Who was your favorite Little Rascal episode?

Anyone remember watching The Little Rascals when you were a kid? I didn't realize that they were all adults by the time I saw them in re-runs. I asked my mother to invite them to my birthday party. I liked so many of them, but I remember an early episode when Spanky was a cute little toddler running around with a hammer trying to hit a roach and found a hidden panel where his miserable father hid cash and he threw the money out the window. I also liked anything with Butch. He was my first gay crush.

I always like me this one, ‘Second Childhood’. I always loved when the old lady puts in the roller skates and skates around the house.

Feed 'Em And Weep, known for the Happy Birthday Mister Hood song.

The one where they put on a show.

Call me a Mary!, but from the time I was little just loved the fact that Buckwheat and Stymie were just part of the gang.

There was so much racism in these episodes, never would be able to make in today's times.

Oh, r6 had to show up and spoil the fun. Yeah, times have changed but nobody is wearing a bedsheet in the "Our Gang" series, unlike a typical day in America circa 2019. I'm sure you've never seen any Little Rascals shorts, have you? So DELICATE!

Maybe I missed it, but I don't really remember any racism in the Little Rascals. They were all just little kids who played together. I haven't watched it in awhile.

R8 - i kind of agree, although they had those moments of "scare the darkie" and shoe that wide eyed look of terror on their faces.... But for them being made in the 30s and 40s, they were way ahead of the social norms of the day. The one thing that did stun me when i watched them as a young adult that i messed as a child was in the cake making scene (wheep whomp). They're sweating in the kitchen, and buckwheat wipes his brow with the back of his hand and flings it, and on the wall they show chocolate spatter..

Don't know the names but my memorable snippets are - boating on Toluca lake, the fire engine down the hill, mowing the lawn and carpet and mending it , jackies crush on Mrs. Crabtree, the skeletons...... Good times.

It confused me that sometimes they'd make Buckwheat play a boy and other episodes he'd be a girl.

Dogs is Dogs is my favorite LR episode. It has an amazing acting performance from Bobby Hutchins as Wheezer, who wasn't normally one of the stronger actors in the gang. It is also a fun appearance for Sherwood Bailey who plays Wheezer's villainous step-brother. Sherwood, often called Spud in the series, is one of the "gayest" kid characters in the series. He is a cheerful cross-dresser in a couple episodes ("Choo-Choo" and "Spanky.") In Dogs is Dogs he plays a spleeny Mamma's boy who bullies Wheezer and Stymie and gets ducked in a well a couple times as punishment.

Incidentally- one of the racial elements of the Little Rascals is the way all the black kids are portrayed as having dead-beat, absent fathers, who if they are not in jail, are too busy shooting craps to provide for their children. Yet while the films are criticized for reflecting this unflattering reality, decades of social progress have done little to alter the high rate of absenteeism among the fathers of black children.

R1 I came here to post that's my favorite too. The actress's name was Zeffie Tilbury, best known to classic movie audiences as Charlie Grapewin's wife in "The Grapes of Wrath", probably Jane Darwell's mother. In real life, she was legally blind but was in dozens of movies. I love the high note she hits when singing "Oh Susannah!"

What about the one where Butch lost his wrestling suit in front of Darla? The writer or director or both must have been a little pervy to include a scene like that. I don't think that would be allowed today for sure.

[quote]I don't think that would be allowed today for sure.

Today sexual perversion runs rampant in entertainment aimed at children. Hollywood has always been run by sexual deviants.

Choo Choo train was a good one. Once again Baby Spanky was soooo cute.

Baby Spanky looks a lot like Prince George of Cambridge

Miss Crabtree - “What words did George Washington declare as he crossed the Delaware.

Mary Anne - “Boo Boop be Doo! Boo Boop be Doo!”

That episode

The one where the teacher was named Miss Crabtree. And the kids thought she would be old and shriveled. And she was young and lovely.

I would of gone to sleep with teenage spanky and alpha and froggy

I also would like to get beat up by butch then he have his way with me later

Yum yum eatum up is pretty fucking funny

[quote]—“And boy! Is he beating her up!” That episode too

Ha! Yes, that's "Forgotten Babies"! I say that quote all the time just like the actress playing the phone operator says it. The little child who keeps saying "Remarkable!" was Wheezer Hutchins younger brother.

"Yum, yum EAT 'em UP!" is "The Kid from Borneo". Hilarious.

