We Want Our Mummy—starring the Three Stooges

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We Want Our Mummy (1939)—starring the Three Stooges—Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard

We Want Our Mummy is a classic Three Stooges short film in every sense of the word. It contains classic slapstick comedy, great verbal humor, and wonderful interaction between Moe, Larry and Curly. In a nutshell, the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Curly) are detectives hired to find a missing professor—and unintentionally help the criminal move the professor out of the building. Undeterred, our ever-optimistic Stooges volunteer to find the lost tomb of King Rootentooten, that only the professor knows how to find. Never letting the impossible slow them down, the boys hop a taxi (!) and drive to Egypt.

After some clowning around in the desert, they accidentally find the tomb, and think that Curly’s destroyed the valuable remains of Rutentooten. The criminals are inside the tomb as well, and Curly impersonates the mummy. With luck, they rescue the professor and the real mummy.

Funny movie quotes from We Want Our Mummy (1939) starring the Three Stooges—Moe, Larry and Curly

Curly: Well, I reckon since there’s no other place around the place, this must be the place, I reckon.

Larry: That’s a mirij.
Moe: A mirij is what you see yourself in; that’s a mirage.
Curly: A mirage is what you keep your car in.

Curly: After all of that running, we’re still in the same place.
Moe: Okay, wise guy, you lead.
Curly: But I ...
Moe: Get going.
Curly: I’ll go when I’m ready.
Moe: Are you ready?
Curly: I’m ready. Follow me.

[discovering the mummy, Pharaoh Rootentooten]
Moe: He’s the real McCoy!
Larry: McCoy? I thought his name was Rootintootin!

Larry: [to Curly] When they find out you killed the mummy, they’ll kill us!

Curly: C’mon, Rootin-Tootin old kid! Heh heh! Whoever crowned you king?

Moe: I got an idea, we’ll make a mummy out of you.
Curly: I can’t be a mummy, I’m a daddy!
Larry: All right so you’ll be a daddy-mummy.
Curly: Oh! That’s different.

Moe: Weigh the anchor!
Curly: Forty-two pounds!

Professor Tuttle: That wasn’t King Ruten-Tuten! That was his wife, Queen Hatsi-Tatsi! This is Ruten-Tuten! He was a midget!

Dr. Crowell: That means we’ll never find the missing king!
Curly: [looks surprised, takes card out of his front pocket] How did YOU know the king was missing?
[Moe turns his head to look]
Curly: I… Ooh!
[hides card before Moe can see]
Moe: Oh, so you’re the one, eh? That’s how you won my thirteen cents!
[smacks Curly]

Moe: [looking through telescope toward Egyptian desert, but with Larry’s head in the way] We’re coming to a jungle. I can see the underbrush! And camels walkin’ through it! No no, they’re octopus!
Larry: I don’t see anything!
Moe: [notices that he was looking at Larry’s hair] You will!
[hits Larry with the telescope]

Thug: [in tomb, with Curly laying on a table dressed up as King Rutin-Tutin] Hey, where are those jewels that are supposed to be buried with them?
Thug in Museum Basement: Oh, they always wrap ‘em up inside the mummy. We’ll have to cut him open.
[with thugs looking away, Curly cringes, and unzips the front of his mummy costume]
Thug in Museum Basement: Let me have that sharp knife you have there.
[looks at “Rutin-Tutin”]
Thug in Museum Basement: He’s burst open!
[reaches inside Curly’s costume, pulls out newspaper]
Thug in Museum Basement: “Yanks win world series.” Can you beat that?
Curly: Yeah, and I won five bucks!
Thug in Museum Basement: No kidding? I had the Cubs, and… WHAT?

Dr. Crowell: Gentlemen, you’re hired. We’re sending you to bring back the mummy of King Rutin-Tutin, you leave immediately for Cairo.
Curly: Say I got an uncle in Cairo, he’s a chriopracter. NYUK NYUK NYUK!
[Moe punches him in the nose]

Museum Curator: And if you are successul, we will pay you 5000 dollars.
Dr. Crowell: The recovery of the mummy will prove of untold value to science.
Moe: For science!
Larry: For science!
Curly: For 5000 bucks!

Moe: [the Stooges find a sign post in the desert showing the locations of Cairo and Tunis] Oh, boy we’re nearly in Cairo. The tomb oughtta be around here someplace.
Curly: I’ve gotta go to Tunis and then we can have tuna sandwiches for lunch.
[Moe slaps him]
Curly: Oh!
Moe: [what looks like the tomb of Rootin Tootin] Hey, he’s the real McCoy!
Larry: McCoy, I thought his name was Rootin Tootin.
[Moe raises his fist at Larry]
Curly: Hey fellas, I found it.
Larry: Found what?
Curly: A tisket a tasket,
[holds up a basket]
Curly: that green and yellow basket. NYUK NYUK NYUK NYUK!
[Moe gives him an open hand shove in the face]
Curly: Oh!
[Staggers back into a well]
Curly: WOOOOOOOOOOOAH!
[Hits the bottom with a splash and gets Moe and Larry wet]

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