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Violent is the Word for Curly (1938) starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard

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Violent is the Word for Curly is one of the Three Stooges best known short films, even though it is not one of their funniest, due to the famous performance of Swinging the Alphabet—also known as the ‘B A Bay” song.

Violent is the Word for Curly begins with Moe, Larry and Curly working at a gas station, where they give "Super Service!" Until Larry fills the radiator with gasoline, while Curly fills the gas tank with water, causing a customer’s car to explode! The Three Stooges run away. After roasting Curly over a spit, (a very funny scene, even though Curly was actually burned during the filming), the Three Stooges disguise themselves in clothes left from the exploded car—which belonged to three European professors. Dressed in the professors’ outfits, the boys are mistaken for them, and taken to Mildew College.

Once there, the boys begin ‘teaching’, including their famous rendition of Swinging the Alphabet. When the real professors show up, the Three Stooges try to convince a rich woman, the schools benefactor, that an athletics programs is more important. Their athletics demonstration comes to an explosive end when the real professors slip them a nitroglycerin basketball, blowing the professors over the wall of the college, and into the arms of the Stooges and the rich benefactor, who has promised to endow the university’s athletic fun with the return of the professors.

Not one of the Three Stooges’ very best, it certainly is very funny, and well worth watching. For those interested, the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Curly Joe—not Curly Howard) recorded Swinging the Alphabet on their record, The Three Stooges Sing. Also, Violent is the Word for Curly is available as part of the DVD collection All the World’s a Stooge.

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Trivia for the Three Stooges short film Violent is the Word for Curly(1938)

This short contains the classic Stooges rendition of “Swinging the Alphabet”.
The title of this movie short is a takeoff of a 1936 movie called Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936).

Funny movie quotes from the Three Stooges short film Violent is the Word for Curly

Curly (Curly Howard): [to cute coed] I’ll meet you in the gymnasium after class. I’ll be standing next to the dumbbells. You’ll know me, I’ll be wearing a hat.

Moe (Moe Howard): Don’t ya know it’s bad etiquette to reach in front of a person when said person is trying to snag a morsel of food?

Moe (Moe Howard): Twenty minutes to a pound! Eh, eh - we’’ll here a month!

Moe (Moe Howard): I oughta beat yer brains brains in ... and I think I will!

Curly (Curly Howard): [to cute coed] I’ll meet you in the gymnasium after class. I’ll be standing next to the dumbbells. You’ll know me, I’ll be wearing a hat.

Mrs. Katsby: Oh, Professor Von Stooper?
Larry (Larry Fine): Stupid?
[pointing to Curly]
Larry (Larry Fine): I guess you mean him!

Miss Katsby: Oh, you’ll just love it. Mildew has a lovely student body.
Curly (Curly Howard): Yours wouldn’t be so bad either if you took off about twenty pounds!

Professor 1: Should I put in a little of this? [nitroglycerine]
Professor 2: Just a little—about 1 quart.

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