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* DodgyToupee: When the Stooges are playing music for the court, the prosecutor's hairpiece gets stuck the bow of Larry's violin and is peeled clean off.
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* DodgyToupee: When the Stooges are playing music for the court, the prosecutor's hairpiece gets stuck on the bow of Larry's violin and is peeled clean off.
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* BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon: Off-screen, Gail Tempest was arrested when she was standing in the crime scene of Kirk Robin's murder holding the revolver that killed him. Hilarity ensues when the defending attorney asks the Stooges to demonstrate [[DisabilityAlibi the trigger needs a very strong finger pull to fire]].
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* MsFanservice: Gail wearing her dancer outfit beneath her coat.
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* AmoralAttorney: The prosecutor begins his work in the short by questioning Gail and immediately (and [[LargeHam loudly]]) asking her "did ''you'' killed Kirk Robin!?" The defense is correct to object and ask the question to be struck.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: Moe is the first to point out the pile of letters that Polly has been referring to.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: Moe is the first to point out the pile of letters letter that Polly has been referring to.
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* FlippingTheBird: In the scene where Curly is chewing gum, he can be seen giving the middle finger to the camera.
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* FlippingTheBird: In the scene where Curly is chewing gum, he can be seen giving the middle finger to the camera. It stayed in because it didn't mean anything back in the 1930s.
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'''Curly:''' No! [[Main/Pun But I know all the words!]]
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'''Curly:''' No! [[Main/Pun [[{{Pun}} But I know all the words!]]
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* {{Fanservice}}: Gail Tempest's dancing outfit [[LegFocus showss off her legs]], and has a collar that stops just above her cleavage. Naturally, [[DistractedByTheSexy some of the people in attendance can't take their eyes off her]], including an [[RuleOfFunny elderly, apparently married man.]]
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* {{Fanservice}}: Gail Tempest's dancing outfit [[LegFocus showss shows off her legs]], and has a collar that stops just above her cleavage. Naturally, [[DistractedByTheSexy some of the people in attendance can't take their eyes off her]], including an [[RuleOfFunny elderly, apparently married man.]]
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* {{Fanservice}}: Gail Tempest's dancing outfit shows off [[ShesGotLegs her legs]], and has a collar that stops just above her cleavage. Naturally, [[DistractedByTheSexy some of the people in attendance can't take their eyes off her,]] [[RuleOfFunny including an elderly, apparently married man.]]
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* {{Fanservice}}: Gail Tempest's dancing outfit shows [[LegFocus showss off [[ShesGotLegs her legs]], and has a collar that stops just above her cleavage. Naturally, [[DistractedByTheSexy some of the people in attendance can't take their eyes off her,]] her]], including an [[RuleOfFunny including an elderly, apparently married man.]]]]
* FlippingTheBird: In the scene where Curly is chewing gum, he can be seen giving the middle finger to the camera.
* FlippingTheBird: In the scene where Curly is chewing gum, he can be seen giving the middle finger to the camera.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the scene where Curly is chewing gum, he can be seen [[FlippingTheBird giving the middle finger to the camera.]]
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Film/TheThreeStooges are key witnesses at the murder trial of Kirk Robin. Their friend and colleague, Gail Tempest (Suzanne Kaaren), is a dancer at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, and is the prime suspect in the murder. The Stooges are the only ones who can prove her innocence. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity and]] CourtroomAntics [[HilarityEnsues ensue]].
The short is one of the four in the [[PublicDomainFeatureFilms public domain]], and thus is usually included in cheap video collections, making it perhaps one of the best known Stooge shorts. It is the only Curly short to have fallen into the public domain.
The short is one of the four in the [[PublicDomainFeatureFilms public domain]], and thus is usually included in cheap video collections, making it perhaps one of the best known Stooge shorts. It is the only Curly short to have fallen into the public domain.
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Film/TheThreeStooges are key witnesses at the murder trial of Kirk Robin. Their friend and colleague, Gail Tempest (Suzanne Kaaren), is a dancer at the Black Bottom cafe Cafe, where the Stooges are musicians, and is the prime suspect in the murder. The Stooges are the only ones who can prove her innocence. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity and]] CourtroomAntics [[HilarityEnsues ensue]].
