Rube Goldberg + The Three Stooges = 1930's SOUP TO NUTS

Rube Goldberg + The Three Stooges = 1930's SOUP TO NUTS


This piece was originally published August 10th, 2009

Most folks are familiar with the famously talented Rube Goldberg.

Goldberg's iconoclastic comic strip drawings for his character, Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts'-better known simply as his "Inventions"-still delight, bemuse, entertain and provide the inspiration for competitions worldwide for their attempt to make complex, the very simple.

The Three Stooges comedy team need no introduction.


What is not often known is that these two famous names came together in a 1930 Goldberg scripted feature film entitled, 'Soup To Nuts.'