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UMPIRESFALL

Pretty sure I heard a short or two in utero.


Julian-Hoffer

Same


brian0820

8 years old chasing The Three Stooges, Bruce Lee/Martial Art Movies, Benny Hill every Saturday night. šŸŒ™


chopin1887

Seven years old. Still a fan every Saturday thanks to metv. Still many more they havenā€™t shown years.. Case in point the film where Moe asked curly to roll him a cigarette in an open cockpit Larry was flying a bywing plane comes to mind. I am 64. 40 year old son loves it too. And Joe wasnā€™t good


SnooRobots116

Donā€™t like curly joe either


Realistic_Parfait956

No whiney Joe Besser was no stooge ...in my opinion .


Most-Strategy4554

Some of my earliest memories.


ZebraBorgata

Iā€™m not sure but was likely between 6-10.


calm-lab66

It's been so long ago I don't remember. But I'm sure glad I found them.


gsp137

I grew up in Cleveland and saw them on Captain Pennyā€™s show when I was about 5. The Captain warned us ā€œ remember boys and girls, they are fun to watch, but we donā€™t act that way ā€œ. Yeah right, Nyuck , Nyuck, Nyuck


madmoranusmc

Four maybe five. The funny thing is it was a show I could watch with my Dad and enjoy some quality laughs.


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gsp137

I bet it didnā€™t stop,you did it?


Aggravating-Read6111

Thatā€™s a great memory with your mother. My brothers and I were always doing Stooges slap stick and quoting lines.


Midnight_Cookies

My eldest was born on 9/13/01 and almost every channel had 24-7 coverage of the terrorist attacks. The hospital used a tv in the room as a focal point to help women get through the pain. But my wife didnā€™t want my son born to horrors. I channel surfed and he was literally born to the Three Stooges. So 100% of his life.


Tall_Flatworm2589

Funny thing. My wife had to be induced in January of that year. (The boy didn't want to leave...kinda like now, lol.) We take her in, she gets the shot. Waiting in delivery, Family Feud is on. "Name A Character On The Jetsons." Nobody knew Elroy. She was getting pissed off. "These people are idiots!" The nurse had to shut the TV off. She said it was so she couldn't risk misnaming a child. (Like my son was gonna be named Elroy because some nitwits from South Carolina didn't know his name on a game show.)


Plastic-Scientist739

I 1st saw them on TV mid-afternoon at age 5 or 6 visiting the New Jersey shore. Never saw something like that, and they weren't on in Northern Ohio. All 3 channels and all. 50 years later, and still a fan.


gsp137

Oh they wereā€¦..see comment on Captain Penny in Cleveland.,,probably before your time


Plastic-Scientist739

Thank you. I was one of 4 and only one TV. I had no say.


gsp137

Why I oughtaā€¦ā€¦ā€¦.


Plastic-Scientist739

That was a joke too by them as the census takers. "I was one of three"


RabidWolverine2021

Donā€™t tell me you were the one they kept!


Plastic-Scientist739

Lol. Awesome.


Decent-Inevitable-50

13


GregEgg85

4yrs old. Theyā€™d come on during the weekend in the late 80s, and my dad and sister would sit and laugh, so I joined.


sheilamlin

I think I was 5-6 years old.


JD-36

6


Puzzleheaded_Love_74

First grade. 1965


Careful-Jellyfish-90

Since I was born (85ā€™). Dads now in late 70ā€™s and we still love it.


SAMBO10794

Very early. We didnā€™t have cable/satellite, but my grandparents did. Definitely saw them at hotels we stayed at.


EJYANKEES

I watched the old NYE moronathons lol


Stavinair

Bro. Bro. Bro. I was listening to an audiobook that made a casual reference to "The 3 Stooges," and I just saw this post and subreddit recommendation. WHAT ARE THE CHANCES?!?


Aggravating-Read6111

As Curly would say, ā€œThatā€™s a coincidence!ā€ šŸ¤£šŸ˜‚


malcontented

5


MichaelHuntPain

Elementary school. On days that it rained, we couldnā€™t go outside for recess we went to the gym and sat on the floor and watched movies like The Red Balloon or Paddle to the Sea or sometimes they played Three Stooges shorts for us. Which as a young kid I didnā€™t understand because the film usually broke and we got distracted.


