Busy Buddies (film)

Infobox Film
name = Busy Buddies


caption =
director = Del Lord
writer = Elwood Ullman
Del Lord
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Vernon Dent
Fred Kelsey
Eddie Laughton
John Tyrrell
cinematography = George Meehan |
editing = Henry Batista
producer = Hugh McCollum
Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US March 18, 1944
runtime = 16' 42"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:149568
imdb_id = 0036682
preceded_by = "Crash Goes the Hash"
followed_by = "The Yoke's on Me"

"Busy Buddies" is the 79th 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 run the Jive Cafe, and are in heavy debt. They reluctantly take a second job hanging posters (à la "Three Little Twirps") at a penny a poster. Moe takes notice of one particular poster advertising a cow milking contest that pays $100 to the winner. Without hesitation, Moe and Larry nominate Curly for the contest, and go about looking for a cow to practice milking. As luck would have it, they find a "cow" (a bull) right behind the fence. Curly is no match for the wild animal, and boots Curly up onto a telephone pole.

When the contest day arrives, Curly (nicknamed 'K. O. Bossy') cannot squeeze an ounce of milk from the cow's udder. While fresh cows are being brought in for the second round, Moe and Larry jump into a cow costume with a jug of milk. The scheme works until Curly yanks the mock udder off the jug, and the milk comes gushing out. The trio are promptly booed off the stage.

Curly fades

By late 1943, the team had been making endless public appearances in support of the war effort. The demanding schedule began to take its toll on Curly in particular, whose childlike facial features began to show the strain. Curly had just turned 40 years of age on October 22, 1943.

Notes

The title "Busy Buddies" is a play on "busybodies."

Quotes

**Curly: "Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?"

Further reading

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