Nora - The Three Stooges
This is one of the funniest Three Stooges films I've seen, "Scrambled Brains." Shemp is in a sanitarium, hearing things and seeing things that aren't there. He actually is mentally disturbed and there's no other explanation given for it, such as someone playing tricks on him. When he's playing the piano, other hands beside his own appear. It's great.
I love it when he's leaving the sanitarium and he's saying goodbye. He says goodbye to the chair, to a marlin (a fish statue), and the fireplace, which has a hand that drops out and shakes Shemp's hand. I'm laughing just thinking about it.
At the sanitarium he meets Nora, a woman that he thinks is beautiful. She doesn't have the features traditionally thought to be beautiful, such as in beauty pageants. Moe and Larry notice this but not Shemp. To him her two teeth, separated by about an inch and a half empty space, are lovely pearls.
In the end she carries him off to get married, even though the Stooges have made a permanent enemy of Nora's father.
It's a very funny episode. I definitely love Shemp. I've watched all the Shemp episodes now up to this one, and this guy has gotten a bum rap over the years. He's an excellent, excellent Stooge in every way.
