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This belongs in their top tier, although there were others, such as Micro-Phonies and Punch Drunks, that were more deserving of Oscar nominations than this one. But if nothing else, the recurring loudspeaker announcement, "Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard," followed by Curly's "Woo woo woo woo," makes this a classic on two levels. First, it symbolizes all that the Stooges represent; my daughter loves to repeat the announcement when she is in the middle of doing something silly. Second, the absurdity of these three as physicians in a hospital; I imagine the terror I would feel if I were a real patient in a real hospital and heard this announcement over the loudspeaker. Throughout this short, you hear that announcement and you know that something horrible is about to happen, and the loudspeaker voice stays with you for months afterward.

I've just watched this, the third in the Three Stooges series of shorts for Columbia Pictures and the only one nominated for an Academy Award (it didn't win). In this one, Drs. Howard (Moe), Fine (Larry), and Howard (Curley as his name was spelled at the time) are running amok at the hospital as they dedicate themselves "for duty and humanity". God help us all if there's anyone like them in real life! Anyway, there's plenty of hilarious running gags and lines that the pace never stops for one minute and when it does, the whole thing is over just like that. Among highlights: a scatterbrained nurse (Jeanie Roberts) perplexing the Stooges-even Curley-who also provides some comic hiccups and a crazy patient (Billy Gilbert who I usually associate with Laurel & Hardy) who sees birds and rats. Add in regular stock player Bud Jamison and a "female" little person patient among others and you've got a good idea of what to expect from Men in Black. So on that note, I highly recommend this short.

As mentioned in Moe Howard's book MOE HOWARD & THE 3 STOOGES (Citadel Press, 1977), MEN IN BLACK (1934) an early Three Stooges short made at Columbia Pictures was a take off on MEN IN WHITE. "For duty and humanity" is a phrase used numerous times throughout this twenty minute comedy and is a central theme in the Clark Gable/Myrna Loy film which was released earlier that same year. MEN IN BLACK, which contains another reoccurring phrase (which many Three Stooges fans will remember immediately) "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard", was nominated for the Academy Award in 1934 for best short. An abbreviated version of this short was reenactment in the ABC-TV movie THE THREE STOOGES (1999) which was produced by Mel Gibson, a well known Stooges enthusiast.

This is one particular Stooge short that actually uses satire in conjunction with slapstick, a rarity. As mentioned, the title and concept for this short was "borrowed" from a feature film from the same year with Clark Gable called "Men In White". It's basically about the trials and tribulations of interns and their sacred cause for "duty and humanity". I saw this recently and almost treated it like the Stooge version because it does take itself a little too seriously. In any case, "Men In Black" is so well written, directed and not to mention original, it didn't borrow a thing from Chaplin or any of the others, that the Motion Picture Academy nominated it for an award as the best short comedy of 1934. Some stinky short called "La Cucaracha" outdid it though and stole the award. Some producer's brother in law must have been on the Academy's voting board. "Men In Black" pokes fun at the whole concept of the medical profession much in the same way that the Marx Bros. always did at this time. May not be a fair comparison but I can see the Marx Bros. in this short. In fact in their feature "A Day At The Races", there is a scene where there's "medical things" going on and they cause anarchy as usual. My guess that this particular short was judged along those lines and hence why it was nominated in the first place. Try this in fact: watch this short first and then watch "Duck Soup" or "Day at the Races" with the Marxes and then see if there isn't the same great quality of comedy.

A criticism that I've heard of the Three Stooges is that - unlike Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and the Marx Brothers, all of whom treated the underdog with dignity - they make it look as if the underdog deserves to be the underdog. As long as we understand that, it's easy to laugh at the gags that abound in "Men in Black", as the trio become doctors and cause a series of mishaps in the hospital (namely with the superintendent's door). This short received an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Subject - Comedy (now Best Live Action Short Film) but lost to "La Cucaracha".

Basically, it makes no pretense about what it is. A good time to be had.

Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curley Howard are new old doctors in Los Arms Hospital. It's an early Stooges short in Columbia. The bits feel more vaudevillian. This actually got nominated for an Oscar. I love the old midget female patient. The door bit is funny. Tic-Tac-Toe is easy. It's so old that it's new. It's simple fun jokes and old broad gags.

This Oscar-nominated Three Stooges short was possibly a spoof on the Clark Gable hospital drama MEN IN WHITE (1934). The insane comedy style of the film is pretty much influenced by The Marx Bros. – but actually anticipates their own assault on the medical profession in A DAY AT THE RACES (1937)! The Stooges go to their designated operating rooms via horses, racing-cars and the like; the operation on their own boss sees them using an electric drill and then stitching him up with all the various instruments of the profession still inside! As ever, the comic trio fall back too often on slapping each other around (not to mention fooling around with some girl, in this case a dumb nurse); actually, the best gag revolves around the glass on the boss’ office door (which is smashed every time our heroes leave his company, since they’re constantly being called to explain their unethical behavior – seeing them coming one more time, the janitor who’s forever replacing the glass anticipates them by breaking it himself!). Incidentally, both director McCarey and screenwriter Felix Adler worked contemporaneously on the (more sympathetic but no less havoc-ridden) films of Laurel & Hardy.

