Three Stooges and a baby (Sock-a-Bye Baby — 1942)
Monday, July 16th, 2007This is the Boys’ entry in the eternal “Three Men and a Baby” theme. A despondent mom leaves a baby on the Stooges’ doorstep.
Moe insult: To Curly, “When you were born, you were delivered by a buzzard.”
Curly also has a World War II insult on the Japanese.
Moe mispronounces Worchester Sauce as “woochestershire.”
Among the many things the Boys feed the baby are Limburger cheese. Most people probably don’t know about that, but it’s really stinky German cheese.
The Stooge Diet: When feeding the baby, Moe says, “Now you’re getting your vitamins: starch, vegetables, hypocodriacs.”
Curly calls an artichoke a smarty-choke, a party-smoke, an okey-doke, a feathered apple, and a barbed-wire pickle.
The short peters out with the father, a cop, and mother coming for the kid. The Stooges run away, thinking they’ll be arrested.
Rating: Three Nyuks. Some laughs, but not near a classic.
By the way, the Stooges were by all accounts excellent fathers and beloved by their children.