@Yogi Bear2k2 Not exactly, I'm from Venezuela and my mom used to watch them as a kid in her little black and white tv during the 70s and then she talked me about it and I started to watch it, that happened with a lot of classic shows and cartoons.
Uncle George was one of the cutest ones..no racism at ALL, just good clean fun. I loved Amos and Andy too. LIGHTNIN was my man. I watched all these with my Grandaddy, I was a little thing, we all loved them. They don't make good entertainment like this anymore. Too scared to and don't know how. 🙄These folks were great actors.
I am 89 yo, Mexican-American, and these movies were what I grew up on...Note, the kids were mostly all working class or poor. The "gang" scripts showed the kids as resourceful and creative with available resources. They were all decent role models for children. In a way, I feel sorry for today's "American" kids who have lots of store baught toys. One summer day, circa 1940, my cousins and I looked for hours to find the perfect "forks" in tree branches to make slingshots. That day is engraved in my mind. Trust me, being poor has many good aspects. ...but, what do I know?
My Dad (born 1925) taught us how to create a glass "bottle cap" so it moved sleekly across the asphalt of the street. A penny was allowed in a regular cap for weight but the beauty of a green 7-up bottle ring gliding into the next box was perfect. I am 62. My knees still have scars from playing "Bottlecaps" in the street in the 60s. Peace and love, big brother!
These were what was on television, & to us kids were just funny. With "The Kid From Borneo", my very young age-peer friends & I got the humor that little Spanky was just mixed up in his thinking that the black guy from Borneo was his "Uncle George", & that Uncle George, who loved & craved candy, was a cannibal. "Uncle George" always made a "gimme" grasping hand gesture, while saying "Yum, Yum! Eat 'em up! Eat 'em up!", whenever he saw candy. But all the Little Rascals mistakenly thought he wanted to eat them as humans. To us viewer kids, that set up was hilarious! It didn't promote racist sentiments in us. It was just ridiculously funny! As little kids, we all got it, & could handle it!
“I didn’t know ham and eggs could talk” “Well they’re saying hello to my stomach right now” So many classic lines. Just great watching them back in the 70’s. They used to be on in the morning before I left for school. Great way to start the day!
We loved The Little Rascals. I understand how some of what was acceptable at one time may not be for another, but the ubiquitous theme music and phrases like “Yum, yum, eat-’em up” and “Don’t drink the milk…” and Alfalfa bleating “I’m in the Mood for Love” are wonderful memories. Lest we forget, if you enjoyed The Little Rascals, you accepted a world that was multi racial, respectful and accepting regardless of gender, physicality or position. It was wonderful.
Oh, God...Robert I forgot that song until you mentioned it!!! I loved Alfalfa's singing! And I agree....the kids were good to each other. Nothing seemed forced, just children playing, which is what children do best. We had so much freedom and less scheduled time, which I think was better. Thank you!
I loved watching these when I was a little kid. Had no clue what racism was back then I just thought they were all very funny kids and wanted to be one of them.
The rascals were not racist, they got along with each other,a world where blacks and whites were equal. poor but equal.but that's what made them the same
I was a kid in the 50s and loved The Little Rascals! They were all my favorite characters and can't imagine the show with anyone missing. The Wildman from Borneo was our very favorite. Just ask my Mom. My sister's and I drove her crazy running around the house yelling "Yum Yum Eat Em Up"!! Thanks for reminding me.
They paid homage to this episode in the first Captain Underpants movie. The possessed toilets all said "Yum Yum Eat 'Em Up!" Sadly, I was the only one in the audience (adults included) who got the reference and almost soiled myself laughing very loudly.
I loved the little rascals when I was a kid, I remember it used to be on weekday mornings at 6am so I would get up early every day to watch it before having to get ready for school. My favorite episode was when Spanky was bug huntin and found his dads stash of cash and started throwing it out the window.
I watched Our Gang/Little Rascals when I was eight and I'm still watching them at 67. I have three box sets and two dvd's of shorts. Fast Freight and Saturday's Lesson are still my all time favorite shorts, but the first appearance of Froggy in the club talent show short is great...Froggy became my favorite Rascal for his voice.
"Don't drink the milk!" "Why not?" "It's spoiled!" I suspect that Hal Roach would have shot anyone who would have dared to even whisper the word "Residuals" in the presence of the child actors or their parents!
Darla Hood was my favorite. She continued her career as a singer. Born in Leedy, Oklahoma . Died from a blood( hepatitis ) transfusion while having an appendectomy . She had a net worth of around 1.5 million. Not bad for a Little Rascal.
