# This post will be meaningless unless you're a "Little Rascals" fan **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 24, 1999, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970 "1999-11-24T17:58:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [November 24, 1999, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/1 "1999-11-24T17:58:00Z")
The actor who played “Uncle George/Bumbo” (John Lester Johnson) was started out as a boxer. He fought Jack Dempsey early in Dempsey’s career–and although the bout was declared “no-contest” (which happened a lot during the early days), Dempsey admitted that Johnson had beaten the tar out of him. The evil school marm from “Don’t drink the milk–it’s SPOILED” (actually, the name was “Mush and Milk”) had a long career dating back to the silents. She invariably played an evil old hag. ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/2 "1999-11-25T06:16:00Z")
The actor that played Petey would in later years undergo plastic surgery (legs lopped off at the knees) and a severe hair-tease and go on to play Toto in the Wizard of Oz. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/3 "1999-11-24T21:45:00Z")
I saw John Lester Johnson only once–in a Three Stooges short in which he played a particularly mean harem guard; he threatened to kill the Stooges, but was done in when one of them–perhaps Shemp–toppled a big terra cotta vase, which landed on Johnson’s bare head (he had removed his turban) and knocked him cold. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/4 "1999-11-24T22:14:00Z")
I was just talking about them the other day. Remember the old episode with Spanky(He’s very young in this one) “Bug Huntin’”. He’s trying to hit a fly with a hammer and finally he hits this button on the wall that opens a secret door where his father has been stashing a bunch of cash. He proceeds to toss it all out a window which throws the father into a fit. I was ROFL just thinking about it! * * * “Teaching without words and work without doing are understood by very few.” -Tao Te Ching ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/5 "1999-11-24T22:18:00Z")
Did you ever see _Shivering Shakespeare?_ That’s the one in which the kids stage their own production of _Quo Vadis._ There’s a wild pie-fight at the end; Farina gets hit 3 or 4 times and Chubby smacks his Mom (Lyle Tayo) right in the face! At the very end Edgar Kennedy lets the Rascals pelt his dreadful wife with pies! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/6 "1999-11-25T02:25:00Z")
Stymie: “Hey, bet you can’t throw that doughnut onto my finger!” ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/7 "1999-11-25T04:43:00Z")
I remember one that I cannot place the name but I cried laughing so hard. I remember that Spanky, Buckwheat, and one other slamming out a piece of fence and coasting down through a golf course slamming into golfers. Just the way the guys flew up into the air just put me in stitches Can anyone tell me the title and the premise of how they got on top that fence? * * * I know that I have put you through hell, and I know that I have been one rough pecker. But from here on, you are all in my cool book.- Seth Gecko From Dusk Till Dawn ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/8 "1999-11-25T06:25:00Z")
U Major - I think he played Teddy Salad, too. What sound do you all use for the pulsating cake? We always said, “Hoot-wow.” High sign! ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/9 "1999-11-25T10:50:00Z")
Not sure Heath, but that reminds me of the one where they build they Soap-Box Racer(looked more like a fire engine) that coasts downhill and out of control running into ppl. I think it even had one of those boxing gloves on the end of a telescoping scissors-like thingamabobs that they smacked ppl with on the way down! Heheh! * * * “Teaching without words and work without doing are understood by very few.” -Tao Te Ching ---
**Author:** ![JamesCarroll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@JamesCarroll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JamesCarroll)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 1999, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/10 "1999-11-26T04:25:00Z")
A litte aside if I might. Someone told me that Bill Cosby bought the rights to the “Little Rascals” and won’t allow them to be released on video tape any more or shown 'cuz he thinks Farina and Buckwheat are racist stereotypes. Anyone got the SD on this? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 1999, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/11 "1999-11-26T14:34:00Z")
JamesCarroll, that’s probably an urban legend, I heard that Cosby did the same with “The Dukes Of Hazzard” (I guess because they used the confederate flag or something). I’d look at [www.urbanlegends.com](http://www.urbanlegends.com) or [www.snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com) if weren’t lazy. But unfortunately I am. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 1999, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/12 "1999-11-26T15:42:00Z")
One of my favorite scenes is when the kids have found some artichokes. Unfamiliar with them, they keep peeling leaves off in an attempt to get to whatever is inside. Stymie is dubious: _“Dey may choke Artie, but dey ain’t gonna choke Stymie.”_ ---
**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:** [February 17, 2000, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/13 "2000-02-17T19:01:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I saw John Lester Johnson only once–in a Three Stooges short in which he played a particularly mean harem guard; he threatened to kill the Stooges, but was done in when one of them–perhaps Shemp–toppled a big terra cotta vase, which landed on Johnson’s bare head (he had removed his turban) and knocked him cold. “Wee Wee Monsieur” is the episode. I saw it recently. I actually heard his voice first, when he said “Yowzah, boss,” and said “That’s ‘Uncle George!’” ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/14 "2000-02-17T20:18:00Z")
To Heath Doolin: The episode you mentioned is _Divot Diggers,_ featuring Jiggs the sputtering chimp and a blond Darla Hood. I don’t remember how they got on the fence–unless they just slid down the hill, slammed into the section of fence, and knocked it down, and then slid down the hill on it. To Democritus: Your episode, with the “Soap Box” racer (a taxicab), was “Free Wheeling,” featuring Stymie and Dickie Moore–who, early on, gets in a tussle with his nurse (Belle Hare) that seemed almost sexual! Thanks, Mjollnir. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kent4mmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@Kent4mmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent4mmy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/15 "2000-02-17T20:56:00Z")
I have a very vague memory of an episode where all the kids are running around in a house, opening and closing doors etc, when Alfalfa (sp) gets tripped up and downs down hard. When they cut back to him getting up, you can see that he’s in real pain, crying actually. Anyone else see this this? ---
**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:** [February 17, 2000, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/16 "2000-02-17T21:06:00Z")
I don’t recall that one, but there are others where some smaller kids and toddlers start crying. One is “A Lad 'n a Lamp,” in which Stymie’s brother (IRL, too!) “Cotton” falls flat on his bloated butt (after a bloated Spanky bumps him) and starts crying. In the one where Spanky is minding the kids while the big brothers are fishing, at least one of them starts crying. If Alfalfa started crying, it was probably not the Hal Roach series, but the MGM series. I’ve seen all the Hal Roach shorts recently, and I did not recall that scene in any of them. The MGM shorts are not so accessible, so it could be in one of them. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/17 "2000-02-17T21:13:00Z")
It’s just as well, Mjollnir. MGM at that time was to comedy what Dan Quayle was to literacy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/18 "2000-02-17T22:06:00Z")
I loved “the Little Rascals.” Wasn’t that color re-make lame? * * * \>\< DARWIN \> \_\_ **L\_\_\_L** ---
**Author:** ![Crystalguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Crystalguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crystalguy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/19 "2000-02-17T22:16:00Z")
Okay, Spanky attended high school in my home town and was married for a while to a girl from there. He was more my sister’s age than mine so I cannot claim to have known him. So what, right? ---
**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:** [February 18, 2000, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970/20 "2000-02-18T05:37:00Z")
I might assume all devotees of the Little Rascals who’ve logged onto this thread may already know of this, but a Dutch instrumental group, the Beau Hunks, have re-created the “lost” music of the Hal Roach shorts by Leroy Shield (as well as Looney Tunes’ counterpart Raymond Scott). If, by chance, you weren’t aware of this group, I highly recommend invesigation. Audio sample are available online. * * * Your deep sea diving suit is ready, me brave lad. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-post-will-be-meaningless-unless-youre-a-little-rascals-fan/13970.md?page=2)