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From: paveleck@ihuxf.UUCP (Paveleck)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: Three Stooges
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Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 09:04:55 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 09:04:55 1986
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I believe the "...slowly I turn, and step by step, inch by inch..." sketch
is part of some old vaudeville routine (but I'm not sure what the whole
routine is about).  The reason I say this is that I was watching an
old "I Love Lucy" episode in which Lucy takes part in that same sketch
in order to get into Ricky's show (after an unsuccessful attempt to
get into a number with a ballet troupe).  Lucy was the "straight man"
in the "...slowly I turn..." sketch for a seltzer-spraying comedian.
I don't remember the gist of the sketch, but as Lucy and this comedian
rehearsed it in the Riccardo's living room, it had a very distinctive
vaudevillian look (very deliberate speech lines, the seltzer-sprayer
prop, both characters in ridiculous hobo-like costumes, etc.).  The
3 Stooges, however, didn't go as far into the sketch as Lucy and her
partner did (at least, in the cut-for-TV Stooges episode I saw).

"...say Jasper, what comes after 75?"
"Seventy-six!"
"That's the spirit!!"

Bob Paveleck
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