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<\/h5>\n<\/h5>\nJake Rossen and Mental Floss<\/a> present 10 Slap-Happy Facts About The Three Stooges<\/a>. Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n Having established their comic personas on film, the Stooges proceeded to make some accidental history. Their 1940 short, You Nazty Spy!<\/em>, was the first<\/a> American production to openly make a mockery of Adolf Hitler\u2019s regime. (Charlie Chaplin\u2019s The Great Dictator<\/em> opened nine months later.) The short was perceived as a great insult by the F\u00fchrer, who listed the Stooges as favored casualties on his own personal death list. (It\u2019s not known whether he named each one individually.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n 7. A REPLACEMENT STOOGE HAD A NO-VIOLENCE CONTRACT CLAUSE. The Stooges\u2019 vital contributions to pop culture have always deserved some archival recognition. They got it in 2004, when The Stoogeum<\/a>opened its doors in Ambler, Pennsylvania, about 25 miles outside of Philadelphia. The museum\u2019s founder<\/a> is Gary Lassin, who married Larry Fine\u2019s great niece in 1981. A Stooges fan, Lassin acquired over 100,000 items related to their careers and displays roughly 3500 pieces at a time. There\u2019s a Hall of Shemp, a game area (with Whack-a-Moe), as well as countless artifacts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jake Rossen and Mental Floss present 10 Slap-Happy Facts About The Three Stooges. Here are three of my favorites… 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20626,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20624\/revisions\/20626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
3. HITLER WANTED THEM DEAD.<\/h4>\n
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\n<\/strong>Sorting out the musical chairs of Stooges enrollment can be difficult: While Moe and Larry were largely engrained, the trio was originally rounded out with Shemp before he departed for a solo career: Curly was his replacement. Following Curly\u2019s departure due to illness, Shemp stepped back in, but he died in 1955. After briefly considering a run as the Two Stooges, Moe and Larry recruited Joe Besser, a comic actor who already had a deal with Columbia, in 1956. But Besser wasn\u2019t quite as game for the physical comedy as his predecessors. He insisted his contract contain language prohibiting him from being abused to excess, including anything pastry-related. \u201cI never was the type of comic to be hit by a pie,\u201d he said, a mentality that calls into question the decision to become part of The Three Stooges. Following Besser\u2019s departure in 1959, the group roped in Joe DeRita for live shows and several feature films, including 1961’s Snow White and the Three Stooges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
10. THERE\u2019S A STOOGES MUSEUM IN PENNSYLVANIA.<\/h4>\n