The "Buckwheat" character was played briefly (one film each?) by two other children before Billy Thomas was given the role. The first Buckwheat was indeed a girl who I believe was Allen "Farina" Hoskins younger sister.

"Children! My back pension just came in. Close to FOUR THOUSAND dollars!"

The one with the guy in the ape suit also kills me.

"Oh, Miss Crabtree, there's something lying heavy on my heart!"

"Oh, Chubbsy Ubbsy, there's gonna be something lying heavy on your nose!"

Forgotten Babies is my lifetime favourite Our Gang short.

"Saturday's Lesson", a 1929 silent, we saw at the Silent Movie Theatre on N. Fairfax and laughed hard at.

The one where they beat the shit out of that little rodney allen rippey

I prefer the early ones best. Not a big fan of the "let's put on a show" years of Alfalfa & older Spanky. Spanky was just the cutest little thing when he was a baby. I love when they'd just leave the camera on him & let him ramble on about something.

There's one episode with Wheezer, don't know the title, but Wheezer's stuck with a mean as hell stepmother who won't allow him to bring Pete the Pup into his room at night. She catches him one morning and beats the crap out of the poor child. And I mean it really looks like she's spanking him hard on the back of his legs. It's pitiful. Of course, it all ends well & the evil stepmom gets her comeuppance & Wheezer & Pete end up living the high life with Wheezer's aunt or something.

The aforementioned cake baking episode is another one of my favorites.

That would be Dogs is Dogs. These bring back such fond memories for me. I saw most of these as a teenager back in the 1980s, one of our local stations played a lot of Little Rascals and also Laurel & Hardy. Right off the top of my head, I do love the episode (Beginner's Luck) in which Spanky enlists his friends to sabotage his performance of the "Friends, Romans, countrymen" speech from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. The talent show is a hoot, and there are some lovely examples of kids being silly and imperfect during the performances which just adds to the charm. Despite the era in which it was made, the children were quite egalitarian with each other. I think some of the most shocking moments I can remember had more to do with safety issues. I remember my friends and I screaming during an episode in which one of the kids lies on the railroad tracks and a train passes slowly over the supine child.

No, I don’t think I need a doorknob todaaay!

Little Rascals suck. I hated visiting old people who would put that on for the kids to watch. It's like getting an apple for trick-or-treat.

Mary Ann Jackson was my fave. She was so sassy!

Mary Ann Jackson didn’t give a shit what anyone thought about her attitude either.

I liked the one where they all took turns blowing Aaron Tveit. Hilarious!

Thanks for derailing a fun thread, r47. Piece of shit.

I liked Hi, Neighbor when Jerry the stuck up new kid in the neighborhood got his pants ripped off when he and Janet were spying on the gang.

And Hearts Is Thumps when Butch lost his wrestling togs.....

Oh the wrestling one is Came the Brawn.....Hearts Is Thumps is when Alfalfa ate soap before he sang for the class.

The one where Hal Roach makes a cameo saying "Spanky you're too old and too fat to be in this series, but we ain't got nothing else?"

Then Mickey offs Spanky to become the lead. Something he'll repeat later on in life.

Butch losing his clothes was great, too bad it ended there, would have been nice too see him crawl on his stomach to get his clothes.

Not sure of the episode, but a funny line I remember from watching it years/decades ago:

Teacher: "And what's your father doing?" Little girl: "Twenty years."

Those babies are fidgets.

The International Silver String Submarine Band.

Mickey and Janet were such charmless camera hogs......and don't even get me started on Froggy.

The oldest ones are the best

R44 Mary Ann always looked like she smelled Limburger cheese.

r58 Mary Ann Jackson didn't care.

I thought Jackie Cooper was a cute white boy

What was Butch's friend, Worm or Woim? What kind of name is that? Too bad there wasn't a porn parody of Butch fucking Alfalfa, Darla, and Woim.

No mention of "Wild Poses" yet, with Franklin Pangborn and a cameo by Laurel and Hardy? For shame, DL!

so cute, baby Spanky, such eyes

I think my favorite is the one where there's a party and the host couple find a lamp and turn into little kids. (Played by the Arbor Day midgets.)

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward,

[quote]I think my favorite is the one where there's a party and the host couple find a lamp and turn into little kids. (Played by the Arbor Day midgets.)

"Ice cream! Ice cream! I make it, you take it. Hey, hey! Hey, Mister? Yes, Sister? Have you any vanilla today?"

Funny what you remember 50 years later, huh?

