Buffoons
Stooges
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- This would normally be considered unfunny and most likely scary; however, in depicting them as inept Three Stooges-like buffoons, this goes from being too close for comfort to absurd.
- Likewise the award-winning The Three Stooges short You Naszty Spy was based on prewar conceptions of the fascists as little more than thuggish buffoons; The Stooges (who were all Jewish) were devastated when they discovered the horrifying reality underlying all of the Nazis' pompous posturing.
Source: Unintentional Period Piece -
The Starscream: Shane turned out NOT to be this as he was still taking orders from Vince, aka The Greater Power Those Two Bad Guys: The Stooges, Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco, who were two former high-class wrestlers who got to act like absolute buffoons.
Source: Wrestling / The Corporation
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