Curly: "If we don't sell anything here, me and my feet is quittin'."
Spook Louder is The Three Stooges' 69th short subject by Columbia Pictures.Here, the Stooges, who are salesmen, are chosen to guard the house of Professor Graves from a Japanese spy invasion.
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- Bears Are Bad News: Moe comes upon a stuffed taxidermy bear, first being scared by it before realizing it was fake.
- Big Red Devil: Well, not very big (he's only as tall as the boys) but one spy is tricked out like the classic Devil, pitchfork and all.
- Bomb Disposal: The Stooges realize that the bomb was accidentally lit when threatening the badguys with it. They pass it on to each other right before throwing it at the other trio, blasting them out of the house.
- Cuteness Proximity: The boys hear some music in the parlor, thinking somebody is playing the piano. When they check it, a Cute Kitten is walking on the keys!Curly: Ah, look! (A white kitten is walking across the piano keys.) Hee-hee! A kitten on the keys!(The guys chuckle in relief.)
- Dastardly Whiplash: The lead spy has a hunched posture, a pencil mustache, and a Black Cloak with a matching Homburg hat.
- Delayed "Oh, Crap!": This exchange here:- Professor Graves: Now, remember, boys, you will defend my property until your life's blood flows down the floor in rivers! (Tips his hat.) Goodbye. (Professor Graves and his bodyguard leaves.)Moe: Okay, Boss, you've got nothing to worry about!(The Stooges turn and head indoors, but suddenly stop in fright...)Larry (terrified) : Did he say BLOOD?!Curly (just as scared) : I'm ANEMIC!!!All: NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! (All three run inside the house terrified!)
- Dem Bones: One of the spies is dressed like a skeleton, and manages to terrorize both Larry and Curly.
- Double Take: At one moment the skeleton-suited spy hides under a drop cloth. The panic stricken Curly joins him, only to be shushed by the spy. Curly nods agreement, but a moment later...
- Evil Laugh: Heard through out the house... and after somebody gets hit by a pie!
- Framing Device: The premise is told through a story by Professor Dunkfeather for a reporter.
- Juggling Loaded Guns: Graves gives one of the boys, which is Curly, a rifle. When Graves asks if he knows how to use it, Curly demonstrates its features. When he pulls the trigger, the ricocheting bullet shoots he Stooges' hats off.
- It happens again when Curly shoots the rifle after he said he unloaded it. Curly ducks the ricocheting bullet that takes Moe and Larry's hat before standing up and razzing at it. The bullet comes back and snatches Curly's hat!
Moe: So, you unloaded it, huh?! I'll unload your BRAINS, if you've got any!(Moe grabs Curly's head, and slaps it!) *SLAP!!!*Curly: OW!!! - Mistaken for Servant: When the Stooges arrive at Graves' mansion as traveling salesmen, he assumes them to be the three caretakers he recently hired.
- Obviously Evil: The Axis spies are as blatant about their evilness as always, but in a different manner than in other Stooge shorts: instead of walking around in full Nazi regalia and doing the Hitler salute in broad daylight on American soil, these spies are inexplicably dressed in Halloween costumes that telegraph their evil nature — the leader being a Dastardly Whiplash and his two goons being a skeleton and a Big Red Devil.
- Running Gag: An unknown person throwing pies throughout the story.
- The Reveal: It was Dunkfeather.
- The Unreveal: Yet, after his confession, a pie was thrown at him by some other person, leaving the viewer to question who threw that pie.
- The Reveal: It was Dunkfeather.
- Time Zones Do Not Exist: One of the clocks goes off when it hits 5:00 in Russia. Russia is a very big country with many times zones; it wouldn't be 5:00 in all of Russia.
- Yellow Face: Surprisingly and refreshingly averted for a wartime short; while Dr. Graves explicitly says the spies are Japanese, the spies we actually see have white skin and American accents, implying that they're American fifth columnists.