I remember one where Alfalfa is getting ready to go see Darla, adding a shit ton of grease to his hair and making a piece stick up in front as he looks in the mirror and sings "I'm in the Mood for Love,"

R65. I completely forgot that one, it was a great short (Aladdin's lamp)

Choo Choo train, where baby Spanky is chaperoned on a cross country train trip and the lady says to the chaperone, let me take that cute baby, and he punches her, and she give him back right away. So funny.

Same one R70.....the fey man holding Spanky doesn't realize his toupee is standing up in the back....and the girls are all laughing and pointing at him and he thinks he's a charmer.....

R62 as a kid I sometime fantised having a 3 way with butch and spanky

"We Want the Flory-Dories, We Want the Flory-Dories..."

"Aw, he's pixilated!" (Spanky, on seeing a man he falsely assumed was drunk).

"Love Business" has many great quotes.

Chubby: "Oh, Miss Crabtree there's something lying heavy on my heart."

Jack: "Oh, Chubbsy Ubbsy there's gonna be something lying heavy on your nose!"

and

Chubby: "My heart is filled with joy. I want to trip and dance"

Dorothy: "My heart is filled with joy. I want to rip my pants."

When I was a kid I thought "back pension" was money he got for hurting his back.

YES, r76! So did I! I'm not sure I even understood what a pension even was to be honest.

YUCK. Why can't Butch beat this creep on the phone above me up???

If Spanky and Butch were looking for a place to hookup, you just know that Alfalfa was following them around and keeping it from happening.....talk about a cock blocker.

Learn that poem...learn that poem...

Don’t drink the milk! Why? It’s spoiled!

Butch was an angry young lad because he realized he had a micropenis after he saw Alfalfa's 9 inch dong in the boy's bathroom.

Scotty Beckett through the years.

I used to get Scotty Beckett and Dickie Moore mixed up.

Scotty Beckett had a troubled young adulthood and turned to crime, booze drugs and an early death. The even more adorable Dickie Moore married Jane Powell. They co-starred in two features together. I wonder if they were friends?

truth: Tom "Butch" Bond's son used to attend our Scrabble Club.

"I love to binga, with the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a. I love to binga, with a double-word-score and a little more, seven letters give me eighty-four, I-I-I-I love to, I-I-I-I love to bingo."

"The dress in IN THE BAG!"

Actually Spanky said that, Dickie - in Beginner's Luck.

that poor mother in Beginner's luck

"Little Sinner" -- Spanky, Buckwheat, and Porky ditch church in favor of fishing and stumble upon an African American baptismal service. Not the least bit "woke", but damn funny.

[quote]Actually Spanky said that, Dickie - in Beginner's Luck.

Yes, as Dickie's baby brother, I forgot! I couldn't remember the title and I was too proud to search for it. It is one of the most incredibly sweet and touching entries in the whole series. Even as a child I understood the loving sacrifice of the mother wearing the out-of-date fashion and ill-fitting shoes with great pride in the final shot.

Lemonade Stand was funny. There was another bully type of kid that got his come up (not Butch).

You're still confused R92, but your heart is in the right place. I think you're thinking of "Anniversary Trouble".....

R93 - you're thinking of Lucky Corner.....with Leonard Kibrick as Leonard - the kid who got a scalp massager stuffed down the back of his pants.... His brother Sidney played Woim, Butch's bitch.

something strangely erotic about some of the plot lines. I guess they couldn't use a vibrating dildo, so they used a scalp massager....Hmmm.

Alleged killer of Bonnie Lee Bakely appeared in some episodes (Robert Blake).

Miss Crabtree's Gangbang.

[quote]You're still confused [R92], but your heart is in the right place. I think you're thinking of "Anniversary Trouble".....

No, I was confused, but I was thinking of "Birthday Blues", not "Anniversary Troubles", or "Beginner's Luck", although the line "The dress is in the bag!" is from "Beginner's Luck", I mixed it up with the plot of the earlier "Birthday Blues", although both are very sweet.

Well at least two of us cared Uncle George.

I liked it when Stymie feeds Spanky a piece of sausage coated with Tabasco sauce under the table and he makes that sick cow sound like that toy that you turn over. I’d post it but can’t on this phone. I think it’s on YouTube

There is no cuter toddler ever than baby Spanky!!!! (ok, maybe Prince William at the same age and Prince George too)

Any reference to Limburger cheese. My father would eat this disgusting cat shit smelling crap every Sunday in front of the tube watching the game, and we'd put clothespins on our nose to irritate him with reference that it stunk. I have never had a cause or desire to look for it, and when my friends and I discuss cheeses, nobody even mentions that kind.

