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{{Infobox Film |

 | name           = Society Mugs|
 | image          =  |
 | caption        =  |
 | director       = Edward Bernds |
 | writer         = Elwood Ullman |
 | starring       = Shemp Howard
Tom Kennedy
Christine McIntyre
Vernon Dent
[[Rebel RandallEtta McDanielGene RothBess FlowersSnub Pollard|
 | cinematography = [[]] | 
 | editing        = Henry Batista |
 | producer       = Hugh McCollum |
 | distributor    = Columbia Pictures |
 | released       = September 16, 1946 (U.S.) |
 | runtime        = 16' 03"|
 | country        = United States
 | language       = English
 | preceded_by    = |
 | followed_by    = 

}}

Society Mugs is the 28th 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.

Muriel Allen (Christine McIntyre) needs an escort to Alice Preston's dinner party, and her maid Petunia mistakenly places a telephone call to Acme Exterminators instead of Acme Escorts. It's Shemp and Tom to the rescue, and they're assumed to be cultured college seniors. Guest of honor Lord Wafflebottom follows the pest exterminators' lead in proper American party manners, turning the dinner party into an uncouth display. When mice are conveniently spotted, the boys go to work, disrupting the party and the entire mansion.

High society woman Muriel Allen wants to attend a swanky dinner party thrown by friend Alice Preston (Rebel Randall) but husband Arthur (Charles Allen) decides instead to go on a fishing trip. Rather than showing up stag to the party, Muriel tells housekeeper Mandy (Etta McDaniel) to call the Acme Escort Service to bring a few "college boy" escorts. However, Mandyaccidentally calls the Acme Exterminator Co., run by Shemp and Tom.

At the mansion, the duo are assumed to be cultured old college seniors. Guest of honor Lord Wafflebottom (Vernon Dent) follows the pest exterminators' lead in proper American party manners, turning the dinner party into an uncouth display. When mice are conveniently spotted, the boys go to work, disrupting the party and the entire mansion.

• Society Mugs is a remake of Termites of 1938 starring The Three Stooges.^[1]
• Bess Flowers, who appears as a dinner guest in this film, appeared as Muriel Allen in Termites of 1938.

• Society Mugs at IMDb
• Society Mugs at threestooges.net