The BEST episodes of The Three Stooges season 7
Every episode of The Three Stooges season 7, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Three Stooges season 7!
Legendary comedy act featuring three bumbling fools who find themselves in outrageous predicaments and take out their frustrations on one another violently.
#1 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - A Plumbing We Will Go
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/19/1940
To escape the police, the stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to fix a leak in a fancy mansion. The Stooges are would-be plumbers and mistake pipes filled with wires for water pipes. One of the most popular Stooge shorts. Dudly Dickersons battle in the kitchen is a classic, as well as his famous line: “This house is sho goin crazy!” Later remade with Shemp in “Vagabond Loafers” (1949) and “Scheming Schemers” (1956).
#7 - Cookoo Cavaliers
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1940
Messrs. Hook, Line and Sinker decide to get out of the fish business and into the saloon business. But their business broker mistakenly believes they want to buy a beauty salon, and sells them a dilapidated shop in Mexico. The stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are some chorus girls from a local night club. After the stooges completely ruin the girl's hair, and their manager finds out, the boys must leave on the run.
#8 - Rockin' Thru the Rockies
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/8/1940
The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded. They must contend with a snow storm and a marauding bear as well the Indians. After almost killing each other ice fishing they solve their problems by rigging up a sail on the wagon and sailing west. A wagon train full of show biz girls tours the West, and the Stooges are assigned to protect them from Indians. First appearance by Stooge player Dorothy Appleby (former Miss Maine).
#9 - How High is Up?
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/26/1940
The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're caught in the act, they escape and accidentally get hired as riveters on a new building, working on the 97th floor. Their ineptitude and lousy workmanship screw up construction of the building and they must parachute off the building to escape the wrath of the boss. The Stooges secure construction jobs on a new building, but find they have to start on the 97th story!