So what is “nyuk, nyuk, nyuk” in Spanish?

I will admit it. I am a fan of the Three Stooges. Saw all the shorts. Saw all the feature-length films. Even saw a few shorts that featured solo Stooges (there’s a whole set of Columbia short films that just feature Shemp Howard).

But as of yesterday … I had not seen the Three Stooges in this format.

Apparently their Columbia shorts were dubbed for foreign language markets, and there’s a whole collection of YouTube videos featuring episodes of Los Tres Chiflados. And I’m watching these at a time when I’ve seen these episodes enough to know them by heart … and to hear Spanish voices coming out of Moe, Larry and Curly … it’s damn near surreal.

So how about I share a few of these Spanish-dubbed Stooges episodes with you?

Certainly you know one of their most famous shorts, “Disorder In The Court” – the only one of the classic Columbia shorts that feature the Moe-Larry-Curly lineup that also exists in the public domain.

Here’s an early one, “Movie Maniacs,” and apparently some of these films were colorized later in life. Interesting.

Now this is interesting. Although Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator is noted as the first full-length feature to satirize Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, the Three Stooges’ short You Natzi Spy was the first short subject to spoof Hitler and his fascism. Not sure how well this played in Spain or in Argentina in this dubbed version, but hey …

One more short for your day … this is their “Three Little Pigskins” short, which also features Lucille Ball. In this clip, you can hear Lucy and Larry talking to each other in what might be Pig Latin translated into Spanish from the original Pig Latin to English to … aw, now I got a headache.

So when you think you’ve seen everything the Three Stooges have ever done …

There’s always something new to discover if you just know where to look.