This is one of the Stooges best shorts. It was the only one of their shorts to be nominated for an oscar. In this short the Stooges play doctors, who cause some trouble as usual. This short has non-stop sight-gags, puns, and jokes. The part at the end, where the Stooges are breaking apart the machine. This is definitely a classic. I would highly recommend this Three Stooges short.

Directed by the younger brother of great director Leo McCarey this is a pretty good short from the Three Stooges, nominated for an Academy Award. Here the stooges are doctors named doctor Howard, doctor Fine and doctor Howard. They are not the brightest doctors but they get the benefit of the doubt as long as they handle for duty and humanity.

I liked this short. It is not one of their best but some moments are hilarious though. One joke that is repeated more than once works every time. The part where they must operate the hospital's boss is terrific. To say more would spoil some of the jokes, so you must see it for yourself. Just another fine short from the Three Stooges.

The third Three Stooges Men in Black is notable, as it's the trio's only short to ever get an academy award nomination (and personally I think it should have won). It's also among their most referenced shorts in popular culture, as paging Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, and Dr. Howard has been referenced in multiple shows and movies. Does that make this short a masterpiece? In one wrong – YES!

Men in Black is one of The Stooges most memorable (up there with You Nazi Spy, Punch Drunks, Micro-Phones, A Plumbing We Will Go, Disorder In The Court and so on). The short is absolutely hilarious, I love it when The Three Stooges are introduced as three people who weren't very good doctors but were only hired because they had been held back in the class for so long. I also love the idea of Three Stooges as doctors, it works so well. I especially love it when The Three Stooges get on the tricycle, and then end up on a horse and then finally inside three little cars. Classic scene.

Men in Black is one of The Stooges funniest shorts ever. They're very much unrestrained in this short, and the humor is great.

I found this one to be more chaotic than the average Stooges short (as strange as that may sound). There were several funny bits, especially the running gags ("Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard!", the glass door breaking, the Stooges running into the supply room and coming back out with... well, you know), but also quite of bit of it was taken up with things that just didn't make any sense to me. I have to assume that these were generally take-offs of scenes from the film "Men In White", but since I don't know much about that movie I can't say for sure. Maybe if someone could explain these I'd appreciate this short more.

The summary above is the battle cry that starts and ends this episode as the boys graduate from medical school are given diplomas only because they had been in school too long! (huh??)

They begin their internship at Los Arms Hospital. At various times in this ultra- silly short we see the three "doctors" going down the hospital hallway in a bicycle, a horse and in Soap Box Derby-type cars.

They meet a goofy nurse and several goofy patients and perform a memorable operation of the hospital boss. In all, it's good, but not great. However, it might be one of the most famous Stooges shorts ever, and one of the looniest. Who can forget the switchboard cry: "Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard!"?

This is the one, the Stooges comedy that inspired all us kids to yell, "Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard..." a million times, right?

And that's the way it goes, because Moe, Larry and Curly are now physicians at a city hospital with LOTS of problems. Or do they have problems?

Felix Adler's insane script was nominated for an Academy Award, and to tell you the truth, it should have won. A rollercoaster of clever gags, including the Stooges racing to operating rooms on horses and other available transportation, guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. A declaration of war on a hospital, if not the Clark Gable film, MEN IN WHITE.

What also makes this tick is the appearance of some memorable actors; Billy Gilbert, long time foil for Laurel and Hardy, plays an insane patient, although everyone else is nuts. Another L & H alum, Dell Henderson is cast as Doctor Graves? Phyllis Crane plans Anna Conda?, frequent foil for the Stooges. Silent screen comedian Charles Dorety plays a doctor. See if you can spot character actress Lucille Watson, who made her screen debut the same year.

Yes, lots of trademark slaps in the face and Curly's famous "woo-woo-woo-woo" schtick, which at first he used because he forgot his lines. It stuck and was the best decision ever!

Directed by Ray McCarey, usually behind low budget films, younger brother of producer and director Leo McCarey, who at the time was working with the Marx Brothers and WC Fields.

Always on remastered dvd (Columbia), generally by decades, 30s, 40s, 50s episodes. Thanks much to METV for running these golden oldies, nightly and on weekends.

Though not a huge fan, I am a Three Stooges purist. I believe that their best work, by far, was with Curly as the third Stooge and their earliest films with Columbia are generally their best. That's because after a while, they began remaking their films and the gags started to get stale. Here, in 1934, they were still rather fresh (in more ways than one) and funny.

Here they boys play very improbably roles--respected doctors in a hospital! The three run amok acting silly, hitting each other and scaring the pants off anyone who expects to get better. The non-stop energy and freshness make this one a must-see for fans.

By the way, although I liked this film, I STRONGLY recommend you try to find a much lesser known short from tiny Educational Pictures. NIFTY NURSES is much like MEN IN BLACK but manages to be funnier and is about the best hospital comedy of the era--better even than Laurel & Hardy's COUNTY HOSPITAL.

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!