The short is one of the four in the [[PublicDomainFeatureFilms public domain]], and thus is usually included in cheap video collections, making it perhaps one of thebest known best-known Stooge shorts. It is the only Curly short to have fallen into the public domain.
The short is one of the four in the [[PublicDomainFeatureFilms public domain]], and thus is usually included in cheap video collections, making it perhaps one of the
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* CourtroomAntics: Doesn't gets much more antics-laden that allowing the Three Stooges to run wild in a courtroom and allowing them to reenact what they witnessed.
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* CourtroomAntics: Doesn't gets get much more antics-laden that than allowing the Three Stooges to run wild in a courtroom and allowing them to reenact what they witnessed.
* ExactWords: When summoned to the witness stand, Curly is asked to "step forward." He takes a single step forward.
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* GardenHoseSquirtSurprise: An interesting variant: In order to prevent the parrot from flying away, Moe suggests getting it wet. Curly then proceeds to grab and turn on a fire hose, but has trouble controlling it. A police officer attempts to shut the hose off, but breaks the valve. Eventually, Curly does hit the parrot, and to prevent the hose from causing any more disorder, Curly ties it in a knot. At the end, when the Stooges, Gail, and the Defense Attorney gather for a news photo, the hose bursts, soaking everybody.
* HeadInAVise: Moe was demonstrating a reenactment of the crime scene using Curly as the victim and put Curly's Head in the vice.
* HeadInAVise: Moe was demonstrating a reenactment of the crime scene using Curly as the victim and put Curly's Head in the vice.
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* GardenHoseSquirtSurprise: An interesting variant: In order to prevent the parrot from flying away, Moe suggests getting it wet. Curly then proceeds to grab and turn on a fire hose, but has trouble controlling it. A police officer attempts to shut the hose off, but breaks the valve. Eventually, Curly does manages to hit the parrot, and to prevent the hose from causing any more disorder, Curly ties it in a knot. At the end, when the Stooges, Gail, and the Defense Attorney gather for a news photo, the hose bursts, soaking everybody.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the scene where Curly is chewing gum, he can be seen [[FlippingTheBird giving the middle finger to the camera.]]
* GoodLawyersGoodClients: The defense lawyer (played by Stooges regular Bud Jamison) is portrayed as being much more honorable and level-headed than the rather hot-tempered prosecutor, possibly as a way of indicating from the beginning that Gail is innocent.
* HeadInAVise:Moe was Moe, while demonstrating a reenactment of the crime scene using Curly as the victim and put victim, puts Curly's Head in the vice.a letter press. Curly [[HardHead is fine afterwards.]]
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the scene where Curly is chewing gum, he can be seen [[FlippingTheBird giving the middle finger to the camera.]]
* GoodLawyersGoodClients: The defense lawyer (played by Stooges regular Bud Jamison) is portrayed as being much more honorable and level-headed than the rather hot-tempered prosecutor, possibly as a way of indicating from the beginning that Gail is innocent.
* HeadInAVise:
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'''Curly:''' [[LampshadeHanging He's talkin' pig latin; I don't know what he's saying!]]
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'''Curly:''' [[LampshadeHanging He's talkin' pig latin; I don't know what he's saying!]]saying!]]\\
'''Judge:''' He's asking you if you ''swear''-\\
'''Curly:''' No! [[Main/Pun But I know all the words!]]
'''Judge:''' He's asking you if you ''swear''-\\
'''Curly:''' No! [[Main/Pun But I know all the words!]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The judge, who maintains his calm in the face of Stooge stupidity.
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** Gail Tempest also qualifies, as both "gale" and "tempest" are synonyms for "storm".
** Kirk Robin, whose name is derived from the nursery rhyme "Who Killed Cock Robin".
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The judge, who (mostly) maintains his calm in the face of Stooge stupidity.
** Kirk Robin, whose name is derived from the nursery rhyme "Who Killed Cock Robin".
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The judge, who (mostly) maintains his calm in the face of Stooge stupidity.
