3 Dumb Clucks (1937)
Curly Howard: Curly, Pop Howard
Quotes
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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?
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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.
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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]
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.