Termites of 1938

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Termites of 1938 is a 1938 short-subject comedy film starring the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, and Curly). It was directed by Del Lord and written by Elwood Ullman. Also starring are Stooge regulars Bud Jamison (as ' Lord Wafflebottom’) and Symona Boniface (as the dinner hostess who makes the fateful call).

The Stooges are exterminators (i.e., 'pest men') at the Acme Exterminator Co., mistakenly hired by a woman of society seeking 'college boy' escorts (from the Acme Escort Service) to a swanky dinner party. The Stooges show up at the fancy mansion where the party takes place and thwart the expectations of the guest of honor (Jamison), an English Lord.

[edit] Trivia

• Termites features a classic replacement gag. During the faux music-playing scene, Moe reaches for a bow to 'play' his bass, but mistakenly grabs a saw. (What a saw was doing on top of a piano at a fancy mansion is another matter altogether.) Then, in mock-playing the bass, Moe proceeds to saw the instrument in two.

• This film was remade as Society Mugs (1946), a non-Stooge short that starred Shemp Howard, as well as Tom Kennedy, a frequent Shemp co-star.

[edit] External link

• Termites of 1938 at the Internet Movie Database