Three Little Pigskins - Production Notes

Production Notes

• Joe tells the Stooges that no one would see them play -- the game would be played behind closed doors (because there wasn't enough money in the budget to hire extras to fill the stadium).
• This is the first of several Stooge shorts involving a dumbwaiter, usually involving Curly accidentally destroying the floor of the elevator, causing injury to Larry and Moe. The dumbwaiter would reappear in Nutty But Nice.
• The football teams listed on the scoreboard are actually two baseball teams in real life, those names belonging to the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago Cubs.
• For the football game, Moe's jersey number is H₂O₂ (the abbreviation for hydrogen peroxide), Larry's is 1/2, and Curly's is a question mark "?".
• The football team the Stooges played against was that of Loyola Marymount University.
• There was no attempt to hide the venue, Gilmore Stadium, as its name on the scoreboard appears in several shots. There is also a shot that includes a billboard for Gilmore Oil, including its trademark symbol, a lion.
• The title is a pun derived from The Three Little Pigs along with "pigskin" being a synonym for a football.
• This short has Larry speaking pig Latin to Lucille Ball.
• This film marks one of the few times in which Moe doles out slapstick punishment to a non-Stooge character, and one of the only times to a woman (he smacks Lulu in the forehead in a heated exchange of blows, though she gives as good as she gets).
• A planned concluding scene had the Stooges, years later, telling the story to their sons. It is unknown if this scene was ever filmed, but publicity photos exist of the Stooges, each with a young actor, all made up and dressed to resemble their older counterparts.