The Three Stooges/YMMV: Difference between revisions

** 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.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

** 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>.

** In 2011 the cable channel Antenna TV started airing nightly [[Marathon Running|marathons]] of the shorts on the weekends.

** 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.