One of the most hilarious Three Stooges shorts is Men in Black. In this short are Bud Jamison, Jeanie Roberts, Phyllis Crane, Dell Henderson, 'Little Billy' Rhodes, Billy Gilbert, and Ruth Hiatt The acting by these actors are good especially by Jamison and Roberts. There are many funny scenes here that I think most Three Stooges fans will love! In My opinion this one of the most different Three Stooges shorts. I recommend this one to all!

This is an early one from the boys, but some people may not be satisfied with this one like all the others. I found it to be different somehow than the your average Stooge slapstick. It was more funny for it's jokes rather than the poke in the eye or slap. Watch for a hilarious part when Larry grabs the stethoscope from Moe and sings into it. Moe gives him a good smack. That part made me crack up for a good ten minutes. Another hit for the Stooges.

It's hard to imagine anyone ever giving Curly, Larry and Moe a job playing in the sandpit let alone in an hospital, but given that they graduated with the "highest temperatures in their class" they have been sent to a busy hospital to help out. That'd be the ultimate triumph of hope over expectation as this trio race around the corridors responding to emergency calls as only they can! I am not really a fan of this sort of slapstick comedy, but there's no doubt that these three have an almost perfect ability to work in marvellously co-ordinated concert. Their antics and escapades all come across as entirely natural, and their abilities to perform amidst a supporting cast of actors who manage to keep a straight face as chaos increasingly reigns around them is impressive. Medical science provides plenty of fertile territory for them and this one culminates with a bit of comedy faux-surgery that rather sums up their enthusiastic haplessness. Though I doubt I'd need to watch this again, it does rattle along for an hectic twenty minutes of skilful synchronicity.

Who knew The Three Stooges were Academy Awards material? But they were. In just their third film for Columbia Pictures, the boys were nominated for Best Short Subject in a Comedy in September 1934's "Men In Black." This spoof on doctors and hospital life, based on Clark Gable's and Myna Loy's 1934 "Men in White," was their only Oscar nominated film among 190 short films they produced. It lost to 1934's Technicolor movie "La Cucaracha."

"Men in Black," not to be confused with the Tommy Lee Jones/Will Smith 1997 sci-fi film of the same name, has the three of the most unlikely doctors working in a hospital right after graduating from med school (They received their degrees mainly from having the highest temperatures in their class.). This episodic film has them immediately responding to a variety of cases at the hospital. After each case they think they have cured, they report to the hospital superintendent, breaking his full-paneled glass door while leaving his office, a situational joke seen in several later Stooges films.

As only their third short without Ted Healy, several signature trademarks of the Stooges are introduced in "Men in Black." Curly's penchant of saying "Woo-woo-woo-woo," unlike the violent exclamations in the previous "Punch Drunk," is on full display. The actor occasionally used the expression whenever he forgot his lines. The film was also the first to show the three combine several liquids to create an elixir they think will cure a patient's sickness. In addition, they huddle for the first time to discuss a strategy they plan to carry out. Inserted in the Stooges' film contains the first time one of the supporting cast, in this case actress Jeanie Roberts, speaks in a very high-pitched voice, a frequent occurrence in their later movies. She's the nurse who has the hiccups.

"Men in Black" introduced one of earliest examples of a "hammerspace," also known as a 'malletspace,' where large objects appear out of thin air. Every time the Stooges are summoned to a distant wing in the hospital, they run to the storage closet and ride a different mode of transportation, such as a horse, go-carts, and a three-man bicycle. The short is famous for the voice from an intercom bellowing out repeatedly, "Doctor Howard, Doctor Fine, Doctor Howard," causing instant chaos in the hospital ward. They've been told by the hospital head their mission is for "the glorious cause of duty and humanity," which the Stooges repeat incessantly.

"Men in Black" has been cited as having the Stooges' quickest turnaround time from when filming wrapped until its release-27 days.

Curly, Larry and Moe are at loose in a hospital. That's about all you need to know.

I loved the Three Stooges when I was a kid. However when I grew up (I'm in my 40s now) I found them WAY too violent, stupid and unfunny. However this one isn't that violent or too stupid and is genuinely funny at times. The gags fly fast and furious and they meet crazy patients (the small woman was my favorite) and crazy hospital personnel (like a silly nurse). This was actually nominated for as Oscar as Best Short Subject (it lost). So this is from somebody who hates the Stooges now--this is worth seeing:)

The only time the Three Stooges were nominated for an Academy Award, was when Men in Black (1934), was released on the world. Moe, Larry and Curly begin to hit their stride in this short subject. In this film, they play doctors. They are known famously as, Doctor Howard! Doctor Fine! Doctor Howard! Every time they visit Dr. Graves' office, Curly smashes the office door. Every time I think of this film, my first thought is of, "Cotton". Cotton is the best! One of Larry's best lines ever happened, when they had to operate on the hapless Dr. Graves (Dell Henderson). Larry says, "Let's plug him and see if he's ripe". This movie might not be the best Stooges short, but it is in the top five. It totally represents the energy and popularity, the Three Stooges had, in 1934.

9.0 (A- MyGrade) - 9 IMDB.