Whoops, I'm an Indian!

Infobox Film
name = Whoops, I'm an Indian!


caption =
director = Del Lord
writer =Herman Boxer
Clyde Bruckman
Searle Kramer
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Bud Jamison
Beatrice Blinn
Al Thompson
Eddie Laughton
Blackie Whiteford
cinematography =
editing =
producer = Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US September 11, 1936
runtime = 17' 12"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:229013
imdb_id = 0028504
preceded_by = "False Alarms"
followed_by = "Slippery Silks"

"Whoops I'm an Indian!" is the 18th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

The Stooges are crooked gamblers in the Old Western town of Lobo City, cheating the residents of a frontier town. They are discovered and must escape into the woods. To elude the sheriff, the Stooges hunt, fish, and disguise themselves as Indians.

Notes

*"Whoops, I'm an Indian!" marks the Stooges' first short to stereotype ethnic groups, particularly Native Americans. Ethnic stereotypes were not unusual at the time.
*The title "Whoops, I'm an Indian!" is a play on the stereotype of an Indian battle cry or "war whoop," along with the interjection, "Oops!" denoting surprise.

Quotes

**Moe "(to Larry)": "Now, you go out and get a moose, and a few meeses. I'll run down an elk."
**Curly: "I'll try and find the Knights of Columbus."

**"Curly sticks out his tongue at Moe while Moe is not looking. Moe spins around"
**Moe "(to Curly)": "What did you say?"
**Curly: "Nothin'!" (Moe slaps Curly in the face)
**Curly: "What's that for?"
**Moe: "That's for what you were thinkin'."
**Curly: "I ain't thinkin'!"

**"The Stooges are disguised as Indians, when a stranger walks in"
**Moe: "How!"
**Larry: "How!"
**Curly: "How we doin'?"

**Pierre "(flirting with Curly, who is disguised as an Indian woman)": "You keep my wigwam?"
**Curly "(offended)": "You keep your own wig warm!"

**"Curly, disguised as an Indian woman, was just married to Pierre. Pierre starts taking Curly upstairs to give her (him) a gown"
**Curly: "Where we goin'?"
**Pierre: "Oh, for the honeymoon. For you I have the grand surprise!"
**Curly: "So have I, if you only knew it!"

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806507233] , (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"; by Jon Solomon [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0971186804] , (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
*"The Three Stooges Scrapbook"; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806509465] (Citadel Press, 1994).
*"The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons"; by Michael Fleming [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767905563] (Broadway Publishing, 2002).
*"One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures"; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581823630] , (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).