The BEST episodes of The Three Stooges

Every episode of The Three Stooges ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Three Stooges!

Legendary comedy act featuring three bumbling fools who find themselves in outrageous predicaments and take out their frustrations on one another violently.

Last Updated: 11/13/2024Network: AMCStatus: Ended
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They Stooge to Conga
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9.51
47 votes

#1 - They Stooge to Conga

Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1943

The stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.

Directors: Del Lord
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Grips, Grunts and Groans
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9.01
82 votes

#2 - Grips, Grunts and Groans

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/15/1937

Although circumstances force an over-matched Curly into a wrestling ring against a superior opponent, a spectator's perfume proves to be his secret weapon.

Directors: Preston Black
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You Nazty Spy!
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8.86
102 votes

#3 - You Nazty Spy!

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/19/1940

The King of Moronica is overthrown and the Three Stooges are chosen to take his place. When three politicians from a small country discover there is no money in peace, they decide to hire a paperhanger (Moe) as a puppet dictator. Classic Stooge short was the first Hollywood film to satirize the Nazis and Fascists from World War II (predated Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” by 9 months). Due to its historical significance, this was known as the favorite Stooge short of Larry, Moe and Jules White. Much of the short reflects the American Public’s knowledge of affairs in Germany at that time. First Stooge appearance by Stooge supporting player John Tyrrell.

Directors: Jules White
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No Dough, Boys
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8.86
7 votes

#4 - No Dough, Boys

Season 11 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/24/1944

The stooges are dressed as Japanese soldiers for their job as magazine models. On their lunch break they go into a restaurant with their Japanese uniforms on causing the proprietor to mistake them for the real thing, and a chase ensues. The boys fall through a trap door, and into a nest of Nazi spies where they are mistaken for "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki", three Japanese saboteurs. The stooges try to act the part, including demonstrating acrobatics and jiu-jitsu to their hosts. When the real "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki" show up, the boys are exposed and impostors, but after a wild fight manage to capture all the Axis spies.

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Violent is the Word for Curly
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8.81
42 votes

#5 - Violent is the Word for Curly

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/2/1938

The stooges work as gas station service men who end up running away from three professors on an ice cream truck. After thawing Curly out from sitting in the back of the ice cream truck the boys put on the professors clothes from their stolen luggage. The stooges are mistaken to be the professors by the college who is expecting them and they poorly pose as the professors and sing their famous ""Alphabet Song"". The real professors show up, but the ladies in the ""girls-only"" college end up getting their athletic program thanks to the stooges.

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Boobs in Arms
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8.74
72 votes

#6 - Boobs in Arms

Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/27/1940

The stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers. In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to be the same man, whom they constantly vex and bewilder. When the boys are sent to the front lines and the sergeant is captured they must rescue him, which they do after doping themselves with laughing gas. At the end they get shot off into the sunset on a cannon shell. Greeting card salesmen Larry, Moe and Curly hide from an irate man in what they think is a bread line and find themselves inducted into military service. Title is a parody of MGM film “Babes in Arms” (1939) starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.

Directors: Jules White
Writer: Felix Adler
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Wee Wee Monsieur
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8.73
77 votes

#7 - Wee Wee Monsieur

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/18/1938

The stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up joining the French Foreign Legion. Posted to the desert, their assignment is to guard captain Gorgonzola from the natives. When the captain is kidnapped, the boys must disguise themselves as harem girls to infiltrate the chieftains hideout and rescue him.

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From Nurse to Worse
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8.64
95 votes

#8 - From Nurse to Worse

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/23/1940

The stooges' friend Jerry convinces them to buy an insurance policy on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. But the plan backfires when the doctor wants to perform a brain operation on Curly.

Directors: Jules White
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A Gem of a Jam
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8.63
8 votes

#9 - A Gem of a Jam

Season 10 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1943

The stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Harts, Burns and Belcher. Some crooks arrive seeking medical attention after their boss has been wounded in a shoot out with the cops. Mistaken for doctors, the boys are forced to operate on the wounded crook, but instead they accidentally dump him out the window into a passing police car. The rest of the gang chases them into a store room filled with dummies where the cops finally catch the bad guys.

Directors: Del Lord
Writer: Del Lord
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Dutiful but Dumb
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8.57
14 votes

#10 - Dutiful but Dumb

Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/21/1941

The stooges are photographers for Whack magazine ("If it's a good picture it's out of Whack") who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a death ray gun. In Vulgaria the penalty for taking pictures in is death, and the boys soon wind up in front of a firing squad. Curly's last request is a giant cigar and by the time he's done smoking it all the soldiers are asleep and the stooges make their escape.

