Funny Movie Quotes from You Nazty Spy! (1940) starring the Three Stooges
Funny movie quotes from The Three Stooges’ You Natzy Spy! — the first anti-Nazi film, preceding Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator by 9 months
Moe Hailstone (Moe Howard): Moronica must expand! We shall lend our neighbors a helping hand, we shall lend them two helping hands … and help ourselves to our neighbors!
Moe Hailstone (Moe Howard): We must throw off the yoke of monarchy, and make our country safe for hypocrisy!
Moe Hailstone (Moe Howard): [Holding a book] I’ll keep this.
Curly Gallstone, Field Marshal (Curly Howard): Oh, a bookkeeper.
Moe Hailstone (Moe Howard): Go burn the books.
Larry Pebble, Minister of Propaganda (Larry Fine): Why burn the books?
Moe Hailstone (Moe Howard): There are too many bookmakers. The bookies are overrunning the country. Those are my orders.
Moe Hailstone (Moe Howard): Ring for my sectery.
Larry Pebble, Minister of Propanganda (Larry Fine): You mean secretary?
Moe Hailstone (Moe Howard): I said sectery!
Larry Pebble, Minister of Propanganda (Larry Fine): Secretary.
Moe Hailstone (Moe Howard): Which is correct?
Curly Gallstone, Field Marshal (Curly Howard): Stenographer. I’ll ring for her.
Moe Hailstone (Moe Howard): What do you mean by reading a book? Suppose you learn something. Loyal Moronikans shouldn’t read. Take your troops out and have them burn every book in Moronika.
Guard: I caught this man walking down the street with a chicken
Curly Gallstone, Field Marshal (Curly Howard): Blonde or brunette?
Moe Hailstone (Moe Howard): [to Curly] Quiet.
[to Man]
Moe Hailstone (Moe Howard): Where’d you get the chicken?
Man: From an egg.
Larry Pebble, Minister of Propaganda (Larry Fine): Where’d you get the egg?
Man: From a chicken.
Curly Gallstone, Field Marshal (Curly Howard): Ah, a vicious cycle. We must kill it. Remind me to kill a cycle.
Larry Pebble, Minister of Propaganda: We will now pause for station identification.
Curly Gallstone, Field Marshal (Curly Howard): This is N-U-T-S.
Larry Pebble, Minister of Propaganda: When you hear the conk on the dome, it will be exactly 3 o’clock.
[whacks Curly on the head]
Larry Pebble, Minister of Propaganda: 3 o’clock Bolonia watch time.
Curly Gallstone, Field Marshal (Curly Howard): 3 o’clock Bolonia watch time.
Mr. Ixnay: We’ve come here to offer you the greatest opportunity of your life.
Moe Hailstone (Moe Howard): 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 Hailstone (Moe Howard): 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 (Curly Howard): Hmph, a parasite. That’s for me.
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