Idle Roomers

The Three Stooges by themselves are already a handful trouble waiting to explode but add them to a hotel full of guests and then a wolf man on top of that? Whew. Funny on all points this one is. Curly sweeping the floor and knocking on the trunk containing the wolf man, unknown to Curly, and the wolf man inside echoing his knocks. Moe comes up from behind and says to Curly "Hey" and Curly thinking it's the trunk says "Shad Up" Then he tells Moe, "It was knocking at me" to which Moe naturally replies "I'll knock at you" Funny stuff all the way through and fast paced without any slow or "dead" spots at all. If you've reached a certain age and still haven't seen this one, be sure to rent it or buy it and watch and laugh as hard as you've never laughed before.

This three stooges short I think is one of the best and funniest there is of the three stooges. the funniest parts in this episode is when Curly is taking that big box that has the wolfman in it up to the owners room and when he gets to the floor that he is suppose to go to Larry is behind a door pulling in the rug Curly is walking on and Curly says "Whoa its a long way to that door" then it goes to Larry who is still pulling the rug in and does not know Curly is walking on it and says "This thing must be glued down" I think that is one of the funniest scenes in this short and another part where Curly looks in a broken mirror that the wolfman is standing behind and Curly thinks that wolfman is him. This short is real funny. If your a big fan of the three stooges and haven't seen this one but heard of it I strongly suggest you watch it if it ever comes on AMC.

Idle Roomers (1944)

*** (out of 4)

The Three Stooges are working as bellboys and of course they can't do anything right. After mixing it up with a woman's husband they find even worse news when they stumble across a wolf man while trying to clean their room.

The IMDb lists the working title of this as THE THREE STOOGES MEET THE WOLF MAN and if that's correct then it's really too bad Columbia didn't use it, although I'm going to guess that there might have been an issue with Universal who had just done FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN. With that said, I must admit that I really thought this short started off somewhat slow but things certainly picked up one the hairy one showed up. There were some terrific gags here between the Stooges and the wolf man including some very big moments that you could rank as some of the boys' best. Fans of the Universal movies and the Stooges will certainly be entertained with this one.

Hi I'm 13 years old. I'm a big fan of the Three Stooges short movie and the big Stooges movies!! Idle Roomers is about this guy brings this wolfman in like a traveling case and puts it in the basement or in the room! and it gets loose in the hotel! and causes the three stooges Moe, Larry, Curly, Trouble! Very Good Three Stooges Short Film!! Have The Short On Video!!

Larry, Curly, and Moe are bumbling bellboys at the Hotel Snazzy-Plaza. A guest has brought Lupe - The Wolf Man which goes crazy when it hears music. It's solid random Stooges fun early on and then they add in a wolf man. "Did you lock the door?" is my favorite low key joke. The elevator is actually pretty good and it allows the short end. This is solid all around.