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Film/TheThreeStooges are one of the most popular comedic ensembles of all time, especially in the United States, where they are virtually an institution. In the rest of the world their popularity and fame are not as huge as Creator/LaurelAndHardy.

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 Three 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,...

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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/SquidGirl'' has three MIT scientists: Harris, Clark, & Martin. Other characters [[InSeriesNickname refer]] to them as "the three stooges" (lit. "San Baka Trio", or the "Three-Idiot Trio"[[note]]The English translation was made official when Cindy specifically calls them "The Three Stooges" in the [[MemeticMutation memetically famous]] "English" episode.[[/note]]).
* The Ojama Brothers of the ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' dub act like the Stooges.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark has en encounter with the "Three Wise Fellows" -- three fools who engage in hijinks such as clamping pliers on one another's noses while kidnapping him when he is mistaken for the Messiah.
* ComicBook/TheFlash has battled a trio of Stooge-like villains known as Winky, Blinky, and Noddy.
* One of ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'s previous lives in ''ComicBook/GarfieldHis9Lives'' was a Moe-like cat leading two mouse exterminators (his dimiwtted owners) resembling Larry and Curly.
* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' has done some cartoons about the Stooges, such as depicting a Mount Rushmore-style monument with their faces or showing a scene from ''Leona Helmsley meets the Three Stooges''.
* Never outright confirmed, but [[Franchise/GreenLantern Guy Gardner's]] surly attitude, outdated dialogue, and bowl cut all suggest to be inspired by Moe Howard.
* One ''ComicBook/GIJoe'' comic from Marvel had some Cobra mooks based on them delaying a major character for a couple panels, which goes as well as you can expect.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/TheWrongReflection'': Eleya comes aboard a mirror universe Cardassian ship and tells the gul in command to "have Larry, Curly, and Moe point those toys ''[referring to their disruptor rifles]'' someplace else". Lampshaded when one of the {{Mauve Shirt}}s with her wonders where in the heck Eleya, a Bajoran, heard of ''Film/TheThreeStooges''. Eleya continues to refer to the trio of {{mooks}} as Larry, Curly, and Moe for the remainder of the chapter.
--> '''Eleya:''' Academy roommate was a fan. Her payback for me dragging her off to a ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' screening.
* ''Fanfic/HisLieInApril'': Kousei Arima calls his friends Kaori Miyazono, Tsubaki Sawabe and Ryouta Watari ''The Three Stooges'' when he admonishes the three of them for unintentionally seeing him naked (only from the waist-up, though; they only see his bare chest) after he fell asleep in his bathtub.
* ''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 ''Film/TheSitterDowners''. Subverted in that the third dog’s name is Mae instead of Florabell.
** Invoked in “The Baseball Game” for the outfielders' names.
--->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.
** Mittens disparagingly compares the pigeons Vinny, Joey, and Bobby to the trio in “The Protection Payment.”
--->'''Mittens:''' Those knuckleheads make the Three Stooges look like quiz kids, but at least they always manage to come through with the goods.
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'' when Ash is trapped in the cemetery and does several Stooge-inspired pantomimes with the skeletons attacking him.
* 1986's ''Film/{{Stoogemania}}'' is chocked full of Stooge gags, with the main character Howard F. Howard, who starts seeing the Three Stooges wherever he goes, and even wanders into the neighborhood of Stooge Row, located between the fictitious "Shet Up St." and "Nyuk Nyuk Blvd." In order to fight the epidemic, the Stooge Hills sanitarium is founded, and after everyone has graduated and is cured, they decide to play a few of their shorts, and everyone comes to acceptance and still enjoy the Stooges' comedy. The main character Howard F. Howard is a reference to Moe's, Larry's, and Curly's last names of Howard, Fine and Howard, as well as the recurring phrase spoken over the intercom in 1934's "Men in Black".
* In ''Film/BabysDayOut'', the three villains may as well have been named Curly, Larry, and Moe.
* In the 1981 film ''Film/{{Gas}}'', a gas station attendant who is being interviewed by a news reporter does his impression of Curly Howard for the camera.
* In the ''Film/LethalWeapon'' series, Martin Riggs is established as a fan of The Three Stooges. There are several references to them sprinkled throughout the four films. Among them is in ''Film/LethalWeapon3'', when LAPD detective and Riggs love interest Lorna Cole turns out to have ''VideoGame/TheThreeStooges'' video game on her PC.
* In ''Film/LifeStinks'', Goddard Bolt (Creator/MelBrooks) and the J. Paul Getty bum (Rudy De Luca) get into a slapstick scuffle about which one of them is richer.
