No Census, No Feeling is a 1940 short subject directed by Del Lord
starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard,
Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 50th entry in the series
released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190
shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.The Stooges are caught
sleeping in a closed awning situated over a store. A brief argument
among the trio results in Curly casually tossing a pot over his
shoulder, breaking several dishes. The shopkeeper (Max Davidson),
irate at the Stooges for vandalizing his store, calls the police and
chases the Stooges, who quickly dash into a building’s revolving
door. Upon exiting the building, the Stooges have clipboards in tow,
having inadvertently landed jobs as census takers.The boys work their
way into the home of a socialite (Symona Boniface) who is concerned
with a lack of participants in her weekly Bridge game. The Stooges
happily comply, and join the game. In the interim, Curly begins to
flirt with the socialite's maid, who is in the process of preparing a
large bowl of punch. Curly finds that the drink is “not sweet
enough†so, and ends up adding Alum salt to the mix, mistaking it
for powdered sugar. Within minutes, everyone is mumbling their words
as their lips become puckered.Afterwards, the Stooges are still
searching for people to interview for the census. They eventually come
upon a nearby football game, and become thrilled as the prospect of
speaking with everyone in the stadium. The trio don football
players’ uniforms and bypass the guard in the guises of differing
players and storm the field. They try asking questions to the players,
who end up ignoring them, and Curly finds an ice cream vendor and
takes off after him, somehow hijacking his wagon. The Stooges get
pulled into the game and, after a few bouts of hardship, get an
idea…if they would get the ball away from the players they would
have no choice but to answer their questions. With that, Larry and Moe
attach chains to the pants of two players and pull them off,
distracting the players enough for Curly to grab the ball and run
away. But the players notice him and give chase. Curly continues
running like mad as Larry pulls the ice cream wagon, carrying Moe
behind him. Moe throws fistfuls of ice cream at the players and the
referee who are chasing them, and the Stooges run out of the stadium
followed by the irate football team.
starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard,
Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 50th entry in the series
released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190
shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.The Stooges are caught
sleeping in a closed awning situated over a store. A brief argument
among the trio results in Curly casually tossing a pot over his
shoulder, breaking several dishes. The shopkeeper (Max Davidson),
irate at the Stooges for vandalizing his store, calls the police and
chases the Stooges, who quickly dash into a building’s revolving
door. Upon exiting the building, the Stooges have clipboards in tow,
having inadvertently landed jobs as census takers.The boys work their
way into the home of a socialite (Symona Boniface) who is concerned
with a lack of participants in her weekly Bridge game. The Stooges
happily comply, and join the game. In the interim, Curly begins to
flirt with the socialite's maid, who is in the process of preparing a
large bowl of punch. Curly finds that the drink is “not sweet
enough†so, and ends up adding Alum salt to the mix, mistaking it
for powdered sugar. Within minutes, everyone is mumbling their words
as their lips become puckered.Afterwards, the Stooges are still
searching for people to interview for the census. They eventually come
upon a nearby football game, and become thrilled as the prospect of
speaking with everyone in the stadium. The trio don football
players’ uniforms and bypass the guard in the guises of differing
players and storm the field. They try asking questions to the players,
who end up ignoring them, and Curly finds an ice cream vendor and
takes off after him, somehow hijacking his wagon. The Stooges get
pulled into the game and, after a few bouts of hardship, get an
idea…if they would get the ball away from the players they would
have no choice but to answer their questions. With that, Larry and Moe
attach chains to the pants of two players and pull them off,
distracting the players enough for Curly to grab the ball and run
away. But the players notice him and give chase. Curly continues
running like mad as Larry pulls the ice cream wagon, carrying Moe
behind him. Moe throws fistfuls of ice cream at the players and the
referee who are chasing them, and the Stooges run out of the stadium
followed by the irate football team.
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