Additional footage, filmed especially for this production, features ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, and animal act The Marquis Chimps.

Jerry hates academic studies, and tries various tricks to skip school: darkening his window to simulate nighttime, putting spots on his face to show illness, and manipulating a thermometer to present a dangerously high temperature.

For example, Winchell telephones a mechanic to ask about a car being repaired; the scene cuts to a garage sequence from the Stooge short Higher Than a Kite.

White is credited as the new feature's director, but he was not involved in the newly staged scenes: "I didn't direct anything, it was all leftovers.

The chimps offer a rendition of Cinderella, narrated in rhyme by Winchell, with voice-over performances by June Foray and Alan Reed.

Columbia staff editor Jerome Thoms, who had worked on seven Stooge shorts himself in the early 1940s, assembled Stop!

became embroiled in controversy following a lawsuit initiated by the Stooges against their longtime agent, producer Harry Romm.

Columbia Pictures, the eventual distributor, publicly acknowledged their oversight, expressing regret for compiling Three Stooges shorts without obtaining the team's consent.