In the Sweet Pie and Pie - the Three Stooges
The Three Stooges are awaiting execution for crimes that they didn't commit. Three beautiful young sisters need to be married in order to gain their inheritance, and so they marry the soon-to-be-executed Moe, Larry and Curly. However, at the last minute the actual criminals confess, making the Three Stooges free men -- and their wives miserable. The girls consult with their lawyer, who recommends throwing a society party, in the hopes that the Three Stooges will wreck the event, and give the girls a cause for divorce. All goes according to plan and the party degenerates into a wild pie fight, however the girls decide to keep the Three Stooges and fire the lawyer.
The Three Stooges made many movies that culminated in pie fights—but none better than In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941). The movie begins with Moe, Larry and Curly in prison, awaiting execution for a murder that they did not commit. An early comedy moment happens as the Three Stooges try to saw their way through the prison bars—musically! It failed, however, and three young women (Tiska, Taska and Baska) need to be married before midnight in order to inherit a fortune, and ask the Three Stooges to marry them. Moe, Larry and Curly enthusiastically agree, but once the girls are legally married, they leave without a thank you—or a kiss. And the Three Stooges are about to be executed.
However, at the last moment, the real murderers confess—and Moe, Larry and Curly are free to be reunited with their new brides, who are none too happy to see their "husbands." At the suggestion of their lawyer, they throw a high-society party, expecting the Three Stooges to humiliate them, and thus give them an excuse for divorce. Moe, Larry and Curly, however, are determined to do their very best to be gentlemen, and prove themselves to their brides.
The eventual society party, and the pie fight that follows, is one of the highlights of the Three Stooges film career. In fact, many of the pie fights from later films were actually clips of this fight, used over and over. The pie fight itself is hilarious, and ends with the girls deciding that they want to keep the Three Stooges, and fire their lawyer instead!
An excellent Three Stooges short, that is highly recommended. In the Sweet Pie and Pie is available on the Three Stooges DVD collection Stooges and the Law.
Funny movie quotes for the Three Stooges starring in In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941)
Curly (Curly Howard): No! I’m too young to die. Too young and too handsome!
[looks in the mirror]
Curly (Curly Howard): Well, I’m too young.
Mrs. Gottrocks: I hear you have done much traveling. Are you familiar with the Great Wall of China?
Curly (Curly Howard): No, but I know a big fence in Chicago!
Larry (Larry Fine) Say, what do we know about society?
Moe (Moe Howard): Well startin’ tomorrow we’re gonna learn. We gotta act like gentlemen so these dames we married won’t have any excuse for throwing us out.
Curly (Curly Howard): You mean to say I can’t go to sleep with my shoes on?
Moe (Moe Howard): That’s exactly what I mean now get to bed, like a gentleman.
Moe (Moe Howard): Hey, hey, hey you’d better watch that cough first you know you’ll wind up with pneumonia.
Larry (Larry Fine) They say strawberries are good for a cold.
The Warden: Strawberries won’t be in season for six months.
Moe (Moe Howard): We’ll wait.
Curly (Curly Howard): We’ll wait.
Larry (Larry Fine) We’ll wait.
The Warden: Just a minute!
Taska: [the sisters propose a toast] Here’s to us, three new widows!
Williams: [Moe throws the cake on Mrs. Gottrocks by accident after the butler hits him deliberately] He did it.
Mrs. Gottrocks: Thank you…
[Turns to look at Moe, but hits Williams in the face with a pie]
Mrs. Gottrocks: But you started it!
Moe (Moe Howard): [to Curly, who is stacking sandwiches on his plate] Whaddya think you’re doing, playin’ poker? Quit stackin’ the deck! (hit Curly)
Female party guest: Somebody give me a pie!
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