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The Three Stooges turn the tables on their hosts by calling them "hoi polloi" at the end. At the English public school (i.e., private school) Haileybury and Imperial Service College, in the 1950s and '60s, grammar schoolboys from nearby Hertford were referred to as "oips", from "hoi polloi", to distinguish them from comprehensive and secondary ...
English Hoi Polloi is a 1935 slapstick comedy short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges ( Moe Howard , Larry Fine and Curly Howard ). It is the tenth entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
Hoi Polloi: 10 August 29, 1935 Dance lesson scene Dizzy Detectives: 68 February 5, 1943 Pardon My Scotch: 9 August 1, 1935 Carpenter scene Dizzy Pilots: 74 September 24, 1943 Boobs in Arms: 52 December 27, 1940 most drill sergeant sequences Pest Man Wins: 136 December 6, 1951 Ants in the Pantry: 12 February, 1936 plot only; no stock footage ...
Modern viewers will recognize Mitchell from her appearances in the Three Stooges 1935 films Restless Knights, Pop Goes the Easel, and particularly Hoi Polloi. In Hoi Polloi , Mitchell plays a dance instructor who directs the Stooges to "do exactly as I do."
McHugh appeared in the Three Stooges short subjects Hoi Polloi, Listen, Judge, and Gents in a Jam. [citation needed] It was in the latter film that she portrayed Mrs. McGruder, the Stooges' irate landlady who delivers the trio a triple slap and a right hook to wrestler Rocky Duggan (Mickey Simpson).
Half-Wits Holiday is a reworking of 1935's Hoi Polloi, without the aid of any stock footage. Half-Wits Holiday would itself later be reworked as 1958's Pies and Guys.. The untimely absence of Curly from the pie fight would prove somewhat helpful when pie-fight footage was later needed.
The latter is perhaps illogical since Hoi Polloi is obviously a Greek expression, but I figured it should perhaps also be classified as an English phrase. The parallell to Latin phrases is alluring, but they are a gazillion whereas Hoi Polloi is virtually alone (and lost) in its Greek phrases category. meco 18:50, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
The specific epithet (hoipolloi) is derived from the Ancient Greek hoi polloi meaning "rabble", referring to the habitat of the type specimens "being found on the outer parts of an amphitheatre, where one expects to find 'the rabble' congregating". Distribution and habitat