3 Dumb Clucks (1937)

Curly Howard: Curly, Pop Howard

Quotes 

• Curly : I got an idea in the back of my head!

  Moe : Well, bring it out front!

  [he hits him in the head] 

  Moe : What is it?

  Curly : You knocked it clear out!

• Moe : Get rid of that hat.

  [Curly throws his boater away] 

  Moe : Get rid of *that* hat!

  Curly : [taking off his scally cap protectively]  Not this one!

• 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 : [catching the Stooges trying to break out]  What's going on in here?

  Curly : What's going on in here?

  Moe : [showing him a bar from the window]  Termites.

  Prison Guard : Termites? I'll report 'em.

• 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] 

• Daisy : Oh, he's fainted!

  Chopper's Henchman : Give him some air. Bring him over here by the open window.

  Curly : No, not the window!

  Moe : He passed out again. Speak to me, kid. Say something. Come on, kid, please say something.

  Curly : Something.

  Moe : [bonking him on the head]  Come on! He's all right, folks.

• Moe : Put back them silver muglets.

  Curly : But I didn't...

  Moe : You didn't have. Put 'em back.

  [punching Curly in the stomach, he recoils his hand in pain] 

  Moe : Oh! Oh!

  [Curly takes a silver tray out from under his shirt] 

  Moe : [taking it]  Yeah.

  [he starts chasing Curly with it as a weapon] 

• Moe : What are you shaking about?

  Curly : I don't know. I'm in a hurry all over.

• Daisy : Come on, Popsie Wopsie. We're ready for the wedding.

  Curly : I changed my mind. I don't want to be married.

  Chopper's Henchman : That's what you think. You're gonna marry her right now.

  Curly : I'll marry her when I'm ready.

  Chopper's Henchman : [with his hand in his pocket like a gun]  Are you ready?

  Curly : Yeah, I'm ready.

• 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.

• Chopper's Henchman : Say, where you been?

  Pop Howard : I'm looking for my Daisy-Waisy.

  Chopper's Henchman : Oh, Daisy's waiting for you downstairs.

  Pop Howard : Oh, I better go down, then.

  Chopper's Henchman : You said it.

  Pop Howard : [getting pushed down the elevator shaft]  No!

  Chopper's Henchman : [Curly comes running down the stairs]  Where are you going?

  Curly : Upstairs.

  Chopper's Henchman : That's that.

  [Curly comes up out of the staircase and, seeing them, turns back around] 

  Chopper : There he is again!

  Chopper's Henchman : Come on, we'll cut him off with the elevator.

  [the elevator door opens and Pop comes out; seeing them, he gets back on] 

  Chopper : Say, are we drunk?

• Pop Howard : Hello, is Daisy there?

  Chopper's Henchman : Yeah, but she can't come to the phone. She's busy getting married to old man Howard.

  Pop Howard : Thanks. I'll call later.

  [hanging up, then trying to call back] 

  Pop Howard : Married? Wait. Hello, hello. You can't do that, I ain't there, I'm here. But I'll be right over.

• 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.