The Yoke's On Me

The Yoke's On Me is the 79th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

Cast

 * Moe Howard
 * Larry Fine
 * Curly Howard
 * Emmett Lynn
 * Eva McKenzie
 * Robert McKenzie
 * Al Thompson
 * Victor Travis

Plot
The Stooges try to join the army but are labeled 4-F by the draft board due to Curly having water on the knee. When they decide to vacation until a job comes along, their father insists they aid the war effort instead by becoming farmers. Inspired, the trio sell their dilapidated car and buy an equally dilapidated farm. The farm contains no livestock except for one ostrich, which had eaten gunpowder. The boys then spot some pumpkins and decide to carve and sell them.

In the interim, several Japanese internees escape a prison camp (known during World War II as "relocation centers"), and work their way onto the Stooges' farm. Curly is the first to notice some suspicious activity (one of the refugees place the carved pumpkin on his head, spooking Curly). Eventually, Moe and Larry believe him, and realize that the farm is surrounded by the Japanese. Moe then throws an ostrich egg (laden with digested gunpowder) at the refugees, killing them.