Directors: Del Lord
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In the Sweet Pie and Pie
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8.53
79 votes

#11 - In the Sweet Pie and Pie

Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1941

The stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit. The day before the execution they are tricked into marrying three rich girls who need husbands to collect a legacy. At the last minute the real murderers confess and the stooges are pardoned. The girls are now stuck with the stooges so they plot to get rid of them by making them become gentlemen. The girl's lawyer convinces them to throw a big party in the hope that the stooges will humiliate them and they can get a divorce. The boys do just that as the party degenerates into a wild pie fight. But the girls decide to keep the stooges and give their lawyer the boot.

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Higher Than a Kite
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8.50
12 votes

#12 - Higher Than a Kite

Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/30/1943

After being accidentally dropped behind enemy lines, the Stooges disguise themselves and steal important plans from the Nazi high command.

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Oil's Well That Ends Well
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8.50
6 votes

#13 - Oil's Well That Ends Well

Season 25 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/4/1958

The Stooges have lost their jobs. Adding insult to injury, they received a letter from Dad with the news that he requires surgery. To help pay for the operation, the father suggests the boys search for uranium on his mining property.

Directors: Jules White
Writer: Felix Adler
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No Census, No Feeling
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8.45
71 votes

#14 - No Census, No Feeling

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/4/1940

The Stooges new jobs have them taking the census, from an afternoon society party to a local football game. Three gung-ho census-takers let nothing stand in the way of an accurate count,whether it be crashing a fancy bridge party,spiking drinks or invoking a riot at a professional football game.

Directors: Del Lord
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Uncivil War Birds
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8.44
9 votes

#15 - Uncivil War Birds

Season 13 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/29/1946

After initially joining the Union army, Moe and Larry switch allegiances to their Southern home state and Confederate brother Curly.

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Uncivil Warriors
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8.44
138 votes

#16 - Uncivil Warriors

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/26/1935

The Stooges are Union soldiers who try to extract intelligence from a Confederate colonel.

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Nutty but Nice
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8.44
71 votes

#17 - Nutty but Nice

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/14/1940

Three bumbling waiters try to help a clinically depressed little girl by locating her kidnapped father. The Stooges operate a restaurant and try to help a little girl who becomes ill when her father, a bail bondsman, disappears with a lot of cash and the Stooges have to fight gangsters.

Directors: Jules White
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Dizzy Doctors
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8.41
82 votes

#18 - Dizzy Doctors

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/19/1937

The Stooges are lazy-bum husbands, inept salesmen, and misfit fugitives in a hospital.

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Slippery Silks
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8.40
72 votes

#19 - Slippery Silks

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/27/1936

The Stooges inherit a women's boutique and fashion clothing for their swanky customers.

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Goofs and Saddles
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8.39
72 votes

#20 - Goofs and Saddles

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/2/1937

General Muster dispatches the Stooges to catch cattle rustlers. Curly is Buffalo Billius, Moe is Wild Bill Hiccup and Larry is Just Plain Bill.

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Hoi Polloi
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8.35
85 votes

#21 - Hoi Polloi

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/29/1935

The Stooges are the subject of a wager made by a professor who claims he can transform them into gentlemen.

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Half Shot Shooters
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8.34
77 votes

#22 - Half Shot Shooters

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/30/1936

The Stooges are soldiers who unwittingly reenlist after exacting revenge on their commanding officer.

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Cash and Carry
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8.32
97 votes

#23 - Cash and Carry

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/3/1937

The Stooges are gold prospectors housed in the city dump. They are sent on a treasure hunt and dig through to a Federal Bank.

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An Ache in Every Stake
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8.27
81 votes

#24 - An Ache in Every Stake

Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/22/1941

When the Three Stooges agree to help Mrs.Lawrence prepare a fancy birthday party,their particular specially-an exploding,gas-filled cake - goes off with a bang.

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Quiz Whizz
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8.25
4 votes

#25 - Quiz Whizz

Season 25 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/13/1958

Joe wins a contest and is promptly fleeced out of his winnings by some con men. When the stooges go to recover his money, the bad guys convince them that they can get rich by posing as children and becoming the wards of a millionaire. The boys go along with the plan, not realizing that the "millionaire" and his pretty niece are in on the scam and are planning to knock them off. The stooges foil the plan and recover Joe's money.

Directors: Jules White
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