Watch The Three Stooges Season 2 Episode 6 Hoi Polloi

Hoi Polloi

Season 2 Episode 6

Aired date: Aug 29, 1935

Plot: You can take out the garbage, but you can't take the garbageman out of the Stooge, as a respected professor learns when he wages his colleague $10,000 that he can transform even the Stooge-est men into gentlemen. The theme was originated by Moe and his wife Helen. When Helen suggested turning it into a Stooge short, she was offered story credit or fifty dollars. She took the cash. Theme later became basis the for the Eddie Murphy/Dan Ackroyd film "Trading Places." The dance lesson scene is a Stooge classic.... MORE

Plot: You can take out the garbage, but you can't take the garbageman out of the Stooge, as a respected professor learns when he wages his colleague $10,000 that he can transform even the Stooge-est men into gentlemen. The theme was originated by Moe and his wife Helen. When Helen suggested turning it into a Stooge short, she was offered story credit or fifty dollars. She took the cash. Theme later became basis the for the Eddie Murphy/Dan Ackroyd film "Trading Places." The dance lesson scene is a Stooge classic. Later remade in "Half-Wits Holiday" (1947). (SLAP COUNT: 48) (EYE POKES: 4) (Moe, Larry, Curley) LESS