No Census, No Feeling

No Census, No Feeling (1940)

Those madcap merchants of mirth score a laugh touchdown!

The stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a bridge game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. The resulting concoction is consumed by everyone, resulting in puckered lips and shrunken clothes. The boys next try to take the census at a football stadium. They disguise themselves as players and wind up in the middle of the game. Curly runs off with the ball and all the other players in pursuit.

Date of release
1940-10-04
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (16)
Runtime
17m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Del Lord

Casting

Interesting facts

No Census, No Feeling is a 1940 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 50th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Production notes

No Census, No Feeling was filmed on May 25–29, 1940. The film title is a parody on the expression "No sense, no feeling".

Curly confuses "census" for "the censor", thinking he is working for Will H. Hays.

In one scene, Curly believes that it is Independence Day 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.

A colorized version of this film was released in the 2004 DVD collection entitled "Stooged & Confoosed."

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