The Three Stooges Collection

I'm looking (one of these days) to get the Three Stooges Collection, which was remastered by Sony. Volume 1 came out on October 30, 2007. Volume 8 just came out on June 1 to complete the set.

Then maybe I will finally dump my copies on Betamax (sob).

Anyway I was looking around for an episode guide, and I found one at tv.com (26 seasons!). What's neat is you can also view some of the episodes online. (However, not all of the links worked, for example, the very first one, Women Haters, didn't for me.)

The episodes on volume 1 and volume 2 are currently on Hulu. Women Haters works here. (It's OK, but my computer is no match for my TV.)

They also list the episodes on the DVD set at wikipedia. And the complete filmography at the official site.

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[6/6/10] Apparently in celebration of the release of volume 8 (the last of the shorts with Joe Besser), Costco is selling each for $16.99 with a instant rebate of $4.00. So that's $12.99 (plus tax). That's a pretty good price. I'm trying to get them a bit cheaper on ebay, but the pickings are slim so far.

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[6/30/12] After finally completing my Three Stooges Collection on DVD (the first six at Costco in June 2010 and the last two at Best Buy in November 2011), Sony has come out with the Three Stooges Ultimate Collection [released 6/5/12] which has all eight volumes plus another three DVDs containing two feature films plus a bunch of solo shorts featuring Shemp Howard and Joe Besser (separately).  What's more both Amazon and Best Buy are currently selling it for only $44.99! (retail $95.99).  I bought this from Costco yesterday for about $56, but returned it today after I looked up the Amazon price last night.

... a couple hours later.  Hey I see the price at bestbuy.com went up to 69.99. OK order it from Amazon before they raise their price too.

[7/1/12]  Sure enough.  Amazon has raised their price to $64.59 this morning.  Good thing I jumped at the price.

[7/5/12] And now it's up to $89!  But with this ominous message,

"Item Under Review.

While this item is available from other marketplace sellers on this page, it is not currently offered by Amazon.com because customers have told us there may be something wrong with our inventory of the item, the way we are shipping it, or the way it's described here. (Thanks for the tip!)

We're working to fix the problem as quickly as possible."

[7/14/12] Back down to $64.59.  Every single episode episode in the entire collection painstakingly reviewed by Stuart Galbraith IV.  

Took a look at the Rare Treasures DVDs.  There were Columbia shorts that I never knew existed (after having watched the Three Stooges for 50 years).  These were essentially Three Stooges episodes but without Moe and Larry.  Featuring some of the same directors (Jules White, Edward Bernds, etc.) and same supporting actors (Christine McIntyre, Vernon Dent, etc.), but with just Shemp, Joe Besser, or Joe DeRita.  Strange.  One big plus with this set was the inclusion of subtitles unlike the others which just had closed caption.

[10/11/12] Looking at Disorder on the Court with the closed caption on.  After Moe says, "superstitious eh," Curly replies "Vici Kid".  I've been wondering what he said (for like 50 years).  But what does it mean?  Looking it up, "Vici kid was a fine soft leather used mainly for gloves and shoes.  So apparently Curly was commenting on the fine, soft leathery quality of the court clerk's toupee."  Oh.

[6/5/14] I couldn't resist and bought another Ultimate Collection at Best Buy (on 5/18/14) since it was selling for only $29.99!  Amazon is now also selling it for $29.99 (it was higher when I bought it at Best Buy).   The Rare Treasures alone is selling for $14.74 ($49.99 list).

[8/11/14]  Three Stooges is no longer streaming on Crackle :(  However free hulu has come to android.  So maybe it'll come to Roku and IOS.  So maybe Three Stooges will come back that way.  Meanwhile, you can still watch pirated episodes on youtube (no subtitles though).