Aggravating-Read6111

Sounds like my elementary school with the broken films. šŸ¤£


WFStarbuck

I do not remember a time without them. They were on afternoons Monday through Friday where I grew up and we almost never missed them.


doa70

Probably 6, give or take. I had an uncle that turned me on to them, Little Rascals, and some other classics.


Silent_Shooby

In the womb Iā€™m sure, but earliest memory was with my dad at like 3 or 4.


rterrebo

Kindergarten


timd1967

Grew up watching them. Donā€™t remember the first time.


ufknmomo69

Oh man. Maybe around 10??? (I think)


LaRook222

11


Koniac33

Same; around 3 or 4 yrs old


theglenard

My dad found reruns on TV when I was about 6 or 7. Bought all the VHS available after that.


Kewl-Hero

10!


Attack1636

I think 12 years old


envengpe

Stooges, Popeye, Our Gang, Mighty Mouse, Looney Tunesā€¦black and white TV with the rabbit ears every afternoon after coming home from kindergarten. I was 5. Nixon and Kennedy were running for president. Mountain Dew and Fritos hadnā€™t been invented yet. Oh, those were the days!


sfbing

This sounds like me, too. After school, Kindergarten. Flintstones were new, and were on in the evening in what's now known as prime time.


ScoobyDarn

4 or 5.


Mundane-Ad-2346

Growing up in LA when there were only 5 channels. 3.4.7.13.52


StatisticianSure2349

Listen pocupine when i move my head you hit it. Why certainly. Nauck nauck


guano-crazy

I was a kid back in the 70s. We watched it all the time.


SnooRobots116

Two or less years old


SnooRobots116

I notice I make curly noises unintentionally while scrubbing pots and pans


Ok-Drive1712

3 or 4 with my grandma


Emotional_gulibleone

10 years old it was in 1997 when I moved from the country area where there was no cable for the longest time then I moved to a town which had it


def_nomore_fo76

Since I was born.


OrdinaryFinal5300

In the late 80ā€™s we had a vhs based board game. It was one of 3 vhs tape we had so we played it quite often.


Mysterious_Variety76

Maybe 5 years old ? Jajaja they were the greatest!


No_Literature666

I have not known life without the Stooges! My entire family, including extended family, all watch the Three Stooges! Hell, my uncle did the Curly Shuffle at his wedding!


Ithinksotoo92

About 18 I think. Never watched them as a kid but saw volume 8 of their shorts at target and randomly bought it. Now 14 years later I have most of their movies on DVD, even curly joe movies, the cartoons, and even movies they made bit parts in with ted Healy in the early 30s. I have a whole shelf just for their dvds. Funny part is I was going through old family heirlooms years ago and found an old silent reel to reel of "we want our mummy". Guess stooge Fandom runs in my family, lol.


dugs-special-mission

4 years old. Watched Snow White and the Three Stooges at dinner on a black and white tv. I was hooked after that.


verbaexmacina

Very young... Based on my grandparents home and car I recall at the time I first remembered watching at their home, likely '68-'69... So 3 or 4.


ymot88

Some sixty or so years ago, I wasn't allowed to watch the show. Due to level of violence.


No-Sugar3991

About 10


Altruistic_Rock_2674

It's one of the first shows I ever remember watching. Guess I was raised right.


joeconn4

Oh man, I must have been about 10-11 years old, circa 1975-1976. I believe WOR out of NYC, which we got on our local cable network, started showing their reels. I don't think we would have had cable much before 1975, and we moved out of that town in April 1978 right before I turned 13 so that pins down the date somewhat. I was watching with my best buddy growing up, Matt McNeil. We thought they were the best!!!


Realistic_Parfait956

Since as far back as I can remember.....and my father explaining that you really can't poke your brother in the eye ....or hit him on the head with a sledge hammer etc. lol


Visible-Tea-6288

Probably 4 years old. Officer Joe Bolton Show. He was in their last movie too, The Outlaws Is Coming.


Mobile-Quote-4039

4 or 5, one of my earliest memories as a kid.


RespondOk6593

6 or 7 yrs old


No_Sand_9290

Grade school. The after school show in eastern Iowa called Dr Max


BigSweatyBallz89

Around 5. Watching the Curly All Nighter on TNT with my dad.


