Major Actors Hired To Do Very Little

You can't do much more "nothing" in a film than literally stand there for five seconds. That's extras work, for the most part. And yet, that's exactly what the legendary Three Stooges did, in 1963's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. The story is Rat Race 1.0 — a bunch of celebrities run around in this wacky way or that one, hoping to collect a giant chunk of money — but what's truly important is this scene. There, standing around holding fire hoses and fire axes, about to completely screw up their job as they're eternally wont to do, are Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe: the Three Stooges.

No one's bonking heads, Moe isn't yelling at the two other knuckleheads to get to work — they're just there, for about as much time as it takes to microwave a Pop Tart. Apparently, someone decided it'd be funnier to take the three funniest people on TV and have them do nothing funny at all. And honestly? It kind of works.

We almost saw yet another Stooge in Mad X4. Joe Besser, who played Joe, was originally going to play a mechanic, but couldn't get time off work. Either way, conspicuous by his absence was the best Stooge of all, Curly, who had been dead for years and was thus doing the most nothing of all.