Listen, Judge

The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts! In My opinion The Three Stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team!

This is one of My favorite Three Stooges shorts. Its very funny. Vernon Dent is very good in this one. There are two other Three Stooges shorts called They Stooge to Conga and An Ache in Every Stake with Curly and they are arguably funnier! Emil Sitka, Kitty McHugh, John Hamilton, Chick Collins, George J. Lewis, Gil Perkins are all in this short! This is a very funny one and I recommend it!

First, this particular short is yet another splicing of three earlier shorts all with Curly. The courtroom scene is taken from "A Plumbing We Will Go", the fix the doorbell bits are from "They Stooge to Conga" where they inadvertently infiltrate a Nazi hideout, and then the cooking scenes are from "An Ache In Every Steak". What a mish mash! If during the years that the first three were made, such a concept had been presented, I'm sure it would have been rejected by everyone involved including the Stooges. But now, the lean, cold 1950's, everyone just wants to get this over with and get their money. Jules White is certainly to blame for all this since the man never did display a true sense of real comedy no matter who he was involved with directing, be it the Stooges or Buster Keaton during his fade out years. This short is so disjointed in storyline that an undergrad creative writing student would most likely flunk out if he handed in something as banal. Watch the originals and forget this one. No offense Moe, Larry and Shemp but you really should have known better.

Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Shemp Howard are door-to-door handymen. They are brought in front of Judge Henderson for chicken stealing. They escape the court and barges into a house to fix the doorbell. Of course, the boys' antics cause more damage. It turns out to be the judge's home and he's hosting a party for his political re-election.

There is general Stooges destruction. It's solid work for a Shemp Stooges short. I like the cake premise although I wish it could actually blow up. The room should at least be destroyed. I need some chasing around before the Stooges jump out the window. This is good standard work, but it could be more.

Listen Judge finds Moe, Larry and Shemp before Judge Vernon Dent on a chicken stealing and vagrancy rap. Later on the boys decide to go into home repair as itinerant workers, usually the kind in the real world that are labeled scam artists. Anyone that hires these guys ought to have their head examined.

But a woman who does all of a sudden is thrown for a loop by a surprise party she has to throw for her husband. Naturally the boys are ever willing to help.

Some really good gags are Shemp getting charged up and then having Moe short circuit him. Also Larry and Shemp try to deal with a floating cake that these geniuses reflate with gas.

The finale is when said cake explodes on TV's Perry White from the Superman series, John Hamilton. Seeing that always dignified man dripping in cake remnants is a great laugh.

Stooges fans the world over will love this one.

This short creatively combines plot elements from 3 different Curly shorts(A Plumbing We Will Go/Ache in Every Stake/They Stooge to Conga)and the finished product equals what I consider the best remake by the boys. Many of the gags taken from 'Conga' for instance, are even funnier in this short.

Great Moe insult: Go'wan you french poodle, your father's got fleas!

9.5/10