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Soup to Nuts
Soup to Nuts is an American Pre-Code feature film written by Rube Goldberg and directed by Benjamin Stoloff, which marks the film debut of the original four members who would later, minus Ted Healy, go on to become known as The Three Stooges comic trio (Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, and Larry Fine). Goldberg made a cameo appearance in the film as himself, opening letters in a restaurant.
Plot.
Ted Healy is a salesman for the Schmidt Costume Shop who likes to
the other cast members, but none of them could do it.
The "rabbit season/duck season" argument from this short became one of the references in the "Looney Tunes" franchise to have been analyzed both by scholars and by Jones himself (although this gag was actually used by Daffy against Porky six years earlier in the cartoon "Duck Soup to Nuts"). According to an essay by Darragh O'Donoghue, "Rabbit Fire" "stands in close relation to human experience, striving and generally failing to