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In the OTL, the Three Stooges signed with Columbia and produced shorts for 23 years for the studio. Columbia screwed them over; Harry Cohn, studio president, kept them in the dark about how popular they were (the Stooges were a massive draw for the studio, and a bargaining chip for getting their less desirable movies bought by theatres for the chance to show those shorts) and as a result they never asked for nor were they ever given a raise since Cohn made them think every year that shorts were out and they were possibly going to get fired. The Three Stooges also never got any motion picture deals until after they were let go, unlike contemporaries like the Marx Brothers.

But what if the Three Stooges had signed with one of the other studios instead of Columbia?
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