Ants in the Pantry - the Three Stooges
The Three Stooges (Curly, Larry and Moe) are exterminators who drum up business by planting pests in a fancy mansion. The Stooges are hired, but need to act like guests in order to not ruin the party. Instead, they ruin a piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to join the guests on a fox hunt.Ants in the Pantry starring the Three Stooges—Moe, Larry, Curly
In Ants in the Pantry the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard) are pest exterminators, and business is very bad. So bad, in fact, that their boss threatens to fire them unless they drum up some business. The Stooges do so by planting mice, moths, bugs and other vermins in a fancy house, and then show up as exterminators to eliminate the pests. The woman of the house hires them, but has them dress up in fox hunting clothes, so that they can blend in with the guests at the fancy party that she’s throwing.
Things go from bad (Curly dumping ants down the back of the lady’s dress) to worse (Curly throwing a bag full of cats into a piano, and Larry has to try to retrieve them—without drawing attention)! The party is ruined, until a guest tells the hostess that the ‘entertainers’ that she hired were a huge hit! The woman is so pleased that she invites them along on the foxhunt the next morning—and Curly even brings along the fox—or is that a skunk?
A very funny Three Stooges short, later remade with Shemp as Pest Man Wins.
Funny movie quotes for Ants in the Pantry—the Three Stooges
Curly: (hiding behind a wire frame garbage can) How’d he see us?
Moe: Must’ve been the garlic you ate last night.
Girl: (to Moe, unaware that her skirt has ripped off) Do you feel a draft?
Moe: Draft?
Girl: Yes.
Moe: No, I was exempted.
Curly: Thanks for the dance, or whatever you might call it?
Girl: What’s the matter?
Curly: (being pulled out of his chair by Larry, sight unseen) Can’t you see that I’m falling for you?
Moe: (trying to wrap a chain around Curly’s waist as an impromptu belt) If you didn’t have TB, I could get this around you.
Curly: What do you mean, TB?
Moe: Two bellies.
(the Stooges as pest exterminators drumming up business & ruining a society dinner)
Moe: [to Larry, carrying bear trap]
Larry: You never know, we might run into a bear.
Moe: Yeah, like my bare hand! [slaps Larry]
Moe: What school to you go to?
Curly: Oxford!
Moe: You should go back to loafers! [stamps Curly’s foot]
Larry: Say, whatever happened in 1776?
Curly: What street?
Curly: What does he think I am, a rat?
Moe: [menacingly] Yeah!
Curly: Well, you didn’t have to tell everybody.
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