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Shemp is denied entry into heaven. He is given a chance to enter if he can reform his cousins, Moe and Larry. The two remaining Stooges are hopelessly crooked and clueless. I like the sleazy Shemp in heaven. I like Moe and Larry fighting over the inheritance. I like most of this although I would prefer the Stooges to end this by going to hell.

A very funny stooge short. It's hilarious to see Shemp dish out some punishment to both Moe and Larry without them being able to retaliate. Shemp is very mischievous in this episode as he is in many stooge shorts which is one of the many reasons that he is my favorite stooge of all time. It's very upsetting that TV stations do not have the rights to many other great stooge episodes, IE Scrambled Brains, Dopey Dicks, Mummies Dummies, Three Arabian Nuts, Pardon My Clutch, etc etc. It's a shame that new fans don't get to see the entire collection of Stooge shorts to truly appreciate them. Thankfully, some of these "missing" episodes are available on tape, but there are quite a few that are unattainable. Anyways, long live the stooges. SHEMP RULES!!!

If "Heavenly Daze" isn't my favorite short, it's damn close to the top. The ever-underrated Shemp Howard shines in this film. I always bust a gut on the scenes in the stooges "new" digs when Shempie is scaring Moe & Larry's butler to death (played hysterically by Sam McDaniel who nearly steals every scene himself). A definite stooge classic I recommend to anyone with a funny-bone.

10/10

HEAVENLY DAZE is my favorite Three Stooges short. I am only 12 years old, but I'm a big fan of the Stooges. In the short, Shemp learns he can't get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. Shemp is my favorite stooge. HEAVENLY DAZE is a great short. You won't be disappointed.

My rating: A

The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts! In My opinion The Three Stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team!

One of My favorite Stooges shorts with Shemp is none other than Heavenly Daze! All appearing in this short are Vernon Dent, Sam McDaniel, Symona Boniface, Judy Malcolm, Marti Shelton, and Victor Travers. There are so many funny parts here. This is a very hilarious short. There is another similar Three Stooges short like this one called Bedlam in Paradise and I recommend both!

I had no idea the afterlife was so highly organized. Why, they've got trains that actually stick to schedule and tons of clerical workers. Luckily for Shemp, his Uncle Mortimer (who looks an awfully lot like Moe) occupies an important bureaucratic position, so he's able to cut Shemp a deal. Here we also learn that male angels, when sexually excited by shapely female angels, react by bringing their wings up over their shoulders. Apparently, however, this act is strictly a faux pas, judging from Uncle Mortimer's reaction to Shemp's excitability. We also learn that in the afterlife, we are bound to have run-ins with very small, yet very spiteful, rain clouds. These clouds are pretty hard, are suspended by strings, and dispense their rain through two small holes near their center. Shemp must catch the train to Earth, where he is given the daunting task of reforming Moe and Larry, whom we first meet in the office of lawyer I. Fleecum (apparently after he split from his erstwhile partners Cheatham and Howe), portrayed by the great Vernon Dent. Here, Vernon does what no self-respecting shyster would do---he tells the truth, by admitting to Larry and Moe that he has ripped them off blind. I like Larry's line here, "Mind if we breathe?" Shemp, being unseen and unheard, begins reforming Larry and Moe by slapping Moe as a payback for the years of abuse he suffered at Moe's hands (sounds effective to me). Then Larry and Moe go through the trouble of renting a posh apartment, even with a sporty butler, just to run a scam on a wealthy couple. And, yes, it's the old fountain-pen-that-writes-under-whipped-cream scam. Here's what I don't understand: when Moe sets up the pen, paper, and cream in the automatic mixer, why is the paper blank? Moe even admits to Larry that the pen is not likely to write! Wouldn't an experienced scam artist place a sheet of paper that already has fountain pen squiggles all over it, to fool the DePuysters into thinking that the pen really wrote under whipped cream? Thankfully, this is a Stooges short, so things like technical details and plot aren't really important. The best scene is the opening of the second reel. Here we see Moe and Larry in their opulent digs, where Larry gives Moe a greeting popular with society's upper crust, "I say, old fishmonger, old skunkbait!," whereupon Moe shows his bourgeois leanings by clobbering Larry for putting on airs. Then Spiffington the butler says "Thank yawww," which precipitates Moe and Larry engaging in brilliant ripostes of "Thank yawws," until Moe tires of the game and slaps Larry silly. It's worth seeing this short just for this scene alone, so don't be a schmoe: see this short!

Who's to say what goes on in the mind of a stooge like Shemp Howard. At the pearly gates of heaven, Uncle Mortimer informs Shemp that he can't gain entry until he goes back to earth to reform his mischievous cousins, Moe and Larry.

Of course, the hook here is that Moe and Larry can't see Shemp, which leads to some hilarious setups of Shemp dishing out some abuse on Moe for a change (and Larry). Shemp also finds time to frighten the boys butler--a role I've always enjoyed being played by the great Sam McDaniel, who nearly steals every scene he is in (says which).

But alas, this was all just a dream & Shemp takes a pie to the kisser to end this wonderful short....