Season 1 Ep. 10--The Three Stooges--"Hoi Polloi"--BLOOPERS, FACTS, and MORE!!

[@radicalross7700]

Rick nineg: In regard to the car/taxi blooper, it's possible that the professor who was about to call the taxi didn't know his colleague had driven his own car. If the other professor was about to say: "It's not necessary, my car is just across the street. You can ride with me." he was cut off by the encounter with Moe, Larry, and Curly.

[@ricknineg]

Haha the Stooges

[@dianetheisen8664]

Very interesting and funny. Thanks, Rick!

[@arkansasmountainman]

Hoi pilloi refers to the rich, snooty crowd. In the last scene Moe said this is our punishment for associating with the hoi pilloi. I had always heard it referring to the snobbish, snooty, better than thou crowd, not the working class people. Love your work, you certainly have a good eye to catch the bloopers.

[@apexone5502]

Hoi polloi means "the many." In other words, the commoners.

[@chicoravelli5703]

Hoi oligoi means the elite, not hoi polloi

[@pukulu]

The fans of the 3 Stooges typically didn't notice the bloopers nor did they care. The scenes were often so funny that you might miss the details while you're amused. Felix Adler must have been beside himself with amusement at how many of the scenes came off.

[@casualobserver4536]

AMAZING eyes & ears!!!!! I have watched this particular episode dozens of times, but somehow have never noticed the obvious..thank u for pointing them out tho, I loooove this type of thing!!

[@casualobserver4536]

OMG..THAX for the heart!!!

[@blustertroy]

I love those three stooges series! So many good memories with my grandfather, thank you for posting these videos and bringing me back good ole memories. Keep up the awesome job!

[@ricknineg]

+blustertroy Well thank you! Please stay tuned and subscribe if you havent bc more Stooges vids will be coming!

[@marcm9999]

Exceptionally well done!!

[@aarongonzales]

This is my favorite episode!

[@drkmagneto]

Very cool video! Thanks Rick!

[@Blues.Fusion]

I just watched have rocket will travel. They apparently recreated the party scene from this to end that movie. And no it wasn't just the same re-edited. The spring gag was joe derita.

[@jmadratz]

Once again Rick, you are amazing in spotting 85 year old bloopers that everyone missed

[@ricknineg]

You got it!

[@jmadratz]

rick nineg The Hollywood sign is particularly interesting. In 1935 it was spelled Hollywoodland sign. Are you able to zoom in in the original video that you have to see if you can make out any of the additional letters of the word “land” in the sign.

[@ricknineg]

Is t that crazy being able to see the “land” caught on film?

[@jmadratz]

rick nineg Quite amazing

[@rickyrn1984]

Subscribed within 1 second thank you for the information!!!!!

[@ricknineg]

Welcome to the channel!

[@ElmoUnk1953]

Rick, 3:25 the Aspiration sculpture and fountain the Stooges dropped into. Built in honor of Rudolph Valentino. I pretty sure I learned it from one of your episodes.

[@alexandersteiner213]

I've seen hoi polloi a hundred times and never noticed the Hollywood sign in the background.

[@-oiiio-3993]

The sign read 'HOLLYWOODLAND' at that time.

[@radicalross7700]

Yes, even in the distance, it's obvious that the sign is too long to be "HOLLYWOOD"

[@dianetheisen8664]

I never noticed either.

[@jamesoblivion]

I remember seeing Hoi Polloi, Half-Wits Holiday, and Pies and Guys in the same Stooges TV marathon when I was a kid, and being confused at first because I thought they were replaying the same short. Then I realized that they'd just made three slight variations of the exact same story. 😆

[@Garyonthefly]

There's also another blooper in Hoi Polloi. In one scened where Moe is going behind a curtain after Curly (I believe)...if you listen to the audio, you can hear a woman off camera vocally slating the scene. I've listened to it countless times trying to figure out what she's saying but it's very noticable.

[@casualobserver4536]

Time-stamp, plz

[@VIDEOHEREBOB]

Cool stuff Rick

[@ricknineg]

+VIDEOHEREBOB Thanks Bob!

[@Brian_tim]

The Nature Vs Nurture premise used in Hoi Polloi was also later used in the film Trading Places with Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd

[@dougmontgomery1868]

You mean someone can make a human being out of Dan Aykroyd? Lots of luck...

[@casualobserver4536]

True, what an obvious rip..

[@jamesoblivion]

To be fair, the Stooges got the plot from Pygmalion, and so did Trading Places. The Stooges also remade this short themselves. Twice. Twelve years after Hoi Polloi, they filmed the same story again as Half-Wits Holiday, and then again eleven years after that as Pies and Guys.

