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Pop Goes the Easel (1935) is the 7th of Columbia Pictures' 190 short subjects starring the comedy team of the Three Stooges.

The Stooges are looking for a job. However, they are mistaken as thieves and soon find themselves on the run from the police. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an art school where they are mistaken for students. They take their first art lessons while hiding from the police.

The two girls playing hopscotch on the street around the 3:45 mark in the short are Moe Howard's daughter and Larry Fine's daughter.

This is the first of several Stooge shorts in which Moe holds out his hand to Curly and asks him to "pick out two" fingers. Curly does, and Moe pokes him in the eyes with them. This would be a recurring joke.

This short is the first to contain a clay throwing fight which is very similar to the pie throwing fights that would become a recurring joke in Stooge shorts.

This is the first Stooge short to feature "Pop Goes The Weasel" as the opening theme.

This is the first of several Stooge shorts in which Moe holds out his fist to Curly and says, "See that?" When Curly replies, "Yeah," Moe swings his fist in a circle behind his body, over his head, and bops Curly on the head with it.

This is the first short in which Curly is dressed as a woman. Curly would somehow wind up in drag in several later Stooge shorts.

• • Curly: "Mister, I haven't tasted food for three days."
  • Man on the street: "You haven't?"
  • Curly: "No."
  • Man on the street: "Well, I wouldn't worry about it. It still tastes the same."

• • Moe (to Larry, after losing a potential job for being unable to spell): "How do you spell chrysanthemum?"
  • [Larry looks unsure.]
  • Moe: "Oh, ignorant, eh?"
  • [Moe slaps Larry.]
  • Moe (to Curly): "How do you spell it?"
  • Curly: "C-H-R-Y-S-A-N-T-H-E-M-U-M?"
  • Moe: "Why wasn't you here a minute ago?"
  • [Moe slaps Curly.]

• • Moe: "You know, my old man used to draw."
  • Larry: "Yeah?"
  • Curly: "Sure! He drew twenty years with one stroke of the pen!"

• • Art student: "Shall we start on, uh, 'September Morn'?"
  • Curly: "No, let's start right now!"

• • Artist: "I am an artist!"
  • Larry: "I am an artist, too."
  • Curly: "Oh, a pair of drawers!"

• • Artist: "I lost a fortune!"
  • Curly: "Don't worry, you know the old saying. Easel come, easel go."
  • [Curly laughs, and Moe hits Curly.]
  • Moe: "Easel out of here!"

• • Moe (about Curly): "Excuse him, lady. The heel has no soul."

• • Cop (to Curly, who's pretending to be mute): "Oh, deaf and dumb!"
  • Curly: "Soitenly!"

• • Curly (disguised as a woman, to Moe and Larry): "Ixnay aggincray! It's the opcay!"

• • Curly (looking at a clay sculpture): "Look, we made something!"
  • Larry: "What is it?"
  • Curly: "Sitting Bull!"
  • Moe: "I don't see his face."
  • Curly: "He has his back turned. How!"
  • Moe: "And how!"
  • [Moe hits Curly.]

• • Curly: "Here's mud in your eye, mister!"

• • Curly: "That's a coincidence!" - recurring line