Disorder in the Court (1936)

Moe Howard: Moe

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Quotes 

• Defense attorney : [holding the murder weapon]  The action on this pistol is so hard, it would take the strength of a mule to pull the trigger!

  [hands the pistol to Curly] 

  Defense attorney : Go ahead!

  Curly : I'm no mule!

  Moe : No! Your ears are too short!

• Moe : I say, Jasper, what comes after seventy-five?

  Larry : Seventy-six!

  Moe : That's the spirit!

• Court clerk : I'll SUE you for this.

  Moe : Oh, sue-perstitious eh?

• Moe : [after Curly picks up all the jacks on one bounce of the ball]  Hey! What's the idea of spoiling the game?

  Curly : I was for onesies.

  Moe : Well here's twosies.

  [eye pokes Curly on "twosies", and Curly responds in pain] 

  Larry : [sounding cute]  He did a onesie, you give 'em to...

  [stops when he sees Moe looking at him angrily] 

  Moe : [to Larry]  Here's fivesies.

  [smacks him] 

• Moe : [to Curly]  Grab your ear.

  [Curly grabs it] 

  Moe : Come on!

  [Moe grabs Curly's arm, and drags him off] 

• Moe : [after Curly falls over while taking the witness stand]  You're in a court, not in Clancy's pool room.

  [bonking Curly on the head] 

  Moe : Sit down.

  Curly : I'm a victim of soicumstance.

  Larry : [slapping him]  Sit down.

  Moe : [grabbing Larry by the hair]  Who are you hitting?

  [he eye-pokes Larry] 

  Curly : Nyuk, nuyk, nyuk.

  Moe : [slapping him]  Shut up. Be quiet.

• Moe : [to Larry]  You're in court, not the woods, Tarzan.

• Judge : [to the Stooges]  Gentlemen, you must control your killing instincts.

• Larry : [while playing violin, he picks up the defense's black hairpiece on the end of his bow and sees it]  A taran-tela!

  [Moe screams, Curly tries hitting it with a hammer, and Moe steals the bailiff's gun and shoots] 

  Curly : Oh! A field mouse!

  Larry : [with it attached to his bow]  Watch out, it'll bite ya!

  Moe : [sees it]  Taran-tella? Shot five holes in a dibbit!

• Moe : Now Gaily's dance was over. *I* stuck my head in the office door, and I saw Koik Robin and Buck Wing ahgyin' over by the parrot cage!

  District Attorney : What were they arguing about?

  Moe : I dunno! But Buck Wing was sizzlin' like a hot hamboiguh! He grabs Koik by the neck like that, see, and drags him over to the letter press, see?

  [Demonstrates on Curly] 

  Moe : Then he smacks him on the head like that!

  [Continues demonstration on Curly] 

  Moe : Then he pokes his coconut into the letter press, see? Like that! Then he says, "I'll squeeze the cider outta yer Adam's apple!" Then he gives him the woiks, like this! Then he keeps toinin! And twistin'! And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the...

  [the grind of the letter press suddenly starts spinning counterclockwise, flying into the air and landing on Moe's head] 

  Curly : [He pulls himself out from under the letter press, and is making moaning sounds, then while looking at Moe is pointing to his jaw indicating it's stuck. Moe puts one fist under his chin then bonks him on the head with the other, and that seems to unlock it]  What's the matter with you? You wanna kill me?

• Curly : I'm no mule.

  Moe : No, your ears are too short.

  [eye pokes Curly] 

  Curly : So I'm a mule.

• Moe : watch it you're in court not in Clancey's ball room.