Jerks of All Trades

Well, I believe Moe, Larry and Shemp had aspirations of being television stars with the filming of this pilot episode, but Columbia Pictures--for whatever strange reasons--stopped production of the potential new series with legal action; their so called "logic" being that a TV series would interfere with the production of stooge short films.

All that aside, the pilot still exists and I would say it's a great show. At first, one might miss the stooge sound effects that greatly enhanced the short films by Columbia--but even with that lack of sound, the stooges show that they were truly adept comedians who could generate big laughs in any setting.

Adding to the proceedings are stooge film veterans, Emil Sitka and Symona Boniface. And one great moment that comes at the end of the "pressure cooker" scene is Moe remarking how the stooges attract the oddest sort of people.

I know there are some mixed reviews for "Jerks", but in my eyes it rates as some of the stooges' finest work.

9 stars