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A Plumbing We Will Go

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  • Memetic Mutation: Dudley's only line in this episode, "This house has sure gone crazy!" became very popular and a viral hit on the Internet.
  • One-Scene Wonder: Dudley Dickerson's perplexed chef became one of the most famous non-Stooge characters in any Stooges short. He was even invited back to film new footage as the same character when the short was remade in the 1950s as Vagabond Loafers, a rare honor indeed.
  • Unintentional Period Piece: The mansion's owners are proudly showing off their television set before it gets ruined by the Stooges' flooding of the house. In 1940, the CRT television was still a relatively new piece of technology only the wealthy could easily afford (less than 1% of U.S. households had one by the end of WWII).

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