Wee Wee Monsieur

Infobox Film
name = Wee Wee Monsieur


caption =
director = Del Lord
writer = Searle Kramer
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Vernon Dent
William Irving
Bud Jamison
Harry Semels
John Lester Johnson
Ethelreda Leopold
cinematography = André Barlatier
editing = Charles Nelson
producer = Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US February 18, 1938
runtime = 17' 23"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:143178
imdb_id = 0030957
preceded_by = "Termites of 1938"
followed_by = "Tassels in the Air"

"Wee Wee Monsieur" is the 29th 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 artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up accidentally joining the French Foreign Legion. Posted to the desert, their assignment is to guard Captain Gorgonzola from the natives. When the captain is kidnapped, the boys must disguise themselves and try to rescue their captain.

Notes

*This is the first short in which the Stooges sing the "Lollipop Song," which they would sing again in "Self-Made Maids".
*This is the first short in which the Stooges are told they must don a disguise and they disguise themselves in Santa Claus outfits.

Quotes

**"Landlord approaches apartment door and knocks"
**Landlord: "Open up! Zis is ze landlord."
**Curly "(inside)": "There's nobody home!" *SLAP!*

**Moe: "We haven't got a dime and the landlord has threatened to throw us out!"
**Curly: "What's he squawkin' about? We only owe him for eight months!"

**Larry: "If we were back in America, at least we could join the WPA."
**Curly: "Or the YWCA!"

**"The Stooges are disguised in Santa Claus costumes"
**Curly "(after pulling Moe and Larry to the ground)": "What happened?"
**Moe: "You almost killed us that's what happened!" *SLAP!*
**Curly "(shocked)": "Oh...you hit Santy Claus! Just for that, no toys!"

Further reading

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