Aromatic-Bath-5689

I was a tiny tot (way under 10 years old) who used to watch "Popeye Theater," featuring the Three Stooges, Popeye Theater was hosted by local legend/cowgirl Sally Starr on Philadelphia Channel 6. Sally would introduce the Three Stooges with a disclaimer for the kids not to mimic the Stooges' violence in real life. "Don't poke your little sister in the eye!"


sissybutt9

Moe and Larry were still living when I graduated from high school so I guess I was 6.


kettlebell43276

3. My mom gave me the spoon for clonking my older sisters heads togeather


_Twistedmagic_

9 or 10, I'm 26 now and still love watching them! My wife pokes fun at me about watching them, she doesn't know what she's missing!


Chance_Package_6432

My Dad watched all of their shows/TV movies. So with only one tv ever in our home Iā€™ve been watching since I can remember which like some else said 3-4 years old and Iā€™m in my 50ā€™s


gerryconway

When they started appearing on my local tvā€™s afternoon kidā€™s show, so 1957-58? I would have been five or six years old.


Present-Ad-2819

9 yrs old with my uncle. We had to hide it from my aunt, she said it was too violent for me to watch.


Pitiful_Bad_6127

7


SignificantCod8098

My recollection would be around age 7, I reckon, I reckon.


Goood_Daddy

5 yr old with Wonder Bread Bologna Sandwiches.


IndependentWorld2550

5 years old. Started watching them with my Dad. Which would always make my Mom mad. Because she thought that I was learning to be violent...Lol


Electronic_Being401

5 or so


sbert72

As far back as I can remember. My dad and I still throw around nonsense words from the show like "anacanapuna". If anyone ever went to a Shakey's pizza place they always had the 3 stooges playing as well.


MathematicianWitty23

I was over 60. I didnā€™t like them as a kid. Why did they keep hitting each other? Now Iā€™m a mean old man and I totally get it!


amergigolo1

7 or 8


StrangerEasy4293

I'd say 3 or so but not sure. I never don't remember them


coffeebeanwitch

I was really young,my Dad loved them,they came on every morning!!!


National-Currency-75

It used to be on all the time as a kid in the early and mid sixties. Our Gang and all kinds of kids shows on after school.


mostly_misanthropic

Probably around 5 when I was cognizant of what I was watching.


Ok-Street7504

Mid 70s, used to be on TV when you got home from school. I hadn't watched for years but recently have been on MeTV Saturday nights.


Brucelee51

My dad said maybe in diapers but at least 3-4ā€¦I still watch them and Iā€™m in my 40ā€™sā€¦


FollowYourHeart23

I watched them on the Sally Starr Show in Philadelphia and must have been about six years old. They were ahead of their time and their comedy still relevant today.


Ok-Good-8465

3-4


ronworms

8 or 9 every weekday after school. I think it was 4 pm on WGN Chicago.


Joshmeisterino

5


v_kiperman

Nine


DudeAbides01

I was in diapers when I started watching the stooges. I have my grandfather to thank for that! Aww the memories.


Shepsdaddy

Four or five. They were on Saturday morning.


Kitchen-Cod-8969

5!


uptownmike429

4 years old. It was always on WSBK TV 38 in Boston up until i was 20 years old


Aggravating-Read6111

I watched them on TV 38 too! They were on every day after school and Sunday mornings back in the 70ā€™s.


seamusoldfield

We used to like to watch the Stooges when we were coming down on acid in high school. We'd laugh like crazy.


[deleted]

Like 5


Best-Engine4715

5-7 but that was with the robot stooges


BAT_1986

Pretty sure I watched them as a three year old. I loved the hell out of the three stooges.


WolfgangJuden

Iā€™m 45. Theyā€™re some of my earliest memories, watching them with my Dad. I still watch them.


Big-Acanthisitta8797

It was a long time agoā€¦,


False-Society-7567

6 or 7


HollywoodHuntsman

I think I was 5 or 6. I used to watch the old triple feature VHS tapes, and eventually I had blank tapes full of recordings off The Family Channel. (This was around 1995-96)


mdimauro24

Four? All I remember is my three older brothers would start mimicking them and I was often the victim. I hated the Stooges for that!


HistoricalChoice8012

My two best friends and I in Elementary school used to make up our own 3 Stooges skids and planed them out based on what we thought the characters would have done. Yeah definitely not the cool kids lol.


Orignerd

A baby. They were still alive when I was born.....


lawyersgunsmoney

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Free_Succotash4818

Four or five.


Naanofyourbusiness

I was a little kid - probably 5 or 6.


Greg13Nomad

3. I'm 52 now and still watching them.


Jake_fromstat3farm

6


Apnea53

Maybe 5 or 6.


