his head)

Alice: I Hear the vocalization of spring anew (Opera sings)

Moe: Hey boys, I must be dead,I hear an angel singin'

Alice: Love is similar a flower.

Curly: My Nyuk,Nyuk,Nyuk own't she pretty?

Moe: Boy,y'all can say that again!

Curly: My Nyuk,Nyuk,Nyuk ain't she pretty?

Moe: Shut up!(Moe hits Curly)

Curly: You said I could!

(Evening Scene)

Larry and Moe: Good evening,Jeeves!

Moe: Jeeves, what time do they serve Cocktails?

Larry:Hey, Look who's here?

Moe: If he spots us, we're cooked!

Moe: Musclin' in on our territory,eh?

Moe: The Senorita'due south lost her vocalism!

'Sra.Bixby: What is it, laryngitis?

Moe: No, fallen arches.

Moe: "Nosotros eluded them!" Curly: "Yes, we got abroad, too."

Best known script lines [edit]

From Woman Haters (1934) [edit]

(The Stooges at the Pub

Tom: Now that y'all've signed, delight comport in listen, from now on, no women around of any kind.

Jackie: Correct?

Jim: Right.

Jackie: Now the forfeit nosotros'll post.

Tom: Fill 'em up.

Jim: Fill up 'em up.

Tom: Now I'll brand a toast. To the three musketeers, who've stuck along for years, we've traveled together in every kind of weather.

Jackie: Right?

Jim: Right.

Jackie: What've y'all got to say for yourself?

Jim: Me?

Jackie: You.

Jim: I've got plenty to say for myself. (hiccups) I beg your pardon, mates. Here'southward to the finest salesmen in the whole The states.

Tom: Say, by the way, don't we go out for the row tonight?

Jackie: What day is this?

Tom: The 21st.

Jackie: By golly, you lot're correct.

Tom: Permit'due south hurry back. We gotta pack our samples for the trip.

Jim: Okay. Earlier nosotros go, let's accept another sip.

Jackie: Here's to our trip.

Tom: Yous'd better run into your girl and offering her your sympathy.

Jackie: Tell her that the bride-to-exist is not the bride-to-be. Correct?

Jim: Right.

(hiccups, then Tom also hiccups and Jackie belches and Tom is whacking Curly's caput)

Jim: Pelting or smooth or rain, I'll encounter youse at the train. And at present I'll tell the lady that I'll never see her again.

Jim: Fellas, I tell you, yous got me all wrong. I was minding my own business when that woman came along. Suddenly, she fainted. At present, I'g asking you, if a adult female faints right in your arms, what is at that place to practice? You lot don't think that I'd fool around with a sappy matriarch like that? Her eyes are similar a true cat and her hair is like a rat.

Tom': Well, simply the same, we signed a paper, and that paper reads: "No woman shall ever enter our lives, no matter what she needs."

Jackie: Next time you're with a girl, you're gonna forfeit your dough. And furthermore, you accept no right--

Jim: All right, all right,I know.

From " Empty-headed Pilots" 1945 [edit]

(The Stooges are edifice a plane)

Moe: Where's your vise?

Curly: Vice? I accept no vice, I'm as pure as the driven snow!

Moe: But you drifted.

(Moe hits Curly in the forehead)

From " Good for you, Wealthy & Dumb" 1938 [edit]

(The Stooges in a hotel looking at a bathtub)

Curly: Oh look. A row boat.

Larry: A row boat? You're crazy. That'south a equus caballus trough.

Moe: Horse trough, row boat! In a hotel? That's a bathtub, y'all imbeciles. Go take a bath.

Larry: Just it ain't jump yet.

Moe: Oh, yeah, it is. Run across the pretty grass?

Larry: Where?

(As Larry bends downwardly to look at the "grass", Moe puts his foot on Larry's rear and pushes him inside the bathroom. Curly shuts the door)

Curly: Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

Moe: You're next.

Curly: But I had a bath.

Moe: When?

Curly: July 4th, 1910. I was as well immature to fight about information technology then.

Moe: What are you gonna do near it now?

Curly: Take a bathroom.

