A Short History in Stooge
Note: First, I must admit that this may be amusing only to those who have advance knowledge of Stooge history at their fingertips. To others it may be incomprehensible. To you Healy-types out there who have nothing to do but complain to me via email-- hey! Bring it on! This is all in good fun, and everything here is somehow related to a real event in Stooge History. For those of you who are confused, feel free to email me and I'll explain every little quip. Meanwhile, enjoy.
1895
Shemp Howard born adorable
1896
Ted Healy born
1897
Moe Howard born ugly as all get out
1899
Moe has nose job, chronic ugliness rages unimpaired
Moe goes blind from seeing self in mirror
1902
Larry Fine born balding
Larry’s hairline begins to recede at alarming rate
1903
Curly Howard born; cries of WOO-WOO-WOO fill maternity ward
Moe’s promising academic career begins
Moe’s promising academic career ends
1905
Larry’s "glass case tap dancing" career ends abruptly as glass case breaks
Curly’s short stint as a race carriage baby ends
1906
Larry drops acid, leading to a stunning debut as a violinist
1907-9
Moe, Curly and Shemp play to packed basements, earn lots and lots of pennies
1908
Moe cuts hair in a desperate, but ultimately futile attempt to look like John Lennon
1909
Ted and Moe first meet, much like the meeting of Bette Midler and Geena Davis in famous comedy "Beaches"
Moe makes stunning debut in silent film (what’s the name of that thing again?), playing ugly orphan who gets into fist fight with cute star
1913
Shemp and Moe earn cash singing in saloon
1914
Moe commits fraud and steals another mans identity for a job
c1915
Gutsy Shemp tells US army to piss off
c1916
Curly shoots self in ankle to jumpstart lagging career; resulting "Curly Shuffle" is a smash
c1920
Curly marries
1922-1931
Shemp enjoys nearly a decade of physical attractiveness
1922
Ted begins a long and profitable career of financially scalping stooges
1925
Shemp blindfolds Gertrude (Babe) Frank and convinces her to marry him
Moe marries Helen Schonberger
Larry becomes a stooge
1927
Larry marries Mabel Haney
Shemp’s son Morton is born, fortunately favoring his mother
Moe drops out of show business; goes into business for himself
Moe returns to show business
1930
Ted, Shemp, Moe (billed as Harry Howard) and Larry star in famous dramatist Rube Goldberg’s dramatic tour de force "Soup to Nuts"
Shemp invents the two-fingered eye poke
1932
Shemp makes a face, AND IT STAYS THAT WAY!!!! Shemp condemned to ugliness for nearly twenty-two more years.
Shemp quits stoogin’
Curly edges Moe out for worst hair cut
Curly becomes a stooge
c1933
Moe’s eyebrows triple in size
Stooges film unfunny shorts with hilarious dance sequences with Ted for MGM
1934
Moe, Larry and Curly finally, and permanently split with Ted
Moe, Larry and Curly become Columbia’s The Three Stooges
Stooge short "Men in Black" nominated for academy award; something else wins. Who cares? It wasn’t the Stooges.
1937
Ted Healy dies; oh woe is Moe
Curly marries Goldigger I
1942
Shemp voted homeliest man in Hollywood, beating Cinqo the Butt-faced boy by a landslide
c1943
Curly gains few hundred pounds, piteously attempting to look like Jabba the Hut under the mistaken impression that sweet, swingin’ chicks dig that Meatloaf look
1945
Curly marries Goldigger II
1946
Curly suffer massive stroke, the world prays for his recovery
Shemp brings his pretty little face to the screen as a Stooge
1947
Curly finally gets marriage right with Valerie
1952
Curly dies; the world is plunged into abject mourning; millions become atheists
1955
Shemp dies; the surgeon general orders that health warnings be placed on all stooge contracts; the sun is clothed in darkness, earth rotates around Mars; millions died painful deaths; the United States goes into mourning and the inchoate space program is closed down, allowing the Russians (aided by Borge’s secret watermelon intelligence) get Sputnik out before we can say a few syllables
1956-8
Joe Besser insidiously infiltrates stooge ranks
Joe plots with Russians to sell high level national secrets and end the stooges
Joe successful in dastardly plot
1975
Larry dies, earth stops spinning and falls out of the Milky Way Galaxy and is swallowed by giant space fish
Moe dies, Satan ascends from hell and takes over the planet. Millions become demonic slaves; Satan uses evil power to push the Bee Gee’s to the Top of the Pop’s; few devout souls gather to burn disco records, the world is saved from damnation, yet Moe remains dead
1976- present
That’s all there is; there ain’t no Moe