The WORST episodes of The Three Stooges
Every episode of The Three Stooges ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.
#1 - 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.
#2 - Sappy Bull Fighters
Season 26 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/4/1959
The Stooges trek to Mexico to perform in a bullfight, with Joe as the matador and Moe and Larry dressed in a bull costume.
#3 - Triple Crossed
Season 26 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/2/1959
Larry is a womanizer who is having an affair with Moe's wife. At the same time, he is also making eyes at Joe's fiancée, Millie.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Pies and Guys
Season 25 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/12/1958
A professor attempts to win a bet by turning the stooges into gentlemen. After some lessons in etiquette, the boys make their society debut at a fancy party. They soon revert to their old habits and a wild pie fight ensues.
#6 - Fifi Blows Her Top
Season 25 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/10/1958
The stooges reminisce about their wartime romances in Europe. After they finish their tales, they discover that Joe's girl Fifi, whom he left behind in Paris, has moved in next door. The only problem is that she's now married, with a very jealous husband. The husband turns out to be a real cad, and when Fifi overhears him tell about his plans to find a new wife, she clobbers him and goes back to Joe.
#7 - Horsing Around
Season 24 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/12/1957
A sequel (sort of) to "Hoofs and Goofs", The stooges are taking care of their sister Birdie who has been reincarnated as a horse. When they learn that her mate "Schnapps", a famous circus horse, is about to be destroyed, they got to the circus grounds to rescue him. The stooges are successful, and Birdie and Schnapps are reunited.
#8 - Some More of Samoa
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/4/1941
The stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail to the tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree. When they arrive they are captured by the natives and will be eaten unless Curly marries the Chief's ugly daughter. The stooges escape with the tree and, after a confrontation with an alligator, sail off with their prize.
#9 - Hoofs and Goofs
Season 24 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/31/1957
Joe dreams that the stooge's sister Birdie has died and been reincarnated as a horse. The stooges take Birdie home but must conceal her from the snoopy landlord. They succeed, but more complications ensue when Birdie gives birth to a colt. Joe wakes up to suffer some abuse from the real Birdie (Moe in drag), when he tells her he dreamed she was a horse.
#10 - Guns a Poppin!
Season 24 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/13/1957
Told in flashback, Moe is on trial for assaulting Larry and Joe. It seems that Moe was in debt and suffering a nervous breakdown so Larry and Joe took him to the country for rest and relaxation. After a marauding bear ruined the peace and quiet, their cabin became the scene of a shoot-out between the sheriff and an escaped outlaw. The boys captured the bad guy, and the reward would have paid Moe's debts, but the crook escaped and Moe went after Larry and Joe with an ax.
#11 - Muscle Up a Little Closer
Season 24 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/28/1957
Joe is engaged but can't get married until he recovers the engagement ring which has disappeared. The stooges suspect the ring was stolen by Elmo, a beefy bully, who works at the same factory they do. They confront Elmo in the company gym, but he's too tough for them. Fortunately Joe's girl is even tougher, and she gets Elmo to confess and return the ring.
#12 - Outer Space Jitters
Season 24 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/5/1957
The stooges accompany professor Jones on an expedition to Venus, where they discover that the Venusians are planning to conquer the earth with an army of zombies. When the boys learn that they're going to be turned into zombies, they escape. The scene changes to the stooges apartment where we learn they are just telling a bedtime story to their kids (also played by the stooges) while they wait for the baby sitter to arrive. When the baby sitter shows up, she looks like one of the zombies and the boys exit in a hurry.
#13 - Rusty Romeos
Season 24 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1957
The stooges don't know it, but they are all engaged to the same girl, a gold-digger who plans to get an engagement ring from each of them and then abandon them. When all three show up at her house at the same time, a wild fight ensues, as each stooge accuses the others of making time with "his" girl. The gold-digger gets it in the end (literally) with tacks shot from a repeating rifle.
#14 - Space Ship Sappy
Season 24 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/18/1957
An eccentric scientist tricks the stooges into joining himself and his daughter on an expedition to Venus. On Venus, the boys go exploring and encounter some cannibalistic amazons who plan to devour them. The stooges escape and take off in the spaceship which goes wildly out of control. As the ship is about to crash, the scene changes to the annual meeting of the Liars Club, where the stooges win the prize as the biggest liars in the world.
#15 - Commotion on the Ocean
Season 23 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1956
The stooges are would-be reporters, who are tricked into becoming stowaways by "Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a freighter on the high seas, they discover that Borscht has concealed some stolen microfilm in watermelons they brought aboard for him. After a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and recover the microfilm.
#16 - Fling in the Ring
Season 22 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/1955
The stooges are the trainers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on Chopper to win his next fight. When "Big Mike", their boss, tells them to have Chopper lose or they'll lose their lives, the boys try to soften up Chopper so he'll lose. The fight gets canceled and the stooges have to contend with an angry Big Mike and his goons.
#17 - 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.
#18 - Hot Stuff
Season 23 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/6/1956
The stooges are government agent entrusted with protecting professor Snead, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep.
#19 - Rip, Sew and Stitch
Season 20 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/3/1953
The stooges run a tailor shop and need money to pay their creditors. A bank robber leaves his coat in the shop with a combination to a safe. When the crook comes back to retrieve the coat, the stooges capture him and get his bankroll.
#20 - A Merry Mix-Up
Season 24 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/28/1957
The stooges appear in triplicate as three sets of triplets who were separated a long time ago. Their reunion causes confusion and troubles for various wives and sweethearts, but it all works out in the end.
#21 - Flagpole Jitters
Season 23 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/5/1956
The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair. At their jobs in a theater, where they hope to earn money for an operation for Mary, they witness a hypnotist, doing his act. The stooges become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament they fall into a window and foil a robbery in progress thus earning reward money to pay for Mary's operation.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Flying Saucer Daffy
Season 25 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1958
Joe's accidental snapshot of a paper plate blown by a breeze, is mistaken for a picture of a UFO.
#24 - Husbands Beware
Season 23 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/1956
To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time. When the rest of the prospective brides hear about the inheritance, they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues. Shemp marries his student before the deadline, and then finds out that there is no inheritance. Moe and Larry have tricked him into marriage as revenge for their marrying his shrewish sisters.
#25 - Scheming Schemers
Season 23 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/4/1956
The stooges are three incompetent plumbers who foul up the plumbing in a fancy mansion where a society party is going on. They manage to catch a couple of thieves masquerading as guests before the whole party degenerates into a pie fight.