Whoops, I'm an Indian!

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Whoops, I'm an Indian!

Directed by	Del Lord
Produced by	Jules White
Written by	Herman Boxer Clyde Bruckman Searle Kramer
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Bud Jamison Beatrice Blinn Al Thompson Eddie Laughton Blackie Whiteford
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	September 11, 1936
Running time	17' 12"
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	False Alarms
Followed by	Slippery Silks
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Whoops I'm an Indian! is the 18th 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.

1 Plot
2 Notes
3 Quotes
4 Further reading

[edit] Plot

The Stooges are crooked gamblers in the Old West, cheating the residents of a frontier town. They are discovered and must escape into the woods. To elude the sheriff, the Stooges hunt, fish, and disguise themselves as Indians.

[edit] Notes

This short is set in the Old West town of Lobo City.

It also marks the Stooges' first short to stereotype ethnic groups, particularly Native Americans. Ethnic stereotypes were not unusual at the time.

The title is a play on the stereotype of an Indian battle cry or "war whoop", along with the interjection, "Oops!" denoting surprise.

[edit] Quotes

- Moe (to Larry): "Now, you go out and get a moose, and a few meeses. I'll run down an elk."
- Curly: "I'll try and find the Knights of Columbus."

- [Curly sticks out his tongue at Moe while Moe is not looking. Moe spins around.]
- Moe (to Curly): "What did you say?"
- Curly: "Nothin'!"
- [Moe slaps Curly.]
- Curly: "What's that for?"
- Moe: "That's for what you were thinkin'."
- Curly: "I ain't thinkin'!"

- [The Stooges are disguised as Indians, when a stranger walks in.]
- Moe: "How!"
- Larry: "How!"
- Curly: "How we doin'?"

- Pierre (flirting with Curly, who is disguised as an Indian woman): "You keep my wigwam?"
- Curly (offended): "You keep your own wig warm!"

- [Curly, disguised as an Indian woman, was just married to Pierre. Pierre starts taking Curly upstairs to give her (him) a gown.]
- Curly: "Where we goin'?"
- Pierre: "Oh, for the honeymoon. For you I have the grand surprise!"
- Curly: "So have I, if you only knew it!"

[edit] Further reading

Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion; by Jon Solomon [2], (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [3](Citadel Press, 1994).
The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [4](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [5], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).