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Dizzy Doctors

Dizzy Doctors is the 21st 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.

Plot

Always sleeping in a single bed, the Stooges are pressured by their wives into getting a job, so they get jobs as salesmen selling a liquid called Brighto. Unfortunately, they do not know what Brighto actually does, and they assume it is a cleaning fluid. After some property damage — a policeman's (Bud Jamison) scarred sleeve, a scarred shoe, and removing the paint from a shocked man's (Vernon Dent) new car — the Stooges are told that it is medicine. So after being admonished, they go on a second chance to a hospital to peddle their wares — with the help of a riotous presentation in the hospital's PR system.

When they went to the hospital head to sell the product, they realize that the hospital head is the same man whose car they "paint removed" earlier, and escape for their lives using a gurney as transportation in a wild goose chase. With an improvised sail, they escaped out of the hospital, nearly scraping cars until meeting an accident with a car that overturned on the side. They further escape straight to their house and went back to their beds — sleeping.

Notes

• The footage of the Stooges sailing through the city streets would be reused in From Nurse to Worse.^[1]
• The Stooges try to sell their medicine in the Los Arms Hospital. This is the same hospital seen in Men in Black.^[1]
• A colorized version of this film was released in 2006. It was part of the DVD collection entitled "Stooges on the Run".
• When Moe hits each of the skulls in turn each sounds a different note. The G-E-C pattern was used for the NBC Chimes heard on NBC radio -- and later, NBC television.^[1]

Quotes

• • Dr. Brighto: "Salesmen! That's what I need...salesmen!"
  • Moe: "Here we are...three of the best salesmen that ever sailed."

• • Dr. Brighto: "Have you ever sold anything?"
  • Larry (rhetorically) : "Have we ever sold anything?"
  • Moe (rhetorically) : "Have we ever sold anything?"
  • Curly: "Have we?" - recurring exchange

• • Cop (to Larry, whose leg is hidden): "Oh, I'm sorry, buddy. I didn't notice the leg was gone."
  • Larry (playing along): "Huh? Oh, yeah. Gone but not forgotten."
  • Cop: "War, eh?"
  • Larry: "No, banana peel."

• • Dr. Brighto (pointing to a bottle of Brighto): "You idiots...that's medicine!"
  • Curly: "Medicine? Oh!"
  • [Curly picks up the bottle of Brighto and takes a drink.]
  • Curly: "I feel better already!"
  • Moe: "What was wrong with you?"
  • Curly: "Nothin'."

• • Dr. Brighto: "All right...I'll give you another chance."
  • Moe: "All three of us?"
  • Dr. Brighto: "Yes."
  • Moe: "That's three more chances, boys!"

• • Curly (holding a telephone): "A man wants to know what to do for inflammation."
  • Moe: "Why call us? Tell him to dial inflammation."

Further reading

• Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
• The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [2](Citadel Press, 1994).
• The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [3](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
• One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [4], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).