The Three Stooges: Difference between revisions

* [[Courtroom Antics]]: "Disorder in the Court"

* [[Cut a Slice, Take the Rest]]: Moe and Larry would usually give Curly the short end of the stick. In the short "I Can Hardly Wait" they even make Curly feel guilty for being so ungrateful for his meager piece of the food when he complains.

* [[The Danza]]: Moe and Larry usually just went by their real names in every short. "Curly" was of course a nickname, and "Shemp" was how the boys' mother pronounced "Sam," his real name.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Larry, when he wasn't acting as goofy as Curly in order to annoy Moe.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: In "Idiots Deluxe":

'''Larry''': Yeah! He tried to kill us, too! }}

* [[Disguised in Drag]]: Used quite often. Especially blatant in these cases because most of the Stooges not only have very obviously male faces, but are... well, exceptionally ugly, even as men. Also, Curly, the largest Stooge, is the one who most frequently has to do this. In fact, in one episode, Curly dresses up as a female Native American to fool a French hunter, who actually goes so far as to marry this "fat Indian momma" and take him/her to his bedroom. Hilarity ensued, although since this was before [[Black Comedy Rape]], the disguise was revealed before anything truly unfortunate could happen.

* [[Gargle Blaster]]: Seems to be the only type of alchohol available to the stooges.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Way too many to mention, but one from ''Some More of Samoa'' was pretty blatant for its day.

'''Moe''': Quiet. }}

* [[Grande Dame]]: A very common character in the shorts, the stuffy Society lady whose party (for example) is invaded by the Stooges and becomes the venue for a gigantic pie fight.

* [[Minor Injury Overreaction]]: This was a staple of their comedy. How much would being bopped on the nose actually hurt when Moe's got his fist around it to absorb most of the shock? Curly certainly makes it look agonizing.

** There's also this recurring joke in their shorts:

'''Larry''': *smugly* I've got my eyes closed. (gets slapped by Moe) }}

* [[The Movie]]: Will be directed by the [[There's Something About Mary|Farrelly]] [[Dumb and Dumber|Brothers]], starring Chris Diamantopoulos as Moe, [[Will and Grace|Sean Hayes]] as Larry, and [[Shit My Dad Says|Will Sasso]] as Curly.

* [[Pro Wrestling Episode]]: ''Grips, Grunts and Groans''.

* [[Pungeon Master]]: Curly, again. He'd usually say this in response to a question Moe asked, and Moe would either just be annoyed and ignore it, or in some cases, slap Curly. Example:

(Moe nods like Curly made a good point before realizing he just made another stupid pun and gives him an annoyed look) }}

* [[Punny Name]]: The law firm of Dewey, Cheatem and Howe, (president I. Fleeceum) among others.

* [[Saving the Orphanage]]: The plot for the video game and the 2012 movie.

* [[Say My Name]]: In "A Pain in the Pullman"

* [[Scooby-Dooby Doors]]: On a few occasions.

* [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You]]: In-story, the trio tried two 3-d shorts, 'Spooks!' and 'Pardon My Backfire'. To help enhance the gags, some shots were done at the camera. Which means [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/Sppooks.jpg Moe Is About To Poke Your Eyes!]

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: More than once in their shorts, such as this exchange in ''Crash Goes the Hash''.

'''Curly''': Hey! That's an insult!! }}

* [[Shoehorned First Letter]]: In the short "Sing a Song of Six Pants," the stooges are trying to guess the name of the owner of a suit when they know his initials are TH. They come up with Thomas Hedison and [[Teddy Roosevelt|Teddy Hoosevelt]].

* [[Styrofoam Rocks]]: Used quite often, though it helped sell their slapstick humor by having them survive being hit in the head with rocks or bricks with only minor pain.

** This is even [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''Beer Barrel Polecats'', when Moe and Larry are breaking rocks over Curly's head in prison while he nonchalantly sews a uniform. He stops them at one point when Moe is grabbing another rock.

* [[Tap on the Head]]: Always accompanied by chirping birds afterwards.

* [[There Is Only One Bed]]: In episodes where they weren't sleeping in three stacked bunk beds that were almost certain to collapse, the stooges all shared one bed, which usually resulted in more hilarity.

* [[Think of the Censors]]: In ''Gypped in the Penthouse'', a beautiful woman takes Shemp's ring and hides it in her cleavage, leaving Shemp with a problem:

* [[This Is a Work of Fiction]]: "You Nazty Spy!" claims that "Any resemblance between the characters in this picture and any persons, living or dead, is a miracle."

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: [[You Nazty Spy]]! was [[Ur Example|the first movie]] ''[[Ur Example|ever]]'' to mock the Nazis. Not only do they have that [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], but the balcony scene where they parody Hitler's unique oratorical style with nonsense and weird noises is perhaps the biggest [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] in all the Stooges' copious work.

* [[Wartime Cartoon]]: Though not cartoons as such, the Stooges made several shorts supporting the war effort ranging from from the sublime (''You Nazty Spy'') to the cringeworthy (''The Yolk's On Me'') which used actual Japanese-American internees as extras

* [[Weird Trade Union]]: the Amalgamated Association of Morons local 6 7/8 (''Half-Wits Holiday'').

* [[What Could Have Been]]: "Kook's Tour" as a TV series.

** The stooges had wanted to do a full length feature film for years, but weren't able to do one until the late 50's, by which time it was Moe, Larry and Curly Joe.

* [[Yellowface]]: In "No Dough Boys", a wartime short, the stooges are dressed as Japanese soldiers for a photo shoot, and later stumble upon a hideout with Nazi spies and have to take on the identity of the Japanese spies they were expecting to meet with.

* [[You Can Say That Again]]: In "Micro-Phonies", as they see a beautiful woman:

'''Moe''': Shut up! ''(slaps him)'' }}

* [[Young Gun]]: Billy the Kid in ''The Outlaws Is Coming''.