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You Nazty Spy!

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You Nazty Spy!	label	You Nazty Spy!
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You Nazty Spy!	comment	This 1940 short starring The Three Stooges was, literally, the first movie ever to mock the Nazis.Set in the country of Moronika, three men plot to overthrow their king and appoint a dictator. Their choice is a paperhanger named Moe Hailstone. With Curly as his Field Marshal and Larry as his Minister of Propaganda, the boys take control of the country. The citizens are unhappy and drive Hailstone out of power.This was followed by I'll Never Heil Again. Other Hollywood artists started attacking the Nazis in 1940: Charlie Chaplin did it with The Great Dictator and MGM did it with The Mortal Storm. But the Stooges did it first.
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You Nazty Spy! / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
You Nazty Spy! / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Several lines make references to current events, particularly the "Blitzkrieg" line.
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You Nazty Spy! / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
You Nazty Spy! / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: The Moronika symbol is a set of criss-crossing, swastika-like snakes.
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You Nazty Spy! / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
You Nazty Spy! / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Moe's Rousing Speech is full of Yiddish phrases and colorful insults that only fellow Yiddish speakers — the Jews — would get.
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You Nazty Spy! / int_4b86a724	type	Getting Crap Past the Radar
You Nazty Spy! / int_4b86a724	comment	Getting Crap Past the Radar: The movie mentions the "Giva Dam", which itself breaks Section V of the Hays Code, and furthermore has a whole lot of cursing in Yiddish.
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You Nazty Spy! / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
You Nazty Spy! / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The short ends with the Stooges being eaten by lions (although they come back for the sequel... and they die in that film, too!)
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You Nazty Spy! / int_5c99b642	type	War for Fun and Profit
You Nazty Spy! / int_5c99b642	comment	War for Fun and Profit: Mr. Ixnay, Mr. Amscray, and Mr. Onay all run a munitions factory that's going down the tubes due to peace times in Moronika. Their solution? They decide to start a war, the first step being to overthrow the king and appoint Moe as a dictator in his place.
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You Nazty Spy! / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
You Nazty Spy! / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: Made at a time when mocking the Nazis was, at best, a risky business, this is the Ur-Example. Yes, the Three Stooges were the first people to mock Hitler on film. The best part is that all three are Jews, the dictator's self-proclaimed enemies.
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You Nazty Spy! / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
You Nazty Spy! / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: The map and Mattie Herring, an expy of Mata Hari.
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You Nazty Spy! / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
You Nazty Spy! / int_8543ec22	comment	Reality Subtext:invoked With the little moustache, Moe Howard looks eerily like Hitler. Moe's comedic persona in most Stooges shorts felt a lot like Hitler minus moustache plus pratfalls anyway, and the resemblance is used here (and in the sequel short) to great effect.
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You Nazty Spy! / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
You Nazty Spy! / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Given that they're playing Nazis, the Stooges count in this short.
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You Nazty Spy! / int_986bd638	type	This Is a Work of Fiction
You Nazty Spy! / int_986bd638	comment	This Is a Work of Fiction: Parodied; the film begins with the notice: "Any resemblance between the characters in this picture and any persons, living or dead, is a miracle".
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You Nazty Spy! / int_db7efdaf	type	Adolf Hitlarious
You Nazty Spy! / int_db7efdaf	comment	Adolf Hitlarious: Total nobody who rises to a position of power? Check. Tiny mustache? Check. Yelling in totally-not-German? Check. The only difference is that Moe Hailstone is a paperhanger instead of a failed art student. This was the Trope Codifier.
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You Nazty Spy! / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
You Nazty Spy! / int_f2877d9e	comment	Incredibly Lame Pun: Moe takes Curly's "little red book". "Oh a bookkeeper!"
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

You Nazty Spy!	hasFeature	A Nazi by Any Other Name / int_1792a1b5
You Nazty Spy!	hasFeature	Creator's Favorite Episode / int_1792a1b5
You Nazty Spy!	hasFeature	Femme Fatale Spy / int_1792a1b5
You Nazty Spy!	hasFeature	Getting Crap Past the Radar / int_1792a1b5
You Nazty Spy!	hasFeature	Present Day / int_1792a1b5
You Nazty Spy	seeAlso	You Nazty Spy!

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