From " If A Body Meets A Body" 1945 [edit]

(Moe and Larry wait backside a chair as Curly notices a parrot walking inside a skull abroad from the Stooges. Curly covers his eyes)

Curly: Oh, I can't look at this. I can't, I can't.

(Curly unknowingly holds a candle on Moe'due south rear end)

Moe: OWWWW! You burn down me up! (slaps Curly with both hands) Become out of the way! I'll notice this matter.

(Larry takes a peek behind the chair as Moe crawls around it)

Moe: (to himself) Skeletons. Bunk, that's what!

(Larry and Moe look at each other and go startled)

Stooges: AHHH!

(Larry and Moe look over to Curly)

Larry: Now, where's your ghost?

Moe: A skeleton with little feet, eh? (makes a fist with both easily and hits Curly on the head)

Larry: Carrying his head in his hands.

Curly: Ah, cease it!

(Larry kicks Curly on the behind)

Moe: Continue to bed.

Curly: Stop it! STOP IT!

(The Stooges walk over to bed)

Moe: You're breaking up my sleep. If yous so much as breathe, I'll tear your tonsils out and I'll necktie it around your neck for a bowtie!

Curly: Shut up!

Moe: Get in there! Out to the edge at present. You're a sleep wrecker. Get to sleep.

(The Stooges become into the bed covers)

Curly: I tell ya, I saw a ghost.

Moe: Keep!

Larry: Ah! Ghosts, spooks, skeletons, kids stuff. (yawns) There are no such things as ghosts.

(The Stooges finally go back to sleep. The skull falls from above the bed and on Larry's head. The skeleton moves to the table on the side of the bed, but Larry doesn't run into it)

Larry: Ooh! (wakes upwardly Moe) Hey, what's the idea of striking me on the head?

Moe: I didn't hit you on the head…yet! (hits Larry on the head) Get on, go to sleep.

(Larry turns to his left and sees the skeleton on the table)

Larry: AHHHHH!!! (wakes up Moe) Thousand-M-Moe, K-M-Moe, Moe! He's right! It's a ghost! It's right there! It's on the tabl- Eh, what?

(Larry points to the tabular array nigh the bed, merely naught is there)

Moe: Oh, you too, eh? I'g gonna accept trouble with you. Well, let me give you a lilliputian advice.

Larry: What?

Moe: (slaps Larry on the face) That! No keep. Go to sleep earlier I murder ya. You guys somnambulists?

From " Idiots Deluxe" 1945 [edit]

(Larry and Curly sadly mourn the loss of Moe. Moe quietly sneaks upwards to Larry and Curly with an axe.)

Curly: Poor Moe.

Larry: Oh, woe is Moe.

Moe: Oh, woe is y'all.

(Moe swings his axe towards Larry.)

Larry: (ducking down) WHOA, MOE!

(Moe misses Larry and accidentally hits Curly on top of the head with the axe instead.)

Curly: (holds his head in pain) Oh, oh-ho-ho-ho. (looks at Moe'southward axe) Oh, wait!

(Moe holds up his axe and jumps in shock when he sees that the blade is split due to Curly'due south hard caput.)

From Pardon My Scotch 1935 [edit]

(The Stooges are installing a door, the owner told them to put the door 'on the right')

Moe: Now let's run across.. the door goes on the right (looks at his right manus and nods) Right.

Curly: (In front of Moe) Wait a minute...the man said the door goes on the right! (points to opposite direction)

Moe: (Showing Curly his right paw as a fist) What'due south this?

Curly: A fist

Moe:(Moe hits Curly in the forehead) Right or left?

(Curly meditates on this)

Moe: Oh, ignorant ehh?

(He hits him once more)

Moe: At present, mind grapehead, I'll explicate this so even you can understand it

(They alter positions)

Moe: Now when I say go, we both signal to the right...go!

(They point in contrary directions; Curly recoils)

Moe: (to Larry) Hey porcupine come up here!

(Larry approaches, he is facing Moe's right side and Curly's left)

Moe: Point to the right for this chump volition ya?

(Larry point to a completely different direction than the other two)

Curly': See?

Moe: (slapping both; grumpy vocalism) Stop playing, get to piece of work...Where's the map?...Over there (it's on the right of the audience)

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