Why would that be a sad moment? It was the best part of book 9. Hilarious!
In book one, Visser Three is one of the most menacing, cruel, and terrifying villains since, I don't know, Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty.
For the first eight books, he maintains this threat over the Animorphs.
Then they tell him to bathe in grape juice to get rid of the skunk smell.
That was the day all of Visser Three's credibility as an awesome villain died. He had a couple of rebirths throughout the series, but could you really take him seriously after that?
Because I couldn't