The BEST episodes of The Three Stooges season 17

Every episode of The Three Stooges season 17, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Three Stooges season 17!

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

Last Updated: 8/6/2024Network: AMCStatus: Ended
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Studio Stoops
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7.17
36 votes

#1 - Studio Stoops

Season 17 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/5/1950

The stooges are hired by a movie studio as publicity men. Their first assignment is to get publicity for Dolly Devore, a pretty starlet. They fake a kidnapping, but the cops won't believe their story. Then the girl is really kidnapped and the stooges must come to the rescue. Shemp winds up hanging out a tenth story window on an extending telephone.

Directors: Jules White
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Hugs and Mugs
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7.06
36 votes

#2 - Hugs and Mugs

Season 17 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/2/1950

The stooges run a furniture store and come into possession of a stolen pearl necklace. Three crooked dames convince the boys that the necklace is theirs, and when the real thieves arrive, the stooges fight to defend the girl's property.

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Punchy Cowpunchers
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6.65
37 votes

#3 - Punchy Cowpunchers

Season 17 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/1950

It is the old west and the killer Dillon clan are making life miserable for a small Western town. Sweetheart Nell (Christine McIntyre) and her dashing but dimwitted boyfriend Elmer (Jock Mahoney) rushes off to find help. Meanwhile, cavalrymen the Stooges are making life miserable for superior, Sergeant Mullins (Dick Wessel). Mullins tries to whip the boys into shape, but his plan backfire and has a run-in with his superior, Captain Daley (Emil Sitka). Daley informs Mullins about the Dillion clan's evildoings, and needs some men to run them out of town. Mullins does not miss a beat, and volunteers the unsuspecting Stooges.

Directors: Edward Bernd
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Slaphappy Sleuths
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6.59
37 votes

#4 - Slaphappy Sleuths

Season 17 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/9/1950

The stooges are investigators for the Onion Oil company. The company's service stations are being robbed by a gang of crooks, so the boys pose as gas station attendants to capture the bad guys.

Directors: Hugh McCullom
Writer: Felix Adler
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Three Hams on Rye
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5.89
37 votes

#5 - Three Hams on Rye

Season 17 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/7/1950

The stooges are stage hands who also have small parts in a big play. They quickly get on the bad side of the producer. First they fail to prevent a famous critic from sneaking into the audience. Then Shemp accidentally adds a pot holder into a cake they bake as a prop. During the play the stooges (as southern gentlemen) and the rest of the cast spit up feathers during what was supposed to be a serious scene. The critic thinks it's a hilarious satire and the boys are redeemed.

Directors: Jules White
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A Snitch in Time
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5.78
36 votes

#6 - A Snitch in Time

Season 17 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1950

The stooges are carpenters who are re-staining some furniture they've delivered to a boarding house. The plot gets complicated when the boys confront some crooks who are hiding out there. They defeat the bad guys with the help of the varnished furniture which sticks the head crook to a chair.

Directors: Edward Bernds
Dopey Dicks
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5.41
34 votes

#7 - Dopey Dicks

Season 17 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/2/1950

The stooges become detectives and go to the aid of girl in the clutches of a mad scientist. The boys arrive at a spooky mansion where the madman is building a mechanical man that needs a human head. After declining the opportunity to supply a stooge-head for the experiment, they find the girl and escape, only to wind up in a car driven by the headless robot.

Love at First Bite
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4.50
36 votes

#8 - Love at First Bite

Season 17 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/4/1950

The stooges reminisce about the girls they met overseas while in the military. As they wait for the girls' ship to arrive, they get drunk and Shemp winds up asleep with his feet in a tub of cement. After sobering up, they free Shemp with a dynamite blast that lands them at the dock where their sweethearts are waiting.

Directors: Jules White
Writer: Felix Adler
Self Made Maids
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3.71
35 votes

#9 - Self Made Maids

Season 17 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/6/1950

The stooges are artists who want to marry their models; "Moella", "Larraine", and "Shempetta". The girls' father doesn't approve, so the stooges tickle him into submission.

Directors: Hugh McCullom