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* ThatWasObjectionable: The prosecution continually objects when the defense tries to question Curly on the witness stand for "leading the witness".
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* DashinglyDapperDerby[=/=]NiceHat: Curly's "doiby".
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Film/TheThreeStooges are key witnesses at the murder trial of Kirk Robin. Their friend and colleague, Gail Tempest (Suzanne Kaaren), is a dancer at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, and is the prime suspect in the murder. The Stooges are the only ones who can prove her innocence. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity and]] CourtroomAntics [[HilarityEnsues ensue]].
The short is one of the four in the [[PublicDomainFeatureFilms public domain]], and thus is usually included in cheap video collections, making it perhaps one of the best known Stooge shorts. It is the only Curly short to have fallen into the public domain.
The DuckSeasonRabbitSeason routine below was a [[RecycledScript recycled gag]] from Creator/BusterKeaton talkie ''Film/SidewalksOfNewYork''.
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!!Tropes:
* BrickJoke: As the Stooges try to catch the runaway parrot so they can read the note on its leg, the spigot for the [[WaterHoseRodeo out-of-control fire-hose]] they were using to try to incapacitate the parrot breaks off, prompting Curly to shut it off by tying the hose in a knot. At the very end after Gail Tempest is cleared of the crime and the media is taking a group photo of Gail, the Stooges, and several others, the tied-up hose bursts, [[GardenHoseSquirtSurprise spraying water all over everybody]] as the scene fades to black.
* CloseCallHaircut: The prosecutor gets one after Curly accidentally shoots a gun.
* CourtroomAntics: Doesn't gets much more antics-laden that allowing the Three Stooges to run wild in a courtroom and allowing them to reenact what they witnessed.
* CourtroomEpisode: The whole short happens in the courtroom during Gail Tempest's hearing for her allegedly murder of Kirk Robin.
* DashinglyDapperDerby[=/=]NiceHat: Curly's "doiby".
* DeusExMachina: The real murderer of Kirk Robin decided for some reason to write a letter in which he gleefully confesses and says where he's going and leaving it tied to the foot of Robin's pet parrot.
* DodgyToupee: When the Stooges are playing music for the court, the prosecutor's hairpiece gets stuck the bow of Larry's violin and is peeled clean off.
-->'''Larry:''' A tarantula!
* DumbassHasAPoint: Moe is the first to point out the pile of letters that Polly has been referring to.
* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: This exchange:
-->'''Prosecutor:''' Take off your hat. ''[Curly does so]'' Now, raise your right hand. ''[Curly puts his hat back on and does so]'' Now, put your left hand here ''[he points to the book he's holding; Curly does puts his cane in his right hand and puts his hand there]''\\
'''Judge:''' Take off your hat. ''[Curly does so, putting his right hand down in the process]''\\
'''Prosecutor:''' Raise your right hand.\\
''[[[OverlyLongGag this continues until]] Curly puts his hat on his cane (which is still in his right hand) and raises his right hand'']\\
'''Prosecutor:''' Will you get rid of that hat?! ''[grabs it off Curly's cane, only for Curly to grab it and put it on the Prosecutor's head]''\\
'''Curly:''' Raise ''your'' right hand.\\
''[Prosecutor does so, but puts it down when he realizes what Curly just did]''\\
'''Prosecutor:''' ''Raise your right hand!''
* {{Fanservice}}: Gail Tempest's dancing outfit shows off [[ShesGotLegs her legs]], and has a collar that stops just above her cleavage. Naturally, [[DistractedByTheSexy some of the people in attendance can't take their eyes off her,]] [[RuleOfFunny including an elderly, apparently married man.]]
* GardenHoseSquirtSurprise: An interesting variant: In order to prevent the parrot from flying away, Moe suggests getting it wet. Curly then proceeds to grab and turn on a fire hose, but has trouble controlling it. A police officer attempts to shut the hose off, but breaks the valve. Eventually, Curly does hit the parrot, and to prevent the hose from causing any more disorder, Curly ties it in a knot. At the end, when the Stooges, Gail, and the Defense Attorney gather for a news photo, the hose bursts, soaking everybody.
