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, Pardon My Clutch, was recycled into another short, Wham-Bam-Slam!, with what I estimate is around 40 percent of the same footage. (I actually watched them simultaneously). These two shorts are lesser offenders.

So in this new series, I now give you a simple traditional cache for the whole family to enjoy, and then a companion mystery cache, for which you can determine the coordinates using information from clips of both shorts.

First of all, from Wikipedia:

Pardon My Clutch is the 105th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1948 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:

Shemp has been ill with a toothache. The Stooges' friend Claude (Matt McHugh), a self-proclaimed Kevin Trudeau-ish doctor, gives Moe and Larry some specific instructions on how to cure the toothache, which, of course, they misinterpret every which way possible. After finally yanking the troublesome tooth, Claude suggests they take Shemp on a camping trip for a little R&R. Since the Stooges do not own a car, Claude offers to sell them a car that turns out to be a "lemon".

The trio run into a series of mishaps trying to get the car to work, including a flat tire that gets them into trouble with a local gas station attendant (George Lloyd). Finally, things improve via a car collector (Emil Sitka) who wants to buy the clunker at a premium. Claude gets wind of this, quickly gives his money back to the Stooges, and hands it to the collector. Within minutes, two men in white coats from the local insane asylum come to retrieve the supposed car collector, with Claude following right behind.

Trivia:

Pardon My Clutch was filmed on May 19–21, 1947. It would be remade in 1955 as Wham-Bam-Slam!, using ample stock footage. Both films borrow plot elements from the  Laurel and Hardy shorts Perfect Day (1929) and Them Thar Hills (1934).

This is the second of three Stooge shorts with the words "pardon my" in the title.

Shemp is unable to convince the gas station attendant that the tire he is removing from the tire display actually came off his car and rolled into the gas station by accident. This was a stock routine that had been used in prior comedies. It had been performed by Joe Murphy and Bud Jamison in I'm the Sheriff (1927) and Edgar Kennedy and Charlie Hall in Slightly at Sea (1940).

A different variation of "Three Blind Mice" introductory theme is used in this entry. This version would be used again for Crime On Their Hands and The Ghost Talks.

Remember Kevin Trudeau? Kevin Mark Trudeau is an American author, salesman, and pool enthusiast, known for his fraudulent promotion of his books and consequent legal cases. His ubiquitous infomercials promoting his books filled with unsubstantiated health, diet, and financial remedies earned him a fortune, and eventually, imprisonment.

Have fun with this one!