Pop Goes the Easel (1935)

Having the Three Stooges running amok in an art studio where they can get their hands on all sorts of assorted paints and plaster, you would expect this to be one of their best short subjects. Instead, it starts out promisingly as they play starving hobos desperately seeking employment, but oddly stalls once they take refuge in the art studio. There is some relief at the end when they get involved in a clay-throwing free-for-all, but by then it's already missed the mark. Just average fare from the Stooges, circa 1935. (Trivia: the little girls who laugh while the Stooges jump through their hopscotch squares while fleeing from a cop are actually their kids). ** out of ****

This review is of the seventh of The Three Stooges' shorts they made for Columbia Pictures. In this one, they're three men looking for work with each individually having signs on them on certain corners saying something similar on them. After a while, they team up to take brooms from a nearby store and pretend to clean up hoping to impress the proprietor standing in front. Unfortunately, he thinks they're stealing his items and calls a cop. That cop gives chase after the boys and guess where they wind up? I'll stop there and just say there are plenty of funny gags and lines that mostly kept one laughing almost non-stop especially when Moe, Larry, and Curley (as his name was spelled at the time) dressed up in drag for the first time (with the latter doing a hilarious impersonation of Mae West) or when they did a clay fight that would later evolve into the pie fights of later years. I should also note that the little girls playing hopscotch as the boys are being chased are Moe's daughter Joan and Larry's daughter Phyllis. So on that note, Pop Goes the Easel comes highly recommended.

The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts! In My opinion The Three Stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team! One of the most hilarious Three Stooges shorts is Pop goes the Easel. In this short are Bobby Burns, Phyllis Crane, Lew Davis, Jack Duffy, Phyllis Fine, Joan Howard, William Irving, Leo White, Geneva Mitchell, and Al Thompson. The acting by these actors are good especially by Dent, and Schindell. There are many funny scenes here that I think most Three Stooges fans will love! In My opinion this one of the most different Three Stooges shorts. I recommend this one to all!

I didn't think this short was as funny as the majority of their shorts. I just found this to be a little dull at points and not too funny overall. Then again, I just might not be an art kind of person. Woo Woo Woo!