"Sappy Bull Fighters" is one of the worst Three Stooges shorts starring Larry, Moe, and Joe. It culminates into Joe battling a real bull who interferes with the Stooges' comedy bullfight act, featuring a fair amount of bullring stock footage that is too unrealistic for us to believe that Joe is in any danger. In addition to that, after Moe gives Joe a trademark eye poke, Joe does a poor imitation of former popular Stooge Curly, thus proving that Joe was always better doing his own whiny overgrown child characterization rather than imitating someone else.
In spite of all that, there are still a few moments in "Sappy Bull Fighters" that I do find amusing. In the beginning, the Stooges harmonize their boo-hoos pretty well, reminiscent of their famous "Hello, hello, hello!" A little later, Joe brains Moe in the face with a suitcase as Joe does his "Bullring, here we come, gosh" dance. Finally, as Larry hides underneath a couch from a jealous husband (George Lewis), a little dog named Pepe barks at him; the husband then reaches down and pets whom he thinks is Pepe but is actually Larry. "Pepe, what has happened to your hair?! It is bald-headed on the top!"
In spite of all that, there are still a few moments in "Sappy Bull Fighters" that I do find amusing. In the beginning, the Stooges harmonize their boo-hoos pretty well, reminiscent of their famous "Hello, hello, hello!" A little later, Joe brains Moe in the face with a suitcase as Joe does his "Bullring, here we come, gosh" dance. Finally, as Larry hides underneath a couch from a jealous husband (George Lewis), a little dog named Pepe barks at him; the husband then reaches down and pets whom he thinks is Pepe but is actually Larry. "Pepe, what has happened to your hair?! It is bald-headed on the top!"