Slippery Silks

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Slippery Silks (1936) is the 19th of Columbia Pictures' 190 short subjects starring the comedy team of the Three Stooges.

[edit] Plot

The Stooges are carpenters who are hired to duplicate a priceless antique Chinese cabinet, which was on loan to Mr. Morgan. The Stooges naturally destroy the valuable cabinet, so they go on the run from Mr. Morgan. Meanwhile, the Stooges inherit a fancy dress boutique, so they enter the fashion business. They are hired to put on a fashion show by a woman who turns out to be Mr. Morgan's wife.

[edit] Notes

This is the first short where Curly shakes a dazed Moe and asks him to "say a few syllables".

This is the first true pie fight in the Stooge shorts. In Pop Goes the Easel, there is a fight with clay, but this is the first time the Stooges find themselves in a pie fight.

[edit] Quotes

• • Moe: "I always wanted to make a cabinet like that. The idea's been in my head since I been ten years old."
  • Curly: "Oh, sorta aged in the wood."

• • Mr. Morgan: "Are you sure this work will be in competent hands?"
  • Curly: "Soitenly! We're all incompetent!"

• • Large woman (to Mrs. Morgan, as both are admiring an outfit): "I think I'd look stunning in that riding habit."
  • Curly (to Moe): "I think there'd be trouble figurin' out which one was the horse."