{"id":30976,"date":"2022-11-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30976"},"modified":"2022-11-19T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T13:30:20","slug":"a-plumbing-we-will-go-1940-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30976","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Plumbing We Will Go&#8221; (1940) starring The Three Stooges \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z111922zview_plumbingwewillgo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A Plumbing We Will Go <\/strong><\/em>(1940)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Del Lord<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Elwood Ullman<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Symona Boniface, Dudley Dickerson<\/strong> and <strong>Bud Jamison<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em>\u00a0<\/em>None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There&#8217;s bad blood between Officer Kelly (Jamison) and the boys (Larry, Curly and Moe) when a judge finds them innocent of stealing chickens. (And they&#8217;re plainly guilty!)\u00a0 Later the cop sees the guys attempting to catch fish from a pet store tank.\u00a0 The chase is on!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a butler thinks the boys are plumbers, he invites them in.\u00a0 Seeing the police officer getting closer, they accept the offer.\u00a0 In order not to blow their cover, Larry, Curly and Moe attempt to fix a bathroom leak&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>A Plumbing We Will Go<\/em> was Curly&#8217;s favorite Three Stooges Short.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to argue that it&#8217;s not the best.\u00a0 Every scene has a laugh, starting with the judge finding the boys not guilty of chicken stealing as Curly pulls out his hat and chicken feathers fly everywhere.\u00a0 Most folks know the gag where Curly keeps adding pipes to pipes and traps himself.\u00a0 But there&#8217;s so much more &#8211; the cook dealing with the results of the &#8220;plumbers&#8221; work &#8211; the guests watching tv with a picture &#8220;so real&#8221;&#8230; even the final scene has a callback to a magician who appeared in an earlier gag and returns to end the short with a great &#8220;trick&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>A Plumbing We Will Go <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z111922zview_plumbingwewillgo2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Plumbing We Will Go (1940) Director:\u00a0 Del Lord Screenplay:\u00a0 Elwood Ullman Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Symona<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31054,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30976\/revisions\/31054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}