Studio Stoops (1950)

Moe Howard: Moe

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Quotes 

• Moe : Keep a stiff upper plate, kid!

• Moe : You get a rope that'll reach to the 10th floor and step on it.

  Larry : Hey, you better bolt that door in case our adversaries come back.

  Moe : Good idea. "Adversaries?"

  Larry : Yeah!

  Moe : Since when did you get so smart?

  Larry : Oh, I've been smart all the time, only you didn't know it. Say, when I come back, I'll give you the password.

  Moe : Brilliant! What'll it be?

  Larry : [Whispering]  Open the door.

  Moe : [Slaps Larry] 

• Moe : What's the idea of the three watches?

  Shemp : That's the way I tell time.

  Moe : How do you tell time?

  Shemp : This one is ten minutes slow. This one is twenty minutes fast. The one in the middle is broke; it stopped at two o'clock.

  Moe : Well, how do you tell the time?

  Shemp : I take the ten minutes slow, subtract it from the twenty minutes fast, and divide by the two in the middle.

  Moe : Well, what time is it now?

  [Shemp pulls a fourth watch out of his pocket] 

  Shemp : Oh, it's 9:30.

  Moe : [bonks Shemp on the head]  Why, you...

• Shemp : If you ain't got a gun for me, what did you bring me along for?

  Moe : For bait!

• Moe : You wait out here. If we're not out in five minutes, come and get us.

  Larry : Yeah! You better make it thirty seconds.

• Larry : Gee, that Shemp was a swell guy.

  Moe : I'll never forgive myself for pushing him around.