Hoi Polloi

You can take out the garbage, but you can't take the garbageman out of the Stooge, as a respected professor learns when he wages his colleague $10,000 that he can transform even the Stooge-est men into gentlemen. The theme was originated by Moe and his wife Helen. When Helen suggested turning it into a Stooge short, she was offered story credit or fifty dollars. She took the cash. Theme later became basis the for the Eddie Murphy/Dan Ackroyd film "Trading Places." The dance lesson scene is a Stooge classic. Later remade in "Half-Wits Holiday" (1947). (SLAP COUNT: 48) (EYE POKES: 4) (Moe, Larry, Curley)