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** ''Sappy Bull Fighters'': Largely a reworking of the 1942 short, in ''Sappy Bull Fighters'', the Stooges are vaudeville entertainers who trek to Mexico to perform their gag bullfight shtick, with Joe as the brave matador, and Moe and Larry dressed in a bull costume. Unfortunately, their gig is cancelled once they arrive. According to the trio, the manager fired them after they refused to do 10 additional shows for free. With no money to return home, the Stooges are stranded. Feeling bad for them, attractive señorita Greta gets the boys a gig at the local bull ring. However, when she leaves Greta mistakenly takes the trio's suitcase instead of hers. When they go retrieve it, however, Joe becomes attracted to Greta and begins to kiss her, infuriating her husband José. The next day, the Stooges perform their act successfully at a bullring José recognizes the trio. In an act of revenge he pays the bullring attendant to release a live bull into the ring. Moe and Larry flee, but Joe is unaware of the switch. He eventually head-butts the wild animal, and is paraded out of the ring to the rousing cheers of "Olé, Americano!"
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** ''Sappy Bull Fighters'': Largely a reworking of the 1942 short, in ''Sappy Bull Fighters'', the Stooges are vaudeville entertainers who trek to Mexico to perform their gag bullfight shtick, with Joe as the brave matador, and Moe and Larry dressed in a bull costume. Unfortunately, their gig is cancelled once they arrive. According to the trio, the manager fired them after they refused to do 10 additional shows for free. With no money to return home, the Stooges are stranded. Feeling bad for them, attractive señorita Greta gets the boys a gig at the local bull ring. However, when she leaves Greta mistakenly takes the trio's suitcase instead of hers. When they go retrieve it, however, Joe becomes attracted to Greta and begins to kiss her, infuriating her husband José. The next day, the Stooges perform their act successfully at a bullring José recognizes the trio. In an act of revenge he pays the bullring attendant to release a live bull into the ring. Moe and Larry flee, but Joe is unaware of the switch. He eventually head-butts the wild animal, and is paraded out of the ring to the rousing cheers of "Olé, Americano!"
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The Stooges' approach to slapstick was much more openly cruel when compared to that of contemporaries such as The Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy.
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* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin: In "Three Smart Saps," the Stooges set out to spring their prospective father-in-law from prison. In order to get access to him, they deliberately kick a cop in the rear end, but he cracks their heads together instead and tells them, "Our jail is for ''important'' people!".
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** One short has a frog jump down Shemp's shirt, and he later tells the others that it felt like "Six lions were ripping me limb from limb!"
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* PaperThinDisguise: This trope is quite commonplace in Stooges' shorts. In one, the boys end up cooking/catering at a party for a judge who wants to send them up the river. Moe: "Oh, he'll never recognize us in these outfits!" (Apparently, just wearing a white jacket and chef's hat renders you ''totally unrecognizable''.) In another Western-themed short, Curly masquerades as a Justice of the Peace, but is not recognized by Christine [=McIntyre=] until he lifts the tiny (and I mean ''tiny'') little toupee off his head, points at his face, and mugs.
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* PaperThinDisguise: This trope is quite commonplace in Stooges' shorts. In one, the boys end up cooking/catering at a party for a judge who wants to send them up the river. Moe: "Oh, he'll never recognize us in these outfits!" (Apparently, just wearing a white jacket and chef's hat renders you ''totally unrecognizable''.) In another Western-themed short, Curly masquerades as a Justice of the Peace, but is not recognized by Christine [=McIntyre=] until he lifts the tiny (and I we mean ''tiny'') little toupee off his head, points at his face, and mugs.
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* EngineeredHeroics: The Stooges flirt with this in Pest Man Wins when they infest a mansion with common household pests in order to exterminate them and get paid.
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* EngineeredHeroics: EngineeredHeroics:
** The Stooges flirt with this inPest "Pest Man Wins Wins" when they infest a mansion with common household pests in order to exterminate them and get paid.paid.
** It also happens in "Ants in the Pantry" when the Stooges' boss at a failing extermination service orders them to "drum up business" by putting pests in people's homes.
** The Stooges flirt with this in
** It also happens in "Ants in the Pantry" when the Stooges' boss at a failing extermination service orders them to "drum up business" by putting pests in people's homes.
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* WorkingClassHero: Well, "Working Class {{Anti Hero}}es" would be more accurate, but the Stooges in early shorts often embodied the class divisions and economic hardships gripping Americans during the Depression -- they were usually shown working low-paying jobs if not unemployed, and they were most often shown either homeless or living in a shanty.
