Because the running time for the original Stooges shorts were about 17 minutes long, it’s difficult to make them fit in a two hour format, especially knowing that they have to fit in a bunch of commercials too. So every week there are at least two shorts that need to be drastically edited down to fit. Fortunately, whenever they run a Joe Besser Three Stooges short it’s in one of the vastly edited down slots.

Cause, the Joe Besser Three Stooges shorts suck.