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Three Little Beers
File:ThreeLittleBeersTITLE.jpg
Directed by	Del Lord
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Bud Jamison Jack 'Tiny' Lipson Harry Semels Stanley Blystone Lew Davis
Cinematography	Benjamin H. Kline
Edited by	William A. Lyon
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	November 28, 1935
Running time	16' 16"
Country	United States
Language	English

Three Little Beers is the 11th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

The short begins with the Stooges at work at the Panther Pilsner Beer company delivery department. They have stacked several barrels on top of each other in the back of their delivery truck. The Stooges soon learn about a golf tournament which their company is sponsoring, but only Moe knows what golf is. In an attempt to teach Curly, Moe knocks Larry in the head with a broom, causing Larry to drop a barrel of beer onto the head of their boss, A. Panther (Bud Jamison). The Stooges drive wildly off to a golf course (Rancho Golf Club) and decide they should get in some practice if they want to win the grand prize. Once on the golf course, the Stooges disrupt everyone and everything — and steal some golfers' clothes. They split up to practice.

Curly gets his golf ball stuck in the tree and decides the only way to get it down is by chopping it down. Moe finds an open area to practice, but that only thing that he hits is the ground, chopping divots. Larry practices putting, but a pesky root gets in his way and he begins tugging on it until the putting green has a grassless line going through it where the root was. The groundskeepers see all this, and complain to management. Also, the golfers whose clothes were stolen join the management to give the Stooges a piece of their minds.

Larry, Moe, and Curly run for it in their beer truck. But when they head uphill, two barrels suddenly fall off the truck and roll away. The truck is parked, and the Stooges give chase but to no avail. It gets worse when the parked truck's brake loosens up, moving it slightly, and the truck hits a street corner, so the rest of the barrels give way and head downhill too. The short ends when a few of the rolling barrels knock the Stooges onto a freshly-paved concrete sidewalk; and that they cannot get out of.

• This is the first of two shorts in which the Stooges use their "press, press, pull" routine. The other is Even As I.O.U..
• This is the first short in which Moe angrily calls someone (in this case, Larry) a wise guy.
• This is the second consecutive short in which something has fallen out of the Stooges' truck.
• The title card of Three Little Beers (see above) contains three drunken bears, an obvious reference to the Mother Goose fairy tale "The Three Bears". ^[1]

• • Man: "Are you members of the press?"
  • Moe: "Why, uh..."
  • Curly: "I used to be! But I didn't do any pressing. I went through the pockets, sort of a dry cleaning."

• • [A man is nearly hit by Larry's errant golf shot.]
  • Man: "Hey, you! 'Fore'!"
  • Curly: "Five!"
  • Larry: "Six!"
  • Moe: "Seven!"
  • Curly (raising Moe's hand): "Sold to the man with the spitoon haircut!"
  • Moe: "Oh, getting personal, eh?" *SLAP!*

• • [Angry crowd points at the Stooges.]
  • Curly (frightened, to Moe): "He's pointing to where you are."
  • Moe: "You mean he's pointing where I was. Come on, let's go!" [The Stooges take off running.]

• • [A man hands Larry a piece of paper about the golf tournament]
  • Larry "What's this?"
  • [Moe takes the paper from Larry]
  • Moe: "What do you know about that?"
  • Larry: "What?"
  • Moe: "A $100 bucks!"
  • Larry: "A $100 bucks?"
  • Curly [on top of the stack of barrels in the beer truck holding a barrel] "A Hundred bucks, Count me in!!" [He drops the Barrel and it breaks as he climbs down the stack of barrels.]

• • [Curly chops down the tree to retrieve his golf ball]
  • [Groundskeeper runs over to Curly]
  • Groundskeeper: "Whatsa matta with you, whatsa matta with you, choppin' down the tree, you think you're Georgea Wash?"

• • [Groundskeeper runs across the fairway where Moe is practicing, notices the millions of divots on the ground, then approaches Moe]
  • Groundskeeper: "Hey, what's da matter? What are ya doin'? Why do you choppa choppa chopppa? What are ya doin'? Ya gotta a shovel here?"
  • Moe: "Aw, quiet now, will ya? I'm gettin' better, see? The pieces are gettin' smaller."
  • Groundskeeper: "Yes. I tell the police! He's a-crazy! Oh!! A-boza-boza!"
  • Moe: "So's your old man!"

• • [A couple of men walk by the Stooges]
  • Man 1: "I shot a Birdie yesterday!"
  • Man 2: "Ya did, that's great!"
  • [Moe looks to Curly]
  • Moe (to Curly): "Well, Jasper, what did you shoot yesterday?"
  • Curly (pretending to throw imaginary dice): "I shot a 7, but they wouldn't give me the money!"
  • Moe: "You did?"
  • Curly: "Yeah!"
  • Moe [shrugs at Larry, then slaps Curly]
  • Larry: "Ya know, I shot a.."
  • [Moe interrupts and grabs Larry by the hair]: "Yeah. Go grab a bag of bats, killer!"

• Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
• The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion; by Jon Solomon [2], (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
• The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [3](Citadel Press, 1994).
• The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [4](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
• One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [5], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).

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