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[Agrimorfee]

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Love these old movies. Great ones like "Dogs Is Dogs", "Our Gang Follies of 1938", "Shrimps For A Day"and more.

The only place to see them locally right now is Sundays 11am-1pm (alongside Three Stooges and various cartoons) on channel 23, ME-TV. Fortunately, these are unedited in all their non-PC glory.

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[TJENZ]

I used to watch them on channel 32, every day, after school rascals, stooges, bradys & batman good times

[sKinnY]

I used to watch them on channel 32, every day, after school
rascals, stooges, bradys & batman
good times

those were the good ol days of after school tv. i remember channel 44 was good for some of that too.

[norton]

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I said it before, Alfafa has had a bigger influence on today's batch of whiny singers than anyone other performer before or since.

[TJENZ]

I couldn't get recpetion on channel 44 for shit on my little tv I do remember watching Sox games w/my dad on 44. Harry Carry & Jimmy Piersal. now that was some entertainment!

[Agrimorfee]

Channel 44 before ONTV and Telemundo= Hercules (the gayest cartoon ever made), King Kong cartoon, Penelope Pitstop, The Beatles cartoon, Johnny Sekko (or was it Sokko!?), Monster Theater. Ah, the 70s. Back on Topic: Meet Mary Kornman, the "Darla" of the silent-era version of the Rascals series. She grew up to be quite a hot tomato.  mary_car.jpg   57.28K   32 downloads  mary.jpg   55.58K   41 downloads Many Little Rascals grew up into not so nice personalities. Take the case of our good pal, Robert Blake, known in his Our Gang stint as "Mickey".  robert.jpg   3.47K   41 downloads  blake.jpg   2.56K   31 downloads

[Freddie Freelance]

I met Hal Roach, the producer of the Our Gang comedies, at Santa Anita Race Track in Arcadia, Ca., back in the late '80s. I have a little stock in the company that owns the racetrack and that'd get me a handfull of special tickets to the clubhouse. Mr. Roach was a fixture there during the race season: always dressed to the 9s, sitting in the best seat in the Turf Club, and steadily winning money over the course of the day.

[TJENZ]

Many Little Rascals grew up into not so nice personalities. Take the case of our good pal, Robert Blake, known in his Our Gang stint as "Mickey".

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[Slackmo]

Miss Crabtree, there's something heavy on my heart.

Chubsy-ubsy, there's going to be something heavy on your nose!

[biggie mcsmalls]

I used to watch them on channel 32, every day, after school
rascals, stooges, bradys & batman
good times

those were the good ol days of after school tv. i remember channel 44 was good for some of that too.

Yeah, man.

Anybody else used to watch MV 50?

[Rob Gordon]

Yum yum...eat 'em up!



OK....it was a different time back then....racist sure....?

[Agrimorfee]

Yum yum...eat 'em up!



OK....it was a different time back then....racist sure....?

The damnedest, funniest episode that no one has ever seen, "The Kid From Borneo". Not really racist, but pretty simple-minded in its depiction of "foreign" people.

"Hello Unca George!"

"Don't drink the milk!" "Why?" "It's spoiled!"

"Here I is!"

"Hi, Crabby!"

"You expect to back out first, eh?" "No, we expect to leave feet first!"


Two examples of Stymie's lines that usually get censored:
"I saw ham and eggs talkin' last week."
"Yeah? What'd they say?"
"Well, the ham says, 'Move over white boy, you crowdin' me...Then the egg says, 'Walllll, I'se just sittin' here in this grease!"

"My daddy ain't no chauffeur, he's a crap-shootin' fool!"

[no magnets]

comedy gold.

[Stan Gable]

Our Gang >>>>>>>>> Little Rascals Most racist line in Our Gang: Little Spanky: "I wish Cotton was a monkey, I wish Cotton was a monkey."

[Agrimorfee]

Our Gang >>>>>>>>> Little Rascals


Most racist line in Our Gang:

Little Spanky: "I wish Cotton was a monkey, I wish Cotton was a monkey."

Dont' you mean Little Rascals>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Our Gang?
'Our Gang' was the official title given to the series after MGM bought up Hal Roach's studio, and from that point onward veer from the mediocre to the pitifiably horrible (these are the ones with Froggy, Mickey [Robert Blake], Janet and others).
Sorry to come off so Leonard Maltin, but I practically memorized the biographical book by Maltin & Richard Bann that covers their entire history.

Here's racial stereotyping at its finest:
The gang finds a supposedly magic lamp, and decide to make some wishes for "the genie". Stymie says, "I wish for a watermelon."

Someone says, "Why don't you wish for something bigger than that?"

Stymie then says, "I wish I had a BIG watermelon!"

[Rob Gordon]

Yeah...I've got...like 4 video tapes with about 4 episodes on each...came out in the early 90's I guess. Leonard Maltin intor's them. Best part is they are uncut/unsensored. The Wild Man Of Borneo is one of them. I guess there were about 12 or so tapes in the collection. Hmmm....wonder if anyone's sellin' them on ebay....yep...they are there...but watch out...you need the one's with Leonard Maltin....here's what the boxes look like....




And by the way...I think folks get confused by Our Gang vs. Little Rascals. Here's an easier distinction...if Froggy's in it...it sucks......

[Agrimorfee]

And by the way...I think folks get confused by Our Gang vs. Little Rascals. Here's an easier distinction...if Froggy's in it...it sucks......

Just watch the credits- if it says 'Our Gang' instead of 'Little Rascals' (or 'Hal Roach's Rascals'), do something else more constructive with your time.

[Stan Gable]

Our Gang >>>>>>>>> Little Rascals


Most racist line in Our Gang:

Little Spanky: "I wish Cotton was a monkey, I wish Cotton was a monkey."

Dont' you mean Little Rascals>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Our Gang?
'Our Gang' was the official title given to the series after MGM bought up Hal Roach's studio, and from that point onward veer from the mediocre to the pitifiably horrible (these are the ones with Froggy, Mickey [Robert Blake], Janet and others).
Sorry to come off so Leonard Maltin, but I practically memorized the biographical book by Maltin & Richard Bann that covers their entire history.

Here's racial stereotyping at its finest:
The gang finds a supposedly magic lamp, and decide to make some wishes for "the genie". Stymie says, "I wish for a watermelon."

Someone says, "Why don't you wish for something bigger than that?"

Stymie then says, "I wish I had a BIG watermelon!"

You know, now I'm confused. I liked it a lot better when Spanky was little, his best friend was Cotton, Stymie was one of the main characters and nobody had ever heard of Alfalfa. I thought that was Our Gang.

What is the name of that book?

[Agrimorfee]

What is the name of that book?

The Little Rascals, but the first publication was titled "Our Gang". Get it, it's definitive.

I noticed lots of DVDs being sold on amazon.com. Though flimsy with features, the 88 episode box set seems to be the best bargain. Although I wonder how long before Hallmark (evidently holding the current rights) will give the series its DVD due.