No Census, No Feeling

No Census, No Feeling
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Del Lord
Produced by	Del Lord Hugh McCollum
Written by	Harry Edwards Elwood Ullman
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Vernon Dent Symona Boniface Max Davidson John Tyrrell Bruce Bennett
Cinematography	Lucien Ballard
Editing by	Art Seid
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	October 4, 1940 (1940-10-04)
Running time	16' 29"
Country	United States
Language	English

No Census, No Feeling is the 50th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

Moe orders an intimidated Curly to get to work in No Census, No Feeling

The Stooges are caught sleeping in a closed awning situated over a store. A brief argument among the trio results in Curly casually tossing a pot over his shoulder, breaking several dishes. The shopkeeper (Max Davidson) becomes irate and chases the Stooges, who quickly dash into a building’s revolving door. Upon exiting the building, the Stooges have clipboards in tow, having inadvertently landed jobs as census takers.

The boys work their way into the home of a socialite (Symona Boniface) who is concerned with a lack of participants in her weekly Bridge game. The Stooges happily comply, and join the game. In the interim, Curly begins to flirt with the socialite's maid, who is in the process of preparing a large bowl of punch. Curly finds that the drink is “not sweet enough” so, and ends up adding Alum salt to the mix, mistaking it for powdered sugar. Within minutes, everyone is mumbling their words as their lips become puckered.

Afterwards, the Stooges are still searching for people to interview for the census. They eventually come upon a nearby football game, and become thrilled as the prospect of speaking with everyone in the stadium. The trio don football players’ uniforms and bypass the guard in the guises of differing players and storm the field. They try asking questions to the players, who end up ignoring them, and Curly finds an ice cream vendor and takes off after him, somehow hijacking his wagon. The Stooges get pulled into the game and, after a few bouts of hardship, get an idea…if they would get the ball away from the players they would have no choice but to answer their questions. With that, Larry and Moe attach chains to the pants of two players and pull them off, distracting the players enough for Curly to grab the ball and run away. But the players notice him and give chase. Curly continues running like mad as Larry pulls the ice cream wagon, carrying Moe behind him. Moe throws fistfuls of ice cream at the players and officials who are chasing them, and the Stooges run out of the stadium.

Notes

• The title No Census, No Feeling is a parody on the expression "No sense, no feeling".^[1]
• Curly confuses "census" for "the censor", thinking he is working for Will H. Hays.^[1]
• A colorized version of this film was released in 2004. It was part of the DVD collection entitled "Stooged & Confoosed".
• In one scene, Curly believes that it's the fourth of July in October, claiming that "you never can tell; look what they did to Thanksgiving!" This is a reference to an event in 1939 when Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving to an earlier Thursday in November to lengthen the Christmas shopping season. This act angered many Republicans and, after some time, the holiday ended up moving to the last Thursday of November.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Solomon, Jon (2002). The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion. Comedy III Productions, Inc. ISBN 0971186804. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0971186804. 

External links

• No Census, No Feeling at the Internet Movie Database
• No Census, No Feeling at AllRovi