THREE LOAN WOLVES (1946) (original) (raw)

• Falling Oven
  When Curly taps the funnel into the jug of milk, the oven next to him holding a pot accidentally tips over.

• Missing Triple Slap
  After the little boy says "Oh, so you just moved in on me, eh?, the camera cuts to the next shot and the Stooges are suddenly holding their faces in pain as if they were slapped by the boy, but they didn't show it.

• Misspelling
  "CHEAP" is spelled as "CHEEP" on the BOWLING BALLS sign.

• Speaking at the Wrong Time
  Right when Larry says to Butch McGee "Here's your 25 berries!, Moe starts saying something at the same time, but he stops.

• The Clothes We've Been Wearing For The Past 10 Years
  Told in flashback, the Stooges are wearing the same outfits in both the present day and in the flashback scenes, which based on how old their "son" is, would be about 10 years!

• Too Early
  When Moe and Curly make faces to calm down the baby, Curly tries to make the face where he and Moe get frightened by each other's look earlier than it is supposed to happen.

• Too Early
  When Moe is supposed to ask Curly to open his mouth and then to depress his lower jaw, Curly depresses his lower jaw too early before Moe even asks him.

• What Was Curly Doing?
  Early on in the fight scene, we see Curly immediately beating up one of the three crooks and locking him in a trunk, then the rest of the fight scene focuses on Larry and Moe being beat up by the other two crooks, so why don't we see Curly helping Larry and Moe afterwards? Obviously, the writers were trying not to give Curly too much to do due to his illness, but they should've at least explained what he was doing for the remainder of the fight scene.

• "Quiet little angel. Quiet, quiet little darling, quiet... or I'll break your neck!"
  (Moe)

• "What's the idea? I was just about to play 'Comin Through the Corn'." "You mean rye!" "The way I play it, it's corn."
  (Larry and Curly)

• Baby using a gun as a pacifier
  Also used in: BABY SITTERS JITTERS

• Boxing dummy bouncing back
  A Stooge punches a boxing dummy, but the dummy bounces forward and hits the Stooges right back.
  Also used in: GRIPS, GRUNTS, AND GROANS · FRIGHT NIGHT · FLING IN THE RING

• Drop what you're doing
  A Stooge, holding several dishes or something similar, is asked to do something but objects that he's busy. So he's told to "drop what you're doing", followed by the Stooge actually dropping the dishes to the ground.
  Also used in: FLYING SAUCER DAFFY · SWING PARADE OF 1946 · THE OUTLAWS IS COMING

• Falling chandelier
  Somebody accidentally fires a gun or throws a knife at a chandelier wire, causing the chandelier to fall and crash on somebody's head.
  Also used in: WHOOPS, I'M AN INDIAN! · BOOBS IN ARMS · PHONY EXPRESS · THREE LITTLE PIRATES · MERRY MAVERICKS · BOOTY AND THE BEAST · GYPPED IN THE PENTHOUSE · FOR CRIMIN' OUT LOUD

• Loaded gun
  A Stooge thinks that a gun isn't loaded and holds it at something, then fires the gun to prove that it's not loaded. However, it is loaded and a bullet comes out and shoots wherever or whoever he was pointing the gun at.
  Also used in: DISORDER IN THE COURT · SO LONG MR. CHUMPS · BABY SITTERS JITTERS · HORSING AROUND

• NBC chime
  When several hard objects are dropped on the floor or on somebody's head, they make the sound of the NBC chime.
  Also used in: BACK TO THE WOODS · SO LONG MR. CHUMPS · BEER BARREL POLECATS · FIDDLERS THREE · I'M A MONKEY'S UNCLE · THE GHOST TALKS · HOKUS POKUS · THREE HAMS ON RYE · TRICKY DICKS · STONE AGE ROMEOS · CREEPS · MUSCLE UP A LITTLE CLOSER

• Salute-slap to Moe
  When Larry or the third Stooge is saluting Moe, he accidentally slaps him in the head.
  Also used in: BEER BARREL POLECATS · G. I. WANNA HOME · DUNKED IN THE DEEP · BABY SITTERS JITTERS · COMMOTION ON THE OCEAN

• Scaring another Stooge with a funny face
  A Stooge is making a funny face at a baby to stop it from crying. Then the Stooge turns over to another Stooge while still making the funny face and scares him.
  Also used in: SOCK-A-BYE BABY ·

• Squeezing someone's head in a letter press
  A Stooge or villain's head is squeezed in between a letter press.
  Also used in: DISORDER IN THE COURT · BRIDELESS GROOM · HUSBANDS BEWARE

• Using a bottom lip as a bottle top opener
  A Stooge's bottom lip is used as a bottle top opener.
  Also used in: PUNCHY COWPUNCHERS · GENTS IN A JAM

• Water seltzer fight
  The Stooges get into a water seltzer fight by spraying seltzer bottles in each other's faces repeatedly. One of them usually ends up holding the bottle backwards and accidentally spraying some in his own face.
  Also used in: YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZA · NO DOUGH BOYS · THREE LITTLE PIRATES · LOVE AT FIRST BITE

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Re: THREE LOAN WOLVES
Posted 2008-04-27 13:14:56 by FourthThird
Edited 2008-04-27 13:15:31 by FourthThird

Watching this for the second time, I noticed a slight "plot hole" (for lack of a better description). The bulk of the short is supposed to be told in flashback by the Stooges, yet the scene between Butch and Molly is something they couldn't have known about! (The "onion" bit arguably fits this as well.)

