I'm a Monkey's Uncle


I'm a Monkey's Uncle is a 1948 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 110th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

The Stooges are cavemen living in the stone age. They must tend to their daily chores, consisting of mixing milk, hunting fish, and gathering eggs. Such is life in the prehistoric times. That afternoon, Moe has a date with his girlfriend, Aggie. Shemp and Larry want to join, as Aggie has two sisters for the boys, Maggie and Baggie. When rival cavemen allege that the Stooges stole their women, a fight breaks out, with the trio catapulting rocks, mud and eggs at the cavemen. After fending them off, the victorious Stooges are free to woo their sweethearts.

Production notes

I'm a Monkey's Uncle was remade as Stone Age Romeos. The film title references the idiom "monkey's uncle".
This is one of the few films in which Shemp imitates brother Curly Howard's barking routine. This was done in other films like Who Done It?, due to certain scripts being written for Curly before his untimely illness.