* HeadInAVise: Moe was demonstrating a reenactment of the crime scene using Curly as the victim and put Curly's Head in the vice.
* HypocriticalHumor: After giving his witness account in very... unusual language, the defendant tells Curly to talk so the jury can understand him. Curly belts out "Is ''everybody'' dumb?!"
* {{iSophagus}}: When the Stooges are reenacting a musical performance during the trial, Curly slaps Moe on the back causing him to swallow a harmonica. They then find that when they press on Moe's stomach they can hear the harmonica, and soon Curly and Larry begin to make Moe play "Ach Du Lieber Augustine" by pumping his arm and squeezing his stomach, before he coughs the harmonica up.
* JugglingLoadedGuns: A gun is introduced as evidence. Curly is told to try to pull the incredibly rusty trigger, after being told "Never fear, it's not loaded." After one harmless click, he then accidentally shoots off the prosecutor's toupee when his finger gets stuck in the trigger guard.
* LiteralMinded: Curly, all the way through the short. For example...
-->'''Judge:''' Take the stand.\\
''(Curly picks up the chair at the witness box)''\\
'''Curly:''' Where do I put it?\\
'''Judge:''' No no, take the stand.\\
'''Curly:''' I got it, now what do I do with it?\\
'''Prosecutor:''' '''Sit down!'''
* MotorMouth: The prosecutor, PlayedForLaughs, of course.
-->'''Prosecutor:''' Do you solemnly swear totellthetruthwholetruthandnothingbutthetruth?\\
'''Curly:''' Huh?\\
'''Prosecutor:''' Do you ''solemnly'' swear totellthetruththewholetruthandnothingbutthetruth?!\\
'''Curly''': Are you trying to give me double-talk?\\
'''Prosecutor:''' ''(quite irritated now)'' Do you solemnly swear totellthetruththewholetruthandnothingbutthetruth?!\\
'''Judge:''' Why don't you answer him?\\
'''Curly:''' [[LampshadeHanging He's talkin' pig latin; I don't know what he's saying!]]
* PeopleFallOffChairs: Curly's messing around with the chair on the witness stand results in this.
* PunnyName: The actual murderer is a man named Buck Wing: "buck-and-wing" is the name of a type of solo tap dance.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The judge, who maintains his calm in the face of Stooge stupidity.
* RecklessGunUsage: The revolver used to kill Kirk Robin is presented as evidence in Gail Tempest's trial and handed to Curly by the defense attorney, who orders him to pull the trigger to prove that it's so hard to pull a woman like Gail wouldn't have been able to. For the sake [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace of the gag that ensues]], that means that even with the attorney assuring Curly that the gun isn't loaded, nobody at no point between picking it up at the site of Kirk Robin's murder and delivering it to the courtroom bothered to check if it was ''actually'' unloaded.
* RuleOfThree: First the prosecutor's toupee is stomped on and shot, then it's shot off his head, then the water hose blasts it off his head.
* TapOnTheHead: Curly knocks out several members of the jury with a hammer to the head while chasing after a parrot.
* SmokingGun: A parrot is discovered in the course of the trial with a letter tied to its leg, revealing the true killer and freeing Gail Tempest.
* VillainBall: Buck Wing, the actual murderer of Kirk Robin, decided for some reason to write a note gloating about it (and the place he was going to escape to) and tie it to Robin's parrot's foot. Result: Moe notices the note and, after some hijinks, provides iron-clad proof that Gail Tempest isn't guilty (not to mention [[OffscreenKarma whatever will happen to Mr. Wing]]).
* WholePlotReference: The case being presided over in the court is a parody of the nursery rhyme, "Who Killed Cock Robin", but instead, it's "Kirk Robin".
* WhosOnFirst: A brief example:
-->'''Attorney:''' Mr. Howard, kindly tell the court what you know about the murder of Kirk Robin.\\
'''Curly:''' Well, it was like this, Mr. Court.\\
'''Attorney:''' ''[whispered]'' Address the judge as "Your Honor!"\\
'''Curly:''' Well, it was like this, My Honor.\\
'''Attorney:''' ''[still whispered]'' "''Your'' Honor," not "My Honor"!\\
'''Curly:''' Why? [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Don't you like 'im?]]\\
'''Judge:''' [[DefiedTrope Allow the witness to proceed.]] The court understands him.\\
'''Curly:''' Thanks, Courty, you're a pal.
