"Stoogeposting" is the name of a series of video shorts created by Youtuber Solid jj where he does impressions of The Three Stooges, done using still images of the original characters captioned with Impact font, similar to an Image Macro. The first video, The Three Stooges meet "Candice"
, was uploaded in May of 2021. As of November 2022, the series consists of 17 videos in total.
The Stoogeposting series originally started out as an adaptation of modern internet memes like "Deez Nuts" and Among Us, but has since grown into covering original jokes, incorporating puns and slapstick similar to the original series. It also has branched out into meta-jokes and crossovers with films like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
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- Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: In "The Three Stooges challenge God," Curly pronounces "Catholic" as Ca-thol-ic (rhymes with "alcoholic").
- Actor Allusion: Larry is explicitly described as Jewish, just like the real Larry Fine. However, all the Howard brothers were ethnically and religiously Jewish too in real life.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: Invoked in "The Three Stooges go Hollywood," where both Larry and Curly wish Marlon Brando would play them in a movie.
- Ambiguous Syntax:
- In "The Four Stooges":Larry: Did you count yourself?
Moe: 'Course I did, you see me askin' someone else to do it for me? - In "The Three Stooges challenge God":Larry: How should I know, I'm Jewish!
Moe: What do you mean, they teach you them Ten Commandments too!
Larry: No, I said I'm Jew-ish! - In "The Three Stooges Get Drafted":Drill Sergeant: There'll be no theatrics in this camp, do you hear me?
Larry: Mostly in my left ear, my right ear's a bit clogged.
- In "The Four Stooges":
- Art-Shifted Sequel: "Another Three Stooges Thanksgiving" replaces the stock photos with animation, drawn in the style of the 1950s cartoon The New 3 Stooges.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: In "Another Three Stooges Thanksgiving," Moe says "Honestly, I'm just so excited for this year's Thanksgiving I feel like I might just ex-" before getting cut off by the house exploding.
- Big Eater: In "The Three Stooges run for office," Curly remarks, "If I gotta bring my own food, I don't wanna be a part of it!"
- Artistic License – History: Invoked by Curly, who claims he fought 15 years in the Great War.
- Catch-22 Dilemma: In "The Three Stooges pass the buck," Moe can't pay the water bill because Curly didn't pay the telephone bill, Curly couldn't because Larry didn't pay the electric bill, and Larry couldn't because Moe didn't pay the water bill. Moe questions why Larry needs water to pay the electric bill, and he replies:"So you expect me to go all the way to the bank parched?"
- Chain of Deals: The plot of "The Three Stooges: The Art of the Trade." Curly gets into one involving a car, gasoline, a bicycle, and a candy bar.
- Counting to Potato: In "The Four Stooges," Shemp shows up and they each try to count how many of them there are, though they each forget to count themselves.
- Deliberately Monochrome: According to Doctor Strange, the Stooges' entire universe is naturally black-and-white.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Curly says he only signed up for the city council race because there were free pens by the signup form, and "What good is a pen if you're not gonna use it?"
- Drunk with Power: In "The Three Stooges run for office," Curly claims that he was class President, but after two weeks, it turned into "marshal law."
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The first two videos were based on adapting modern memes to a Three Stooges format, with somewhat more surrealistic humor and profanity. It's not until "The Four Stooges" that the videos focus solely on original gags in the same format as the Stooges.
- Feigning Intelligence: In "The Three Stooges challenge God," Curly says he's been going to church, so Moe calls his bluff and asks him to name the Ten Commandments. Curly's answer is total bullshit, but Moe Failed a Spot Check and doesn't actually know whether it's right.
- Fun with Subtitles: When characters get interrupted mid-sentence, the caption show the rest of what they intended to say.
- Hypocritical Humor: Moe blames Shemp for not buying cards from the corner store in "the Three Stooges don't have Uno," despite knowing that the corner store doesn't carry them.
- Ignored Expert: Larry says he devised a way to produce electricity without fossil fuels in "The Three Geniuses," but Moe brushes him off. It's never shown whether his idea had any substance.
- Implied Death Threat: In "The Three Stooges go Hollywood":Larry: What kind of movie would it be, anyway?
Moe: Well with hair like yours, it'd be a horror movie.
Larry: Oh yeah? Well with a face like yours, it'd be a comedy!
Moe: Huh?! Well with words like that, it'd be a murder mystery! - It's All About Me: In "The Three Stooges run for office," Moe's upset about Curly for flubbing his interview for this reason:"You coulda been somebody, meaning I coulda been somebody!"
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The entirety of "The Three Stooges break the 4th wall" is about indirectly questioning the video's length and visual style.
- Just Testing You: In "Doctor Strange Multiverse of Stooges," Moe says that him questioning Larry's incredibly specific guess of Doctor Strange's intentions was just a test to see if he knew it too.
- Literal-Minded:
- In "The Three Stooges don't have Uno":Shemp: Well, the day I went, no dice!
Larry: Dice? I thought we needed cards. - In "The Three Stooges run for office":Reporter: What's your strategy going into the political race?