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* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: The Stooges were fond of jokes whose punchlines were best appreciated by Yiddish-speakers:
** It's common for important bigwigs to have the initials "A.K.," a reference to the Yiddish expression AlterKocker.
** In "Mutts to You," Larry tries to fool a cop by disguising himself as a Chinese laundryman and answers a question with a string of untranslated Yiddish:
-->'''Larry:''' "Ech Bin A China Boychic Frim Slobatkya-Gebernya Hak Mir Nisht Ken Tshaynik And I Dont Mean Efsher". (Translation: "I'm a China boy from [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Slobatkya Gebernya]] stop annoying me and I don't mean maybe.")
** In "Pardon my Scotch," a liquor supplier is about to sample the Stooges' brew, and they toast him with "Ver geharget," which roughly translates to "Drop dead."
** It's common for important bigwigs to have the initials "A.K.," a reference to the Yiddish expression AlterKocker.
** In "Mutts to You," Larry tries to fool a cop by disguising himself as a Chinese laundryman and answers a question with a string of untranslated Yiddish:
-->'''Larry:''' "Ech Bin A China Boychic Frim Slobatkya-Gebernya Hak Mir Nisht Ken Tshaynik And I Dont Mean Efsher". (Translation: "I'm a China boy from [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Slobatkya Gebernya]] stop annoying me and I don't mean maybe.")
** In "Pardon my Scotch," a liquor supplier is about to sample the Stooges' brew, and they toast him with "Ver geharget," which roughly translates to "Drop dead."
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* AlphabetSong: In "Violent is the Word for Curley", the Stooges become teachers at Mildew Academy and lead a class of coeds through the song "Swingin' the Alphabet," which is basically a jazzed-up version of the song "The Spelling Bee" by Septimus Winner.
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* BaldOfAwesome: Curly and Curly-Joe (arguably also applies to Larry, especially in the 2012 film)
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* BANGFlagGun: Used on occasion.
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'''Moe:''' And killed him, too!
'''Moe:''' And killed him, too!
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The Stooges occasionally ran into some helpful, if mischievous, varieties of these critters (one short even featured a monkey named Joe as a key part of their act). Other encounters were decidely less pleasant; see KillerGorilla.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Occasionally, the Stooges would actually get injured on set. Some notable examples:
** "Pardon My Scotch" (1935): After Curly saws through the table Moe is standing on, Moe performs a painful-looking pratfall onto solid ground, before getting back up and smacking Curly and Larry. During the take used in the final product, Moe actually broke three ribs and production had to be delayed while he recovered in the hospital.
** "Gem of a Jam" (1943): During a scene where Curly almost falls out of a window, the operating table Curly was on leaned back too quickly and Curly banged his head on the window frame. The resulting gash required several stitches.
** "Heavenly Daze" (1948): One scene features Larry being stabbed in the forehead by a flying pen. Despite director Jules White's assurance that the gag wouldn't result in injury, the pen actually punctured Larry's skin. Moe did not take kindly to this.
** "Pardon My Scotch" (1935): After Curly saws through the table Moe is standing on, Moe performs a painful-looking pratfall onto solid ground, before getting back up and smacking Curly and Larry. During the take used in the final product, Moe actually broke three ribs and production had to be delayed while he recovered in the hospital.
** "Gem of a Jam" (1943): During a scene where Curly almost falls out of a window, the operating table Curly was on leaned back too quickly and Curly banged his head on the window frame. The resulting gash required several stitches.
** "Heavenly Daze" (1948): One scene features Larry being stabbed in the forehead by a flying pen. Despite director Jules White's assurance that the gag wouldn't result in injury, the pen actually punctured Larry's skin. Moe did not take kindly to this.
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* RunningGagStumbles: Occasionally, the shorts would subvert Moe's signature eye poke by having Moe accidentally break his fingers (often on the back of another Stooge's head) and spend a moment nursing his injury... before proceeding to poke the intended recipient in the eyes anyway.
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The Three Stooges are one of the few comedy acts of the black-and-white era that continue to attract fans and remain so firmly embedded in the popular culture that a fifteen second silent cameo depicting them as airport firefighters still provides one of the biggest laughs in ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' decades after their heyday. Their popularity is such that video games have been made about them all the way up to the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance era. And while their broad slapstick has been often derided by critics, it's also a key reason why they're popular even in nations where English isn't spoken. They also had two {{animated adaptation}}s: a syndicated series in 1965, with live-action wraparounds between cartoons, and ''WesternAnimation/TheRobonicStooges'', a segment of Creator/HannaBarbera's ''Skatebirds''. Unfortunately, neither of these truly took advantage of The Stooges' already cartoon-like nature.
