They Stooge to Conga (1943)

They Stooge to Conga (1943)*** (out of 4) Funny short from The Three Stooges has the men working as "fixer uppers" who can fix anything. A woman asks them to fix their doorbell and the boys accept the job not knowing that inside the house are Nazi spies.THEY STOOGE TO CONGA is a pretty good entry in the long running series as it contains some pretty good laughs and is also a good example of comedy during WWII. Obviously being shot during the war, there are many jokes here aimed at Germany, Japan and especially Hitler. The Hitler jokes are all pretty funny as we get all sorts of gags aimed at the salute to their leader. Another very funny moment happens when Moe pretends to be a portrait of Hitler and gives a salute back to the Germans.Fans of the Stooges are going to find quite a few jokes here that work including the rather long opening sequence where the boys destroy the house trying to "fix" the door bell. Overall this isn't the greatest episode in the series but it contains enough laughs to make it worth viewing.

Directed by Del Lord, "They Stooge to Conga" is arguably the most violent Three Stooges film ever made. Larry, Curly, and Moe are repairmen who wreck the doorbell wiring in someone's house and later bungle the neighborhood telephone wiring before they realize they've stumbled upon a Nazi hideout! Memorable sequences: This short contains the most graphic piece of Stooge violence involving Curly's climbing spike! (Almost equalling that is the circular wood blade applied to Curly's nose!) Curly and Larry pull Moe through a wall upon searching the house for a live wire. The chef, played by Dudley Dickerson, manages to steal the show with his few scenes; he gets shoved away by Moe, gets splatted with a bowl of batter, reacts to an exploding telephone, and gets a waffle iron stuck on his behind.Back in 1943, when "They Stooge to Conga" was first released, I'm sure that the excessively violent gags in this film caused theatergoers to cringe (today, those gags would be NOTHING). All I can say is this: It's a good thing all those props the Stooges used to whack each other were fake!

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! This is one of My favorite Three Stooges shorts. Its very funny. Vernon Dent is very good in this one. The Japanese guy is hilarious! There is a similar Three Stooges short called Listen, Judge with Shemp and its just as funny! Lloyd Bridges is in this! Stanley Brown, Dudley Dickerson, and John Tyrrell are in this one. This is a very funny one!

The Three Stooges come back in this short after a 2 year absence from the Natzi parodies. This time though, they don't play dictators, they play fixers. They are hired to fix a doorbell, but un-beknonst to them, the employees are spies. Plenty of laughs, especially the wire sequence in the house. One of the Stooges funniest. Note- look for Lloyd Bridges as a telephone man (one of his first roles). A+