* In ''Film/PulpFiction'', when Vincent takes Mia to Lance's house after she overdoses on heroin, Lance is watching The Three Stooges short "Brideless Groom" and Emil Sitka chants his famous line, "Hold hands, you lovebirds."
* In ''Film/ShortCircuit'' Number Five after outwitting and powering down three of the same model robots sent to capture or disable him reprograms them to perform a Three Stooges routine and leaves them to be found by Nova's (the company trying to recapture him) team.
* The 2012 film ''Film/TheThreeStooges'', naturally, a remake with new actors playing the long-deceased trio.
* The three trolls in Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney'' bicker in a similar manner to the Stooges.
* In ''Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary'', Creator/BenStiller's character attempts to do one of Moe's eye pokes on his dog, only to be paw-blocked like Curly would do.
* "Calling Doctor Howard, Doctor Fine, Doctor Howard" can be heard over the intercom at a hospital in ''Film/InspectorGadget1999''.
* In ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', the way Mrs Lovett cries "A customer" once Todd erupts into her shop is eerily similar to Larry's "a costumer" cry in ''Sing A Song of Six Pants''.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' contains a trio of OneSceneWonder characters named Lharys, Kurleket and Mohor, confirmed by WordOfGod to be a tribute to the Stooges.
* George and Harold of the ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' books attend Jerome Horwitz Elementary School. Now why anybody would name a school after Curly is beyond us.
* Creator/KimNewman's ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'' novella "The Ibby the Fish Factor" features, as minor characters, three dwarf slapstick comedians who call themselves the Three Little Clots. The description of their act is directly based on the Stooges.
* In Douglas Preston's novel ''Literature/{{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.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/MadTV1995'': The Three Stooges are spoofed as paid assassins along with David Faustino as their target in a parody of ''Film/MenaceIISociety''. The sketch featured Orlando Jones as Curly, Debra Wilson as Larry, and Phil [=LaMarr=] as Moe.
* ''Series/That70sShow'': An episode features three of the characters acting out an imaginary Three Stooges short called "Pie Guys".
* In the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Suicide". the foreign woman Jerry is seeing asks him who the Stooges are and he promises her that he will "show her the Stooges".
* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' had John Candy who did a dead-on Curly, teaming with Eugene Levy as Moe, and Joe Flaherty as Larry (also seen in the one-man show 'Give 'em Hell, Larry')...Candy would also incongruously play Curly as the lead in 'Ben-Hur'.
* ''Series/ThePretender'' had a few:
** During the first season, Jarod discovered The Three Stooges for the first time, sitting in a diner. He later makes a video of himself doing Curly's schtick to taunt Miss Parker.
** In the second season premiere, Jarod was posing as a medical school professor named Dr. Howard. One of his colleagues was Dr. Fein.
* In an episode of ''Series/NightCourt'', Bull decides to get a toupee. While browsing a catalog and passing over more expensive toups (such as the "Shatner Turbo 2000"), the salesman suggests one of their economy hairpieces: the "Shemp."
* In one Christmas episode of ''Series/HomeImprovement'' Tim is getting ready to set up his usual over the top holiday decorations when he is told that there are new rules for the contest this year. Namely, that the three wise men of the Nativity must be the actual three wise men, not the Stooges.
** In an Halloween episode; Brad, Randy and Mark all dress up as Moe for Halloween
* One of the later episodes of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' has Major Winchester forced to teach western medicine to three Korean doctors that he condescendingly refers to as "Larry, Curly, Moe". [[LaserGuidedKarma They later treat ''his'' condition and reveal that they also knew about the Stooges.]]
* One episode of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' had a character wear a Halloween mask of The Stooges, and does the "Spread out!" gag with it when walking out the door.
* ''Series/HappyDays'': When the fight between Richie, Ralph and Potsie against some greaser bullies commences (episode "Joanie's Weird Boyfriend"), Fonzie comments to Carmine Ragusa "Didn't we see this in a Three Stooges film?"
* In one episode of ''Series/MannAndMachine,'' Eve Edison, an android, attempts to learn about human behavior by watching Three Stooges shorts.
* The Sweathogs on ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter'' are helping at Gabe's apartment following his wife having a baby. After some mishaps, Horshack comments "We are doing the work of three men here. Larry, Moe and Curley."
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': In "The One Where Ross and Rachel Take a Break", Ross' clumsy attempts to have a picnic in Rachel's office in the middle of her taking calls about a shipping mix-up has her saying over the phone "I'm sorry, I'll have to call you back. There's a Shemp in my office."
