Larry refers to this incident in his 1973 interview. The fountain pen stunt went terribly wrong - and it in fact stuck into his skull. Larry described how he plucked it out with both blood and ink pouring out.

Well i16d0f you look at the old fountain pens they were pointed at the end so that may explain on how it got stuck in his head but you would think that they would have used a prop because a lot of the things they used were of rubber while filming the shorts.

ive never heard of the one where larry got stabbed, dang that's crazy. they were getting hurt alot i think. the one where moe broke his ribs was Pardon My Scotch.

Yes! I love that story. Poor Larry took it like a man. It's cute in that interview he's like "I felt so terrible" haha.
~angela
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He really was stabbed by the pen. In the 1970s, he stated in an interview that a group of kids had swung by the lot to watch the scene and that he was cussing up a storm right in front of them. He had no idea they were there and he felt so bad later on. It's on YouTube.
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he really was stabbed in the head by that pen. They kept rolling because film ain't cheap. I don't remember the title, but Moe fell off some construction stuff during a scene and broke his ribs. You can see Curly, just for a second, fall out of character. Moe sucked it up and kept going to finish the scene. Now, that's a trooper!
mondo

A WISE MAN SPEAKS WHEN HE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY, AND A FOOL WHEN HE HAS TO SAY SOMETHING!

You know, I don't know how they did that!!!! In fact, I don't know how that fountain pen got stuck in his forehead in the short "Bedlam in Paradise". Remember the phony fountain pen that writes under whipped cream. It really looked like he really got stabbed by it!