Did you watch the Three Stooges when you were a kid? Do you remember a very funny short? I sometimes watched. I thought

[no_hypocrisy]

80. Didn't get them as a kid, but at age 23

I was in a motel room with a bunch of people watching a morning of Stooges.

What we noticed was how the studio cut out certain parts of one short and pasted them in new shorts, particularly four in a row that we watched.

Specifically, the Stooges were in a "Pygmalion" scenario, with a professor trying to pass them off as erudite, educated, couth gentlemen. The Stooges are in a home of Old Money; Larry almost biting into a pie; Moe taking it away; Moe sees someone coming and throws it in the air, where it sticks to the ceiling; a rich woman accosting Moe and demanding that he tell her all about himself; Moe nervously watching the pie unstick from the ceiling; and finally, the Doyenne remarking that Moe looks like the World is going to crash in on him; he escapes, she looks up, and the pie vertically falls on her face.

We were hysterical every time that cut came on in a new Stooges short. We were saying the script in unison as it replayed.

And no, we weren't drunk or high. It was just so ridiculous.