# Let not Porky's Passing be Unmourned **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-not-porkys-passing-be-unmourned/327362 "2005-10-22T00:30:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-not-porkys-passing-be-unmourned/327362/1 "2005-10-22T00:30:38Z")
[Gordon Lee](http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9776739/) who played Porky in the Little Rascals died. I loved Porky {and his partrner Buckwheat} as a kid. Even though I never understood a single word he said, he gave me some great memories. Remembering one: He and Buckwheat want to join Alfalfa’s detective agency. While following some “suspects” they wind up in a carnival spook house which scares them … Some un-PC parts, not for everyone, but kind of funny Another [great Porky](http://www.4alfalfa.com/Commentary/roam.html) episode w. pic. Not too many of Our Gang of Rascals left – Robert Blake maybe. But Buckwheat, Butch & Spanky relatively recently – Alfalfa is long gone, now Porky. Don’t know about Darla – but they are all almost gone now ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-not-porkys-passing-be-unmourned/327362/2 "2005-10-22T02:20:58Z")
Darla works 53rd St. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-not-porkys-passing-be-unmourned/327362/3 "2005-10-22T04:21:58Z")
Yayyyyyy! I get to be the first person to mention the movie [Porky’s](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084522/)! Okay, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-not-porkys-passing-be-unmourned/327362/4 "2005-10-22T04:26:27Z")
Wasn’t Porky, being the littlest Little Rascal, the one who actually said “O-tay!”, not Buckwheat? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-not-porkys-passing-be-unmourned/327362/5 "2005-10-22T06:00:54Z")
What more can be said, except: uba-dee-uba-dee-uba-dee-that’s all folks! ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-not-porkys-passing-be-unmourned/327362/6 "2005-10-24T21:31:31Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > Wasn’t Porky, being the littlest Little Rascal, the one who actually said “O-tay!”, not Buckwheat? Yep. However, I believe in one short, Buckwheat does say “O-tee Do-tee” for “Okey Dokey.” ---
**Author:** ![deevee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@deevee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deevee)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-not-porkys-passing-be-unmourned/327362/7 "2005-10-25T00:48:06Z")
I don’t normally believe in curses or anything but the “Our Gang Curse” is freakin me out. They all just keep dying. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-not-porkys-passing-be-unmourned/327362/8 "2005-10-25T02:55:18Z")
Um, deevee, you do realize that they stopped making the Our Gang series 61 years ago? And it was 83 years ago when the first ones were made? I don’t think a curse is needed to explain the deaths of the cast. ---
**Author:** ![Foaming\_Cleanser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Foaming\_Cleanser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foaming_Cleanser)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-not-porkys-passing-be-unmourned/327362/9 "2005-10-25T07:27:42Z")
Butch died toward the end of September. > [@](#): > > LOS ANGELES (AP) – Thomas Ross Bond, who played Butch the bully in the “Our Gang” and “The Little Rascals” serials of the 1930s, has died. He was 79. > > Bond died Saturday of complications from heart disease at Northridge Hospital, said his manager, Frank Marks. > > Bond played a member of the Gang named Tommy. After his first year he was dropped from the cast but returned later in the role of Butch, the archenemy of Alfalfa. > > Bond appeared in dozens of “Our Gang” and “Little Rascals” features before outgrowing the role. You know, if we don’t get rid of this curse, it’ll get _all_ of us. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-not-porkys-passing-be-unmourned/327362/10 "2005-10-25T11:22:11Z")
> [@jimmmy](#): > > Not too many of Our Gang of Rascals left – Robert Blake maybe. But Buckwheat, Butch & Spanky relatively recently – Alfalfa is long gone, now Porky. Don’t know about Darla – but they are all almost gone now OMG!!! [Darla’s](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393454/bio) gone too! The curse is getting them all! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-not-porkys-passing-be-unmourned/327362/11 "2005-10-25T18:09:39Z")
The whooshing in this thread is making me gasp for breath. ---
**Author:** ![Foaming\_Cleanser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Foaming\_Cleanser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foaming_Cleanser)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-not-porkys-passing-be-unmourned/327362/12 "2005-10-25T18:22:05Z")
> [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > The whooshing in this thread is making me gasp for breath. Keep gasping. It wards off the curse. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-not-porkys-passing-be-unmourned/327362/13 "2005-10-25T18:25:46Z")
First Porky, then [Porkins](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=341435). :sniff: ☹ Looks like God is truly bringing Home the bacon…