[@JIMJAMSC]

Larry said in one of his last interviews that his face was like leather and had so sensation after all the slaps. Take a look at 4:15 Now thats a SLAP.

[@fifrox]

Hey you weren't there - maybe the pain of being eye poked radiated to his cheek! 😂

[@ricknineg]

+Heather Marie It could have been a migrating pain

[@waynebrock6649]

Heather Marie, your right.

[@dianetheisen8664]

Or he could have gotten slapped just as the camera 📷 turned away?

[@jandn286]

Really loving your comments and research. Occasionally, you will name the exact street location where a scene was filmed. Since you are in LA, would it be feasible to get a photo of the same location as it looks today? Perhaps the neighborhoods have changed so much that there would be resemblance. At any rate, it is an idea. I know you put an incredible amount of work into your channel. Thanks. It makes us all more hopeful!

[@ricknineg]

Great idea! Possibly for future content :)

[@davecrowther8978]

it was already done last year. Since I can't post a link here, search above under "Filming Locations - Three Little Beers Three Stooges". It shows the entire short in black and white, but stops and shows the color shot of the location today. It was very interesting.

[@davecrowther8978]

I should have said major parts, not the entire short.

[@dhiumtw7]

Enjoyable....thanks

[@ricknineg]

So glad you liked it

[@richardwarren1718]

Larry had some pretty sweet moves going there at 3:00

[@paulspears715]

Awesome!!..Larry can get down!!

[@dianetheisen8664]

I know, right?!

[@joshuabrophy4585]

The party gags was in have rocket will travel

[@joshuabrophy4585]

Larry's lost shoe happened again in 1959 have rocket will travel

[@Tonithenightowl]

I never knew that fall was due to the lady tripping over Larry's shoe. I thought it was scripted. I rarely caught fishing lines but sometimes I could see them. However, I always knew when a stuntman was used. If anything happened to the Stooges it held up production so they were used often. :o)

[@ricknineg]

+Tonithenightowl They did the best they could for 1940's

[@Tonithenightowl]

Rick, can you imagine the beating their bodies took while doing vaudeville? Good thing they were young when doing it. At least in shorts they had stuntmen and sound effects. :o)

[@ricknineg]

+Tonithenightowl Agreed! However, take a look at some of my vids where the Stooges sometimes got hurt even with all the safety measures they took

[@Tonithenightowl]

Rick, thanks I will. :o)

[@MattRichardsonX]

@@ricknineg If you pause the video at 3:54 and go to the last frame before the cut, you can see a wig come off the lady. This leads me to believe it was a stunt woman and a planned gag. (You also can't see her face when the cut begins, which is also probably because she's a stunt woman).

[@paulgary5035]

Very good job!

[@ricknineg]

Thanks, Paul!

[@joshuabrophy4585]

Them reading the book like a lad was then done again with curly in half wits holiday on May 6 1946 but released in 1947 then they did the scene again but with joe besser instead of curly

[@joshuabrophy4585]

On Pies and Guys in 1958

[@PAMAROSHOUSE]

geneva mitchell dance instructor dies at the age of 42 due to poor health.

[@gfriedman99]

Phillis Crane doesn’t trip on Larry’s shoe. If you look closely Moe trips over the shoe and pulls down Phyllis as he is holding onto her. Btw, I totally adored Phyllis Crane. I think she was in 6 or 7 shorts. Hilarious when she played off Curly as in uncivil warriors.

[@fifrox]

And I wonder if Helen came up with the idea for this short because deep down she wanted Moe to be an elegant, refined gentleman?!!!! 🤔

[@ricknineg]

+Heather Marie haha, totally possible and made some money on top as a result

[@dougmontgomery1868]

They were married for 50 years.

[@olive6405]

Personally I always thought this was a takeoff on the play PYGMALiON which was made into the musical MY FAIR LADY.

[@dianetheisen8664]

It certainly has similarities.

[@kandispowell9254]

When are you posting number eleven?

[@ricknineg]

+Kandis Powell coming soon!

[@ricknineg]

Posted!

[@starey1]

you didn't say that the reason the HOLLYWOOD sign says HOLLYWOODLAND is because that's what it originally said.

[@briancrowley6413]

my favorite stooge episode.....thumbing their noses at high society

[@starey1]

there's something else you didn't mention in the scene with the dance instructor. When they jump out the window and fall in the fountain it's obvious that it'3 4 dummies.

