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| Directed by | Jules White |
| Produced by | Jules White |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Joe Besser |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release dates |  June 12, 1959 |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
Pies and Guys is the 185th 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.
Plot
In the third Stooge adaptation of Pygmalion, the trio are repairmen who make a scene in the prescence of two psychologists, Professors Quackenbush and Sedletz. Quackenbush makes a bet with Sedletz that he can turn the boys into gentlemen through environment. Training is slow and painful for the professor, who pull his hair out in disgust. The Stooges do have the opportunity to flirt with the professor's daughter, however, while learning table etiquette. Finally, the Stooges will decide the wager by their behavior at a fancy society party.
The party, naturally, goes awry. Joe greets guest Mrs. Smythe-Smythe by kissing her hand, and biting off the diamond in her ring. Realizing this, Moe and Larry take Joe to a secluded area to lecture him, only to find he has swiped a load of silverware.
Joe then grabs a pie from a pastry table, and tries to eat it whole. Moe sees this, swipes the pie, and pushes Curly out of the way. Seeing the approaching Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Moe tosses the pie straight up — to which it attaches itself to the ceiling. Seeing that he can barely get a sentence out, she sympathetically comments, "young man, you act as if you have the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head." Moe replies that Mrs. Smythe-Smythe is a psychic and flees, to which the pie comes crashing down on the society matron. This sparks off a massive pie meelee that takes no prisoners.
Notes
- Pies and Guys is a reworking of 1947'a Half-Wits Holiday, using minimal stock footage from the original. Half-Wits Holiday in itself was a reworking of 1935's Hoi Polloi [1]
References
- ^ Solomon, Jon. (2002) The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion, p. 523; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0971186804
Further reading
- Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
- The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [2](Citadel Press, 1994).
- The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [3](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
- One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [4], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).
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