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Pardon My Scotch is a 1935 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the ninth entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who appeared in 190 shorts at the studio between 1934 and 1959.
The Stooges are inept professional carpenters who assume temporary stewardship of a drugstore when its proprietor departs to negotiate a large purchase of alcohol consequent to the end of Prohibition. In his absence, the trio attend to a customer who requests an alcoholic "pick-me-up". The Stooges try to concoct a suitable libation using an eclectic array of medicines and chemicals, blended in a Wellington boot.
The resulting concoction, formidable in its potency, dissolves a wicker chair used as an improvised sieve. Despite its unconventional composition, the libation garners favor with the customer, who misconstrues it as Scotch. He reveals that he a liquor salesman and declares that the trio's concoction, if produced in quantity, could make the four of them rich. He entreats the Stooges to masquerade as Scotsmen and attend a soirée at his employer's residence.
Following a sequence featuring a spirited, raucous Highland Fling dance and a tumultuous dinner, the centerpiece of the event unfolds with the presentation of the barrel containing the formidable "scotch" brew. The Stooges' clumsy attempt to tap the barrel precipitates a catastrophic explosion, engulfing the assembled guests in a deluge of foam.
Pardon My Scotch was filmed on April 11–15, 1935, sixteen months after the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which ended the American experiment with Prohibition. This event is an integral part of the storyline, with the drugstore owner (Al Thompson) frantically attempting to lay in a stock of liquor in anticipation of the imminent end of Prohibition.
The title Pardon My Scotch parodies the expression "Pardon my French." The term "Scotch" for "Scottish" is now considered impolite, although "Scotch" as a type of whiskey is still acceptable.
Pardon My Scotch is the first Stooge film to employ "Listen to the Mocking Bird" as the Stooges' official theme song, as arranged by Louis Silvers. It would be used up to and including 1939's Three Little Sew and Sews.
The gag of tossing fruit into a singer's open mouth was reused in the 1945 film Micro-Phonies.
Pardon My Scotch
Pardon My Scotch is a 1935 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the ninth entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who appeared in 190 shorts at the studio between 1934 and 1959.
The Stooges are inept professional carpenters who assume temporary stewardship of a drugstore when its proprietor departs to negotiate a large purchase of alcohol consequent to the end of Prohibition. In his absence, the trio attend to a customer who requests an alcoholic "pick-me-up". The Stooges try to concoct a suitable libation using an eclectic array of medicines and chemicals, blended in a Wellington boot.
The resulting concoction, formidable in its potency, dissolves a wicker chair used as an improvised sieve. Despite its unconventional composition, the libation garners favor with the customer, who misconstrues it as Scotch. He reveals that he a liquor salesman and declares that the trio's concoction, if produced in quantity, could make the four of them rich. He entreats the Stooges to masquerade as Scotsmen and attend a soirée at his employer's residence.
Following a sequence featuring a spirited, raucous Highland Fling dance and a tumultuous dinner, the centerpiece of the event unfolds with the presentation of the barrel containing the formidable "scotch" brew. The Stooges' clumsy attempt to tap the barrel precipitates a catastrophic explosion, engulfing the assembled guests in a deluge of foam.
Pardon My Scotch was filmed on April 11–15, 1935, sixteen months after the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which ended the American experiment with Prohibition. This event is an integral part of the storyline, with the drugstore owner (Al Thompson) frantically attempting to lay in a stock of liquor in anticipation of the imminent end of Prohibition.
The title Pardon My Scotch parodies the expression "Pardon my French." The term "Scotch" for "Scottish" is now considered impolite, although "Scotch" as a type of whiskey is still acceptable.
Pardon My Scotch is the first Stooge film to employ "Listen to the Mocking Bird" as the Stooges' official theme song, as arranged by Louis Silvers. It would be used up to and including 1939's Three Little Sew and Sews.
The gag of tossing fruit into a singer's open mouth was reused in the 1945 film Micro-Phonies.