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Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (1938) was a Comedy - Short Films Film directed by Del Lord and produced by Jules White.

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Moe: If you want to cheat, cheat fair.


Moe: [Drinks a whole bottle of champagne. Followed by a faint rumbling noise] This bottle sounds flat.
Moe: Try another.
Curly Howard: [gets a bottle of champagne from the tray] I'll sharpen this one up.
[Shakes it, then opens it with foam squirting out. Curly puts it in his mouth and champagne sprays out of his ears. Then stops after a while]
Curly Howard: Boy, did I sharpen that bottle.


[first lines]
Larry: How many?
Moe: I'll take three.
Larry: I'll take the same.
Moe: I bet two.
[Moe puts two pancakes on the center plate]
Larry: I'll see those two, and I'll raise you five!
[Larry puts his entire stack on the center plate]
Moe: I'd better win today I haven't had breakfast in a week!
Larry: Well the best man always wins.
Moe: Well there's four... Hey I need some more chips!
[the camera moves over to Curly flipping a pancake in a frying pan]
Moe: Hurry it up with those chips!
[Curly comes over to the table]
Curly Howard: I'm getting sick and tired of making chips for you guys, I gotta get busy for my radio contest!


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There is a rare chance to hear Curly's real voice in the short. Shortly before he turns the radio on, he is talking to Moe and Larry, and his voice is noticeably lower.
The monkey's name is Darwin, named after Charles Darwin. This was very controversial for the time since at the time the short was filmed the "The Monkey Trials" were going on.
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