They returned to the wishbone, and agreed that it should go up one nostril but not out the other. вЂњOh, yeah, it lands in a womanвЂ™s mouth, and Larry says, вЂHey! WhatвЂ™s the big idea? No smoking!вЂ™ вЂ™вЂ™ вЂњWhat turd out?вЂќ Peter replied, distractedly. вЂњYou took the turd out, yeah?вЂќ he said, recalling a gag from an early draft. A big, square-jawed former pro-hockey player and car dealer, he is a kind of Farrelly muse, for whom lust and anger are similarly expressed through gritted teeth. To some, this is sacrilege.вЂќ) Cerrone began whistling the StoogesвЂ™ вЂњThree Blind MiceвЂќ theme.

вЂњThereвЂ™s a lot at stake,вЂќ Peter had said earlier. (Both Farrellys are family men who like to golf, and although their films are known for drawing likable, romantic-comedy characters into graphic sexual and digestive set pieces, they are not in a perpetually boisterous, spring-break mood. Peter, who has longer hair and a longer face than Bobby, brewed green tea and took vitamins. It offered a sunny view of the valley, which was beginning to thaw and drip below, a few people were skating to Sinatra songs on an ice rink.Д«obby, who, at forty-five, is the younger of the brothers by eighteen months, answered his cell phone-вЂњMmm- yello!вЂќ-and talked with his wife and children, who have been living with him in a rented house in Sun Valley for the past year.

Should Moe, in typical fashion, jam the wishbone up LarryвЂ™s nose? Should Moe use the wishbone to hook LarryвЂ™s nose and, holding him off the ground, give him a karate chop to the neck? Or should the bone go in one nostril and out the other? As the three men debated the matter, they wandered in and out of the bathroom and then out onto the terrace. вЂњYou know, I think Moe should take the thing. Larry and Curly each grab an end and start pulling.вЂќ Peter paused. Curly turns it off and Moe holds up the vacuum nozzle, revealing a wishbone stuck in the end. Suddenly, thereвЂ™s a whining sound, as if somethingвЂ™s stuck. Peter-a little clump of beard on his chin, loose corduroy pants-read aloud from the script while Bobby sat in an armchair, his feet, in clean white sneakers, propped on the coffee table: вЂњAs Moe sticks the nozzle in and starts vacuuming, we hear some big stuff clanking and rattling up into the machine. The Stooges work on her with an electric toothbrush, and then with a vacuum cleaner. Moe (pudding-bowl haircut), Larry (unruly hair), and Curly (no hair) are dressed in white medical scrubs, standing around a nun lying semi-conscious on an operating table with her abdomen cut open.

The afternoon of their first day in Idaho, the Farrellys and their co-writer on the script, Mike Cerrone, a friend since childhood, were in PeterвЂ™s room, scrutinizing a scene that updates a familiar Stooge setup. The deadline had been set, in part, by Russell Crowe, whom they were hoping to cast as Moe, the angriest and most violent Stooge. The brothers, who wrote and directed вЂњDumb & Dumber,вЂќВ вЂњThereвЂ™s Something About Mary,вЂќВ вЂњShallow Hal,вЂќ and other vulgar, warmhearted comedies, had a month to produce the second draft of вЂњThe Three Stooges,вЂќ a script that places the trio in the present day, and gives them a degree of present-day frankness about bodily functions-as well as access to chain saws and microwave ovens. In March, seventy years after the release of the first Three Stooges short, вЂњWoman HatersвЂќ-the only one spoken in rhyming couplets-Peter and Bobby Farrelly met up in a hotel in the ski resort of Sun Valley, Idaho, to resume work on a script that they started two years ago and that some people hope they never finish.

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