Moe: If we're discovered, we're lost.
Curly: You're crazy. If we're discovered, we're found.
In this 70th short, "Back from the Front" has the Stooges coming across a Nazi ship called the S.S. Schicklgruber, to where they must disguise themselves to not be recognized. Little did they know, their former boss of their sunken ship of the Merchant Marines, Lieutenant Dungen, was aboard.Curly: You're crazy. If we're discovered, we're found.
This is yet another jab at the German Nazis, after "You Nazty Spy!", "I'll Never Heil Again", and "They Stooge to Conga".
Tropes:
- Accidental Kiss: Curly does this with the Stooges' girlfriends' Bernese Mountain Dog when they give their goodbyes.
- Adolf Hitlarious: Moe disguises as Hitler as part of his solution to take out Dungen's captain and company.
- Boom, Headshot!: Upon taking out the Nazi sailors, Moe decides to disguise as Hitler to finish off the captain and his officers by ordering them to blow their brains out.Moe: You fail to catch three spies! Blow out your brains!
Captain: But, mein Führer, we're Nazis. We have no brains.
Moe: Then what you got, blow out! - Does Not Like Spam: Curly is against beans after having cans of them nonstop after being lost at sea for days.
- Iconic Outfit: Moe's Hitler disguise looks exactly as you would expect. When a sneeze blows off his fake mustache, he exclaims, "Oh! My personality!"
- Improbable Weapon User: Curly helps Moe and Larry dispatch several Nazi mooks by bashing their heads with a hook on a pulley.
- Mugged for Disguise: The Stooges manage to knock out three Nazi sailors to steal their uniforms.
- Offhand Backhand: While helping Moe and Larry take out their enemies, Curly nonchalantly knocks out a Nazi sailor trying to sneak-attack him from behind.
- Oh, Crap!: When Dungeon discovers about the Stooges' presence...Larry: What's cookin'?
Moe: It's our heads. That's the general alarm! - Paper-Thin Disguise: The Stooges aren't noticeable when having beards. Even Dungen didn't recognize them.
- Seadog Beard: The Stooges grow beards after spending a long time adrift at sea.
- Suicide as Comedy: Moe, disguised as Hitler, orders the Nazi officers to shoot themselves. The Nazis are so dumb it almost works, until Moe’s fake mustache falls off.
- Take That!: The Nazis are depicted as so stupid they make the Stooges look bright by comparison — the Nazi leader even admits to having no brain.
- Those Wacky Nazis: The Nazis are the main villains of the picture, and they're depicted as sinister bullies who are even dumber than the Stooges.
- Took a Level in Badass: The Stooges when they get discovered by Dungen. They manage to subdue him and the entire row of his sailors.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The Stooges' pet dog, Fido, is no longer seen after he shows up in the Nazi captain's quarters.
- You Have Failed Me: Overhearing the Nazi officers despair about their troops' failure to catch the Stooges, Moe disguises himself as Hitler and orders the men to kill themselves for their failure.
