"A Plumbing We Will Go" is a Three Stooges classic directed by Del Lord, and it's one of the few Stooge films to cast the boys as "bad guys." In order to avoid getting arrested, Moe, Larry, and Curly make the biggest mistake of their lives when they pose as plumbers and arrive at a swank mansion to fix a simple leak.
Highlights from "A Plumbing We Will Go" include the following (DO NOT read any further if you have not yet seen this short). How could anybody possibly forget Curly's classic maze-of-pipes scene? The African-American cook (Dudley Dickerson) manages to steal the show as he tries to control the malfunctioning kitchen appliances. The television screen shows a majestic scene of Niagara Falls, but because the Stooges have wrecked the plumbing, water gushes through the screen and douses some of the houseguests. The ending depicts a magician (Monty Collins) who makes a pretty lady disappear from one booth to another; the magician fires a gunshot, opens a booth door, and out rushes the girl, the Stooges, several policemen, the butler of the house the boys wrecked, the judge (John Tyrrell) who put the boys on trial, and a few cops on motorcycles.
To sum up, "A Plumbing We Will Go" is one of the best of the classic Three Stooges shorts, and it was Curly Howard's favorite Stooge film as well. Curly's maze-of-pipes bit was reused in a few later Stooge films: "Swing Parade of 1946" (1946), "Vagabond Loafers" (1949), "Scheming Schemers" (1956), and "Have Rocket--Will Travel" (1959).
Highlights from "A Plumbing We Will Go" include the following (DO NOT read any further if you have not yet seen this short). How could anybody possibly forget Curly's classic maze-of-pipes scene? The African-American cook (Dudley Dickerson) manages to steal the show as he tries to control the malfunctioning kitchen appliances. The television screen shows a majestic scene of Niagara Falls, but because the Stooges have wrecked the plumbing, water gushes through the screen and douses some of the houseguests. The ending depicts a magician (Monty Collins) who makes a pretty lady disappear from one booth to another; the magician fires a gunshot, opens a booth door, and out rushes the girl, the Stooges, several policemen, the butler of the house the boys wrecked, the judge (John Tyrrell) who put the boys on trial, and a few cops on motorcycles.
To sum up, "A Plumbing We Will Go" is one of the best of the classic Three Stooges shorts, and it was Curly Howard's favorite Stooge film as well. Curly's maze-of-pipes bit was reused in a few later Stooge films: "Swing Parade of 1946" (1946), "Vagabond Loafers" (1949), "Scheming Schemers" (1956), and "Have Rocket--Will Travel" (1959).