* On ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', Tommy, Sally and Harry tell Dick they've been watching the "three funny men on TV". When Dick shows no recognizance, they do an eye-poking, face slapping Stooge routine. [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure Dick assumes]] they're referring to Series/TheMcLaughlinGroup.
* ''Series/MyWorldAndWelcomeToIt'':
** The last of the three fights between John's grandfather and a bully of similar age who is trying to force him to pay an illegal bridge toll is especially cartoonish, heavily reminiscent of Creator/TheThreeStooges. Here, John's grandfather bests his tormentor with a series of [[EyePoke pokes to the eye]] interspersed with punches and nose tweaks before pushing him into the river. Occurs in "The Mating Dance."
** In "The Night the House Caught Fire," a group of clumsy and clueless firemen respond to the call and wreck the downstairs of the house with axes and water from a fire hose (without determining whether there was a fire or not -- and it turns out there isn't). [[CastingGag The gung-ho lead fireman]] is played by Creator/JoeBesser, best known nowadays as a member of Creator/TheThreeStooges during the 1950s. Besser also plays the equally overzealous head policeman in "Darn That Dream," who answers a call to John's boyhood home accompanied by a gaggle of cops. He arrests John and his family, convinced they're intruders.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'':
** In the ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E16GameraVsZigra Gamera vs Zigra]]'' episode, the Mads invent "Three Stooges Guns", one of which shoots out an eye-poking hand, which the other blocks.
** One of the exercises that can be performed on the Square Master in the ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E01WarriorOfTheLostWorld Warrior of the Lost World]]'' episode works out your "Shemp area". This is done, apparently, by lying on your side and spinning around, making a silly noise.
** The last riff of the Sci-Fi channel years had the movie's "Fine" end credit greeted by a joke that it was the official biopic of Larry Fine.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic:
** The beginning of the music video for "Like a Surgeon" has Al in scrubs walking down a hospital corridor. A woman's voice on the P.A. system says, "Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard."
** "Eat It" parodies Music/MichaelJackson's "Beat It" music video, showing one of the gangs in "Eat It" whooping like Curly while running offscreen.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBiHysKnvGs "The Curly Shuffle," by the Jump 'N' the Saddle Band.]]
* Rubber Chicken Films did a parody of Young M.C.'s "Bust a Move," entitled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osTwMrXIRvs "Bust a Stooge" ]]
* On some of their tours, Music/{{Rush|Band}} would have the Three Stooges theme play right before they go on stage. Can be seen in the [[Music/GraceUnderPressure Grace Under Pressure Tour]] video.
* The [[CreditsGag jokey booklet]] of the only album released by Brazilian band 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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[[folder:Radio]]
* Former conservative Christian talk show host Allen Hunt used to compare UsefulNotes/BarackObama, Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano to the Three Stooges.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/MarvelSuperHeroes Advanced Set'' ''Judge's Book''. In the sample adventure "Night of the Dreadnaughts", a trio of burglars is named Morris, Lawrence and Curly (i.e. Moe, Larry and Curly).
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Near the end of ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryI'' you can infiltrate the brigand's hideout. One of the encounters you must deal with is a trio of brigands based off of the Three Stooges, complete with their [[CatchPhrase catch phrases]]. You ultimately defeat them with a series of your own slapstick actions.
* Not only do the names of a trio of bosses in the international versions of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', Laragom, Moebius, and Curlax, sound very similar to the names of the Stooges themselves, but the trio even goes as far as to call themselves "The Dream Stooges".
** In fact, they were explicitly called Larry, Moe, and Curly in the original US release, ''Final Fantasy III''. However, they're simply called The Three Brothers of Dream: Sogno, Sueño, and Rêve [[note]]which means "dream" in Italian, Spanish, and French respectively[[/note]] in Japan.
* While Batman is wandering around Arkham Asylum in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' the Joker will frequently quote the Stooges short "Men in Black".
--> '''Joker''': "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard."
* A clown named Laurence "Moe" Curls appears in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney''.
* ''VideoGame/Diablo3'': There is a set of three unique skeletons named "Moek", "Larel", and "Karel" that spawn during one particular quest. There is an achievement for killing all three brothers in one blow called "Nyuck, Nyuck, Nyuck".
* In ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'', there's a jock pig villager named Curly in the English version. His catchphrase is even "nyuk!"
