Three Little Beers

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Three Little Beers (1935) is the 11th of Columbia Pictures' 190 short subjects starring the comedy team of the Three Stooges.

[edit] Plot/Story

The short begins with the Stooges at work at the Panther Beer Delivery department. They have stacked several barrels on top of each other in the back of their delivery truck. The Stooges soon learn about a golf tournament which their company is sponsoring, but only Moe knows what golf really is. In an attempt to teach Curly, Moe knocks Larry in the head with a broom causing Larry to drop a barrel of beer onto the head of their boss A. Panther. The Stooges drvie wildly off to a golf course (Rancho Golf Club) and decide they should get some practice if they want to win the grand prize. Once on the golf course the Stooges disrupt everyone and everything. They split up to practice. Curly gets his golf ball stuck in the tree and decides the only way to get it down is by chopping the tree down. Moe finds an open area to practice but that only thing that he hits is the ground chopping divots. Larry practices putting, but a pesty root gets in his way and he begins tugging on it until the putting green has a grassless line going through it where the root was. The groundskeepers see all this, and complain to management. Larry, Moe, and Curly run for it, in their beer truck. But when they head uphill, two barrels suddenly fall off the truck and roll away. The Stooges give chase but to no avail. It gets worse when the parked truck moves slightly, and the rest of the barrels give way and head downhill as well. The short ends when a few of the rolling barrels knock the Stooges onto a freshly-paved concrete sidewalk and that they can't get out of.

[edit] Notes

This is the first of two shorts in which the Stooges use their "press, press, pull" routine. The other is "Even As I.O.U." (1943)

This is the first short in which Moe angrily calls someone (in this case, Larry) a wise guy.

This is the second consecutive short in which something has fallen out of the Stooges' truck

[edit] Quotes

• • Man: "Are you members of the press?"
  • Moe: "Why, uh..."
  • Curly: "I used to be! But I didn't do any pressing. I went through the pockets, sort of a dry cleaning."

• • [A man is nearly hit by Larry's errant golf shot.]
  • Man: "Hey! Yell 'Fore'!"
  • Curly: "Five!"
  • Larry: "Six!"
  • Moe: "Seven!"
  • Curly (raising Moe's hand): "Sold to the man with the spitoon haircut!"
  • Moe: "Oh, getting personal, eh?" [Moe slaps Curly.]

• • [Angry crowd points at the Stooges.]
  • Curly (frightened, to Moe): "He's pointing to where you are."
  • Moe: "You mean he's pointing where I was. Come on, let's go!" [The Stooges take off running.]

• • [A man hands Larry a piece of paper about the golf tournament]
  • Larry "What's this?"
  • (Moe takes the paper from Larry]
  • Moe: "What do you know about that?"
  • Larry: "What?"
  • Moe: "A Hundred bucks!"
  • Larry: "A Hundred bucks?"
  • Curly [on top of the stack of barrels in the beer truck holding a barrel] "A Hundred bucks, Count me in!!" [He drops the Barrel and it breaks as he climbs down the stack of barrels.]

• • [Curly chops down the tree to retrieve his golf ball]
  • [Groundskeeper runs over to Curly]
  • Groundskeeper: "Whatsa matta with you, whatsa matta with you, choppin' down the tree, you think you're Georgea Wash?"

• • [Groundskeeper runs across the fairway where Moe is practicing, notices the millions of divots on the ground, then approaches Moe]
  • Groundskeeper: "Whatcha doin? Why you choppa choppa chopppa?, Ya gotta a shovel here?"
  • Moe: "Settle down, I'm gettin better, see? The pieces are gettin smaller."

• • [A couple of men walk by the Stooges]
  • Man 1: "I shot a Birdie yesterday!"
  • Man 2: "Ya did, that's great!"
  • [Moe looks to Curly]
  • Moe (to Curly): "Well, Jasper, what did you shoot yesterday?"
  • Curly (pretending to throw imaginary dice): "I shot a 7, but they wouldn't give me the money!"
  • Moe: "You did?"
  • Curly: "Yeah!"
  • Moe [shrugs at Larry, then slaps Curly]
  • Larry: "Ya know, I shot a.."
  • [Moe interrupts and grabs Larry by the hair]: "Yeah. Go grab a bag of bats, killer!"