Wee Wee Monsieur

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This video contains three short (15-20 minutes in length) Three Stooges episodes. No belly dancer's video party could be complete without showing the harem scene of Wee Wee Monsieur, starring Larry, Moe, and Curly dressed up as harem girls and dancing with the women of the harem.
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Total Video Length	50:23
List Price	$12.95
Cost Per Minute	26 cents

Description

This video contains three short 15- to 20-minute episodes of The Three Stooges: Wee Wee Monsieur, Pardon My Clutch, and Fiddlers Three. All are in black and white.

The video opens with Wee Wee Monsieur, in which the Three Stooges are starving artists scraping for money. They accidentally wind up in the French Foreign Legion and are put in charge of guarding their Captain, with the expected results. In their attempt to rescue him, they find themselves in the local bad guy's harem and dress up as harem girls to escape detection. About 14 minutes into it, the harem girls (including the three new additions) do a dance. The Stooges appearing in this video are Larry, Moe, and Curly. It was filmed in 1937, and interprets the harem in a 1937 Three Stooges kind of way. It's definitely a scene worth showing at a video party for belly dancers. Total length of this segment is 17 minutes.

The second short is Pardon My Clutch, starring Larry, Moe, and Shemp, and was made in 1947. The story opens with Shemp feeling sick. His doctor pulls a bad tooth with the expected Three Stooges level of difficulty. They decide to go on a road trip in a clunker vehicle, and loading it up with camping supplies offers many additional opportunities for the usual Three Stooges humor. In this story, the Three Stooges all have wives, and trust me when I say these couples richly deserve each other. I have to admit I was a bit bored with this segment and found myself waiting for it to be over. It was 15 1/4 minutes long.

The final episode, titled Fiddlers Three, stars Larry, Moe, and Shemp, and was also made in 1947. The Three Stooges here are living in medieval times, in the nursery rhyme world of Coleslaw-vania. They are troubadours to Old King Cole, and he's definitely a merry old soul, at least until his daughter the princess is abducted. Naturally, the Three Stooges decide to rescue her and have adventures along the way. I enjoyed this one, partly because the Three Stooges were singing assorted nursery rhymes (Jack Be Nimble, Miss Muffet, etc.) put to music with suitable sight gags to accompany them, and it was humorous to see them prancing about in medieval garb.

You Will Probably Like This Video If

You would enjoy seeing the Three Stooges dressed up as harem girls and dancing for the lord of the harem.
You would enjoy seeing the Three Stooges dressed up as medieval troubadors singing nursery rhymes.
You're a passionate fan of the Three Stooges.

You Probably Won't Care For This Video If

You've outgrown the Three Stooges and their slapstick humor.

In Conclusion

I've mostly outgrown the Three Stooges, and many of their episodes (like Pardon My Clutch) just don't make me laugh the way they did when I was 12 years old. I guess that's not surprising! But when someone else showed the harem scene of Wee Wee Monsieur at a video party, I couldn't resist buying a copy for myself, and it was a fun surprise to discover that I also enjoyed Fiddlers Three.

What I Liked, What I Didn't

What I Liked

The harem scene in Wee Wee Monsieur where the Three Stooges dress up as harem girls and dance.
Fiddlers Three, where the Three Stooges are singing nursery rhymes and Moe is playing the violin.

What I Didn't Like

The Pardon My Clutch episode, which I found to be much too predictable and too reliant on slapstick violence for its humor.

Disclosures

I've never met the Three Stooges, or corresponded with them, although back before I was married I dated some guys who had just about as much charisma.

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