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* [[Archive Panic]]: Ninety-seven shorts with the classic line-up, ''190'' total.
* [[Base Breaker]]: The short ''Cuckoo in a Choo-Choo'', hands down. This is the short in which Larry is playing a Marlon Brando-esque character who [[Crazy Awesome|stole a passenger car off a moving train]], just so his girlfriend's sister can get her [[
** The very existence of the 2012 movie.
* [[
** Tended to be a [[Running Gag]], as anyone doing this could distract the boys. It could also be from singing.
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: The short "Scheming Schemers". [[Fake Shemp|Shemp had died]], so much of the film is recycled footage from "Vagabond Loafers" several years earlier. Moe and Larry have to carry the few minutes of new footage with [[Hey,
** For the new movie, the gag around naming a nun Sister Mary ''Mengele''. remember that the original Stooges were all Ashkenazi Jews...
* [[Ear Worm]]: Three words: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Pk1UYkB3I Swinging. The. Alphabet.] "B-A-bay, B-E-bee, B-I-bicky-bi, B-O bo, bicky-bi bo, B-U bu, bicky bi bo bu..."
** There's also the song Larry and Curly play for Moe in ''Idiot's Deluxe'' in a two-man band including a trombone, a clarinet and a drum set, which is most unwelcome to Moe who is suffering from the after-effects of a nervous breakdown.
** The song that Curly sings in "I Can Hardly Wait"
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* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Three words. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: ''Bedlam in Paradise'', where Shemp has a nightmare that he dies and comes back as a ghost, was released just a few months before Shemp died in real life. Even more upsetting is that this was a re-release of their earlier film, ''Heavenly Daze'' with some new scenes added in; ''Daze'' starts out with Shemp already in Heaven, but ''Bedlam'' includes a scene that actually shows his character's death.
** Remember the Stooges' blatant disregard of gun safety in the shorts? In reality, Curly Howard accidentally shot himself in the ankle at age 13 while toying with a rifle. The injury was never properly treated, and caused him pain for the rest of his life. In some shorts where his bare legs are shown, one calf is noticeably thinner than the other.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: In "Oil's Well That Ends Well", Moe breaks the fourth wall and says to the audience, ''"I hate him!"'' referring to then-Stooge [[The Scrappy|Joe Besser]] for laughs. Years later, during an interview, Moe revealed that he hated working with Joe, and wasn't the least bit charitable with his comments.
* [[Hate Dumb]]/ [[Tainted
** Also, said people are forgetting the Cardinal Rule of trailer-watching: Never, never, [[Never Trust a Trailer]].
* [[Ho Yay]]: In ''The Brideless Groom'', where Moe and Larry are trying to find Shemp a wife so he can get an inheritance, Moe gets so happy after it seems like they've succeeded that he kisses Larry. A random person walking down the hall as it happens gives them a very disturbed look, and Moe promptly slaps Larry. This was [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] in those days.
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** Invoked when Shemp called himself "The Ugliest Man in Hollywood" as part of a publicity stunt.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]:
** Several of the shorts entail the Stooges' contending with genuinely spooky dolls/statues/puppets/etc. In ''A Gem of a Jam'', for example, Curly eye-pokes a truly [[Creepy Doll|creepy-looking clown bust]], and Moe and Larry run away from a [[Creepy Doll|creepy Jack-in-the-box]]. Meanwhile, in ''If a Body Meets a Body'', the Stooges are awoken in bed by a parrot which hides inside a human skull and flies around with its wings protruding through the ear holes and clutching a sheet with its claws while cackling maniacally. If this troper saw such a thing in a strange dark house in the middle of the night, he'd probably scream in horror too.
** Don't forget a number of times when the boys ran into [[Dem Bones|living skeletons]], haunted suits of armor, and yet more flying skulls. [[The Thing
* [[Recycled Script]]: Several shorts had this, usually with [[Stock Footage]] incorporated in. Once Shemp replaced Curly, several remakes of Curly's old shorts were done with the new stooge, and this was repeated with Joe Besser.
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Moe becomes this whenever he seems to get more abuse than the other stooges, but most of all in ''Dizzy Pilots'' where he gets knocked into a tub of rubber cement ''twice'' and becomes a human balloon.
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** Some of the editing when they were using [[Stock Footage]] got pretty bad, to the point where Curly makes unintentional cameos in some of the remade Shemp shorts because of it.
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: After watching these shorts for years in black and white, actually viewing the colorized version looks eerily surreal.
* [[Values Dissonance]]: In ''The Yoke's on Me,'' the plot centers around "Japs" (read: Japanese-Americans) hiding on the Stooges' farm after escaping from a nearby relocation center. The short ends with Curly [[Dude, Not Funny|killing them]] with a grenade. Quite possibly the most controversial Stooges short ever, this has only recently resurfaced on television after being out of circulation for decades.
** First of all, those "Japs" were stated in the short to be POWs, not interned civilians. Secondly, Curly didn't kill them with an exploding ostrich egg. Moe tossed it, and they weren't killed, period (if someone died from an explosion without showing them flying in heaven playing harps, you're not watching the Stooges). That stated the depiction of Asians in classic Stooges shorts can be grating by modern standards.
** Interestingly enough, despite the ([[World War Two|somewhat]] [[Unfortunate Implications|justified]]) anti-Japanese sentiment in their shorts, they seem to have not bothered using yellowface or faux-Asian gibberish. In one short (No-Dough Boys), they were mistaken for Japanese soldiers because they were simply wearing the uniforms. No "taped eyes" or "buck teeth" like other films in the Stooge's era. In the above example (Yoke's On Me), the Japanese spoken is actual Japanese
* [[Vindicated
** In 2011 the cable channel Antenna TV started airing nightly [[Marathon Running|marathons]] of the shorts on the weekends.
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
** And ''Dizzy Pilots'', particularly the sequence where Moe becomes a human balloon.
* [[
** That will definitely make it an [[Unintentional Period Piece]], but then again the original shorts count as that too.
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