# Real life '"I didn't do it!" boys'

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-i-didnt-do-it-boys/991950>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 23, 2023, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-i-didnt-do-it-boys/991950 "2023-10-23T10:26:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-i-didnt-do-it-boys/991950/41 "2023-10-26T17:21:34Z")

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In the “Memory Plays Weird Tricks” department: for some reason I remembered him in a Canadian Mountie uniform. Nope, just a suit and wide brim hat.

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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-i-didnt-do-it-boys/991950/42 "2023-10-26T18:28:18Z")

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Two minor entries for the OP, from 1933’s Our Gang’s  
[Forgotten Babies](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hDvEhDURC4U&pp=ygUVZm9yZ290dGVuIGJhYmllcyAxOTkz)

**John ‘Uh huh’ Collum** , his father was Hal Roach’s casting director. No nepo baby he, John was just used as an extra to fill out the scene, with occasional insertion of his two signature phonemes.

**Dickie Hutchins** , who says “Remarkable,” to everything. (A realistic depiction of how kids will latch onto a random adult-sounding word. I’m told that at age three my go-to was “Oh how rude!”). Dickie was a one-picture actor with one-word dialogue, brought in with his older brother Weezer. Perhaps for the best, since Weezer’s was another sad story of an abused child actor, made further so by his death in training during WWII. [Here’s his grave, which I once visited.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10818/robert-eugene-hutchins)

(Forgotten Babies also has the voice of Billy Gilbert, who’s often confused with the above mentioned Frank Nelson)

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-i-didnt-do-it-boys/991950/43 "2023-10-26T21:01:51Z")

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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> In the U.S., he was everywhere for a little while, including attacking Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, and then never heard from again.

Moral: Don’t f\*\*\* with Johnny Carson

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**Author:** ![gre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@gre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gre)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-i-didnt-do-it-boys/991950/44 "2023-11-20T05:53:29Z")

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> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> Male, probably from the 80’s, youngish and fairly buff, I think he had longish brown hair. He had two schticks: one was his “dawg” who loved “salsa sawce” (he had a thick accent, maybe Jersey, I don’t know)

That sounds familiar. Bobby something…

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