Line #21 Film/HalfShotShooters


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stoogeshalfshot.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[SarcasmMode The most dutiful men in the army.]]]]
3	[[Film/TheThreeStooges The Stooges]] become discharged after hearing that UsefulNotes/WorldWarI is over desperate not doing anything. After being discharged, they get back at their Sargent, [=MacGillicuddy=] (Stanley Blystone), for how he treated them. 17 years later, they find themselves despite for a job, so they get a suggestion by a man (Vernon Dent[[labelnote:*]]in his first appearance[[/labelnote]]) to sign up at a recruiting station. Little did they know, they find out they'd signed up for the army. To make matters worse, [=MacGillicuddy=] was there, and will he get even with them.
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5	* AchievementsInIgnorance: The Stooges hadn't even done anything but sleep during World War I, and thanks to [=MacGillicuddy=], they were given honor medals from the wounds he gave 'em.
6	* TheDogBitesBack: After being discharged, the Stooges discover that they won't be taking anymore orders from [=MacGillicuddy=], and they get back at him by striking his butt with a plank with nails on the end, pulling his armpit hairs and '''''kicking him with a mule!''''' Doubles as DisproportionateRetribution.
7	-->'''[=MacGillicuddy=]:''' [[{{Foreshadowing}} I'll get even with you for this!]]
8	* DrillSergeantNasty: Sargent [=MacGillicuddy=]. During WWI, and as Moe and Larry implied, [[KickTheDog he's treated them pretty bad]].
9	* {{Foreshadowing}}: As mentioned above about the Stooges getting back at [=MacGillicuddy=], he vows to get back at the trio. Fast-forward 17 years later, [[ContrivedCoincidence he finds the three in the recruiting office where he was working at]] and finds them in his charge again.
10	* GoneHorriblyRight: Had it not been for [=MacGillicuddy=] giving Curly and Larry black eyes and Moe a broken arm for their tomfoolery, the three wouldn't have been rewarded medals.
11	-->'''Curly:''' Thanks, pal.\
12	'''[=MacGillicuddy=]:''' For what?\
13	'''Moe:''' ''(pointing to his broken arm)'' For this.\
14	'''Curly:''' ''(pointing to his black right eye)'' And this.\
15	'''Larry:''' ''(pointing to his black left eye)'' And this.\
16	'''[=MacGillicuddy=]:''' ''(chuckles)'' Thanking me for beating ya up?\
17	'''Moe:''' Sure. ''(the Stooges show their medals)'' They decorated us!\
18	'''Curly:''' They thought we were wounded in action!\
19	'''Larry:''' Look.
20	* OhCrap: As the Stooges sign up for a job, to which they were tricked into by a bystander, Curly notices a poster that says "U.S. Army -- Join Now". Curly tries to explain it, but Moe, naturally, shuts him up and makes him sign. Then...
21	-->'''Captain Burke:''' [[WhamLine Take these over to Fort Singer.]]\
22	'''Moe:''' You mean those papers we signed were to join the army?\
23	'''Burke:''' Of course. You're in the army now.
24	** As the Stooges [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere try to make a run for it]], they find [=MacGillcuddy=] right at the entrance.
25	-->'''[=MacGillicuddy=]:''' As I live, I'm seein' things. three of 'em.\
26	'''Moe:''' Boys, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck you remember Sgt. MacGillicuddy.]]\
27	'''Curly:''' Yeah, his mother and my mother are both mothers!\
28	'''Larry:''' No, he helped us win the war!\
29	'''Burke:''' Sergeant, take these men over to Fort Singer. They're in your charge.\
30	'''[=MacGillicuddy=]:''' ''(salutes)'' [[HellYesMoment With pleasure.]]
31	* PreMortemOneLiner: The Sgt. gives one after aiming a coastal defense gun at them due to them having struck an Admiral's flagship, which marks the first time the trio buys the farm in a short.
32	* TimeSkip: The first part takes place in WWI, in 1918. The next part, along with the rest of the story, takes place in 1935, 17 years later.

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