A Plumbing We Will Go

A Plumbing We Will Go (1940)

To escape the police, the stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to fix a leak in a fancy mansion, but they wind up crossing the electrical system with the plumbing and generally ruin the place.

Date of release
1940-04-19
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (29)
Runtime
18m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Del Lord

Casting

Interesting facts

A Plumbing We Will Go is a 1940 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 46th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Production notes

A Plumbing We Will Go was filmed on December 13–18, 1939, the last Stooge film produced in the 1930s. It was a remake of the Sidney and Murray short film, Plumbing for Gold (1934), and would be remade again with El Brendel and Shemp Howard as Pick a Peck of Plumbers (1944). The Stooges remade A Plumbing We Will Go as Vagabond Loafers (1949) and Scheming Schemers (1956) using stock footage.

Curly recreated the maze-of-pipes gag several years later in Swing Parade of 1946 (1946). Shemp Howard attempted it as well in Vagabond Loafers and Scheming Schemers, while Joe DeRita also attempted the gag in Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959). The chicken-stealing segment that opens the film was also reworked in Listen, Judge (1952).

Aside from the aforementioned reworked films, footage from A Plumbing We Will Go also reappeared in the compilation feature film Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960).

Like A Ducking They Did Go (1939), the title is a play on the children's song, "A-Hunting We Will Go".

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