The Yoke's on Me

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Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Eva McKenzie, and Curly Howard in The Yoke's on Me (1944)

Rejected by the armed services, the stooges decide to "do their bit" by becoming farmers. For $1000 plus the car, the boys buy a run down farm with no livestock. They acquire an escaped ostr... Read allRejected by the armed services, the stooges decide to "do their bit" by becoming farmers. For $1000 plus the car, the boys buy a run down farm with no livestock. They acquire an escaped ostrich that eats gunpowder and lays explosive eggs.Rejected by the armed services, the stooges decide to "do their bit" by becoming farmers. For $1000 plus the car, the boys buy a run down farm with no livestock. They acquire an escaped ostrich that eats gunpowder and lays explosive eggs.

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Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in The Yoke's on Me (1944)

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Moe Howard

Moe
(as Moe)

Larry Fine

Larry
(as Larry)

Curly Howard

Curly
(as Curly)

Emmett Lynn

Smithers
(uncredited)

Eva McKenzie

Ma
(uncredited)

Robert McKenzie

Papa
(uncredited)

Al Thompson

Sheriff
(uncredited)

Victor Travis

Deputy
(uncredited)

Director
- Jules White
Writer
- Clyde Bruckman
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Trivia
The escapees are not POW's, they are not captured Japanese. They are from a relocation center, a prison camp set up by the U.S. Government for Japanese-Americans taken from their homes and businesses and interred for the duration of the war. The vast majority were permanent residents, most were citizens. The US Government effectively kept full knowledge of the camps from the general public for almost 30 years. After lawsuits and publicity in the 1970s, some stations removed this short from rotation. Some to prevent offense, some to further keep the secret. Other Stooge shorts have been treated similarly, mostly due to racial depictions common when the films were made but considered offensive later, and generally with the same intentions.

Goofs
A wire attached to the goose is clearly visible when it bites Curly's nose and flies around.

Quotes
Moe: [Curly is dancing and striking poses with some ostrich feathers] Hey, pin-up boy! Get to work, or I'll pin your ears back.

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Different but a great stooge short

I'll never forget the first time when I watch this stooge short when I was like 13 or 14 on TBS and that was the only time that I've ever seen this short on television and unfortunately they didn't play this short on Family Channel or AMC but to say the least, I have this short on tape.

The boys are discharged from the army and their father tells the boys that they'll be working on a farm and they buy the farm for $1000 and their car (which is a piece of junk) and the same thing goes to the farm and the only livestock they got is a bird and a ostrich, there's a funny scene when Curly steps on a loose board and it hits Moe right in the face, later on the guy they bought the farm is stopped by the police to tell them that a bunch of Japs escaped from a relocation center and after the cop is done talking to him, the car wouldn't start and he actually mutters 'b@$!ard' (a cuss word on a 1940's stooge short).

Then the stooges witness an ostrich eating blasting powder and Curly tears up the feathers and starts a fan dance and later on they start cleaning out the pumpkins and the Japs show and they put their heads inside of a pumpkin, SICK!! And the stooges blow up the Japanese with the ostrichs egg which had blasting powder in it.

I don't understand that why people come down really hard on this short, I actually think that this is one of the best stooge shorts of all time, I also can't believe that one viewer stated that he likes the awful Joe Besser short Sweet and Hot (which I believe was their worst short) better than this stooge classic.

I give this short 9/10.

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