Stooges

At what age should a child be exposed to the Three Stooges? How long will I have to hide the DVDs of Moe, Larry and Curly in the vault?

I don't recall seeing them until I was about 7. Growing up on bases in West Germany didn't help since Armed Forces TV seemed to want to keep the violence down. Every week they showed Born Free. I remember they ran the clip show film with Charlie McCarthy inbetween sliced up Stooge adventures. Think they also ran some of the later feature films in the afternoon. This was confusing since I had no idea of the relationship between Curly and Curly Joe DeRita. This was at a time before the internet so we had no way to figure out the timeline.

Kids view themselves as indestructible enough without seeing the Stooges survive violent mayhem. Perhaps the Butterbean will wait until he's at least 25 to see the genius of Moe.

Why don't you ever see Born Free on TV anymore?