Complete Three Stooges Shorts on DVD?

[vajerzy]

I see advertised the Complete Three Stooges shorts on 40+ DVDs on a few web sites from$65.00 to $110.00- they're all in chronologcal order. Anyone have this? If so- how is the picture and audio?

Thanks for your help!

[Chuck Nessa]

So, we get three or five pairs?

[WD45]

I bought a DVD with three sketches for $0.50. That doesn't help, though.

Edited December 11, 2007 by WD45

[Teasing the Korean]

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[Dave Garrett]

I see advertised the Complete Three Stooges shorts on 40+ DVDs on a few web sites from$65.00 to $110.00- they're all in chronologcal order. Anyone have this? If so- how is the picture and audio?

Thanks for your help!

These are almost certainly bootlegs, with the variable audio and video quality that bootlegs usually have - I believe only four of the Columbia shorts are actually in the public domain, due to an oversight resulting in copyright not being renewed on them when it should've been. You want this set, which is the first volume in a series Sony plans to release of all the Stooges shorts in chronological order. I haven't personally seen it yet, but I've read nothing but good things about it, and assuming Sony sees the project through to its eventual completion, it should go a long way toward remedying their somewhat haphazard previous DVD releases of Stooges material.

[Jazzmoose]

...and assuming Sony sees the project through to its eventual completion, it should go a long way toward remedying their somewhat haphazard previous DVD releases of Stooges material.

It's about time! The classics should be respected.

[vajerzy]

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Oh...a Wise Guy!

Thanks Dave for the link.......that's what I've been looking for....there's lots of boots out there- I didn't want to buy something inferior.

[jazzbo]

This thread made me think of "The Ganymede Takeover" by Philip K. Dick and Ray Nelson. Going to have to reread that one soon.

I worked with an eyeglass lab technician about 20 years ago who would be the first person in the lab to arrive at work and go into the back room to have a cup of java and watch the little black and white tv that was in there. I'd get there second, and while setting up my machines I'd hear the 3 stooges routines coming from back there. They did used to have the show on at that hour of the morning or thereabouts and for weeks I was sure the tv was going. In fact, as I discovered when I went back there one day to get some supplies, it was Mike Hoff himself doing all three parts of various Stooges routines for his own enjoyment. The man was GOOD at impersonating all the Stooges. What a way to start the day.

[alocispepraluger102]

doesnt this belong in the classical music thread.?

we ARE discussing sacred treasures.

none of my lady friends could ever tolerate the stooges. are they just a 'man' thing?

Edited December 12, 2007 by alocispepraluger102

[Chuck Nessa]

My favorite was Bill Dowdy.

[Randy Twizzle]

As a kid I gave them all the chance in the world, but they never once made me laugh. In college I joined a bunch of stoned friends at a Stooges festival and I had to fake laughter in order to fit in.

[Jazzmoose]

I had the exact same experience at a Bergman film festival. Of course, my forced laugh seemed a bit out of place when no one else laughed...

Edited December 12, 2007 by Jazzmoose

[BruceH]

I always felt that I came to them too late in life to really get into their brand of humor.

[Aggie87]

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There are three kinds of people -- I call them Larrys, Curlys, and Moes. The Larrys don't even know that there are three types; if they're told, it's an abstraction, because they cannot imagine anything beyond Larry-ness. The Curlys know about it, and recognize it as a pecking order, but find ways of living with it cheerfully...for they are the imaginative, creative ones. The Moes not only know about it, but exploit and perpetuate it.

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* When the Curly's finally die of overwork, the Moes find that they cannot live in an all-Larry world; they select special Larrys and vainly try to mold them into False Curlys...but it isn't the same.

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Note: to the best of my knowledge, the copyright is no longer valid on the Three Stooges picture. If anyone has evidence otherwise, please let me know immediately.

[Jazzmoose]

That's all very interesting, in a subgenius way, but what about the Shemp issue?

[vajerzy]

Isn't it great that the entire human civilization can be distilled into Moe, Larry and Curley

I went to (I believe) the first Three Stooges convention in Philly........it was a little strange...

[Spontooneous]

I'm waiting for the Joe Besser Mosaic set. He's long overdue for critical reappraisal.

[Christiern]

I have never understood what so many people see in the Three Stooges--I always found them to be exceedingly unfunny and and crass. None of the humor and sophistication of the Marx Brothers, whom I never tire of.

[Jazzmoose]

Uh, this may surprise you, but we don't go to the Three Stooges for sophistication.

Knucklehead...

[Christiern]

Of course not--that would be like going to Spears for talent. I assume, however, that you go to the Stooges for humor and--as I see it--they are severely handicapped in that area. Well, there is also an audience for bathroom humor--different strokes for different folks.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

The 3 Stooges used to tour the US as a sort of vaudeville act. My mother went to see them and the thing she remembers the most about them is that they were shorter than she was. My mother is 5 feet tall.

Edited December 13, 2007 by Kevin Bresnahan

[robviti]

As a kid I gave them all the chance in the world, but they never once made me laugh. In college I joined a bunch of stoned friends at a Stooges festival and I had to fake laughter in order to fit in.

this only confirms what i've always thought/feared about you. i weep openly for your loss.

[AllenLowe]

well than, Chris, pick 2 -

-an admitted Stooges addict