History Main / ThreeStoogesShoutOut

* ''[[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse]]'': Only in the Latin-American Spanish dub, but still apt. In ''We Need to Talk'', instead of referencing the Marx Brothers, Greg asks Rose "so how'd you meet Curly, Larry and Moe?" in reference to the Crystal Gems.

** One episode featured a villain named Dr. Milo, who also had two henchmen, with all three being [[{{expy}} expies]] of the Stooges.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In the episode "Hell on Earth 2006" features notorious serial killers Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy sent to Earth to get a cake for Satan's party. They start fighting each other in typical Three Stooges fashion. The title card even spoofs the ones from their shorts.

** In "Bart the Daredevil", Dr. Hibbert says a lot of children imitate violence they saw on TV: "I won't even subject you to the horrors of our Three Stooges ward."
** Homer watches them on TV in "Homer the Heretic" and chuckles: "Moe is their leader."
** In "Duffless", Bart tries in vain to touch an electric buzzer with being electro shocked. He imitates Curly by saying "eeeh, certainly...nyak nyak nyak" and imitates Moe by saying "...a wise guy eh?...."
** In "Bart's Comet", Skinner shows Bart the star sign of the Three Wise Men. In Bart's imagination he sees the Three Stooges in the sky.
** In "Treehouse of Horror IV", Bart notices vampires behind him and Lisa. He starts making sounds that Lisa mistakenly believes to be imitations of Shemp and Curly.
** In "Last Exit to Springfield" and "Deep Space Homer", Homer walks sideways on the ground making "Woob Woob Woob" noises, as Curly used to do. A bomb in the ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' parody in "The Day the Violence Died" also makes this noise.
** In "This Little Wiggy", Nelson imagines himself weighing the brains on the Three Stooges.
** In "Sunday Cruddy Sunday", Homer, Wally and Chief Wiggum run away from Rupert Murdoch in typical Stooges fashion.
** In "The Mansion Family", the doctor diagnoses Mr. Burns with "Three Stooges Syndrome", meaning that he has a multitude of medical conditions, but because they all cancel each other out, they can't harm him. The doctor likens the situation to The Three Stooges all trying to go through a doorway at the same time.
** In "Large Marge", former presidents UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter, UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush and UsefulNotes/BillClinton paint a house and start creating havoc à la The Three Stooges.
** In "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington", Homer and Bart are watching a very late episode of ''The Three Stooges'' where the comedians are in old age.
** In "Simpsons Christmas Stories", the Three Wise Men behave like the Three Stooges.
** In "Boy Meets Curl", the National Curly Trials are seen with everyone practicing to be Curly Howard. Moe Szyslak then says: "Wise guys, eh?" and slaps a long line of Curlys.
** In "The Ten-Percent Solution", the Museum of TV and Television has a display of the Three Stooges' skeletons, with Curly's bones in a box.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' contains several. Billy West has stated that he based Stimpy's voice on Larry Fine, though he also repeats some of Curly's and Shemp's sounds.

But a sure sign of the tremendous effect they had on popular culture is that most American films, comic strips, animated cartoons and TV series will feature a Thee Stooges shout-out at one point. Most of the time their typical {{catch phrase}}s and sound effects will be uttered ("Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk", "Wiseguy, eh?", "You numb chucks", "Soitenly", "Woob Woob Woob", "I'm a victim of circumstance", "You knucklehead",...) and three characters will mimic typical Stooges shticks by starting to bicker and hit each other with typical nosetwirls, pokes-in-the-eye, a hollow sound whenever a head is hit,...

* In Douglas Preston's novel ''Jennie,'' about a chimp raised as a human child, the family's son introduces Jennie to the Stooges on TV and she adores them. The mother does not approve, calling them a bad influence.

** Mittens disparagingly compares the pigeons Vinny, Joey, and Bobby to the trio, in “The Protection Payment.”

* Rubber Chicken Films did a parody of Young M.C.'s "Bust a Move," entitled "Bust a Stooge" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osTwMrXIRvs]]

* The [[CreditsGag jokey booklet]] of the only album released by Brazilian band's Mamonas Assassinas has as the three guys who recorded them on studio "Rick Bonadio (Moe), Rodrigo Castanho (Larry), Junior Lane (Curly)".

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* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Two instances occur in the series.

* On some of their tours, Music/{{Rush}} would have the Three Stooges theme play right before they go on stage. Can be seen in the Grace Under Pressure Tour video.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': The episode "A-Fire Fighting We Will Go" contains several references to the Stooges.

* In ''[[Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob,]] the four ninja siblings are named Moe, Lari, Kurlijoh, and Shempu. Lari even has Larry's two poofs of hair that stick out on either side of his head.

-->The heart of the Schooners batting order was its outfield. Consisting of Larry Kuselias, Moe Petrie, and Sam “Shemp” Guranovich, the hard-hitting trio had been dubbed "The Stooges" by the enthusiastic fanbase.

** Invoked in “The Baseball Game” for the outfielders' nicknames.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Played with regarding Corabell, Dorabell, and Mae in “The Seven.” The first two examples play the trope straight, being names of the Stooges’ wives in ''Film/DizzyDoctors'' and ''[[Recap/TheThreeStoogesTheSitterDowners The Sitter Downers]]''. Subverted in that the third dog’s name is Mae instead of Florabell.