The Three Stooges: Not For Women

Girls just don’t get it.

In my fifty-plus years of roaming the earth, I have yet to find a female fan of the Three Stooges.

Conceived perhaps just for children, I know that men and boys are all the same when the Stooges are on TV. We giggle and laugh out loud.

Most guys do a decent imitation of Curly –and all of us believe Shemp was an interloper.
Of course, the Three Stooges are everything that women hate in us men:

Rude.
Obnoxious.
Violent.
Stupid.
Juvenile.

That about sums it up. When many of these mini-masterpieces were produced, the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression—and we needed a laugh or two. That’s not necessarily a bad idea in 2012, although I will say that exposing very young children to this incessant slapping and physical violence is probably not a good idea.

For kids ten and up, though, it’s far less violent than the movies or video games they’re exposed to—and a tad better than your average hockey game.

Thanks to Q97.9 Music and Promotion Director Mike Adams, who supplied me with this subject as he forwarded a YouTube video of “The Curly Shuffle”, that horrible sendoff from the 80’s that gloried Larry, Moe and Curly! Here is that immortal song—spiced up with some great Stooges scenes—and a bonus clip of some truly memorable moments.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBiHysKnvGs



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FRsBa4KRkc&feature=related


OK, guys! How was that? Ladies, I already know what you’re thinking—and you are right.

We are idiots.

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