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The Three Stooges are one of the few comedy acts of the black-and-white era that continue to attract fans and remain so firmly embedded in the popular culture that a fifteen second silent cameo depicting them as airport firefighters still provides one of the biggest laughs in ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' decades after their heyday. Their popularity is such that video games have been made about them all the way up to the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance era. [[labelnote:Although...]]Said GBA game is actually a ''very'' minimally PolishedPort of a 1987 Amiga game, which has also seen the NES, 8-bit computers, and bizarrely, the [=PlayStation=].[[/labelnote]] And while their broad slapstick has been often derided by critics, it's also a key reason why they're popular even in nations where English isn't spoken. They also had two {{animated adaptation}}s: a syndicated series in 1965, with live-action wraparounds between cartoons, and ''WesternAnimation/TheRobonicStooges'', a segment of Creator/HannaBarbera's ''Skatebirds''. Unfortunately, neither of these truly took advantage of The Stooges' already cartoon-like nature.
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* FemmeFatale: Christine McIntyre would often play one of these, opposing and fooling the Stooges to get away with her crimes.
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* FemmeFatale: Christine McIntyre [=McIntyre=] would often play one of these, opposing and fooling the Stooges to get away with her crimes.
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* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: The stooges are basically doing something different in every episode, that is when they actually have a job. Justified in that they are constantly fired due to their bumbling.
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* NeverTrustATitle: "Violent Is the Word for Curly" is ''not'' one of the "Curly goes crazy whenever he sees/hears/smells something" shorts.[[note]]Those would be ''Punch Drunks'', ''Horses' Collars'', ''Grips, Grunts and Groans'', and ''Tassels in the Air''.[[/note]] The title is a PunBasedTitle and references the long-forgotten 1936 film ''Valiant Is the Word for Carrie''. It has no relevance whatsoever to the plot of the short.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: The stooges are basically doing something different in every episode, that is when they actually have a job. Justified in that they are constantly fired due to theirbumbling.bumbling, and there's no continuity between shorts.
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* ObviouslyEvil: The villains of the [=WW2=]-shorts, who were usually Japanese spies, fifth columnists and Nazis. Even the ones who didn't think it was a good idea to run around in full uniform on american soil, still walked around doing the heil Hitler salute in broad daylight, and one Nazi spy in particular wore a giant iron cross medallion.
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* ObviouslyEvil: The villains of the [=WW2=]-shorts, who were usually Japanese spies, fifth columnists and Nazis. Even the ones who didn't think it was a good idea to run around in full uniform on american soil, American soil still walked around doing the heil Hitler salute in broad daylight, and one Nazi spy in particular wore a giant iron cross Iron Cross medallion.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Moe constantly beats the crap out of the other Stooges, usually just for making bad jokes, or misunderstanding something he says, or for causing him minor injuries. Moe's violent punishments for these actions are usually much more vicious and cruel than whatever the other Stooges have done to provoke him.
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* FemmeFatale: Christine McIntyre would often play one of these, opposing and fooling the Stooges to get away with her crimes.
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** At the end of ''Horses' Collar'', Moe, Larry and the female guest star Nell are kidnapped and bound/gagged by the villains.
** In ''Who Done It?'', the Stooges first appear bound and gagged in their office. Victims of a robbery, of course.
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** At the end of ''Horses' Collar'', Moe, Larry and the female guest star Nell star, Nell; are kidnapped and bound/gagged by the villains.
villains while Curly is busy opening a safe.
** One short has Larry and Moe bound and gagged by the villains in a bed by the climax. Often Larry and Moe would be captured by the villains during the climax so the third Stooge (Curly/Shemp) would end up saving the day.
** In ''Who Done It?'', the Stoogesfirst appear at the start bound and gagged in their office. Victims of a robbery, of course.
** One short has Larry and Moe bound and gagged by the villains in a bed by the climax. Often Larry and Moe would be captured by the villains during the climax so the third Stooge (Curly/Shemp) would end up saving the day.
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** In "Scotched in Scotland"/"The Hot Scots", Larry is bound, gagged and hidden in the closet by the mysterious skeleton villain.
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** A running gag of the series was the Stooges would often end up eating fruit peels/nut shells and discard the rest of the food.
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* BoundAndGagged: this tended to happen a lot. Often to the Damsel-In-Distress of the day, but the Stooges themselves weren't inmune to it:
** At the end of ''Horses' Collar'', Moe, Larry and the guest star are kidnapped and bound by the villains.
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* BoundAndGagged: this tended to happen a lot. Often to the Damsel-In-Distress DistressedDamsel of the day, but the Stooges themselves weren't inmune to it:
** At the end of ''Horses' Collar'', Moe, Larry and the female guest star Nell are kidnapped andbound bound/gagged by the villains.
