Christy Karacas and Titmouse are Reviving ‘The Three Stooges’

Promising visual slapstick and limited dialogue, Titmouse will build 52 11-minute episodes centered around the iconic trio. But visual humor and less talking isn’t a guaranteed formula for success, as evidenced by Chaplin & Co., a recent CGI cartoon series that awkwardly attempted to revive another icon of slapstick comedy.

The Three Stooges may fare better than the Chaplin series thanks to the talent attached to it. The series’ pilot animatic was created by Christy Karacas, whose hyper-violent cartoon series Superjail! can trace a line directly back to the choreographed smackdowns that Larry, Moe, and Curly delivered ninety years ago. Karacas will also direct the pilot.

Titmouse envisions the actual series will be directed by “a broad group of established directors, who will each be asked to take the lead on several episodes.” Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi comes immediately to mind — although he once admitted that “[The Three Stooges] are really hard to draw!” — as do many others candidates whose current wacky cartoons owe much to the Stooges’s pie-in-the-face legacy.