Pop Goes the Easel

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Pop Goes the Easel
Directed by	Del Lord
Produced by	Jules White
Written by	Felix Adler
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Bobby Burns Phyllis Crane Joan Howard Maurer Phyllis Fine William Irving
Cinematography	Henry Freulich
Editing by	James Sweeney
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	March 29, 1935 (1935-03-29)
Running time	18' 17"
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Restless Knights
Followed by	Uncivil Warriors
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Pop Goes the Easel is the seventh 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.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Notes 3 Quotes 4 References 5 Further reading

[edit] Plot

The onset of the Great Depression has forced the Stooges to look for jobs. However, they are mistaken as thieves and soon find themselves on the run from the police. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an art school where they are mistaken for students. They take their first art lessons while hiding from the police.

[edit] Notes

• This is the first Three Stooges short directed by silent comedy veteran Del Lord.
• The title of the film Pop Goes the Easel is a parody of the nursery rhyme "Pop Goes the Weasel," which is used for the one and only time as the opening theme. ^[1] The film also ends with the tune, as with the ending of Punch Drunks.
• The two girls playing hopscotch on the sidewalk Moe Howard's daughter, Joan Howard Maurer and Larry Fine's daughter, Phyllis Fine.
• This is the first of several Stooge shorts in which Moe holds out his hand to Curly and asks him to "pick out two" fingers. Curly does, and Moe pokes him in the eyes with them. This would be a recurring joke.
• This short is the first to contain a clay throwing fight, a precursor to the classic pie fights which would become a staple of the Stooge films. The first genuine pie fight would appear the following year in Slippery Silks.
• This is the first of several Stooge shorts in which Moe holds out his fist to Curly and says, "See that?" When Curly replies, "Yeah," Moe swings his fist in a circle behind his body, over his head, and bops Curly on the head with it.
• This is the first short in which Curly dresses in drag. Curly would somehow wind up in drag in several later Stooge shorts, such as Movie Maniacs, Matri-Phony, and Micro-Phonies.
• A colorized version of this film was released in 2006. It was part of the DVD collection entitled "Stooges on the Run." (see below photo)

[edit] Quotes

• • Curly: "Mister, I haven't tasted food for three days."
  • Man on the street: "You haven't?"
  • Curly: "No."
  • Man on the street: "Well, I wouldn't worry about it. It still tastes the same."

• • Moe (to Larry, after losing a potential job for being unable to spell): "How do you spell chrysanthemum?"
  • [Larry looks unsure.]
  • Moe: "Oh, ignorant, eh?"
  • [Moe slaps Larry.]
  • Moe (to Curly): "How do you spell it?"
  • Curly (rapidly): "C-H-R-Y-S-A-N-T-H-E-M-U-M?"
  • Moe: "Why wasn't you here a minute ago?"
  • [Moe slaps Curly.]

• • Professor: "I am Professor Fuller."
  • Moe: "Oh, we've used some of your brushes!"

• • Moe: "You know, my old man used to draw."
  • Larry: "Yeah?"
  • Curly: "Sure! He drew twenty years with one stroke of the pen!"

• • Art student: "Shall we start on, uh, 'September Morn'?"
  • Curly: "No, let's start right now!"

• • Artist: "I am an artist!"
  • Larry: "I am an artist, too."
  • Curly: "Oh, a pair of drawers!"

• • Curly: "Look at the grouse!" - recurring line

• • Artist: "I lost a fortune!"
  • Curly: "Don't worry, you know the old saying. Easel come, easel go."
  • [Curly laughs, and Moe hits Curly.]
  • Moe: "Easel out of here!"

• • Moe (about Curly): "Excuse him, lady. The heel has no soul."

• • Moe: "I christen thee...sarsaparilla!" (knocks Curly on the head)

• • Cop (to Curly, who's pretending to be mute): "Oh, deaf and dumb!"
  • Curly: "Soitenly!"

• • Curly (disguised as a woman)
    • To the policeman, mimicking Mae West's accent and her well-known catchphrase: "How are ya, tall and handsome... I'm glad ya come up ta see me!"
    • To Moe and Larry: "Ixnay ahgincray! It's the opcay!" (Pig Latin for "Nix arguing ["ah-guin'] - it's the cop!")

• • Curly (looking at a clay sculpture): "Look, we made something!"
  • Larry: "What is it?"
  • Curly: "Sitting Bull!"
  • Moe: "I don't see his face."
  • Curly: "He has his back turned. How!" (gives stereotypical Indian salute)
  • Moe: "And how!"
  • [Moe hits Curly.]

• • Larry (to Curly): "Here's a feather for your hat, Madam!"
  • Curly: "Here's mud in your eye, mister!"

[edit] References

[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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