Yes, We Have No Bonanza

We're still deep in the 1939 era here: 

(Short # 39 in Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk: The Columbia Shorts of The Three Stooges)

Featuring a morbid gag involving a donkey. The animal doesn’t actually die, but they’re in the woods looking for buried treasure so they can pay off the debts their girlfriends have with their evil boss, who is also a bank robber. Guess who found the treasure that was buried in the woods… there’s a routine revolving around a stick of lit dynamite that lands by Yorick the donkey. Moe and Curly don’t realize their dog moved the stick away from the donkey. Kaboom, and there went flying the rack of meat they were going to eat… but they thought it was pieces of Yorick! Alas, Poor Yorick indeed.

Otherwise, it was a standard, hilarious tale where the first few minutes are the Stooges singing/dancing with their dames-they work at the same saloon-then they’re yelled at by their boss, then the action moves to a nice indoor set where rocks are thrown & they believe a jackass is blown up. That was funny but the laugh quotient increases during the final few minutes when they confront the villains, the heroes succeed, and Curly utters the title at the end... a rare Rick Dalton point at the screen moment.

As this features everything from a Hamlet reference to a wooden horse becoming involved in a chase w/ an automobile-a lasso is the reason why-Yes, We Have No Bonanza is a swell time.