As for the "goof" of the baby being called a "her" -- only Curly says that, and at that point he has had no way of knowing what the baby is anyway.

Re: THREE LOAN WOLVES
Posted 2007-04-14 02:39:39 by BeatleShemp

I like this short a lot, probably because Larry gets the bulk of the laughs in my opinion. Plus, I enjoyed his scenes with the baby.

Re: THREE LOAN WOLVES
Posted 2003-05-27 16:50:00 by Pat Stooge

Two Words: Very Dismal.Curly health has gotten so bad, that you can tell he is ill just by hearing him,he sounds weak and lookes pale and the plot was just plain stupid.(Pardon me.)

Re: THREE LOAN WOLVES
Posted 2001-04-25 17:42:00 by Nicole

Not one of my favorites, though I always like the shorts where Larry has a good sized role ('cause Larry's my favorite Stooge). Other than that, it's okay. The plot is kinda' sad, though not very. As for Curly being ill, I couldn't really notice anything wrong with him the first time I saw this, but the the second time, I noticed it more. I guess you have to try to ignore that fact and enjoy the jokes the Stooges dish out for us. Of course, if they had let Curly have a year or so off, maybe we wouldn't see very much Shemp shorts (No offense, Shemp fans, Shemp has his own funny style, though I do favor Curly shorts), maybe we would never have even seen Joe Besser (no offense to you Besser fans either). Anyway, enough of that stuff, VIVA STOOGES!!!

Re: THREE LOAN WOLVES
Posted 2001-04-06 01:06:00 by sickdrjoe

MRB makes a great point - not coincidentally, one I tend to harp on as well: OUTDOOR SHOOTING MAKES A STOOGE SHORT BETTER. Not only do you get funnier and more spectacular sight gags, but there's something about watching the boys on a real, live city street (even if they're just outdoor sets) that makes em just that little bit more 'real', at least to THIS member of the audience. Every scene featuring the boys performing in natural sunlight just has an added dimension to it that's just, well, fascinating! When they went indoors for good, they still turned out some quality slapstick, but they hadda work that much harder, I feel, since now the entire burden of the short fell on their shoulders. Cos when the outdoor shoots went, so did the larger supporting casts, and more importantly, the situations and gags open to the Stooges and their writers became more and more limited. LOAN WOLVES, by the way, is terrible....if you can't figure out why, refer to the comments section for HALF WITS HOLIDAY & IF A BODY MEET A BODY. (See, Mort, I didn't even hafta say it this time!)

Re: THREE LOAN WOLVES
Posted 2001-04-02 02:02:00 by Mike Holme

Re-Review: Not as bad as I originally thought it was, still not a very good short, but there are a few high marks that up the grade a little. Curly's role seemed to turn into Larry's, but at least Moe demonstrated his fighting ability on Curly and so did the baddie. But I felt the plot was sort of pointless, because half of it was proving who was the tougher group, and the other half was taking care of a baby. Overall, just an okay short.

Re: THREE LOAN WOLVES
Posted 2001-01-05 13:47:00 by Uncle Mortimer

Since I'm a guitarist, I like the scene where Larry is playing the guitar. Other than that, I really don't think much of this one. Or in the words of Ward Robey: I don't like theees one, eeet gives me nightmares. Come to think of it, this short makes me feel sad.

Re: THREE LOAN WOLVES
Posted 2000-12-27 01:51:00 by [Deleted Member]

I agree that this may very well have been the worst Curly short subject that was made. But, not just because of Curly's health. I found the whole premise of this film to be rather sad and depressing. An abandoned little boy, angry at his guardians, searching for his long lost mother, and no warm resolution at the end. Also, I think the scene where the baby puts a loaded gun in his mouth has to be the most disturbing Three Stooges gag ever done! (Although it was redone in a Shemp short subject that was rather good aside from that one sick joke). I have to wonder why that scene is left in and the boy slapping the stooges' faces is often cut out? Why does the slap from the boy get singled out today as something to censor? Are they afraid of promoting parent abuse? To me, the short subject as a whole was a lot more disturbing than that one scene. Ah well, just my opinions.