The Sitter Downers
- IMDb link: 0029574
- IMDb rating: 7.5 (667 votes)
- Genres: Comedy, Short
- Director: Del Lord
- Cast: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Charles Dorety and others
- Release date: 26 Nov 1937
- Release year: 1937
- Runtime: 16 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: slapstick comedy, justice of the peace, prefabricated house, truck driver, sit down strike, prospective father in law, suitor, marriage, gift, the three stooges series
Plot:
The stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their prospective father-in-law refuses to consent the marriages. The strike wins them fame and they receive numerous gifts including a lot and a prefabricated house. They win the strike and get married, but the wives decree no honeymoon until the house is built. The boys have some problems with the construction, especially since Curly burned up the plans. The eventually finish the house, a monstrosity that collapses when one post is accidentally moved.