Trivia
A billiards 8-ball was used as a fortune telling device in the scene with the female spy, Mattie Herring. This predates by ten years the popular toy fortune telling device, "The Magic Eight Ball", first marketed by Alabe Crafts Company in 1950.
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Quotes
Mr. Ixnay:
We've come here to offer you the greatest opportunity of your life.
Moe:
You mean you'll let us paper the living room?
Mr. Ixnay:
No, no, no. You're through with papering. My partners and I are going to make you Dictator of Moronica.
Moe:
Dictator? What does a Dictator do?
Mr. Ixnay:
A Dictator? Why, he makes love to beautiful women, drinks champagne, enjoys life and never works. He makes speeches to the people promising them plenty, gives them nothing and takes everything. *That's* a Dictator.
Curly Gallstone, Field Marshal:
Hmph, a parasite. That's for me.
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This short just proves that the Stooges were not just slapstick masters, but that they were great social satirists. The boys were ahead of the curve by making a blatent parody of how Hitler came to power. The thing that made it more ironic was the fact that Moe, a Jew, plays a perfect Hitler characature and pulls it off convincingly. If you want to see some more of Moe's dead on imitation of Schikelgruber, just look at "They Stooge to Conga" and "I'll Never Heil Again" (the sequel to this short).