The Three Stooges in Popular Culture - Music

Music

• The Stooges derived their name from the Three Stooges.
• A line in Adam Sandler's "The Chanukah Song" says "Some people say that Ebenezer Scrooge is / He's not, but guess who is? All Three Stooges!"
• The 1984 song "The Curly Shuffle", recorded by Jump 'N the Saddle Band, expressed admiration for the Stooges and included several Curly imitations in the chorus.
• The eclectic group NRBQ recorded an instrumental entitled "Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard" with Carl Perkins on their second LP, Boppin' the Blues in 1970 as an homage to the Stooges' famous hospital routine.
• Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell album contains the song "Everything Louder Than Everything Else" proclaiming "the three men I admire most are Curly, Larry, Moe!"
• The song "Hairstyles and Attitudes" by Timbuk3 describes scientific research which "categorize us into three basic types based on which of the Three Stooges we most closely resemble."
• The music video for the song "I Love This Bar" by artist Toby Keith, features a scene where he is at a drive-in movie watching a Three Stooges clip, much to the dismay of his girlfriend.
• In the music video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's single "Like a Surgeon", the line "calling Doctor Howard, Doctor Fine, Doctor Howard" can be heard in the background.
• The folk trio Modern Man perform the song "Moe" (written by pianist/singer George Wurzbach), about a boy whose father looks like Moe Howard.
• In the song "Sockable Face Club" by ska punk band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, the narrator, engaged in a bar fight, proclaims "I learned from Larry, Moe and Curly not to take no guff".
• The 1994 Song, "Two Reelers" by Frank Black tells the story of the four "original" Stooges and producer/director Jules White, and protests the dismissal of the Three Stooges as mere lowbrow slapstick: "If all you see is violence/Well then I make a plea in their defense/Don't you know they speak vaudevillian?"
• The Canadian rock group Rush used the Stooges' television series theme music, a derivative of "Three Blind Mice", as introductory music during the Signals through Hold Your Fire Tours, and again for the Vapor Trails Tour. A picture of the Stooges and their names are included in the Counterparts liner notes, and are included in the "assistance, inspiration, comic relief" listing.
• In Chris Brown's featured 2011 hip-hop single "Look At Me Now" from the album F.A.M.E., Lil Wayne makes a small reference to the Stooges in the 3rd verse, rapping "I'm a nuisance I go stupid / I go dumb like The Three Stooges."