Busy Buddies (film)
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| Directed by | Del Lord |
| Produced by | Hugh McCollum Jules White |
| Written by | Elwood Ullman Del Lord |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Vernon Dent Fred Kelsey Eddie Laughton John Tyrrell |
| Cinematography | George Meehan |
| Editing by | Henry Batista |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  March 18, 1944 |
| Running time | 16' 42" |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Crash Goes the Hash |
| Followed by | The Yoke's on Me |
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Busy Buddies is the 79th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959. The title is a play on "busybodies".
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[edit] Plot
The Stooges run the Jive Cafe, and are in heavy debt. They reluctantly take a second job hanging posters (à la Three Little Twirps) at a penny a poster. Moe takes notice of one particular poster advertising a cow milking contest that pays $100 to the winner. Without hesitation, Moe and Larry nominate Curly for the contest, and go about looking for a cow to practice milking. As luck would have it, they find a "cow" (a bull) right behind the fence. Curly is no match for the wild animal, and boots Curly up onto a telephone pole.
When the contest day arrives, Curly (nicknamed 'K. O. Bossy') cannot squeeze an ounce of milk from the cow's udder. While fresh cows are being brought in for the second round, Moe and Larry jump into a cow costume with a jug of milk. The scheme works until Curly yanks the mock udder off the jug, and the milk comes gushing out. The trio are promptly booed off the stage.
[edit] Curly fades
By late 1943, the team had been making endless public appearances in support of the war effort. The demanding schedule began to take its toll on Curly in particular, whose childlike facial features began to show the strain. Curly had just turned 40 years of age on October 22, 1943.
[edit] Quotes
- Curly: "Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?"
[edit] Further reading
- Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
- The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [2](Citadel Press, 1994).
- The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [3](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
- One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [4], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).
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