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In the comic ''Webcomic/ModestMedusa'', the titicular character often makes Curly's "woob woob woob" sound when fleeing a scene where she's caused trouble. [[note]]However, this may be more of a reference to ''Futurama'' than ''The Three Stooges'' directly. (See below.)[[/note]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', starting here [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3400/fc03301.htm here]], Florence asks Sam to tell her a legend from his people. Florence and Sam decide on the story of how his people stole fire from the gods. The story of three great heroes named Mho, Lairee, and Coily.
* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'', 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.
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic: Done by Doug Walker and special guest reviewers [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] in their review of ''Film/AloneInTheDark2005'' and ''Film/{{Bloodrayne}}''. The title card (seen atop this page) mimicks the opening logo of the Three Stooges and their fight near the end is done in typical Stooges fashion.
* A ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' "premake" trailer, which imagines what that movie might have looked like if it were made in 1954, opens with a spoof of the ''Three Stooges'' title card. It pictures Dean Martin as Ray; Bob Hope as Peter; and Fred [=MacMurray=] as Egon.
* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' has two references: when O'Malley mentions that " this fellow will make an excellent stooge. And I'm the one here with the most experience training Stooges.", Lopez replies with 'Nyuk, nyuk'; and much later, Lopez and his successor Lopez 2.0 are described by Sarge as "a couple of Three Stooges".
* Youtuber WebVideo/SolidJJ has a video series called "WebVideo/{{Stoogeposting}}," where he does voice impressions of the Stooges in brief shorts. At the beginning, he just adapted modern [[WhatsAHenway henway jokes]] like "Deez Nuts," but ended up taking them into the direction of original content more in line with their classic humor.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* An episode of MTV's ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' featured the Stooges being brought to the present age via a time machine invented by Stone Cold Steve Austin to battle The Three Tenors. [[spoiler:The Three Stooges (or, to be more specific, Curly) won.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In what is probably the earliest shout-out. the Porky Pig cartoon ''WesternAnimation/WhollySmoke'' (1938) has three cigars resembling the Three Stooges rise out of a cigar box and each one gives him an eyepoke.
** Another Porky short, ''WesternAnimation/PorkyInWackyland'' has a three-headed human like character with similar haircuts for each head who fight with itself in a similar way.
** ''Porky's Hero Agency'' as Medusa turning three short versions of the Stooges to stone in the positions of "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."
** ''WesternAnimation/HollywoodStepsOut'' shows caricatures of famous Hollywood actors of the time, including the Three Stooges poking each other's eyes in tune to the music.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': The episode "A-Fire Fighting We Will Go" contains several references to the Stooges. Including Hank calling the other three "knuckleheads"; Dale's constant singing of the Stooge classic "Swinging the Alphabet" (B-A-bay, B-E-bee, B-I-biki-bi B-O-bo...); and, of course, the classic PieInTheFace gag with Peggy's Frito Pie.
* ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'': In the "Prank Wars" episode, three of the contestants at the Pizza Eating Contest look like Moe, Larry, and Curly.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "[[Recap/SouthParkS10E11HellOnEarth2006 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, but made BloodyHilarious because they're mutilating each other. The title card even spoofs the ones from their shorts.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E8BartTheDaredevil 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 "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E3HomerTheHeretic Homer the Heretic]]" and chuckles: "Moe is their leader."
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E16Duffless 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 "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E14BartsComet 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 "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV 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 "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E17LastExitToSpringfield Last Exit to Springfield]]" and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E15DeepSpaceHomer 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 "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied The Day the Violence Died]]" also makes this noise.
** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E15BartTheFink "Bart the Fink"]], [=Troy McClure=] mentions a previous show business funeral he hosted called "Shemp Howard: Today We Mourn a Stooge".
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E18ThisLittleWiggy This Little Wiggy]]", Nelson imagines himself weighing the brains on the Three Stooges.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E12SundayCruddySunday Sunday Cruddy Sunday]]", Homer, Wally and Chief Wiggum run away from Rupert Murdoch in typical Stooges fashion.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E12TheMansionFamily 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 "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E16WeekendAtBurnsies Weekend At Burnsie's]]", Homer gets addicted to medicinal marijuana and in one scene, he hangs out with Otto and they watch some Three Stooges shorts together. [[BrickJoke Towards the end]], Mr. Burns gets into a slapping match with Homer and Smithers a la the Stooges.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E4LargeMarge Large Marge]]", former presidents UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter, UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush and UsefulNotes/BillClinton paint a house and start creating havoc à la The Three Stooges, with Bush as Moe, Carter as Larry, and Clinton as Curly.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E14MrSpritzGoesToWashington 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 "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E9SimpsonsChristmasStories Simpsons Christmas Stories]]", the Three Wise Men behave like the Three Stooges.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E2LostVerizon Lost Verizon]]", during the flashback scene at Machu Picchu, the city's soldiers flee in panic from the conquistadores in typical Stooges fashion. The last one to flee whoops like Curly as he runs away.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E12BoyMeetsCurl 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 "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E8TheTenPercentSolution 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/{{Futurama}}'': Doctor Zoidberg makes Curly's trademark "whooping" sound when "evading enemies" (sometimes after squirting ink), and sometimes makes Shemp's trademark "Heep, heep, heep" sound when frustrated.
