YMMV / The Big Store

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In "Sing While You Sell", there is a part where a woman sings a swing-rendition of "Rockabye Baby". What makes it weird is that the camera holds as she sings the whole song with a vacant stare. The most she does is lightly rock a bassinet, and Groucho, who was leading the song, just disappears in this part.
• Crossing the Line Twice: When 6 kids to an Italian family of 14 (12 kids and their 2 parents) goes missing, Ravelli confuses an Asian family for the missing kids, the Asian family all dressed in stereotypical Oriental clothes and faux-Chinese music starts playing. Just when you think this should fall under the Values Dissonance trope, in walks a family of Native Americans all dressed in Braids, Beads and Buckskins, the father in a headdress, Ravelli takes their kids to the hysterical Italian mother, and suddenly what many would call offensive... is still offensive, but it's also pretty funny.
• Values Dissonance: There's a part of the "Sing While You Sell" musical sequence that pans to a part of the store selling cotton sheets. The attendants are black men in cotton-picking attire carrying decorative cotton plants, a cutout in the background that almost looks like a "mami" and they sing a jolly song about how cotton is harvested, all to the tune of "Old Folks at Home". Given the year this came out, we should count ourselves lucky that they got black actors to play the part instead of white guys in Blackface.