Pop Goes the Easel is the seventh short subject starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges, released on March 29, 1935. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.
THE PLOT
The onset of the Great Depression has forced the Stooges to look for jobs. However, they are mistaken as thieves and soon find themselves on the run from the police. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an art school where they are mistaken for students. They take their first art lessons while hiding from the police, resulting in a climactic clay fight that takes no prisoners. The film ends when three art students break sculptures over the boys' heads, resulting in them being soundly beaten up.
TRIVIA
The two girls playing hopscotch on the sidewalk are Moe Howard's daughter, Joan and Larry Fine's daughter, Phyllis.Joan Howard Maurer recently passed away on September 21, 2021.
This is the first of several Stooge shorts in which Moe holds out his hand to Curly and asks him to "pick out two" fingers. Curly does, and Moe pokes him in the eyes with them. This would be a recurring joke.
This short contains a very rare scene in which Moe delivers a slap in the face to several people at once. At the end of the clay fight scene, Moe stops everyone and asks "who started this?!" Larry yells "YOU did!", to which Moe angrily replies "oh YEAH?!" and, with right hand extended, spins in a counter-clockwise motion, slapping everyone around him.
This short is the first to contain a clay throwing fight, a precursor to the classic pie fights which would become a staple of the Stooge films. The first genuine food fight would appear the following year in GC6BQFW Slippery Silks.
A colorized version of this film was released in 2006.
An important scene appears to have been deleted after the Stooges have painted the floor and are trapped against the wall. The detective suddenly tries to enter what looks to be a door painted on the wall. It is possible that the deleted scene had the Stooges paint a door to solve the problem of being trapped by the wet paint.
THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE POSTED COORDINATES
To obtain the coordinates for the final location of this cache, just answer this one trivia question obtained directly from this short, and then answer the bonus trivia question to get a clue for bonus cache GC6A8BH Moe Howard:
As the Stooges begin painting the floor of the art studio, Moe and Larry paint a circle around Curly, so Curly takes his long brush and pushes the large can of paint a few feet forward proclaiming “Aah, Shuffleboard! _______ !” Fill in the blank.
Game over! (N41 48.446, W088 01.644)
I win! (N41 48.561, W088 01.752)
A ringer! (N41 48.922, W088 01.617)
Plus ten! (N41 48.500, W088 01.512)
BONUS TRIVIA QUESTION: Record the number assigned to the letter below for usage in bonus cache GC6A8BH Moe Howard.
As the Stooges are running down the street being chased by the cop, they come across two little girls (played by Moe’s daughter Joan and Larry’s daughter Phyllis) playing Hopscotch. What color hair does the little girl have who is actually playing the game as they approach?
Brunette (G = 2)
Blond (G = 1)
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Episode 7 Pop Goes The Easel