The Stooge films made between 1935 and 1941 captured the team at their peak, according to film historians Ted Okuda and Edward Watz, authors of "The Columbia Comedy Shorts". Nearly every film produced became a classic in its own right. "Hoi Polloi" (1935) adapted the premise of "Pygmalion", with a stuffy professor making a bet that he can transform the uncultured trio into refined gentlemen; the plotline worked so well that it was reused twice, as "Half-Wits Holiday" (1947) and "Pies and Guys" (1958). "Three Little Beers" (1935) featured the Stooges running amok on a golf course to win prize money. "Disorder in the Court" (1936) features the team as star witnesses in a murder trial. "Violent is the Word for Curly" (1938) was a quality Chase-directed short that featured the musical interlude "Swingin' the Alphabet". In "A Plumbing We Will Go" (1940)—one of the team's quintessential comedies—the Stooges are cast as plumbers who nearly destroy a socialite's mansion, causing water to exit every appliance in the home. Other entries of the era are considered among the team's finest work, including "Uncivil Warriors" (1935), "A Pain in the Pullman" and "False Alarms" (both 1936), "Grips, Grunts and Groans", "The Sitter Downers", "Dizzy Doctors" (all 1937), "Tassels in the Air" (1938), "We Want Our Mummy" (1939), "Nutty but Nice" (1940), and "An Ache in Every Stake" and "In the Sweet Pie and Pie" (both 1941).