The Three Stooges - Season 5

First aired: 1/7/1938 8 episodes

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Episodes

1. Termites Of 1938

Aired: 1/7/1938

A rich woman hires the Stooges (who are pest exterminators) to escort her to a fancy party.

2. Wee Wee Monsieur

Aired: 2/18/1938

The stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up joining the French Foreign Legion. Posted to the desert, their assignment is to guard captain Gorgonzola from the natives. When the captain is kidnapped, the boys must disguise themselves as harem girls to infiltrate the chieftains hideout and rescue him.

3. Tassels In The Air

Aired: 4/1/1938

The Stooges stencil all the wrong names on the office doors when they are janitors, which causes a rich old lady to think that Moe is really a famous decorator. She hires them to come redo her house, which ends disastrous, especially once Curly goes crazy from seeing tassels.

4. Healthy, Wealthy And Dumb

Aired: 5/30/1938

Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically wreck, running up quite a bill. When they discover that, minus tax deductions, the jackpot is only $4.85 they quickly agree to marry three pretty rich widows who are also living in the hotel. The "widows" are actually gold diggers conniving to the get the jackpot money. When the girls find out what the jackpot is really worth, the boys get conked with champagne bottles.

5. Violent Is The Word for Curly

Aired: 7/2/1938

The stooges work as gas station service men who end up running away from three professors on an ice cream truck. After thawing Curly out from sitting in the back of the ice cream truck the boys put on the professors clothes from their stolen luggage. The stooges are mistaken to be the professors by the college who is expecting them and they poorly pose as the professors and sing their famous "Alphabet Song." The real professors show up, but the ladies in the "girls-only" college end up getting their athletic program thanks to the stooges.

6. Three Missing Links

Aired: 7/29/1938

The stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After wrecking the bosses office, they get jobs as actors in an African movie. Curly plays a gorilla and Moe and Larry are primitive natives. On location in Africa, the stooges have a confrontation with a witch doctor from whom Curly buys some "love candy" with hopes of attracting the films leading lady. When a female gorilla disrupts the movie set, Curly eats some of the candy and chases after her.

7. Mutts To You

Aired: 10/14/1938

The stooges run a dog cleaning business with crazy gadgets. On their out to lunch break they spot a baby left on the doorstep by its mother for a moment. Thinking it has been abandoned, they decide to take the baby home and take care of it. They run into problems when a policeman finds out they have the stolen baby and proceeds to chase them. The baby ends up in the mother's hands and the boys are cleared.

8. Flat Foot Stooges

Aired: 12/5/1938

The stooges are firemen at a station that still uses horses to pull the engines. A salesman who wants to sell the chief some modern equipment plants gun powder in one of the engines. The chiefs daughter catches him and after a chase both are knocked unconscious. When a fire starts, the stooges respond to the alarm, but don't realize its their firehouse that's burning! Somehow they manage to arrive in time to save the girl, and the villain gets his just desserts.