Many folks are reminding this A.M. of Joe Flynn's other big voice credit in animation — Mr. Snoops in the 1977 Disney film, The Rescuers. He was pretty good in that. He was actually a pretty funny actor. Not long before he passed (in '74), he became a regular on the talk show circuit. Johnny Carson first had him on as a guest in June of '72 and I seem to recall Mr. Flynn saying it was the first time he'd ever done anything like that. I do recall that he was hilarious and that you could see that "we've gotta have this guy on a lot" look on Johnny's face. And indeed, health permitting, Flynn appeared once a month with Carson thereafter and started doing Merv as well.
Brent Seguine, who knows everything worth knowing about the Stooges, says that I'm wrong about that male person in the "Swinging the Alphabet" number in Violent is the Word for Curly. It's not an outta-place male student. It's actor Eddie Fetherston playing one of the school officials. He was introduced earlier in the film. I was so busy taking voluminous notes that I missed that.
Brent also writes about the film's three visiting professors. The one on the left is Al Thompson. The one in the middle is Alex Novinsky. Who's the guy at the right? Stooge Experts everywhere are tearing their hair out and poking one another in the eyes trying to find this guy's name…and he also played Professor Tuttle one year later in the knuckleheads' We Want Our Mummy. If you have any leads, send them to me and I'll pass them on to Brent.
Also, Derek Tague notes that in Violent is the Word for Curly, Curly is introduced to the class as Professor Von Stupid. "How then," he wonders, "are the co-eds able to address him as Curly when they sing 'Curly's a dope!' just before the instrumental finale?" How, indeed? It's just this kind of shoddy writing that makes it hard for some people to take a Three Stooges film seriously.