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'''Pop Goes the Easel''' is a Three Stooges short that is about the Stooges after failing to find jobs in the midst of the Great Depression try to entice a store owner to hire them by sweeping his floor with his brooms. The owner mistakes this for stealing their brooms and order a cop to chase them. The Stooges stumble into an art school still being pursued by the cop.

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* CoveredInGunge: In something of a precursor to their traditional pie fights, the Stooges make a mess of the art school studio by tossing lumps of clay and plaster at each other.
-->'''Larry:''' (placing a single flower on Curly's clay-topped head) Here's a flower for your hat, madam!\\
'''Curly:''' (taking the clay off his head) Here's mud in your eye, mister! (shoves the clay in Larry's face)
* DisguisedInDrag: As per usual, done by the Stooges to avoid the cop.
* GeniusDitz: Curly proves he can be an excellent secretary, as he can spell chrysanthemum. Moe gets angry when Curly wasn't there when he was needed to spell it.
* HypocriticalHumor: Moe for slapping Larry for not knowing how to spell chrysanthemum.
* IdiotBall: Moe for not dropping the broom when the cop chases after him, even when Curly and Larry dropped the brooms they snatched.
* LanguageFluencyDenial: All three of the Stooges use this trick against the cop, with Moe pretending to be French, Larry pretending to be Indian, and Curly pretending to be mute.
* ObfuscatingDisability: Played for laughs when Curly briefly pretends to be deaf and mute to avoid suspicion from the cop.
-->'''Cop:''' Ah, deaf and dumb.\\
'''Curly:''' (immediately) Soitenly!
* PoliceAreUseless: The cop chasing the Stooges does have persistence and determination... but he's not very bright.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: While pretending to be a foreigner who doesn't speak English, Larry says something that resembles "hock mir nist ken tschanik!" or "don't knock a teakettle" (which means basically "stop spewing nonsense").

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