I loved watching the little rascals on Sunday afternoons in the 70s. All the old black and white shows were aired on Sundays like Blondie and Ma and Pa Kettle and Laurel and Hardy.
"Yum.Yum. Eat'em up!" This is on my DVD collection. They played these locally on a series called Comedy Capers. They also showed short films by Andy Clyde, Charlie Chase ("Watch and miss it"), and Harold Langdon. But the best were The Little Rascals. The funniest were the ones where Spanky was really little and later teamed up with Scotty. Spanky was funnier before he teamed up with Alfalfa. I think it's interesting that one of the smartest characters was the black character, Stymie. He was always outsmarting people. One of my favorites is Stymie trying to save his dog Petey from getting gassed by the dog catcher. Another favorite involved a mule named Algebra ("C'mon Algebra. This is no place for you"). OK, I'm going to have to pull out my DVD collection and watch some of these.
@@KutWrite Then there's the one with Spanky doing Shakespeare at the talent show "Friends, Romans, and countrymen, lend me your..."(holds up shield to defend against a barrage of peashooters).
When I was kid I thought the Little Rascals were my age. I was shocked to find out they were grown adults. Children don't see other children thru the lens of race , but other kids having fun being themselves.
Hands down one of the greatest TV shows when I was growing up. I don't think there was one of them that I can even remember that I didn't like out of all the shows and all the characters were all put together perfectly. It's a shame those days are gone now. Us who were fortunate enough to be able to watch this growing up have seen the best times this world has ever seen and will ever see, it was the best time to grow up.
I was told when I was younger that my dad was in the Little Rascals. He was supposed to be a little kid that was pulled around in a wagon with a big bonnet on his head. I was never impressed till he said that he got to meet the horse "Fury". Shows that even then I had my priorities straight.
What gets me is, it’s been at least a hundred years since these were produced, they were a mirror of the age, depicting a simpler more innocent time from today. We’re a hell of a lot smarter now and should be able to recognize these films for what they were. Entertainment.
Are we indeed “a hell of a lot smarter?!!” I don’t think so. Back then, kids could cook, make beds, do farm work, drive tractors and even cars for a short distance (and cars mostly had standard transmissions-there are even grownups today who’ve never seen one-let alone driven one).
Tommy Bond (Butch) needs to be remembered for his work in preserving the films for posterity. Mary & Mickey (Kornman & Daniels) were silent era Rascals who went on to be teenaged comedy stars in the early talkies. My favorite episode was the one where Spanky and Buckwheat play hooky from Sunday School to go fishing and get lost in the woods at night.
Besides “The Kid from Borneo” my other favorite short is the one where Spanky’s dad loses patience trying to explain his job to him as a shipping clerk. Spanky goes on to refer to him repeatedly as a “shipping cluck”, lol.
The one with the haunted house.Another favorite is actually a line from Stymie with a artichoke."It may choke arti but it won't choke stymie".Classic. The He-Men woman haters club episode was good too.I liked many of the shorts. Good stuff.
@@rickwashington3737 The short that I was describing was hilarious to me because if memory serves me (and this was decades ago) the father got so exasperated by trying to explain to Spanky what he did at the office that it affected his ability to carve a simple turkey at the dinner table. The father kept looking at Spanky to see if would say something else that might trigger him and Spanky would just innocently look skyward as the dad makes a complete stooge of himself with a carving knife-hilarious stuff! I think that later on an intruder enters the house and tries to pass himself off as “Santa Claus” to Spanky. Wish I could catch that short again.
Alfalfa was my favourite Our Gang member, despite his terrible singing voice. (I recall seeing them on TV in the 70s, when I was a kid.) Too bad he was fatally shot in a dispute in 1959. He was also a 3rd degree freemason. Hal Roach did a great job with these child actors. RIP Mr. Roach, your contributions will be fondly remembered. ☺
i met Dickie, he told me great story, of how Laural & Hardy was at filmings, and how one day Stan Laural, walked over and told STymie he had a great camera precence and needed something people could remember him by, and gave him his boler hat...SYMIE's Hat is Stan Laurals!...your welcome have a smile 🙂
As all of us here, I grew up watching the Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts. This was mainly in the 70s. My favorites were the ones made in the 30s, before MGM bought them and started making them with good morals and patriotic. They were hilarious, original, and not racist. I loved most of them. Still do, and would love to see them aired regularly, without any restrictions.
The one where they try to scare off Miss Crabtree's boyfriend by creating a rival with one getting on another's shoulders and wearing a long coat. "You stole my girl and you have to get out of town"
The dark side of PC. Most of my black friends watched and loved The Little Rascals too. They understood they were from a different time. At least among themselves on screen, they were all equal.
