# Surprising things you learned when a YouTube video popped up on your screen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 8, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprising-things-you-learned-when-a-youtube-video-popped-up-on-your-screen/1012713 "2025-01-08T03:21:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprising-things-you-learned-when-a-youtube-video-popped-up-on-your-screen/1012713/1 "2025-01-08T03:21:20Z")
The YouTube video with the URL [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHcFy7\_Q8LE](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 It’s so out-of-date an idea that I thought most people would find the idea offensive.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. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprising-things-you-learned-when-a-youtube-video-popped-up-on-your-screen/1012713/2 "2025-01-08T13:30:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprising-things-you-learned-when-a-youtube-video-popped-up-on-your-screen/1012713/3 "2025-01-08T15:55:13Z")
I hate to be “that guy”–but I’m going to be that guy. Jenna Ortega is in that clip, but she’s not Darla (the girl who sings). She’s Mary Ann, the girl with pigtails who’s playing the drums. What can I say? I like the Little Rascals. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprising-things-you-learned-when-a-youtube-video-popped-up-on-your-screen/1012713/4 "2025-01-08T19:19:16Z")
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: > **[The Little Rascals Save the Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Rascals_Save_the_Day)** > > The Little Rascals Save the Day (originally titled The Little Rascals 2: Rascals' Beginning or The Little Rascals to the Rescue in development) is a 2014 American comedy film released by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Succeeding the first film released in 1994, it is the second feature film adaptation of Hal Roach's Our Gang, a series of short films of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s (many of which were broadcast on television as The Little Rascals) which centered on the adventures of a group ... 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? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprising-things-you-learned-when-a-youtube-video-popped-up-on-your-screen/1012713/5 "2025-01-08T19:21:40Z")
Never mind