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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 29. Chapters: 3 Dumb Clucks, All the World's a Stooge, An Ache in Every Stake, A Ducking They Did Go, A Gem of a Jam, A Plumbing We Will Go, Booby Dupes, Busy Buddies (film), Cactus Makes Perfect, Cash and Carry (film), Dizzy Doctors, Dutiful But Dumb, Even as IOU, False Alarms (1936 film), Goofs and Saddles, Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb, Higher Than a Kite, Hoi Polloi (1935 film), How High Is Up?, Mooching Through Georgia, Movie Maniacs, No Census, No Feeling, Oh, My Nerves, Pardon My Scotch, Pest from the West, Phony Express, Pop Goes the Easel, Shivering Sherlocks, Some More of Samoa, Spook Louder, Termites of 1938, They Stooge to Conga, The Loud Mouth, The Sitter Downers, Three Little Beers, Three Little Sew and Sews, Uncivil Warriors, Wee Wee Monsieur, We Want Our Mummy, What Price Vengeance?, Whoops, I'm an Indian!, Yes, We Have No Bonanza. Excerpt: Pardon My Scotch is the ninth short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959. The Stooges, working as carpenters for at least ten years, are temporarily left in charge of a drugstore, assembling a door with disastrous results. When a liquor salesman stops by and asks for a drink, the Stooges mix a drink using all manner of medicines and chemicals, and mixed with a rubber boot. The concoction reacts, and it is so strong that it cuts through a wicker chair serving as an improvised sieve. But the man loves the libation (which he thought was Scotch), and he convinces the Stooges to pose as Scotsmen and attend a party at his boss' house, where he can sign the Stooges to a liquor contract for their invention, dubbed the "Breath of Heather." One highlight of the party is an Italian tenor (Billy Gilbert) singing "Santa Lucia." The Stooges express their displeasure by firing off grapes down his throat to stop him, then a banana into his mouth at the final "Santa Luciaaa-," which does the trick. Angered at being made into a "fruit salad," he exits in disgust, calling them "pigs." In reaction, Moe tosses a pineapple at the exiting singer, which hits him off camera after making a physics-defying turn in mid-air. After a raucous Highland Fling dance (actually referred to by Moe as the "Lowland Shim" (..".it's like a fan dance, only you do it in kilts!") ), and a disastrous dinner, the barrel of the lethal "scotch" is presented. The Stooges' attempt to tap the barrel results in an explosion which engulfs all the party guests in a sea of foam. The scene just before Moe broke several ribs in a fall.During the opening scenes when the boys are assembling the door, Moe asks Curly to saw a piece of wood for him. Curly lays the wood on top of a wooden table, which Moe happens to be standing on. Curly then proceeds to buzzsaw both the wood and table in half, with the table splitting