“What’s your name?”

“Mary Jane. Ask me again and I’ll tell ya the same.”

OP, you asked your mom to invite them to your birthday party, that is too precious!

I liked the one where they get stuck in a gypsy caravan going downhill with no brakes.

The one where they have the boat race and the engine is a couple of ducks. Also the Arbor Day show at school one. That one is a treasure trove of wise cracks and slang. And how!

[quote]and we'd put clothespins on our nose to irritate him with reference that it stunk.

Yeah, I'm sure that did it.

Have some soap.....well if you don't want it, I know plenty of other boys who do......

Love all of the Miss Crabtree ones. Don't know the title but there's one where they find and take Miss Crabtree's boyfriend's clothing while he skinny dips in a small lake. I believe a flash of ass is shown when he jumps into the water. He resorts to covering up with bush branches while in this predicament.

I still have a sight gag in my mind of a teeny tiny maybe three or four years of age Buckwheat, with hair tied in white rag strips (maybe a girl Buckwheat?) gliding down grassy hills while sitting on a block of ice that had been sat on long enough for a deep butt imprint to have formed. Anyway, I just remember Buckwheat's teeth chattering while it went on and basically just going along with what was going on. Does this one still even exist? I haven't seen it since the 70s.

The LR short where the new neighbor with the red fire truck is put in his place. Neighborhood kids with a little money did not do well with the gang.

"Chubby told ME to tell YOU that Momma cut off her finger!"

R111 that's "School's Out" - the kids think Miss Crabtree is going to leave and mistake her brother Jack for her intended.....

Buckwheat's traveling on the ice happened in "Lucky Corner" -

Anything with Butch losing Darla to Alfalfa!!

There was a sad one, a very early one, where one of the kids mother died, and her twin sister came to visit and he thought she came back to life. It ended with her picking him up and carrying him like lovingly with him snuggled into her arms crying. It was extremely moving.

R61 He was, until he became the managing editor of the Daily Planet.

"Those babies are FIDGETS!"

From "Free Eats."

R116 I'm not sure that was an Our Gang film.

R122 Lemonade Stand is Lucky Corner.

I like the one where Jackie Cooper was boxing another kid then the kids father got involved then Jackie' s granny beat the crap out of him.

That might be Fly My Kite R124......

I think I remember that one, did Granny look like the original Grandma Moses?

R124, that was quite weird because you saw the kid's dad holding Jackie Cooper so his kid could hit him. I remember that more than Granny guzzling her vitamins and then knocking out dad.

I gotta stay home and grease Wheezer.

Why is no one posting full episodes? They're nearly all on YouTube:

A history of the films, and Alfalfa's "sad last days."

[quote]I gotta stay home and grease Wheezer.

Jesus, what does that even [italic]mean?[/italic]

R125 no it's not that one, but that was also a good one.

R124 That's The First Seven Years, where Mary Ann makes Jackie fight another boy for her "hand" as she sits nearby dressed as a princess.

Average age in this thread: 148.

These episodes are a true reach into another time.

Average IQ for R134: 14.8.

Let me think about it OP, while I make a thread about peoples favorite silent film.

R133 my god those poor people and their laundry are all chopped up. "When I'm done with you, you're gonna look like Swiss cheese "

Parents don't care about their kids fighting with real swords? Lol

is it just me, or were some of these episodes a little homo-erotic with public humiliation, such as losing pants or shirts or taking someone's clothes? Maybe that's why they are not on tv as often anymore

R140 "is it just me, or were some of these episodes a little homo-erotic with public humiliation, such as losing pants or shirts or taking someone's clothes? "

Same with Laurel & Hardy.

Must have been a Hal Roach fetish.

My favorite episode is when ugly, pinch-faced little Breezy Bisbane plays hooky and becomes so lonely he returns to school, humiliated and defeated, and submits himself to ridicule when Miss Grabyourapples forces him read aloud to the class that emasculating bit of putrid childish prose that makes him cry like a little bitch. That episode fueled my fevered masturbatory fantasies for years!

R142 -- Learn that poem. Learn that poem.