[@montyenright]

Mr. Nineg... I have been watching the Stooges for over 60 years. My favorites... But I would like to discuss with you some interesting Stooge 'happenings' that I am sure that you would not have thought of. I actually started a book in regard to the lads.... Not sure how to contact you. Facebook... or another way. Don't want to give out my email address here. Thanks .... hope to hear back from you.

[@biggyjames6483]

Maybe his hat was ruined when the heavy cans hit it.

[@jonathanswift2251]

ho-wee po-wee

[@Dirtblasterscarpetcleaning]

Curly had a stroke during the filming of this episode which ended his acting career and a few years later died. Moe talked about it on a Mike Douglas interview.

[@kevinwachs5905]

It wasn't Hoi Polloi. It was Half Wits Holiday. But Half Wits Holiday makes use of footage from Hoi Polloi.

[@radicalross7700]

How different Stooge history would've been if Curly did suffer that career-ending stroke in 1935 instead of 1946. Especially if, as was the case 10 years later, Curly's performance had been impaired by poor health leading up to the stroke.

[@KenKurkowski]

@@kevinwachs5905 Similar storylines, about two professors arguing about nature vs nurture, and using the Stooges to support their arguments.

[@kevinwachs5905]

@KenKurkowski , yes, but Curly's stroke wasn't part of the plot. Moe made a mistake, an understandable mistake, and @Dirtblasterscarpetcleaning repeated it as though it must be fact because Moe said it. Moe gave quite a bit of misinformation in that interview. He was telling entertaining stories, not facts. But people assume he was being factual. Many books and articles quoted Moe's erroneous timeline about the Stooges' formative years with Ted Healy uncritically, never doing any research to verify his dates or versions of events.

[@jamesoblivion]

​@@kevinwachs5905I didn't think Half-Wits Holiday reused footage from Hoi Polloi...but the third time they filmed this story, Pies and Guys, did reuse footage from Half-Wits Holiday.

[@flmlvr]

Oh Rick, I sent you an email through You Tube, but I'm going to ask here right in front of everybody so you HAVE to consider what I'm about to ask: Can you do either a whole video or at least a segment on Symona Boniface? She is the most unappreciated straight-person in the history of the entire Three Stooges series - and God knows how many pies she got hit with. And not only that, her grave wasn't even marked until 2005 - 55 years after she left us. I think a video tribute would be the right thing to do.

[@ricknineg]

+Charles Moran I will get into supporting actors in the future. Great idea!

[@darleennewton1052]

😂😅😊

[@starey1]

also when the stooges and that women fall in the fountain it's so obvious that it's 4 dummies.

[@ricknineg]

+star trek They must have had a warehouse full of mannequins

[@casualobserver4536]

Prolly cause that's obviously~ obvious

[@cadauctions31]

Curly had a stroke at the end of the making of Hoi Palloi. Fact that you should have mentioned.

[@ricknineg]

+cadauctions31 This is incorrect. He had many strokes but the one that essentially stopped him from working was after Half Wits Holiday, not Hoi Polloi. The Half Wits borrowed stock footage from Polloi.

[@cadauctions31]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/op6Zd2hjpr6ChNE Go to 6:06 Moe howard is on the Mike Douglas Show, and he says he had a stroke right at the end of a picture his wife wrote called Hoi Palloi. Then he goes on to say that they tried to get his spirits up but they couldn't, so Shemp came in.

[@Agent-xn1hr]

cadauctions31 Curly had a stroke on Half Wits Holiday. Here's is the info from The Three Stooges website: threestoogespictures.info/half-wits-holiday-starring-the-three-stooges/

[@DackupDoo]

cadauctions31 Poor Moe mistook Hoi Polloi with Half Wits Holiday. Hoi Polloi was made in 1935, and Half Wits Holiday in 1946. The two shorts had the same plot. It’s well known that Curly’s stroke occurred during the filming of Half Wits Holiday.

[@casualobserver4536]

@@ricknineg TY. I get so tired of seeing this false info being spread about ..it was HALF WITS HOLIDAY

[@ThinkSimply]

i guess this was curly's last hoorah, he had a stroke at the end of this episode!! :/

[@74superglide]

He was still making movies in 1945!

[@dougmontgomery1868]

That was _Half-Wits Holiday,_ which used footage from _Hoi Polloi._

[@justinturley7071]

@@dougmontgomery1868 Half-Wits Holiday didn't use any type of footage from this short, your thinking of In the Sweet Pie and Pie.

[@dougmontgomery1868]

@@justinturley7071 Well, I agree...none of the footage Nick showed made it to _Half-Wits Holiday._