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* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: In ''Ants in the Pantry'', the short involved the Stooges trying to rid a house of pests (that they pre-infested to get business). Long story short, a mouse ends up crawling down the back of an unfortunate party guest, who promptly starts jumping and stomping in an attempt to get it out. The Stooges approach and, seeing a rhythm in the poor man's stomping, start clapping along and quickly start dancing, seemingly abandoning their search until the mouse reappears.
** 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..."
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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 <ref> It's been a while since I've seen that short so I may be wrong, somebody please clarify.</ref>.
* [[Vindicated By Cable]]: The Stooges ended up becoming more popular than they ever had been before in the 1960s once their shorts were moved to television.
** 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 On Drugs?]]: The bizarre 1952 short ''Cuckoo On a Choo Choo''.
** And ''Dizzy Pilots'', particularly the sequence where Moe becomes a human balloon.
* [[WTH Casting Agency]]: While the three [[The Other Darrin|new actors]] in the 2012 film seem to do a good job with their impressions, the cast of [[Jersey Shore]] [[Were Still Relevant Dammit|seems pretty glaring.]]
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