The Yoke's on Me

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Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Eva McKenzie, and Curly Howard in The Yoke's on Me (1944)

Rejected by the armed services, the stooges decide to "do their bit" by becoming farmers. For $1000 plus the car, the boys buy a run down farm with no livestock. They acquire an escaped ostr... Read allRejected by the armed services, the stooges decide to "do their bit" by becoming farmers. For $1000 plus the car, the boys buy a run down farm with no livestock. They acquire an escaped ostrich that eats gunpowder and lays explosive eggs.Rejected by the armed services, the stooges decide to "do their bit" by becoming farmers. For $1000 plus the car, the boys buy a run down farm with no livestock. They acquire an escaped ostrich that eats gunpowder and lays explosive eggs.

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Moe Howard

Moe
(as Moe)

Larry Fine

Larry
(as Larry)

Curly Howard

Curly
(as Curly)

Emmett Lynn

Smithers
(uncredited)

Eva McKenzie

Ma
(uncredited)

Robert McKenzie

Papa
(uncredited)

Al Thompson

Sheriff
(uncredited)

Victor Travis

Deputy
(uncredited)

Director
- Jules White
Writer
- Clyde Bruckman
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Trivia
The escapees are not POW's, they are not captured Japanese. They are from a relocation center, a prison camp set up by the U.S. Government for Japanese-Americans taken from their homes and businesses and interred for the duration of the war. The vast majority were permanent residents, most were citizens. The US Government effectively kept full knowledge of the camps from the general public for almost 30 years. After lawsuits and publicity in the 1970s, some stations removed this short from rotation. Some to prevent offense, some to further keep the secret. Other Stooge shorts have been treated similarly, mostly due to racial depictions common when the films were made but considered offensive later, and generally with the same intentions.

Goofs
A wire attached to the goose is clearly visible when it bites Curly's nose and flies around.

Quotes
Moe: [Curly is dancing and striking poses with some ostrich feathers] Hey, pin-up boy! Get to work, or I'll pin your ears back.

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4/10

In A Manner Most Alarming, the Stooges Take Up Farming

It's hard to judge The Yoke's On Me from a historical perspective. There are some really funny gags in this film as the Three Stooges take up farming to do their bit for the war. But the mistaken policy of those Relocation Centers for Japanese-Americans make this one really hard to swallow. Of course blaming Howard, Howard, and Fine is just ridiculous. They never had any kind of choice of the material they did over at Columbia Pictures.

While the Stooges are learning the rudiments of agriculture with gags later in abundance in The Egg And I and Green Acres, some Japanese who were interned in a Midwest Relocation Center escaped. No doubt resenting being uprooted from their homes and who knows maybe wanting to enlist in the Japanese American Regiment that was portrayed in Go For Broke and had Senator Daniel K. Inouye among its casualties. Still they are classified the enemy and are captured in Stooge style. The title refers to some ostrich eggs with some real power behind them and one that hits Curly with predictable results.

When you realize the history the gags just don't have the same laughs in them.