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** A big running gag of the shorts would entail the Stooges gleefully discarding fruit and nuts in favor of the wasteful peels and shells. According to them, they were exquisite.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Burnt toast and a rotten egg: "I've got a tapeworm and it's good enough for him."
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Burnt toast and a rotten egg: "I've got a tapeworm and it's good enough for him."" Hotcakes and pizza (in the movie) are also implied to be some of the Stooges' favorites. Overall, they're [[ExtremeOmnivore Extreme Omnivores]] so don't be surprised if they go crazy for things as bizarre as nutshells and banana peels.
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* BizarreTasteInFood: In "A Missed Fortune", Larry states he likes his hotcakes slathered in ketchup. Even Moe doesn't find it that odd.
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* BizarreTasteInFood: In "A Missed Fortune", Larry states he likes his hotcakes slathered in ketchup. Even Moe doesn't find it that odd. Meanwhile, Shemp prefers paint over coffee. And of course there's the "burnt toast and rotten egg" running gag.
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* BoundAndGagged: this tended to happen a lot. Often to the Damsel-In-Distress of the day, but the Stooges themselves weren't inmune to it:
** In ''Who Done It?'', the Stooges first appear bound and gagged in their office. Victims of a robbery, of course.
** The climax of ''Crime on their Hands'' has Shemp bound and gagged on a table by the villains as they're about to perform open surgery on him.
** In "Scotched in Scotland", Larry is bound, gagged and hidden in the closet by the mysterious villain.
** In ''Who Done It?'', the Stooges first appear bound and gagged in their office. Victims of a robbery, of course.
** The climax of ''Crime on their Hands'' has Shemp bound and gagged on a table by the villains as they're about to perform open surgery on him.
** In "Scotched in Scotland", Larry is bound, gagged and hidden in the closet by the mysterious villain.
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** Though there are times like in ''Baby Sitter Jitters'' where the kid mauls them instead.
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This Is a Work of Fiction: "I'll Never Heil Again" riffs on "You Nazty Spy!"
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* AdultsDressedAsChildren: Current Trope Illustrator, from ''All the World's a Stooge'' -- they do this twice in the film.
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* AscendedExtra: The Stooges themselves.
* AsideGlance: Shemp's trademark.
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* IdiotPlot: Every single one of their films, really. It was an integral part of their humour.
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* IdenticalTwinIDTag: "A Merry Mix-Up" had Moe, Larry, and Joe playing three identical sets of fraternal triplets from the same family: the eldest trio were happy bachelors who wore striped neckties, the middle-group were {{henpecked husband}}s who wore rumpled shirts with unbuttoned collars and no ties, and the youngest set of triplets were happily engaged and wore bow ties.
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* TooYoungToDieLamentation: This is a common exclamation for Curly and Shemp when they're placed in especially lethal predicaments. They initially claim that they're also "too handsome," but after some (literal) reflection, they settle for "too young."
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** This is a common exclamation for Curly and Shemp when they're placed in especially lethal predicaments. They initially claim that they're also "too handsome," but after some (literal) reflection, they settle for "too young.""
** A variation: Larry once complained that he couldn't die because he hadn't yet seen ''The Jolson Story.''
** This is a common exclamation for Curly and Shemp when they're placed in especially lethal predicaments. They initially claim that they're also "too handsome," but after some (literal) reflection, they settle for "too young.
** A variation: Larry once complained that he couldn't die because he hadn't yet seen ''The Jolson Story.''
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* ComicTrio: Moe (TheLeader), Larry (OnlySaneMan), Curly/Shemp/Joe/Curly Joe (TheFool)
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: Curly/Joe/Curly Joe (nice), Moe (mean), and Larry/Shemp (in-betweeen)
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** ComicTrio: Moe (TheLeader), Larry (OnlySaneMan), Curly/Shemp/Joe/Curly Joe (TheFool)
** FreudianTrio: Curly/Shemp/Joe/Curly Joe (Id), Larry (Ego), Moe (Superego)
** NiceMeanAndInbetween: Curly/Joe/Curly Joe (nice), Moe (mean), and Larry/Shemp (in-betweeen)
** ComicTrio: Moe (TheLeader), Larry (OnlySaneMan), Curly/Shemp/Joe/Curly Joe (TheFool)
** FreudianTrio: Curly/Shemp/Joe/Curly Joe (Id), Larry (Ego), Moe (Superego)
** NiceMeanAndInbetween: Curly/Joe/Curly Joe (nice), Moe (mean), and Larry/Shemp (in-betweeen)
