{"id":4464,"date":"2011-03-12T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4464"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","slug":"day-119-three-stooges-video-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4464","title":{"rendered":"Day 119 – Three Stooges Video (Sell)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I bought this two-tape set years ago when Caleb was just a toddler.\u00a0 It may have been one of the first (of many) times when I tried to introduce one of my kids to something before he or she was old enough to truly appreciate it.\u00a0 I had always had fond memories of the Three Stooges from my childhood because 1) I’m a guy and 2) my brothers and I used to watch the Stooges on a little black and white TV after school in the upstairs of my parents’ Five and Dime Store.\u00a0 (The store\u00a0was housed in an old movie theater and our hangout was what had been the balcony.\u00a0 Every once in a while we’d get too rowdy up there and then we’d send\u00a0a lookout to peer fearfully over the balcony wall to\u00a0make sure\u00a0Dad was not\u00a0stomping his way back towards the stairs on\u00a0his way to give us what-for.\u00a0 The Stooges kept us relatively quiet.) So I was all excited to share this bit of\u00a0my childhood – and pure comic genius – with my first born son … even though he was hardly communicating at the time.\u00a0 I carried Caleb\u00a0to the living room,\u00a0popped the video into the VCR, turned on the TV and sat back on the floor behind\u00a0him to\u00a0observe his reaction.\u00a0 Larry, Moe and Curly were in the midst of one of their fights:\u00a0 Moe slapping Curly and then\u00a0pulling Larry’s hair, all three poking each other in the eyes, twisting each other’s noses, etc.\u00a0\u00a0Hilarious stuff (no matter what the women say!). Caleb\u00a0stared at the screen for a minute, turned to look at me over his shoulder, then glanced back at the TV before turning completely around and waddling toward me. I thought, “Well, I shoulda known his attention span would be too short for him to GET the Stooges.” I opened my arms wide as he approached me…\u00a0 He grinned… Pulled his right hand back… And sucker-punched me in the face. I couldn’t have been prouder!\u00a0 That’s my boy! Now the video needs to go into the garage sale tub.\u00a0 Maybe some lucky kid will pick it up for fifty cents, take it home and discover for himself – maybe for the first time –\u00a0the pure joy of random violence among imbeciles…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought this two-tape set years ago when Caleb was just a toddler.\u00a0 It may have been one of the first (of many) times when I tried to introduce one of my kids to something before he or she was old enough to truly appreciate it.\u00a0 I had always had fond memories of the Three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4466,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions\/4466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}