Slippery Silks

Slippery Silks is the 19th 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.

Slippery Silks was filmed on June 1015, 1936. It marks the Stooges first bona fide piepastry fight. While the fight primarily consists of cream puffs, there is one pie launched during the melee when Curly accidentally steps in front of Moes line of fire to grab a lucky penny, and stands back up just in time to get hit in the face with a pie. The first short that featured a pie fight of sorts was in Pop Goes the Easel, in which sculptors clay is thrown at unsuspecting targets.Moe Howard stated in his autobiography that over 150 pies were thrown. The pie fight scenes were used in the Muppet Babies episode, Good, Clean, Fun. ........

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