When I was a kid, I was disappointed if the featured Stooge short for that day was one in which Shemp Howard was the third stooge. But now I have a new found respect for the man, stepping in as he did after the debilitating stroke of his brother Curly.

What I have found out about the Shemp era of The Three Stooges is that all of the shorts produced in the 1940s were remade in the 1950's using lots of stock footage from previous shorts. It was a cost cutting measure used back in the day that mostly fooled all of us young viewers. This short, All Gummed Up, was recycled into another short, Bubble Trouble, with what I estimate is around 80 percent of the same footage. (I actually watched them simultaneously). Boy were we fooled.

So in this new series, I now give you a simple traditional cache, and then a companion mystery cache, for which you can determine the coordinates using information from clips of both shorts combined with a quick field puzzle.

First of all, from Wikipedia:

All Gummed Up is the 103rd short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1947 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Shemp Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

The Plot:

The Stooges operate a local drugstore whose landlord, the cantankerous Amos Flint (Emil Sitka), informs them their lease is about to expire. Larry protests that the trio have had their establishment for a decade, and do not want to leave. As the four bicker, Flint's elderly wife Cerina (Christine McIntyre) enters the store, only to be berated by Flint for being an old hag. "25 years is enough," he coldly confirms. After he storms off, the boys take to the frail Cerina, who begins to weep that ever since she lost her beauty, Amos had threatened to leave. Both saddened and incensed, the Stooges offer Cerina their spare room in the back. Shemp, seeing this, hatches a plan to invent a "Fountain of Youth" to restore Cerina to her stunning beauty. Deeming the idea "tremendous, colossal and putrid," the Stooges flee to their pharmaceutical lab and mix together a powerful serum.

After several false tries, the trio give Cerina a taste of their Fountain of Youth, and she transforms into a fetching beauty right before their eyes. Several days later, Amos comes storming into the Stooges' drug store only to see the youthful Cerina flaunting her newfound beauty. Amos quickly reneges on his threat to evict the Stooges and even gives them the deed to their store in exchange for a dose of the serum himself. The Stooges proceed to mix a new batch on the spot, resulting in Amos becoming a baby.

The following day, Cerina celebrates her return to youth by preparing a Marshmallow Jumbo layer cake. Shemp is assigned to hunt down marshmallows but inadvertently retrieves bubble gum.The resulting celebration then finds the Stooges and Cerina blowing bubbles after every bite, with Shemp getting two bubbles out of his ears.

Trivia:

All Gummed Up was filmed from April 23–24, 1947. All Gummed Up was remade in 1953 as Bubble Trouble, using ample recycled footage from the original. Ironically, the remake is considered to have a better story flow than the original.

This entry is one of the few to present the trio as competent and respectable professionals, as opposed to incompetent blue-collar laborers.

Here is a short clip from this short. You will need information from this clip to solve part of GC7K98H It's A Shemp! Bubble Trouble.

Episode 103 All Gummed Up Clip 1