Operation (game) amongst the players at the beginning of the game. In the U.S and Australian version, players take turns picking "Doctor" cards, which offer a cash payment for removing each particular ailment, using a pair of tweezers connected with wire to the board. Successfully removing the ailment is rewarded according to the dollar amount shown on the card. However, if the tweezers touch the metal edge of the opening during the attempt (thereby closing a circuit), a buzzer sounds, Sam's nose lights up red, and the player loses the turn. The player holding the "Specialist" card for that piece then has
If a Body Meets a Body after Curly Howard suffered a mild stroke. As a result, his performance was marred by slurred speech and slower timing. Though the trio did not know it at the time, Curly's health would gradually deteriorate, resulting in languid, sickly performances through his final film with the Stooges, "Half-Wits Holiday". "If a Body Meets a Body" premiered the final version of "Three Blind Mice" as the Stooges' theme music, an updated, faster version arranged by John Leipold and Nico Grigor. (The original "sliding strings" version was regularly used from 1938's "Flat Foot Stooges" until 1942's "What's the Matador?".) Due to the