The YouTube video with the URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHcFy7_Q8LE has popped up on my screen at least twice when I went to YouTube. I don’t subscribe to anything on YouTube. I just ask it to show me certain videos or I ask for a video about a given topic. I let YouTube try to guess what I like. After YouTube suggested a couple of times that particular video, I finally decided that, although it looked boring, to see what it was about. It proved to be fairly entertaining.
I then spent a while trying to figure out what TV show or movie that video was part of. It took a while. Finally I decided that the one woman in the audience of the show that going on certainly looks like the mother on the program Everyone Loves Raymond. That’s Doris Roberts. I then used her name and a vague description of what’s going on in the video to search for what it is.
I was astonished to discover that somebody decided in 2014 to release a movie based on the really old movie group of kids known as The Little Rascals or as Our Gang. It’s so out-of-date an idea that I thought most people would find the idea offensive. But that isn’t the most surprising thing. The little girl who does the singing in it is now well-known. (The movie is called The Little Rascals Save the Day.)
It’s Jenna Ortega. I suppose she also played a character from older television shows when she plays Wednesday Addams. But the Our Gang video is from much older movies. In Beetlejuice Beetlejuice she’s also in a sequel that’s 36 years after the original, but it’s clear that her character wasn’t yet born in the original films.
I mostly subscribe to documentary and civil engineering channels on YouTube, but it typically recommends me TikTok-like shorts about swordfighting, cats, and Rube Goldberg mazes for squirrels. Shrug. They’re entertaining enough, I guess, and I probably learned something or another. But can’t remember any of it ten minutes later.
Did learn about the mildly fascinating worlds of sewage processing, highway supports, air fryer construction, etc. though.
Wish I could tailor the YouTube recommendations more.
Sorry about that mistake. Now that I look more carefully, the character of Mary Ann does look more like Jenna Ortega. Here’s the Wikipedia entry on the movie:
There’s only three names on the list of actors and their characters that I recognize. One is Roberts, one is Ortega, and one is French Stewart. I was about to say that he doesn’t appear in that scene, but is he the guy in the audience in the first row?