They had to get a dig in on “The Weekly Standard” as one of the villains was reading this in bed. Probably few noticed this but I did - basically a gratuitous introduction of politics. Which, btw, was completely out of character as that
character would never be reading such a magazine. Also, the villains tended to be “1 percent types” so there was definitely a fanning of the class warfare flames, IMHO.
One of the regular themes of the original Stooges shorts was pitting them against high society types, the 1% of their day. Wealthy foils for the Stooges is true to the original shorts.