You Natzy Spy! (1940)

Moe: Ring for my sectery.
Larry: You mean secretary?
Moe: I said sectery!
Larry: Secretary.
Moe: Which is correct?
Curly Gallstone, Field Marshal: Stenographer. I'll ring for her.

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Larry Pebble, Minister of Propanganda: We will now pause for station identification.
Curly Gallstone, Field Marshal: This is N-U-T-S.
Larry Pebble, Minister of Propanganda: When you hear the conk on the dome, it will be exactly 3 o'clock.
[whacks Curly on the head]
Larry Pebble, Minister of Propanganda: 3 o'clock Bolonia watch time.
Curly Gallstone, Field Marshal: 3 o'clock Bolonia watch time.

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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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The Stooges, who were all Ashkenazi Jews, occasionally worked a word or phrase of Yiddish into their dialogue. In particular here, the Stooges make several overt Jewish and Yiddish cultural references: The exclamation "Beblach!" used several times in the film is a Yiddish word meaning "beans". "Shalom Aleichem!", literally "Peace unto you" is a standard greeting in Yiddish meaning "hello, pleased to meet you". "Moe: We'll start a 'Blintzkrieg' (Blitzkrieg). Curly: I just love blintzes especially with sour krieg." This is a reference to the Ashkenazi Jewish dish blintzes with sour cream. In Moe's imitation of a Hitler speech, he says "in pupik gehabt haben" (the semi-obscene "I've had it in the bellybutton" in Yiddish). These references to the Nazi leadership and Hitler speaking Yiddish were particularly ironic inside jokes for the Yiddish-speaking Jewish audience.
Larry walks with a limp because he has injured himself shortly before filming began. However, it adds to the realism because Josef Goebbels walked with a limp.
Curly "Gallstone"'s red book of women's addresses and phone numbers has the rather overt sexual references "Ruby Clutch" "oh, oh oh! G" (bra size) and the unread "Tessie oomph 2 69" which were ignored by the censors. This was a key dig at the attempt to censor The Great Dictator then in production by Charlie Chaplin. (Curly was also noted in his personal life for being a womanizer.)
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