4/10
Mild, mostly inoffensive Stooges Short
13 May 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Moe Larry and Curly get hired as escorts (back when this was an extremely mainstream sort of service, to be VERY clear) for a wealthy New York City society woman. What makes the comedy in this story is that Moe, Larry and Curly are bumbling pest exterminators. They were mistakenly called by the rich woman's maid (the underrated Etta McDaniel, sister of Oscar-winner Hattie). In a bit of retroactively embarrassing character stereotyping, the maid accidentally misreads her boss saying she wants to contact Acme Escort Service "and I hope they're discriminating" as "Acme... Exterminators" as 'the closest thing'..

With that sidebar aside, the dinner party has plenty of hijinks for the guys to get into. They mess up the dinner component of dinner, then they engage in shenanigans when it's time for a little musical entertainment, then they actually start wreaking mayhem inside the home when they decide it's time to get down to the business of finding termites!

This is a milder Three Stooges adventure. Not their worst of the Curly era, but not the strongest, either.
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