Quiz Whizz

After a heavy lost of Curly and Shemp the Stooges replace them by Joe Besser who win this episode a TV contest but spent all money in useless bonds, now tax agent visit them to take a share...quickly they are going try to find a crook to get back the money....there they sent to a house to be disappear...but have a great surprise!!!Actually Joe Besser sign a contract with stooges with promise that Moe didn't beat him!!!

Even though I'm not really a fond of the Joe Besser shorts, this is an exception due to the return of write Searle Kramer who wrote classic shorts from the late 1930's and the short feels more like a decent Shemp short cause it does have crooks involved and I hope that next time that the stooges come back on, they'll show this short due to the fact that AMC didn't play it.

The short begins as Joe Besser winning $15,000 and Moe and Larry are worried about him, and Moe calls the police only to find that Joe came out and when Joe was about to take a bite off of his sandwich, Moe yells at him, Joe got ripped off and together they try to find Joe's money, then they meet the two crooks (in disquise) and they send the boys to a home where they will 'take care' of them, in order to know the rest of the plot you gotta see it for yourself and I think the people who don't like Joe Besser should give this short a try and he gets hit at least a couple times.

In about 1981, long before I knew anything about the Stooges or their history, I happened to see a couple Stooge shorts on a friend's TV. I guess I wasn't paying much attention because I only retained a few things, including "Montgomery's wards" and the cigar-eating bit. (I remembered even less about the other short, which turned out to be "Sing A Song Of Six Pants.")

Fast-forward to 2006, when I start really checking out Stooge films for the first time. Before too long I try to see if I can find the titles & other info about the shorts I'd seen way back, particularly the "Montgomery's wards" one. I assume, without giving it a second thought, that both shorts were Curly ones. So I was kind of surprised that the "M.W." short turned out to be "Quiz Whizz", one of the few Besser ones. Well, now I've seen it again, and I can give it a proper review.

There is some funny stuff towards the beginning: Moe describing the "missing" Joe to police while looking at him ("Hair color? Skin!"); Moe unsuccessfully grabbing Joe by his (nonexistent) hair; Emil Sitka wearing the too-big hat. But the humor starts to peter out before long. Well, at least the writers had the sense to establish Joe's love of cigars in the first scene. Speaking of Joe, he's just as annoying here as he's (unjustly) reputed to be most of the time; it's like the writers knew audiences didn't like him and were trying to incorporate that into the humor.

P.S.: Does anyone else think it's ironic that childish Joe is the one whose "adult" vices seemingly threaten to blow the Stooges' cover?

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 My favorite Stooges shorts with Joe is none other than Quiz Whizz! All appearing in this short are the beautiful Greta Thyssen, Gene Roth, Milton Frome, Tiny Brauer, and Emil Sitka! There are so many funny parts here. This is a very hilarious short and I recommend it!

This is one of Besser's best shorts with the stooges, one thing that may have helped was the return of writer Searle Kramer who wrote some classic Curly shorts back in the 1930s. The short contains many funny gags and a scene with Joe Besser that even people who typically stay away from Besser shorts will want to see bad. Even though Larry once again gets way more of Moe's wrath than Joe, it is still good. But the stooges look a little too old to be disguising as children, because Larry and Joe were in their 50s and Moe was 60 during filming. Plus, Joe is once again a whiner like usual. Overall: B-