a standard Hebrew greeting meaning "hello, pleased to meet you". 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. In a gag when Moe tries to shush Larry and Curly at a table with Mattie Herring, the boys make train noises until a conductor appears and says, "All out for Syracuse!" When Larry leaves and Mattie Herring asks where he is going, Moe replies, "The boy's from Syracuse" — a reference to the musical The Boys from Syracuse (1938). A colorized version of this film was released in 2004. It was part of the DVD collection entitled Stooged & Confoosed.You Nazty Spy was also the first Stooges short to bear a new opening title sequence, with the Columbia logo's torch-bearing woman on the left-hand corner, standing on a pedestal where each step has printed out "Columbia," "Short Subject" and "Presentation," and the opening titles and credits are inside a box with rounded edges. This format will remain in effect through Booby Dupes. When asked why they have no lions, Curly replies "Because there are no bones in ice cream." This bizarre and otherwise unexplained non-sequitur is a colloquialism of the period that would be offered as a non-sensical answer to a non-sensical question. Two of the lions at the end of the film are known as former MGM lions, "Tanner and Jackie", both of whom had previously appeared in Three Missing Links, Wee Wee Monsieur, and Movie Maniacs''. The name of the third lion is unknown. References External links You Nazty Spy! at threestooges.net Moe, Larry and Curly: Premature Anti-Fascists American satirical films American political satire films The Three Stooges films 1940 films Cultural depictions of Adolf Hitler Cultural depictions of Benito Mussolini Cultural depictions of Joseph Goebbels Cultural depictions of Hermann Göring American black-and-white films Films directed by Jules White Films set in Europe Films set in a fictional country 1940 comedy films American World War II propaganda shorts Columbia Pictures short films Films with screenplays by Felix Adler (screenwriter) American slapstick comedy films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films