Later on in their career, after conquering the areas of performance, film, television and music, the Stooge brand would next enter a fairly new realm of technology: the world of video games. In 1984, Mylstar Electronics released the Three Stooges very first video game, an arcade game titled, The Three Stooges in Brides is Brides, also known by its shortened name, The Three Stooges.
Based on the Stooges’ comedy act of the same name, this game allowed the Stooges to expand their fan base further than ever before. In 1987, they received their second Three Stooges Game, this one available on a number of home gaming systems, including the Nintendo Entertainment System. The goal of the game? To prevent the closure of an orphanage.
Who Doesn’t Scooby-Doo Know? - And Other Stooge Cameos
Throughout the Stooges’ career, in addition to their own television work, the trio was also featured in several television show cameos. Most notable of the Stooges’ television cameos, was their guest appearance on ABC’s Off to See the Wizard. This television cameo led to many others, including their role as “Three Men in a Tub” during the television episode, Who’s Afraid of Mother Goose?—another ABC show—which was broadcast on October 13, 1967.
Though the names and likeness of the Three Stooges were used in Scooby-Doo movies, “Ghastly Ghost Town” and “The Ghost of the Red Baron,” the voices of the Stooges were actually played by skilled voice imitators, and not the original Stooges themselves.
The Official Three Stooges Fan Club
In addition to existing as the home of The Stoogeum museum, Ambler, PA is also home to The original Three Stooges Fan Club. With consent from Moe Howard and Larry Fine, the official Three Stooges fan Club was formed in 1974.
Today, The Three Stooges Fan Club is recognized as one of the nation’s oldest fan clubs, and holds a total of over 2,000 fan club members worldwide.
Stooges Lost in Foreign Translation
Interestingly enough, The Three Stooges, when directly translated into different languages around the world, holds some very different, often strange meanings. For instance, in China, the Stooge trio is idiomatically known as either Sānge Chòu Píjiàng or Huóbǎo Sānrénzǔ. The direct translation of The Three Stooges? The ‘Three Smelly Shoemakers.’
Equally as strange, when translated into Japanese, the Three Stooges are known as San Baka Taishō, otherwise known as ‘Three Idiot Generals.’ Even stranger is the Spanish translation: ‘Los tres chiflados’, which roughly translates to, ‘The Three Crackpots.’
And The Award Goes To…
Although the Stooges were nominated for an Oscar, unfortunately they did not win the honor of receiving this honored title. However, in 1993, The Three Stooges did go on to earn a different award: the MTV lifetime achievement award. An award created in order to honor those who have greatly impacted pop culture over the years, this award was announced by Mel Gibson, who, upon presenting the Stooges with the award, as a nod to the Stooges’ notoriously physical, slapstick style of comedy, preceded to hit himself on the head with an over-sized wrench.
Though this award was discontinued after 1998, the legacy of The Three Stooges, their prestige, and their overwhelming influence over society, still remains to this day.