re: Joe Besser,
I always feel like everyone misses my favorite joke in This Is Spinal Tap, when Mick Shrimpton is replaced for the Japanese tour at the end of the film by Joe "Mama" Besser. Most people either don't know who Joe Besser was, or the parallel doesn't register with him, i.e. he's the replacement for the replacement for..., etc.
I kinda get off the Three Stooges bus with Shemp's death. I know I've seen one or two of those movies they made during Curly Joe era, but I don't think they're as good as the stuff they did with Curly and Shemp. My all time favorite is Malice In The Palace. The restaurant scene, with the two customers thinking Larry's slaughtering a dog and a cat and putting in the food, is hilarious.
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