I'm still in Full-Press-Deadline Soup-Can Mode but I always come back from those for an important obit or an important bargain. Our pal Vince Waldron calls to my attention that Amazon is now selling The Three Stooges: The Ultimate Collection for 45 bucks. That's the complete run of their 190 Columbia shorts plus a mess of other appearances, features, etc. on 20 DVDs…so it works out to something like three cents for each poke-in-the-eyes and a dime for every time a Stooge found a live clam in his chowder.
Most of these DVDs were put out as solo releases but three, which mainly feature solo shorts of Shemp, Joe Besser and Curly Joe DeRita, are "bonus" discs not presently available as a standalone purchase. So in a scenario all-too-familiar to those who've collected other film or TV series on DVD, those who purchased the individual releases are now feeling collectors' pressure to buy the boxed set, duplicating all their previous acquisitions, to get the bonus discs. Makes you feel like a Stooge, don't it?
Even if you already have some of this material, $45 is quite a bargain. Order here. I don't think this is a one-day deal but if you're gonna buy, you might as well buy now. I wouldn't expect the price to get any lower.