I've recently purchased a copy of the 4 most reproduced episodes in Stooge history ...
Disorder in the Court, Sing a Song of Six Pants, Malice in the Palice and Brideless Groom ... which have lived lives on VHS and DVD in various incarnations.
HOWEVER ... the copy I recently purchased was a "colorized" version from Legend Films, and I have a pointed comment -
I now KNOW the reason why people who have seen colorized versions of the boys are so adamently against them. The black and white flatness of the films give them a much more cartoonish nature, while the colorized versions lends a more "3D" effect to the films, and as such much more "real", detracting from their hilarity.
IF I was forever condemned to watch ONLY colorized versions of the boys eps, I would eventually learn to enjoy them anyway, because watching them this way is certainly a novelty ... !!