History NightmareFuel / TheThreeStooges

* "Dopey Dicks" revolves around a mad scientist who plans to dissect the Stooges' brains and nearly succeeds at multiple points. Even the twist happy ending [[spoiler: in which the Stooges and a girl are rescued by one of the scientist's headless robots]] can be creepy out of context. [[spoiler: Of course, some people might interpret it as the robot returning them to his master...]]

** In "[[Recap/TheThreeStoogesIllNeverHeilAgain I'll Never Heil Again]]", all three of them are blown up by the explosive Number 13 ball and are [[HumanHeadOnTheWall turned into mounted hunting trophies]].

** And accidentally opening a secret door for a dead body to lean against you would make you hair stand on end, too!
** ... not to mention '''FINDING''' not one corpse '''IN THE BED YOU'VE JUST GOTTEN INTO'''... but one '''IN EACH BED?!'''

** Their 'partners' are dressed as [[OurDemonsAreDifferent devils with chef hats and aprons]], and baste them as they roast on top of it.

* "They Stooge To Conga" was the most violent short of The Three Stooges! The most infamous scene is when Curly tries to climb the pole with spiked cleats while Moe and Larry helped him up as he does so Curly accidentally gets a spike in Moe's head, then he gets the spike in [[EyeScream Moe's eye]], and finally he gets the spike in Moe's ear! It's one of the most disturbing moment in The Three Stooges short! Most cringe-worthy indeed!

* One infamous scene in ''Pardon My Scotch'' has Curly sawing Moe out of the locked door they carried upstairs. As Curly saws through, the saw is near Moe, sending him in shock. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeJc5pRl-Lc Video here]].

* In ''[[Film/IfABodyMeetsABody If a Body Meets a Body]]'', the Stooges are awoken in bed by a parrot which hides inside a human skull and flies around with its wings protruding through the ear holes, clutching a sheet with its claws and cackling maniacally. If you saw such a thing in a strange dark house in the middle of the night, you'd probably scream in horror, too.

** In "Film/HalfShotShooters", Sgt. [=MacGillicuddy=] blasts them with a deck gun, leaving their shoes behind.

* One scene in "I'll Never Heil Again" has the Stooges looking into their astronomy telescope and seeing a vision that the Axel partners are roasting them, literally, rotisserie like and over a big fire.

* "They Stooge To Conga" was the most violent short of The Three Stooges! The most infamous scene is when Curly tries to climb the pole with spiked cleats while Moe and Larry helped him up as he does so Curly accidentally gets a spike in Moe's head, then he gets the spike in Moe's eye, and finally he gets the spike in Moe's ear! It's one of the most disturbing moment in The Three Stooges short! Most cringe-worthy indeed!

* Don't forget a number of times when the boys ran into [[DemBones living skeletons]], haunted suits of armor, and yet more flying skulls. [[Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld Oh, yes, and the Goon from Venus as well.]]
* Once in a while the Stooges' AmusingInjuries could become a bit hard to watch, as in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jocRd-aajW0 this scene]] from ''They Stooge to Conga'', in which Curly steps on Moe's face wearing a spiked shoe, with the spikes going [[EyeScream into Moe's eyes]]. This scene was eventually [[{{Bowdlerise}} censored from TV broadcasts]], only becoming available through the video and DVD releases.

* ''Cuckoo on a Choo Choo'' has a RunningGag in which Shemp is crazy in love with [[InterspeciesRomance a giant canary named Carey]], who only exists in his drunken haze. The bird is portrayed by an actor wearing a costume that is at best [[UncannyValley bizarre]] and at worst [[FeatheredFiend unsightly]] (whatever they paid the poor soul to wear that thing, it wasn't enough). It's the one bird the Franchise/{{Disney Princess}}es would ''not'' want to [[FriendToAllLivingThings befriend]].

* "Dopey Dicks" revolves around a mad scientist who plans to dissect the Stooges' brains and nearly succeeds at multiple points. Even the twist happy ending [[spoiler: in which the Stooges and a girl are rescued by one of the scientist's headless robots]] can be creepy out of context.

* ''Cuckoo on a Choo Choo'' has a RunningGag in which Shemp is crazy in love with [[InterspeciesRomance a giant canary named Carey]], who only exists in his drunken haze. The bird is portrayed by an actor wearing a costume that is at best [[UncannyValley bizarre]] and at worst [[FeatheredFiend unsightly]] (whatever they paid the poor soul to wear that thing, it wasn't enough). It's the one bird the Franchise/{{Disney Princess}}es would ''not'' want to [[FriendToAllLivingThings befriend]].

* ''Cuckoo on a Choo Choo'' has a RunningGag in which Shemp is crazy in love with [[InterspeciesRomance a giant canary named Carey]], who only exists in his drunken haze. The bird is portrayed by a poor soul wearing a costume that is at best bizarre and at worst unsightly. It's the one bird the Franchise/{{Disney Princess}}es would ''not'' want to [[FriendToAllLivingThings befriend]].

** Their 'partners' are dressed as [[OurDemonsAreDifferent devils with chef hats and aprons]], and baste them as they roast on top of it.

** In "[[Film/HalfShotShooters]]", Sgt. [=MacGillicuddy=] blasts them with a deck gun, leaving their shoes behind.

* Once in a while the Stooges' AmusingInjuries could become a bit hard to watch, as in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jocRd-aajW0 this scene]] from ''They Stooge to Conga'', in which Curly steps on Moe's face wearing a spiked shoe, with the spikes going [[EyeScream into Moe's eyes]]. This scene was eventually censored from TV broadcasts, only becoming available through the video and DVD releases.

** In "Half Shot Shooters", Sgt. [=MacGillicuddy=] blasts them with a deck gun, leaving their shoes behind.

* One scene in "I'll Never Heil Again" has the Stooges looking into their astronomy telescope and seeing a vision that the Axel partners are roasting them, literally. And over a big fire.

* One scene in "I'll Never Heil Again" has the Stooges looking into their astronomy telescope and seeing a vision that the Axel partners are roasting them, literally. And over a big fire.

** In "[[Recap/TheThreeStoogesIllNeverHeilAgain I'll Never Heil Again]]", all three of them are blown up by the explosive Number 13 ball and are [[HumanHeadOnTheWall turned into mounted hunting trophies]].

** In "[[Recap/TheThreeStoogesIllNeverHeilAgain I'll Never Heil Again]]", all three of them are blown up by the explosive Number 13 ball and are turned into mounted hunting trophies.

Several of the shorts entail the Stooges' contending with genuinely spooky dolls/statues/puppets/etc.
* In ''A Gem of a Jam'', for example, Curly eye-pokes a truly [[CreepyDoll creepy-looking clown bust]], and Moe and Larry run away from a [[CreepyDoll creepy Jack-in-the-box]].

* Once in a while the Stooges' AmusingInjuries could become a bit hard to watch, as in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jocRd-aajW0 this scene]] from 1943's ''They Stooge to Conga'', in which Curly steps on Moe's face wearing a spiked shoe, with the spikes going [[EyeScream into Moe's eyes]]. This scene was eventually censored from TV broadcasts, only becoming available through the video and DVD releases.

** In "[[Film/YouNaztySpy]]", they end up running into a den with three lions, who chase them into a dead end and [[GoryDiscretionShot eat them]] [[EatenAlive alive]]. They later come out and [[BurpOfFinality one of them burps]].

* In ''A Gem of a Jam'', for example, Curly eye-pokes a truly [[CreepyDoll creepy-looking clown bust]], and Moe and Larry run away from a [[CreepyDoll creepy Jack-in-the-box]]. Meanwhile, in ''If a Body Meets a Body'', the Stooges are awoken in bed by a parrot which hides inside a human skull and flies around with its wings protruding through the ear holes, clutching a sheet with its claws and cackling maniacally. If you saw such a thing in a strange dark house in the middle of the night, you'd probably scream in horror too.
* Don't forget a number of times when the boys ran into [[DemBones living skeletons]], haunted suits of armor, and yet more flying skulls. [[Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld Oh yes, and the Goon from Venus as well]].

** In "You Nazty Spy!", they end up running into a den with three lions, who chase them into a dead end and [[GoryDiscretionShot eat them]] [[EatenAlive alive]]. They later come out and [[BurpOfFinality one of them burps]].
** In "I'll Never Heil Again", all three of them are blown up by the explosive Number 13 ball and are turned into mounted hunting trophies.

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** In "You Nazty Spy!", they end up running into a den with three lions, who chase them into a dead end and [[GoryDiscretionShot eat them]] [[EatenAlive alive]]. They later come out and one of them burps.

** In "Half Shot Shooters", Sgt. MacGillicuddy blasts them with a deck gun, leaving their shoes behind.

* Once in a while the Stooges' AmusingInjuries could become a bit hard to watch, as in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jocRd-aajW0 this scene]] from 1943's ''They Stooge to Conga'', in which Curly steps on Moe's face wearing a spiked shoe, with the spikes going [[EyeScream into Moe's eyes]]. This scene was eventually censored from TV broadcasts, only becoming available through the video and DVD releases.