Ants in the Pantry
Exterminators
visit the plagues of Egypt on a fox-hunting manor to drum up business.
In the hunt, they
catch a skunk.
Half Shot Shooters
The trio from Boobs
in Arms sign up unwillingly once again, are wakened to sink the Admiral’s flagship,
and go to blazes.
Disorder
in the Court
Felix Adler’s
keen analysis of courtroom tactics features a jury out of
Perry Mason returns this particular compliment in “The Case of
the Laughing Lady”. Scorsese reprises the vise in Casino.
A
Pain in the Pullman
The Three
Stooges, vaudevillians, and Company. The monkey et al. cause a commotion
on the train, all are ejected onto bulls.
Slippery
Silks
It opens with an
abstruse joke about a pyramidal or A-frame cabinet design that one of them has
had in his head since childhood, and moves through slapstick to the great
Chinese box gag. From there, by degrees, it winds up giving a fashion show to
which the Stooges contribute parodies of Dali. It all ends in a pie fight and
the retribution of the ladies.
Grips,
Grunts and Groans
A Depression
fable.
Hoboes hustled
off a boxcar hide out in a gym, spar for a boxer, shepherd a wrestler and
substitute for him in the ring (Curly).
The Paris scent of
Wild Hyacinth sends him, and that pays off the match.
Back
to the Woods
Varlets of Jolly
Olde are sentenced to save the Colonists from Indians.
The interchange
of customs puts an Indian in a tunic and the disguised soldiers in buckskin and
fur caps (coonskin, skunkskin).