I always conduct myself by the mindset, walk a mile in their shoes. I've never been a woman, Black, or Asian, so I cannot definitively say because I as a Caucasian male have not experienced something, that it doesn't exist. That said, these shorts are not only a cherished memory of my childhood, but seem to exemplify the innocence and simplicity of the great depression era in which most were filmed. It has been said that was our greatest generation. If this is true, then the Little Rascals epitomize the greatest generation.
I grew up in the 50's, and in the baby boom generation us kids were always getting together to recreate "Little Rascals" plays and situations. We had a blast in those days.
Yes, I grew up in the 1950's watching The Little Rascals on TV. Well they DID air the Wild Man from Borneo and I watched it several times on TV - I loved the "yum, yum eat'em up" that the Wild Man said over and over again.
*Would that be 'Jack' Johnson...likely the best 'Unknown' prize-fighter in American history?* *The fight staged in Reno was the 'first of it's kind' in America where people came from all over the country to watch a 'one-time staged event' where a boxing match was the only feature*
After I first bought the DVD , that was the first time I watched Borneo . Especially when the parents in the episode haven't realized that the kids will get the wrong idea .
@@gerrynightingale9045 no, those are two different people - John Lester Johnson also was a professional boxer though, and in 1916 he fought future World Champion Jack Dempsey to a draw - and broke several of his ribs. Dempsey said in his opinion Johnson should have been judged the winner.
Loved the eggs & ham talking one, with kids having to save Petey. The whole poor relative, take any hand out given by Aunt. Sibling riverly with Sherman & Nero.
How about celebrating Hal Roach’s Our Gang which had “diversity” before it became a term and a means to resegregate? One of my favorites was Stymie saying, when he was told that a piece of food was an artichoke, “It may choke Artie, but it ain’t gonna choke Stymie.”
@@calm1047 The black kids weren’t the only ones stereotyped. All the kids were “imperfect,” some were too fat, too skinny, one wore ridiculous glass and no one was above being mocked. I judge the shorts based on the time they were made. You should read up on the Our Gang/Little Rascals series and the man who made them, Hal Roach and director Robert F. McGowan. For the most part, the shorts were funny and are still funny.
@@calm1047 They were all used in stereotypical ways. But one thing I caught in this vid, is in the early days of these, the 20's, the black child actors were the highest paid. $250 and $325 a week in the 20's was serious coin.
The skill of the Hal Roach Studio in making short comedies cannot be over-stressed. The blend of great writing, acting, direction, photography, music and sound effects made that produced the Our Gang and Laurel & Hardy films is what makes them timeless, to be enjoyed for generations to come.
Interesting that a series with a mixed-race cast was accepted back when the KKK was still a potent social force. Showing children interacting happily without considering skin colour would have to be an influence for good.
This was the 30’s KKK peaked in the 20’s Rascals did a silent shirt burlesquing it! They had a club called the ‘cluck cluck clams’ Title card: “ Farina [black kid]. Does not know what the club is about, but is in favor of anything”.
Ya makes us wonder ... Did ya fall for the political BS hook line and sinker? Remember the nation fought a bloody war to free slaves . I know shocking. Back then just as today most people just wanted to live their lives and let others do the same.
My favorite is the dog named Pete the pup AKA Petey. I had a cat who was white with spots of black, gray and tan. I got him at a local pet shelter and I called him Petey. He lived to be 15 years old. 😢 he since passed away do to age
What was trademark for Petey was the black circle around his eye. I always found that strange but I guess that's somewhat common in the pit bull breed.
I so loved those shows! It's hard to pick a favorite, but I'd say the very young, unself-conscious Spanky is up there. My favorite ending is in the short in which he wears an alarm clock around his neck to remind him when to take his medicine. At the end, he's sick of taking a spoonful at a time. He tosses the clock, pours some medicine into a spoon, drinks the rest of the bottle and tosses the spoonful. His older brother sees the empty bottla and asks what he did with the medicine. Spanky's closing answer "Aw, I gave it to the worms." The episode where Jackie Cooper moons over the luscious and understanding Miss Crabtree is classic. Jackie-Lynn Taylor was a replacement for Darla. They kept her an embarrassingly long time for her to be wearing one of those child's short skirts. But she was good, and as an older adult, toured with some of her films, and had packages shown on local stations. I think she even appeared with one or more surviving alums of "Our Gang." Too bad many of the kids met tragic ends, steeped in poverty. They brought us so much joy. Whatever his faults, Hal Roach is due a debt of gratitude for persisting and bringing us such fun, and giving minority actors a break with good parts and heartfelt stories.