** Mom's three sons, Walt, Larry, and Igner, are [[{{expy}} expies]] of the Three Stooges.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' contains several. Creator/BillyWest has stated that he based Stimpy's voice on Larry Fine, though he also repeats some of Curly's and Shemp's sounds.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': The title card for "Dumbbells" depicts Rocko, Heffer and Filburt as the Stooges (Larry, Curly and Moe, respectively). This episode provides the page image.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In a few episodes, the Joker has a trio of henchmen who resemble the Stooges and are named "Mo", "Lar", and "Cur".
** One episode featured a villain named Dr. Milo, who also had two henchmen, with all three being [[{{expy}} expies]] of the Stooges. Larry was a [[GenderBender woman]] tho.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jabberjaw}}'''s voice is based on Curly Howard, although he also has a frequent Creator/RodneyDangerfield shout out, as well (namely, complaining about not getting any respect)[[note]]Moreover, Creator/FrankWelker would later go on to voice the actual Curly in "The Robonic Stooges" shorts on Skatebirds.[[/note]].
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' sees Mother Brain, Eggplant, Wizard, and King Hippo get transformed into Moe, Larry, and Curly respectively.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' Shredder awakens a spirit of an ancient Foot clan ninja master claiming to be the current grandmaster of the Foot clan. Splinter calls him out on this saying that Shredder does not know the Foot clan's most powerful and secret technique, the "Kur-Li Maneuver". Splinter then proves that he is a true master of the Foot style by performing the "Kur-Li Maneuver" in which he hypnotizes Shredder, paralyzing him, and then begins slapping Shredder around while doing his best Curly impression.
* WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain were once joined by a third mouse named Larry, resulting in Stooge-like antics.
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'':
** The three eponymous ghosts encountered by Scooby and Shaggy in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMeetsTheBooBrothers'' are [[{{expy}} expies]] of the Three Stooges.
** So are the Brewski Sisters from ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo''.
** Interestingly, the ''real'' Three Stooges have also teamed up with the gang in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies''. Meaning that the Stooges, the Brewski Sisters and the Boo Brothers [[ExpyCoexistence all live in the same universe]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' episode "Space Ham" features the duo being abducted by aliens and forced to fight monsters in a gladiatorial arena, in which one of their opponents is a three-headed beast. Humorously, each head has the haircut of one of the Three Stooges: the right-head is Larry, the middle one is Moe and the left one is Curly.
* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': The Dark Hand Enforcers [[TerribleTrio Finn, Ratso and Chow]] are compared to the Three Stooges in-universe by Jade who even calls them Larry, Moe and Curly in "Sheep In, Sheep Out".
-->'''Jade''': Look, the Three Stooges!\\
'''Ratso''': Where?\\
'''Jade''': ''[snatches a map out of Finn's hand]'' Duh.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' has Curly, one of Arnold's classmates, who shares Curly's name and Moe's haircut. He's also one of the most unhinged kids seen on the series (and that's saying a lot).
** Eugene's surname is Horowitz, which is the same real-life surname of the Howard brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp Howard were named in real life Moses, Jerome and Samuel Horowitz).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' has Mulan's army friends, Yao, Ling and Chien Po. The trio consists of the grumpy leader, the innocent fat guy, and the guy in the middle.
* ''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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'': In ''Frank and Ellie Get Lost'', a flashback to Franklin and Eleanor's marriage shows the first time that Franklin drank, and also when his {{Cloudcuckoolander}} attitude started. Once he drinks, he starts imitating Curly's sounds and walking in circles routine. Kennedy and Eistein are there in the role of Moe and Larry, respectively. There's even a snooty fat lady to throw pies at!
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Madballs}}'' episode "Escape from Orb" shows three background characters resembling the Three Stooges among the inhabitants of Orb being forced to make a monument of Commander Wolfbreath.
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