Operation (game) around the United States. It consists of an "operating table", lithographed with a comic likeness of a patient (nicknamed "Cavity Sam") with a large red lightbulb for his nose. This could be a reference to classic cartoons, where ill characters' noses turn red. In the surface are a number of openings, which reveal cavities filled with fictional and humorously named ailments made of plastic. The general gameplay requires players to remove these plastic ailments with a pair of tweezers without touching the edge of the cavity opening. "Operation" includes two sets of cards: The "Specialist" cards are dealt out evenly
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