Most of the kids in my neighborhood, when I was growing up, were devoted fans of the Little Rascals. We would get together on weekends and during the summer and would have adventures similar to the ones that we'd see on the Little Rascals shows. We would get together and bring with us any junk we could find trying to make things that we saw on the shows that were props used by the Rascals. I can remember we were pretty good at putting together our own props with the same attention to safety that the Rascals used. I have no idea how none of us were ever seriously hurt during those days, but I do remember we would always have so much fun doing it.
Didn't you always want to make a taxi with a mule and a radio and a fire engine? Now all kids get are this perverse "I have TWO moms!" or Drag Queen Story Hour.
I remember watching the two-reel short, "Helping Grandma" many times as a child on Toronto's Global Television Network. Even though it was a two-reel, it only lasted about seven minutes. It was a historic short because it showed parts of Spanky's screen test; namely, bug hunting. I received, as a gift, the full Our Gang (The Little Rascals) VCR set from my late Mom as an adult. Tommy "Butch" Bond was the guest salesman. It was during her family-named "QVC Addiction"--the only addiction that my mentally-disciplined Mom ever had, lol. It was great to see the full episode of "Helping Grandma" as well as many other TV edited shorts. Thanks Mom...miss you.
I loved that one, which, in many ways, plays like a silent film. As a kid, I think I really liked the way the kids beat up and tormented the evil son-in-law.
I liked Spanky. One of my favorite episodes was when Spanky was baby sitting the neighborhood kids and one of the kids kept saying "Remarkable!" That was hilarious. Also the school play ... "Friends, Romans and country men...!"🤣😂🤣😂
As a kid, my favorites were "Helping Grandma," "Shiver Me Timbers" and the one where the adults become little kids through the magic lamp and where, at the end, Spanky gets revenge on Mr. Crutch("I wish Mr. Crutch was my size.")
@@frankgallego3782 and when the kid gags and tries to spit it out -- so she gives him another spoonful. -- So many witty moments and cleverness it this episode.
"The Kid From Borneo" is NOT banned from broadcast television. It airs regularly on a program entitled, "Comedy Classics", on Weigel Broadcasting's MeTV-Plus, available for syndication, but currently airing only on Chicago's WCIU-TV, virtual channel 26.5, RF channel 23.7.
I loved The Little Rascals! Although I didn't know the history behind the series, I enjoyed them because the writing and dialogue were credible, and the characters were such a great mix of personalities. Although there was the occasional bully, they usually got some comeuppance in the short movie. The children seemed to treat each other with respect without being unrealistically sweet. Alfalfa was my favorite; with Buckwheat, Darla, and Spanky running close seconds. They seemed written with a child's point of view -- nothing was trivial --- the daily activities of kids doing what they do best: acting out adventures, putting on plays, or escaping school. Alfalfa's singing voice wasn't funny but credible -- everyone had to sing the Star Spangled Banner and recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day at school, regardless of singing talent! The choice of songs for Alfalfa we're doozies: Silver Threads Among The Gold, or some other old favorite. Epic. It is too bad the kids didn't earn residuals, because they would have been comfortable in their later years. I'm inspired to buy the DVD package for my grandchildren. Better than locking their brains into a hand-held electronic game. Thank you for posting the history of Our Gang. Nicely done.
My favorite episode is the one you showed a snippet of. Alfalfa accidentally inhales a whistle and then has to sing. So every time he inhales the whistle sounds. Too funny!
"Stymie, What did Nathan Hale say just before he was hung?" "Brother, this sure am goona be a lesson to me." LOL 🤣 We always watched them growing up and well into our twenties. Loved them all.
Wheezer and the puppies....Remember when the only kid who had a job was Stymie? Or it was Farina....anyway, he got a job and Thomas Sowell speaks about how black teens more often were employed than white kids when he grew up in Harlem in the 1940's.
Loved watching these when i was a kid in the 50s never saw race only funny kids.sorry that our history is being erased but you can't take away the enjoyment we had . I enjoyed all of them.
Alfalfa was my favorite hands down. My favorite short (The Awful Tooth - 1938) was one in which there is a baseball mitt the gang wants but can’t afford. They hit on the idea to have a dentist pull their teeth and collect enough money from the tooth fairy to pay for the mitts and team uniforms.
The funniest part of the taxi-cab was the mule. A little door would lift up exposing the food when he was supposed to go and closed when he was supposed to stop. I love how they re-created this in the 1994 movie.
