# The Three Stooges In Germany?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 5, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-stooges-in-germany/146809 "2003-01-05T20:30:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-stooges-in-germany/146809/1 "2003-01-05T20:30:10Z")

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Were **The Three Stooges** (shorts or movies) ever popular in Germany? I don’t remember them being shown on television, but that means nothing since we didn’t own one when I was little.

If they **were** shown, what were they called?

**Laurel and Hardy** were known as _Dick Und Doof_ which translates loosely into _Fat And Stupid_.

A GOOGLE advanced search returned no results.

Thanks

Der Quas’

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**Author:** ![Dryga\_Yes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@Dryga\_Yes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dryga_Yes)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-stooges-in-germany/146809/2 "2003-01-05T21:26:13Z")

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I searched for “the three stooges” on google, German pages only. (I speak German, but I’ve never lived there) There were 747 hits. I skimmed through the first pages, and all hits were about a video game that was apparently once made.

If the TV shows/movies ever were shown, you’d expect to see pages about it where the name appeared like “…and it was originally called The Three Stooges in English”.