R143 Speaking of poems on "The Little Rascals", I keep hearing "Half a leg, half a leg...." when Alfalfa is reciting "The Charge of the Light Brigade". Of course, it's "Half a league", but he doesn't enunciate very well.

isn't there an episode where Spanky's mom loses her dress in front of an entire school audience, that is a bit over the top I would say

Yes R145 that's Beginner's Luck. Spanky's mom enters him in a talent show at a local theater...and winds up getting "disdressed".

I think the Brisbane one is "Fish Hooky."

Here's the ending of Beginner's Luck. Mom does get her dress pulled off, but Spanky quickly covers her with a stage prop, but it only adds to the indignity. This is also an example of someone "getting the hook!"

Love this thread! My fav was "Don't drink the milk." "Why?" "It's spoiled." And yes, [R97], Robert Blake was little Mickey.

R147. Only Donald Trump would like an episode like that one. Something tells me he watched it and loved it as a child.

[quote]Average age in this thread: 148.

Spoken like yet another rancid Millennial who has stopped texting just long enough to kill someone else's fun.

You won't be twenty-six forever dear, you better go on Propecia now.

R150. You got a problem with millennials? This is a thread about the Little Rascals you fucktwat.

R147 " friends, Romans and countrymen "

The one with stinky fish, Butch, and the feral cats.

HIDE AND SHRIEK, in which Alfalfa, Spanky and Buckwheat go to a haunted house and are best by monsters from all sides. The Devil head on the skeleton body, replete with pitchfork, used to scare the pants off me, and I couldn't WAIT for it to be broadcast. In a pre-DVR age, I must have watched it hundreds of times, along with the rest of the series.

Alfalfa and Spanky doing chin ups to impress the new girl and they break the bar and the girl's father chases them off.

You can link the full episode, ya know!

"Forgotten Babies" has the adorable "Re-maaarkabull!" toddler:

R156. Thank you. He was SO CUTE!!! I just want to pinch his cheeks!!!!

The "Re MARK able" toddler was Wheezer's little brother irl.

Love the pit bull mix. Hardly vicious looking to me

A favorite of mine too, R1. It's unbelievable that she's 65. She looks to be in her 80s. I remember my Mom (who passed away a little more than 2 years ago at 84) saying that when she was a kid, old people really looked old.

Just loved Miss Crabtree..."Schools Out" is the best...

"She has seven husbands and 21 kids!"

Love when Butch lost his suit in Came the Brawn! His friend kind of left him for Waldo. He deserved so much more.

Did Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, or Spanky have last names?

Switzer, Hood, Bond, MacFarland

R165 you know your Little Rascals, thanks

I don't know if it's my favorite, but I've seen "The Kid From Borneo" a hundred times over the years.

I grew up watching reruns of Little Rascals episodes on a weekdays morning show called 'Slam Bang Theater,' which aired on our local affiliate early enough to be seen before school. My favorite would have to be [bold]Free Wheeling[/bold] (1932), the one about the taxi service pulled by a donkey.

Other favorites would be [bold]Fly My Kite[/bold] and [bold]Shiver My Timbers[/bold], both from 1931, and [bold]Forgotten Babies[/bold] and [bold]The Kid From Borneo[/bold] from 1933. [bold]Little Daddy[/bold] (1931) was memorable for the Rube Goldberg breakfast-making system Farina had set up to feed younger brother Stymie in the morning. Still more memorable moments would be Chubby on stage playing Nero in [bold]Shivering Shakespeare[/bold] (1930), repeatedly lifting the front hem of his toga so that he could read his lines, and the wacky cake baked for their mother by Dickie and Spanky in [bold]Birthday Blues[/bold] (1932).

On the whole, I tended to prefer the older casts of Rascals (Wheezer Hutchins, Mary Ann Jackson, Dickie Moore) to the later ones. The team of Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla, Buckwheat and Porky annoyed me more often than not.

Too bad there was never a Little Rascals porn parody. Everyone could gang bang Darla or Butch!

[quote]Too bad there was never a Little Rascals porn parody.

Yeah, I REALLY want to know why he was called "Spanky."

Yeah would of like to rub his tities if I was his age

would love seeing Butch exposed with a micropenis and Alfalfa with a solid 8 inches, that would explain so much.

Butch will be a bottom for the aggressive top of alfalfa

Great gay comic erotica would be Butch getting gangbanged by Alfalfa, Porky, and Spanky. Darla can watch from an opening in the fence.

Which ones features that little pickaninny?

Did Alfalfa or Spanky have any brothers or sisters? I know the parents were almost non existent in the episodes, but strange none of them had siblings.

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