Booby Dupes

Booby Dupes is the 84th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

After the debacle with the lady, the gents reconvene, and go about trading in their car and raising an additional 300 for a propeller boat that ends up being a lemon. No sooner are the Stooges on the ocean when their boat starts to sink. They climb aboard their spare dinghy, and signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, they signal using a white rag with a large red paintsplatter in the center, making it resemble the flag of Japan. The planes overhead turn out to be bombers who believe the Stooges are Japanese marines, and promptly bomb the trio. Amidst the bombing, Moe creates a makeshift motor out of a rotor and Curlys victrola, and the trio make a mad dash out of there.Filmed on September 2730, 1944, Booby Dupes is a partial remake of the 1932 Laurel and Hardy short film Towed in a Hole. In addition, the gag of a victrola acting as a car radio appeared in the duos 1932 film Busy Bodies. The title is a play on the line boopoopadoop from the song I Wanna Be Loved by You, made famous by singer Helen Kane and by the Fleischer Studios cartoon character Betty Boop. ........

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