3 Dumb Clucks (1937)

Larry Fine: Larry

Quotes 

• [while breaking out of jail with Curly and Moe, Larry is having trouble getting some oil out of an oil can. Moe checks it, and while doing so, Larry squirts some oil onto Moe's face] 

  Larry : What happnend to you?

  Moe : What happened to me is gonna happen to you.

  [Moe tries to get his own back on Larry, but fails, and Larry squirts more oil onto Moe] 

  Moe : It's a good thing they got an electric chair in this building, otherwise I'd kill ya.

• Pop Howard : Say, what's the meaning of this? What are you doing here?

  Moe : Ma sent us here to keep you from marrying that blonde.

  Curly : And I aim to do it, too. That's what I aim to do. I aim. Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.

  Moe : [hitting him with a chicken leg]  Quiet!

  [Curly barks at him; as Moe moves to hit him again, Curly catches the morsel in his mouth] 

  Curly : [taking a bite and chewing]  Mmm!

  Pop Howard : Now, you boys be nice, and I'll let you come to my wedding this afternoon. Here some money; go out and get yourself some new clothes.

  Moe : Nothing doing. We ain't gonna let you marry her. You can't bribe me.

  Larry : Me, neither.

  Curly : [taking the money]  Me, too.

  Moe : Give it back.

  [with a groan of disappointment, Curly does] 

  Moe : [taking it]  You would, eh?

• Larry : [needing to break out of prison]  I thought of something.

  Curly : What?

  Larry : The tools.

  Moe : What tools?

  Larry : The tools we've been using for the last ten years.

  Moe , Curly : Oh, those tools.

• Larry : Hiya, Pop.

  Moe : Hiya, Dad.

  Curly : Mmm, food!

  Moe : [pulling him back]  Wait a minute. Can't you wait 'til we're all ready? Go!

• Prison Guard : [Moe feigns using an electric razor to cover for Curly drilling through a wall]  What you need is a hacksaw.

  Larry : No, we tried that, but that window's...

  [Moe kicks him as a non-verbal indication to shut up] 

  Larry : Oof!

  Prison Guard : Imagine. A hacksaw in jail.

• Moe : [outside their father's estate]  That's the old man's joint, all right.

  Larry : Yeah, they got him behind bars, too.

  Curly : You got your razor?

  [calling through the gate] 

  Curly : Hey, warden! Hey, keeper!

  Moe : [thumping him]  What's the matter? This is no jail.

  Curly : How are we gonna get in?

  Moe : Use your head. I got it!

  [taking out a chisel] 

  Moe : If I only had a hammer.

  Curly : Hammer?

  [taking a sledgehammer out of his jacket] 

  Curly : Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.

  Moe : [setting the chisel against the gate]  Oh, boy. Give it all you've got. Good one.

  [Curly hits Larry on the backswing, then Moe's hand] 

  Moe : [in pain]  Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

  Curly : [seeing the gate open]  Oh, look, it's open.

  Moe : Yeah. Look what you did to my hand.

  [as Curly leans in for a closer look, Moe hits him on the head with the chisel] 

• Moe : Say, won't Ma be tickled when she hears we broke up the wedding?

  Larry : Yeah, but won't Pa sizzle when he finds out you married his girl?

  Curly : She's supposed to be his wife, but now she's gonna be his daughter. Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.

  Moe : He'll tear your tonsils out.

• Larry : [mixing a drink for Curly]  Hey, it sounds like it's done.

  Moe : Let me see it.

  [the mixer explodes all over him] 

  Larry : We sure mixed it, didn't we?

  Moe : Yeah.

  [slapping him] 

  Moe : Ah, what's the matter with you?

• Chopper's Henchman : You know what to do.

  Chopper's Henchman : Sure. As soon as this mug marries Daisy, we'll polish him off.

  Chopper's Henchman : Yeah, but we can't shoot him. That'd make too much noise.

  Curly : [eavesdropping]  You think they mean me?

  Moe : They don't mean me.

  Larry : Me either.

  Chopper's Henchman : How about choking him?

  Chopper's Henchman : Nah, that'll leave fingerprints. I got it. As soon as they get married, we dump him out of a window. He falls 14 stories and it looks like an accident.

  Chopper's Henchman : Great.

  Moe : That guy thinks of everything.

  Larry : I'm glad they made up their mind.

  Moe : They had me worried.

  Curly : I'm still worried.

  Moe : Wait a minute. Where are you going?

  Curly : After the thin man.