Curly: Well I might've put on a few pounds over the past few years, but looking at the competition, at their age, ain't much of a challenge!
Moe: Shut up, big nose! What my friend meant to say was he respects the competition, and even at their old age, they're probably fantastic athletes.
Reporter: Well, uh, it ain't that- ...never mind. - Later in the same episode:Reporter: If elected to city council, what do you hope to bring to the table?
Curly: Huh? Nobody told me if this was a potluck! If I get elected, I'll budget for more snacks, I'll tell you that much!
- In "The Three Stooges don't have Uno":
- Malaproper: All three brothers do this, but Curly is the most obvious:
- Although he pronounces it correctly, the subtitles in "The Three Stooges run for office" reveals that he says "martial law" as "marshal law."
- In "The Three Stooges go Job Hunting," Curly is asked if he has experience sanitizing and replies "I'm always sanitizing about the pretty girls."
- In "Doctor Strange Multiverse of Stooges":Wong: Wait, you're multiversal, too?
Curly: No, we're only versed in English, but we're the bestest at it!"
- Mob Debt: In "The Three Stooges Steal from the Mob," Moe, Larry, and Curly are confronted by a mobster whose briefcase full of money they unwittingly stole. He demands the money back, and the Stooges explain they were merely "borrowing" the money inside... by buying themselves clothes and a new car.
- Mondegreen Gag: The crux of "The Three Geniuses" is that Larry misread a sign saying "Eviction Notice" as "Invention Notice" and thought it was an advertisement for inventors. Curly also says this regarding his idea to mash up all food to prevent choking:Larry: Couldn't you just, uh, chew?
Curly: Gesundheit! - Not What It Looks Like: In "The Three Stooges Steal from the Mob," the Stooges explain to the mobster that when they took a mobster's briefcase full of money, they weren't stealing it, but simply borrowing it for safekeeping. However, their definition of safekeeping involves spending it all with no refunds.
- Pie in the Face:
- "A Three Stooges Thanksgiving" quickly devolves into one of these.
- "Another Three Stooges Thanksgiving" has Moe do this to the other two, this time with the stuffing Larry made. Larry concludes that it could have used more onion, an opinion Curly echoes when Moe throws the spare bowl of stuffing at his face at the end.
- Repeat After Me:
- In "The Three Stooges Steal from the Mob," Curly takes the mobster's comment of "Say that again" at face value and says "That again."
- Subverted in "The Three Stooges get Drafted":Drill Sergeant: From now on, in my presence, you will only repeat after me. Let's practice, shall we? (singing cadence) I don't know what I've been told!
Stooges: (singing off-key) You told us to only repeat after you!
- Shout-Out:
- The first two episodes are based on the memes "Deez nuts" and "When the imposter is sus" (from the game Among Us).
- Some of the stock background music is prominently featured in other shows, like SpongeBob SquarePants and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,
- The job interviewer in "The Three Stooges go Job Hunting" uses photos of Cary Grant.
- Curly says the Second Commandment is "the right to bear arms," as taught by Moses.
- The title of "The Three Stooges: The Art of the Trade" is a reference to Donald Trump's 1987 memoir The Art of the Deal.
- "The Three Stooges Don't Have Uno" is one big reference to the viral video "YOU HAVE UNO."
- In "Doctor Strange Multiverse of Stooges," Strange says they came from a universe with Tony Stark in blackface.
- Special Effect Failure: Invoked in "The Three Stooges break the 4th wall." Larry points out that an Eye Poke didn't have the right sound effect and accuses the creator of getting lazy.
- Stolen Credit Backfire: In "The Three Stooges go Job Hunting," they each try to throw each other under the bus and present themselves as the best candidate for a job opening... only to find out it's cleaning septic tanks.
- Three Stooges Shout-Out: The entire premise of the series.
- What's a Henway?: Played with in "The Three Stooges Meet Candice." Curly plays it straight ("Candice nuts fit in your face"), but instead of responding with "Deez Nuts," Moe uses "Deez" to lead into "Deez fingers in your eyes!" and delivers an Eye Poke.
- Who's on First?:
- In "A STOOGE AMONG US," the three get into a debate over who's "me," "you," and "him." After Moe bonks Curly and Larry's heads together, Curly figures it out:"Ooh, now I get it! I'm me, you's you, and he's a big jerk!"
- In "The Three Stooges break the 4th wall," Moe says "It is what it is," prompting a round of confusing questions from Curly on what exactly "what" and "it" are.
- Zig-Zagged in "Doctor Strange Multiverse of Stooges." A joke about Dr. Strange's name being strange is largely averted, but then there's a whole tangent about Wong's name and which (Scarlet) Witch is which.
- In "Another Three Stooges Thanksgiving," Larry keeps hearing Moe's order to "get stuffing" (put the stuffing in the turkey) and keeps replying that he already got the stuffing and is holding it now.
- In "A STOOGE AMONG US," the three get into a debate over who's "me," "you," and "him." After Moe bonks Curly and Larry's heads together, Curly figures it out:
