Three Sappy People is The Three Stooges' 43rd short subject, as well as their final short in 1939.
In this short, the Stooges assume the identities of doctors Ziller, Zeller, and Zoller, and are called to help treat the wealthy but spoiled Sherry Rumford.
Tropes related to this short:
- Actually Pretty Funny: Curly, frustrated mere moments before, laughs after getting hit with a pie for the last time in the short.
- Becoming the Mask: Among being mistaken for doctors, the Stooges decide to take up the names in order to receive money for Curly's newborn.
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Corpsing: The stuffy high-society lady suppresses a grin when Curly tries to shave the side of her face. - Food Fight: The short ends with an elegant dinner becoming this instead.
- Foreign Queasine: 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.
- Gargle Blaster: 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.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: 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 remind him to kill him later, and Curly, enthusiastically, 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.
- Plot Hole: 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?
- Womanchild: Sherry Rumford, due to being wealthy, acts on every single impulse she has. Including trying to ditch her own birthday party to go on a trip in a submarine.
