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  • Memetic Mutation: "NIAGARA FALLS! Slowly I turned, and step by step, inch by inch..."
  • Parody Displacement: The "Niagara Falls" routine was based off the very-commonly performed "Slowly I Turned" vaudeville sketch, where a character is relating a story and is triggered into violent outbursts when the listener inadvertently utters a triggering word or phrase. This was done with many various locations and other triggering words outside of Niagara Falls (and done by other individuals such as Abbott and Costello and on an episode of I Love Lucy), but only the Stooges' version is well-remembered today.

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