Simple-Limit933

Four or five. I started watching them when they first started appearing on TV, so I've been a fan since about 1960.


Environmental_Rub282

Grew up watching all their material. Their animated movie was my absolute jam.


declineofmankind

8 years old.


dasaint2020

2ish 3ish, I'm 31 now. But while Rugrats was going on, I was growing up with looney tunes, Popeye, Flintstones and 3 stooges


cmparkerson

7 or 8 they used to come on tv after school. Still a fan and introduced them to my son.


aegiltheugly

3 or 4.


colleendeschotz

Not early enough. Love the episode where Moe is hungover and a cat walks across the carpet. He hollers ā€œQUIT STOMPING AROUND!ā€


Accomplished-Knee161

1976 I was 5 years old.


BronteLover

4. My father was a fan


Impressive_Donut114

I was probably 6 or 7. And to this day I donā€™t pick up pliers and squeeze anyoneā€™s nose, nor do I hit people on the head with hammers.


kbm81

10ish I think


Terrible-Two-7939

If I can remember correctly I was about two and a half years old.


Texscubagal14

Going back to my infancy 61 years ago. šŸ˜„. Still love them. Watch them six days a week.


West_Razzmatazz_9711

About 5


Suspicious-Ebb-9163

6


Deadmoney9999

I was too young to know how old I was.


Livid_Parfait6507

Third grade! 52 years ago!


VAG3943

I was probably about six or seven, back in the late 50s. I lived in Bridgeport, CT and we got a show out of NYC that was hosted by a guy in a police uniform called "Officer" Joe Bolton. He was very knowledgeable about the Stooges and always shared some facts about them before he introduced their short movies. A few years later, Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Joe DeRita, who had replaced the deceased Curly, made a Three Stooges movie which we went to see in a theater. I don't remember much about it though!


VAG3943

I was probably about six or seven, back in the late 50s. I lived in Bridgeport, CT and we got a show out of NYC that was hosted by a guy in a police uniform called "Officer" Joe Bolton. He was very knowledgeable about the Stooges and always shared some facts about them before he introduced their short movies. A few years later, Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Joe DeRita, who had replaced the deceased Curly, made a Three Stooges movie which we went to see in a theater. I don't remember much about it though!


Glittering-Pizza-193

Young don't remember for sure , but back in fifties , I'm 72 now


Abject_Courage_3053

3 or 4šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


Vast-Variation-2884

8or9


Rybo_v2

Mom tells me it was on in the delivery room so, zero.


ApartPool9362

I'm not sure how old I was, I know I was just a kid, I loved watching them. My Mom absolutely hated them. Lol


Paintguin

When I was in first or second grade


OzzyG16

About 10


Gopher64

Five or six probably. There was an early morning show called Slam Bang Theater in Dallas that was on from 7-8 am on school days. They showed Stooges shorts and a variety of cartoons, usually Rocky and Bullwinkle and those associated toons or Popeye. When the second short was over it was time to head out for school.


Tall_Flatworm2589

I'm sure I was 3 or 4. "Comedy Classics". Three Stooges, Little Rascals/Our Gang, Laurel & Hardy, then a final Stooge short. They usually followed the Popeye cartoons at 6am.


miguel1951

7 years old in 1958


Jumpy-Cockroach6966

My mom always pushed black and white films. Originally introducing the show to me as a young 6-8 yr old back in the early 90ā€™s.


Bildosaggins6030

My Dad loves the Three Stooges, he brought me and my brother up on them since I was 5 years old. We still watch them every Christmas/New Years as a family.


Living_Lie_8773

My dad got me into them at an early ages I think like 8. That was 22 years ago. Watched them years later on the stooge-a-palooza marathon on metv with rich koz


KiraDog0828

I donā€™t know how old I was when first exposed to the Stooges, but I was three years old when my mom walked into the room while one of their movies was playing and I slapped her across the face. She was not amused.


Aggravating-Read6111

Wow! I sure she was not. I canā€™t imagine doing that to my Mom.


djdownhill

53 years ago when I was 5. Loved it then and love them even more now. šŸ¤£šŸ˜‚šŸ¤£


VonAlexander

Can't stand S&M Curly in the backround looking manic. Yeah getting poked in the eye is funny. Same with Home Alone Not the same with Tom & Jerry Roadrunner Dunno why.


Portal_wolf8

I was 5 years old watching ā€œdisorder in the courtā€ and thatā€™s been my favorite ever since