The Three Stooges have been had nearly a century of entertaining fans. Now, whether you’re a lifelong Stoogephile or just a casual knucklehead, you are sure to find something to love about this comprehensive tribute to America’s most beloved madcaps: Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe and Curly Joe.

There’s over 8 hours of material on this set, including unreleased outtakes, color home movies, rare television appearances and commercials, theatrical trailers, unseen archival interview footage, forgotten audio recordings from live stooge appearances, family photo galleries and so much more.

It all starts with an HD version of the award-winning documentary program Stooges: The Men Behind the Mayhem, introduced by Curly Howard’s grandson Bradley Server. This film will take you through the history of the Stooges, starting with Ted Healy and His Stooges, consisting originally of Ted Healy and Moe Howard. Some time later, they were joined by Moe’s brother, Shemp Howard and then Larry Fine. They made Soup to Nuts before Shemp left, Curly came in and the three went away from Healy.

The biography doesn’t get too deep into Ted Healey’s mysterious death at the hands of future James Bond producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, his cousin Pat DiCicco and Wallace Beery at Cafe Trocadero, an incident that was covered up by MGM.

Regardless, it is quite rich in its history of the Three Stooges, their shorts and their career resurgence as Screen Gems sold the shorts to a new audience of kids watching TV.

This set also has two lost films, the movie Surprise, Suprise starring Moe, Larry and Curly and Everybody Likes Music, which starts Shemp.

It’s been decades since the Three Stooges released their last film and yet they remain popular. Their films have never left American television and while they will never be as celebrated as smarter comedy acts, they survived tragedy and changes in number that would have destroyed any other comedy team.

When my parents first married, my mom woke up one night very late and heard a very loud noise downstairs. My father wasn’t in bed. As she got closer to the TV room, she thought he was having some kind of attack. She had never heard him laugh so hard. He was watching a Three Stooges short. I lost my father last year and I always think so fondly of him whenever I watch one of their appearances, as if he were still here with me in some way.

You can get this set from MVD.