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The short is one of the four in the [[PublicDomainFeatureFilms public domain]], and thus is usually included in cheap video collections, making it perhaps one of the best known Stooge shorts. It is the only Curly short to have fallen into the public domain.
The DuckSeasonRabbitSeason routine below was a [[RecycledScript recycled gag]] from Creator/BusterKeaton talkie ''Film/SidewalksOfNewYork''.
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* BrickJoke: As the Stooges try to catch the runaway parrot so they can read the note on its leg, the spigot for the [[WaterHoseRodeo out-of-control fire-hose]] they were using to try to incapacitate the parrot breaks off, prompting Curly to shut it off by tying the hose in a knot. At the very end after Gail Tempest is cleared of the crime and the media is taking a group photo of Gail, the Stooges, and several others, the tied-up hose bursts, [[GardenHoseSquirtSurprise spraying water all over everybody]] as the scene fades to black.
* CloseCallHaircut: The prosecutor gets one after Curly accidentally shoots a gun.
* CourtroomAntics: Doesn't gets much more antics-laden that allowing the Three Stooges to run wild in a courtroom and allowing them to reenact what they witnessed.
* CourtroomEpisode: The whole short happens in the courtroom during Gail Tempest's hearing for her allegedly murder of Kirk Robin.
* DashinglyDapperDerby[=/=]NiceHat: Curly's "doiby".
* DeusExMachina: The real murderer of Kirk Robin decided for some reason to write a letter in which he gleefully confesses and says where he's going and leaving it tied to the foot of Robin's pet parrot.
* DodgyToupee: When the Stooges are playing music for the court, the prosecutor's hairpiece gets stuck the bow of Larry's violin and is peeled clean off.
-->'''Larry:''' A tarantula!
* DumbassHasAPoint: Moe is the first to point out the pile of letters that Polly has been referring to.
* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: This exchange:
-->'''Prosecutor:''' Take off your hat. ''[Curly does so]'' Now, raise your right hand. ''[Curly puts his hat back on and does so]'' Now, put your left hand here ''[he points to the book he's holding; Curly does puts his cane in his right hand and puts his hand there]''\\
'''Judge:''' Take off your hat. ''[Curly does so, putting his right hand down in the process]''\\
'''Prosecutor:''' Raise your right hand.\\
''[[[OverlyLongGag this continues until]] Curly puts his hat on his cane (which is still in his right hand) and raises his right hand'']\\
'''Prosecutor:''' Will you get rid of that hat?! ''[grabs it off Curly's cane, only for Curly to grab it and put it on the Prosecutor's head]''\\
'''Curly:''' Raise ''your'' right hand.\\
''[Prosecutor does so, but puts it down when he realizes what Curly just did]''\\
'''Prosecutor:''' ''Raise your right hand!''
* {{Fanservice}}: Gail Tempest's dancing outfit shows off [[ShesGotLegs her legs]], and has a collar that stops just above her cleavage. Naturally, [[DistractedByTheSexy some of the people in attendance can't take their eyes off her,]] [[RuleOfFunny including an elderly, apparently married man.]]
* GardenHoseSquirtSurprise: An interesting variant: In order to prevent the parrot from flying away, Moe suggests getting it wet. Curly then proceeds to grab and turn on a fire hose, but has trouble controlling it. A police officer attempts to shut the hose off, but breaks the valve. Eventually, Curly does hit the parrot, and to prevent the hose from causing any more disorder, Curly ties it in a knot. At the end, when the Stooges, Gail, and the Defense Attorney gather for a news photo, the hose bursts, soaking everybody.
* HeadInAVise: Moe was demonstrating a reenactment of the crime scene using Curly as the victim and put Curly's Head in the vice.
* HypocriticalHumor: After giving his witness account in very... unusual language, the defendant tells Curly to talk so the jury can understand him. Curly belts out "Is ''everybody'' dumb?!"
