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* GargleBlaster: The Stooges are unimpressed with their first sip of punch, and proceed to spike it with five different types of alcohol, tabasco, and worcestershire sauce. It is boiling by the time they're done with it.

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* ForeignQueasine: Downplayed. The Stooges react with morbid curiosity seeing a tamale for the first time, and everyone of them finds something they dislike about it, but their frustrations raise from having absolutely no idea how to eat them.
* GargleBlaster: The Stooges are unimpressed with their first sip of punch, and proceed to spike it with five different types of alcohol, tabasco, and worcestershire sauce. It is boiling by the time they're done with it.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Impersonating doctors is not only illegal, but potentially extremely dangerous, considering the boys don't even know what kind of doctors they're pretending to be. But Moe takes the case immediately because Curly is about to become a dad and needs the money.
** Moe tells Curly to [[CatchPhrase remind him to kill him later]], and Curly, enthusiastically, [[SincerityMode says he'll make a note of it,]] producing a notebook and everything. Moe is increasingly disturbed that Curly is actually taking him seriously and repeatedly yanks the pencils out of his hand.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Curly

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: CurlyCurly, frustrated mere moments before, laughs after getting hit with a pie for the last time in the short.

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In this short, the Stooges are mistaken for doctors Ziller, Zeller, and Zoller are called to help treat the wealthy but spoiled [[{{Womanchild}} ]].

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* BecomingTheMask: Among being mistaken for doctors, the Stooges decide to take up the names [[OnlyInItForTheMoney in order to receive money]].
* FoodFight: The short ends with an elegant dinner becoming this instead.

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In this short, the Stooges are mistaken for assume the identities of doctors Ziller, Zeller, and Zoller Zoller, and are called to help treat the wealthy but spoiled [[{{Womanchild}} ]].

Sherry Rumford]].

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Curly
* BecomingTheMask: Among being mistaken for doctors, the Stooges decide to take up the names [[OnlyInItForTheMoney in order to receive money]].
money for Curly's newborn]].
* {{Corpsing}}: The stuffy high-society lady suppresses a grin when Curly tries to shave the side of her face.
* FoodFight: The short ends with an elegant dinner becoming this instead.
* GargleBlaster: The Stooges are unimpressed with their first sip of punch, and proceed to spike it with five different types of alcohol, tabasco, and worcestershire sauce. It is boiling by the time they're done with it.



* {{Womanchild}}: Sherry Rumford, due to being wealthy.

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* {{Womanchild}}: Sherry Rumford, due to being wealthy.wealthy, acts on every single impulse she has. Including trying to ditch her own birthday party to go on a trip in a submarine.
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* PlotHole: After getting the phone call about helping Sherry Rumford, the Stooges decide to play doctor and agree to go to Sherry's aid. But they never get Sherry's address. How did they know where to go?
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* FoodFight: The short ends with an elegant dinner becoming this instead.
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''Three Sappy People'' is Film/TheThreeStooges' 43rd short subject, as well as their final short in 1939.

In this short, the Stooges are mistaken for doctors Ziller, Zeller, and Zoller are called to help treat the wealthy but spoiled [[{{Womanchild}} ]].

!!Tropes related to this short:
* BecomingTheMask: Among being mistaken for doctors, the Stooges decide to take up the names [[OnlyInItForTheMoney in order to receive money]].
* {{Womanchild}}: Sherry Rumford, due to being wealthy.

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