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The Three Stooges : Nutty But Nice, DVD, includes A Ducking They Did Go - Hoi Polloi - Half-Wits Holiday - Higher than a Kite - False Alarms - Nutty But Nice, starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard The Three Stooges' Nutty But Nice DVD is a strong selection of 6 of the Three Stooges shorts, all starring Moe, Larry and Curly. The DVD includes some of their best work, including the title film "Nutty But Nice", which is not only funny but also tugs at your heart in the right places. "Hoi Polloi" is one of the funniest films that the Stooges ever did, and one of my all-time favorites. The Stooges made a habit of deflating the pompous elite, but never better than in this film. "False Alarms" and "A Ducking They Did Go" are also quite good, and "Higher Than a Kite" is also entertaining, but the DVD also contains a very bittersweet entry, "Half-Wits Holiday." It's the exact same premise as "Hoi Polloi" but still very funny. To this day, I can still picture the scene where a cream pie is about to fall off the ceiling onto a rich society matron -- "Young man, you look as though the sword of Damocles is about to fall on your head!" Moe looks up at the ceiling at the pie just about to fall and hit the lady, and replies, "Lady, you must be psychic!" As Moe walks off, the woman looks up to the spot where Moe was looking, and is hit in the face with the pie. This short alone is worth the price. It's also the last Three Stooges short starring Curly, since he suffered a stroke during the filming, and was retired from the team. Ironically, it was also the first Three Stooges film with Emil Sitka, the "fourth Stooge" who appeared in so many of their films.

Three Stooges' Nutty But Nice DVD

This 104-minute DVD contains the following six episodes on one DVD:

A-Ducking They Did Go (1939)
- The Three Stooges are tricked by some con men into selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club. After the Stooges sell all the memberships to the police department, the bad guys skip town, leaving the Stooges to deal with a duck-less lake, a lodge full of cops and plenty of trouble ahead. Moe and Larry stall the cops with duck decoys while Curly searches for some real ducks, but the flock he brings belongs to local farmer and the boys leave in a hail of buckshot.
Hoi Polloi (1935)
- A professor bets that he can turn the Three Stooges into gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them etiquette, he takes them to a fancy society party. The party quickly degenerates, but the Stooges end leaving as gentleman after all while the other guests have adopted Stooge-like behavior.
Half-Wits Holiday (aka No Gents...No Cents) (1947)
- Betting one of his colleagues that he can turn the Three Stooges into gentlemen within 60 days, a professor tries to teach the boys proper manners with the help of his pretty daughter. After many frustrating attempts, he introduces the Stooges at a high society party. At first things go all right, but the party soon turns into a wild pie fight.
Higher than a Kite (1943)
- Working for the R.A.F. in England as auto mechanics, the Three Stooges wreck an officer's car and try to hide in a sewer pipe which turns out to be a bomb. After the bomb is dropped behind enemy lines, Moe and Curly disguise themselves as German officers and Larry dresses as a seductive fraulein. While General Bommel chases after Larry, Moe and Curly steal secret plans from the high command.
False Alarms (1936)

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- The Three Stooges are firemen who are constantly in trouble. Warned that one more incident will cost them their jobs, Curly decides to sneak out anyway to visit his girlfriend. Her two friends need dates too, and the only way Curly can get Moe and Larry out of the station is to pull a fire alarm. The fire truck leaves without Moe and Larry, so they steal the captain's new car to make it to the call first. They manage to get Curly and return to the station, but they wreck the car and must leave on the run.
Nutty But Nice (1940)
- Working as singing waiters, the Three Stooges are enlisted by a doctor to try and cheer up a little girl. Her father, a banker, was kidnapped with $300,000 worth of bonds. Failing to cheer the girl, the Stooges decide to look for the father and wind up in the bad guys' hideout. The villains return and, after a wild fight, the boys free the missing man.

Quotes from The Three Stooges - Nutty But Nice:

Funny movie quotes from Half-Wits Holiday (1947)

Moe: We are members of the Morons' Union, local 6 and 7/8!

Prof. Quackenbush: How would you like to earn $1000 dollars?
Moe: Who do we have to murder?
Prof. Quackenbush: It's nothing like that. All you need to do is let me make gentlemen out of you.
Curly: Oh please no! There hasn't been a gentleman in our family for 50 generations!
Moe: Quit bragging.

Funny movie quotes from Hoi Polloi (1935)

Moe: Gentlemen, this is the punishment we get for being among the hoi polloi.

Prof. Richmond: Spell "cat".
Curly: Cat, K-I-T-T-Y, pussy!

Moe: [reading] "See the deer. Has the deer any doe?"
Curly: Yeah, two bucks!

Larry: Oh, see the cat. Does the mouse see that cat? Yeah, the dirty rat!

Funny movie quotes from False Alarms (1936)

Fire Chief: If this were the army I'd have you shot at sunrise!
Curly: But you couldn't do that, cap, we don't get up that early!

Trivia about The Three Stooges - Nutty But Nice:

Hoi Polloi (1935)
- There is a still photo from the film that implies a possible deleted scene. The photo shows Moe, Larry, and Curly arriving for their big "debut in society" out front of Professor Richmond's house... in their Rubbish truck. This scene would've taken place in between Richmond prepping the Three Stooges in the morning of the event and the establishing interior shot of Richmond's house.
Half-Wits Holiday (1947)
- During a break in filming of this short, Curly Howard suffered a stroke, ending his film career.
- Almost a carbon copy of an earlier Three Stooges short, Hoi Polloi (1935).
Higher Than a Kite (1943)
- After playing checkers, Moe looks at a picture of Adolph Hitler and says "schickelgruber". Schickelgruber-Hitler was Adolph Hitler's father's last name.