A Pain in the Pullman

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A Pain in the Pullman (1936) is the 16th of Columbia Pictures' 190 short subjects starring the comedy team of the Three Stooges.

[edit] Plot

The Stooges are small time actors traveling by train to an engagement. They are told to put their pet monkey, Joe, in the baggage car, but they are afraid it will get hurt, so they sneak the monkey on the train. Their pet gets loose, and it and the Stooges manage to annoy all of the train's passengers.

[edit] Notes

This is the first short in which Moe, Larry, and Curly are referred to as the Three Stooges within the short. The Stooges are performers, and the Three Stooges is the name of their act.

This short is the longest stooge short in existence (19:46)

[edit] Quotes

• • Moe: "Hiya, girls. Meet the Three Stooges: Comedy, singin', dancin', and snappy dialogue."

• • [The Stooges see a plate of crab.]
  • Moe: "What is that?"
  • Curly: "Why, you ignoramus...don't you know?"
  • Moe: "No."
  • Larry: "Why, it looks like a..."
  • [Larry and Curly look confused.]
  • Moe: "Well, wise guys, what is it?"
  • Larry: "It's a spider!"
  • Curly: "Turtle!"
  • Moe (to Larry): "Tryin' to kid somebody, eh? I knew it was a turtle all the time."
  • [Moe hits Larry.]

• • Curly (offering a woman crab): "Want some?"
  • Woman: "Oh, I just love crab!"
  • Curly: "Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk...She don't know it's a turtle."

• • [Larry is snoring, which annoys Moe.]
  • Moe (to Larry, while shaking him): "Hey, wake up and go to sleep." - recurring joke

• • Paul Pain: "JOHNSON!!" (Johnson, played by Bud Jamison, is the Stooges' manager. The running gag is that every time Pain hollers "Johnson!", Johnson sits up, painfully bumping his head on the low ceiling in his train berth.)