There was a false rumor for many years, centering around Larry Fine's injury involving a fountain pen stabbing him on the forehead and Moe Howard angrily chasing Jules White around the set, saying he promised Larry would not get hurt. Larry, in fact, did get hurt by the pen, but Moe chasing White around is not true.
The script purportedly contained a scene of a musical version of the Ten Commandments, which was ordered cut by censors.
The $140.00 Shemp Howard left for Moe and Larry would be the equivalent of about $1,888.00 in the year 2025.
Moe and Larry have to split $140 00 evenly, which would be $70.00 each. Moe tries to cheat Larry by counting and confusing Larry. Moe counts out four dollars, then asks Larry what age he was at graduation (18) and he continues counting four more, stopping at 22, then asks what age he can collect his retirement, Larry responds "65", and Moe counts out five more dollars, "66, 67, 68, 69, 70". Had this worked, Moe would have taken $127.00 and Larry would have received a paltry $13.00
I. Fleecem was previously an unseen character in Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947), the president of the financial corporation from whom The Three Stooges rented tailoring equipment and to whom they owed overdue payments.
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