If you just watched the last Stooge short, I posted, SO LONG MR, CHUMPS, rest assured that I did not mix part of that movie with this one. Beer Barrel Polecats was the first of what later would become an often repeated process of incorporating old Stooge footage with new segments. The stooges make a whole batch of homemade beer, but get tossed in jail when Curly sells some to a cop. Their minor indiscretion turns into a forty year sentence when a keg of beer Curly has hidden under his coat explodes while the boys are being photographed. In prison the stooges get into more trouble with the warden and wind on the rockpile when they try to escape. Released as old men with long gray beards, the first thing Curly wants is a bottle of beer.