* {{iSophagus}}: When the Stooges are reenacting a musical performance during the trial, Curly slaps Moe on the back causing him to swallow a harmonica. They then find that when they press on Moe's stomach they can hear the harmonica, and soon Curly and Larry begin to make Moe play "Ach Du Lieber Augustine" by pumping his arm and squeezing his stomach, before he coughs the harmonica up.
* JugglingLoadedGuns: A gun is introduced as evidence. Curly is told to try to pull the incredibly rusty trigger, after being told "Never fear, it's not loaded." After one harmless click, he then accidentally shoots off the prosecutor's toupee when his finger gets stuck in the trigger guard.
* LiteralMinded: Curly, all the way through the short. For example...
-->'''Judge:''' Take the stand.\\
''(Curly picks up the chair at the witness box)''\\
'''Curly:''' Where do I put it?\\
'''Judge:''' No no, take the stand.\\
'''Curly:''' I got it, now what do I do with it?\\
'''Prosecutor:''' '''Sit down!'''
* MotorMouth: The prosecutor, PlayedForLaughs, of course.
-->'''Prosecutor:''' Do you solemnly swear totellthetruthwholetruthandnothingbutthetruth?\\
'''Curly:''' Huh?\\
'''Prosecutor:''' Do you ''solemnly'' swear totellthetruththewholetruthandnothingbutthetruth?!\\
'''Curly''': Are you trying to give me double-talk?\\
'''Prosecutor:''' ''(quite irritated now)'' Do you solemnly swear totellthetruththewholetruthandnothingbutthetruth?!\\
'''Judge:''' Why don't you answer him?\\
'''Curly:''' [[LampshadeHanging He's talkin' pig latin; I don't know what he's saying!]]
* PeopleFallOffChairs: Curly's messing around with the chair on the witness stand results in this.
* PunnyName: The actual murderer is a man named Buck Wing: "buck-and-wing" is the name of a type of solo tap dance.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The judge, who maintains his calm in the face of Stooge stupidity.
* RecklessGunUsage: The revolver used to kill Kirk Robin is presented as evidence in Gail Tempest's trial and handed to Curly by the defense attorney, who orders him to pull the trigger to prove that it's so hard to pull a woman like Gail wouldn't have been able to. For the sake [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace of the gag that ensues]], that means that even with the attorney assuring Curly that the gun isn't loaded, nobody at no point between picking it up at the site of Kirk Robin's murder and delivering it to the courtroom bothered to check if it was ''actually'' unloaded.
* RuleOfThree: First the prosecutor's toupee is stomped on and shot, then it's shot off his head, then the water hose blasts it off his head.
* TapOnTheHead: Curly knocks out several members of the jury with a hammer to the head while chasing after a parrot.
* SmokingGun: A parrot is discovered in the course of the trial with a letter tied to its leg, revealing the true killer and freeing Gail Tempest.
* VillainBall: Buck Wing, the actual murderer of Kirk Robin, decided for some reason to write a note gloating about it (and the place he was going to escape to) and tie it to Robin's parrot's foot. Result: Moe notices the note and, after some hijinks, provides iron-clad proof that Gail Tempest isn't guilty (not to mention [[OffscreenKarma whatever will happen to Mr. Wing]]).
* WholePlotReference: The case being presided over in the court is a parody of the nursery rhyme, "Who Killed Cock Robin", but instead, it's "Kirk Robin".
* WhosOnFirst: A brief example:
-->'''Attorney:''' Mr. Howard, kindly tell the court what you know about the murder of Kirk Robin.\\
'''Curly:''' Well, it was like this, Mr. Court.\\
'''Attorney:''' ''[whispered]'' Address the judge as "Your Honor!"\\
'''Curly:''' Well, it was like this, My Honor.\\
'''Attorney:''' ''[still whispered]'' "''Your'' Honor," not "My Honor"!\\
'''Curly:''' Why? [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Don't you like 'im?]]\\
'''Judge:''' [[DefiedTrope Allow the witness to proceed.]] The court understands him.\\
'''Curly:''' Thanks, Courty, you're a pal.
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