I remember watching Little Rascals with the last cast with Spanky, Alfalfa, Porky, Darla & Buckwheat. I did see The Burneo Wildman. My favorite is when Spanky has a crush on his school teacher & when Spanky as a baby was trying to kill the bugs. its been years since I saw any of these shorts. it saddens me to know how some of the cast members had died when older. And to think no residuals were given out. That's was alot of money not given out to those that could of used it to make their later years better. Sad😢.
One thing I always thought was amazing about those shorts was the diverse cast and the fact their school wasn't segregated, even though there were still some blatant and cringe-worthy racial stereotypes in use.
You have to understand that even white kids were stereotypes, we had the obese kids, the ugly ones, the freckled ginger ones, and very few attractive kids of the time. So, the producer included children of different races and types to bring laughter to the public. If it was racist back then, then what blacks do as comedy today, us even more racist!
Yeah, part of my childhood, I had no idea about racism. They all looked like the kids in my neighborhood. The kids I played stickball with, went to school with and went Trick or Treating with on Halloween! ✌☺
I remember the one where they tried to keep their teacher (Miss Crabtree) from getting married so they put soap in the food. But when the found out that she wasn't going to leave them, they ended up having to eat it and they were all blowing bubbles. Pretty funny!!
Don't forget the one where they tried to bake a cake with prizes inside. The sound effects in that were unforgettable. That was portrayed in the second Rascals movie in 2014.
What had to be the saddest/scariest one was whem the evil dog catcher put Petey in his mobile gas chamber and tried to kill him. He told the boys that their dog was dead and they all cried. Luckily, the dog catcher hadn't paid his gas bill and Petey was fine. One of the kids said something like "Get him!" and Petey chased the man down the road.
It's been decades since I saw the little rascals and I don't recall the silent films but I do remember much of it with sound. I wish they would bring these back as reruns again.
"I can explain it to you...but I can't understand it for you." My youngest nephew said that in grade school. Got sent to the principal's office for it. Went down there and said how proud I was for his saying that, rather than getting into a fight.
Used to check 16mm prints of these out of the library and screen them at home. LOVED The Little Rascals and I do remember screening The Kid From Borneo. This was the late 70's and my buddies laughed their asses off. Stymie - "Why does he have a bone in his nose?" Spanky - "Maybe he likes to smell them!"
My favorite "Little Rascal" was Baby Jane!!! 💚 She was my mother! My favorite episode is "Little Papas", which is the one that featured Mom. She was one of the gang from 1936 - 1942 when her agent (Ruth Birch) recommended that she complete her education in public schools!!!
Wow!! Do you have any home movie clips of your Mom from her days in Hollywood that you would consider posting on your channel? It would be awesome to see behind the scenes from of one of the Cast members of a beloved American Institution! Have a great day! 🥂
I loved the little rascals when I was growing up. My favorite was Butch, he wasn't such a bad bully. I don't have a favorite. My father's favorite would be Stymie and the episode about Uncle George. My mother liked the one about Wheezer and all the puppies that came to bells ringing. The whole family and my friends as well all stole lines from them. One we used a lot was when they made the fire engine and the back end was going everywhere. One of them asked, "Hey Stymie, where you going?" He replied, "I don't know, but I'm on my way." Great memories. Thanks
I've watched these shorts uncensored and while awkward, they were the signs of the time. In a world today where the word ni**er and ni**a are used in almost every other rap or hip hop song, censorship of Our gang/The Little Rascals shorts are perverse. There was one where Farina answered an add for a dog show calling for "colored" applicants and THAT was a sign of that era. To censor it would be to censor history. I found it historically educating.
doing it wrong in this era don't make it right in that one as a older black man it does sadden me that the n word is used constantly but I have no problem with racism being censored.
Teacher: "What river is known as the Father of Waters?" Rascals: ? Teacher: "It's the Mississippi." Rascals: "Mississippi? You must mean the Mr. Sippi."
@@wdtaut5650 What was the name of that short and who was the teacher that gave the class those questions? The best part was seeing the look on her face when they gave those crazy answers.
@@FoxRivers778 It has been decades since I saw that film. I have no idea of the title. My memory (for what it's worth) says the teacher was a man. I remember there was at least one episode with a young woman as teacher. The Rascals all fell in love with her.
As a kid in the 1950s, I loved watching The Little Rascals on TV. I actually saw that Uncle George episode once, and I recall the children being chased as Uncle George shouted, "Eat em up, eat em up." (I guess he was a cannibal.) I found it hilarious. I had no idea about racism then.
It's a shame they still don't have them on TV. One of my favorites, was the taxi. With little Spanky, them racing down the hill, knocking people all over the place.
Rick, was Stimie in the "taxi" with Spanky? I remember them speeding down a very steep street, and they were clearly out of control. And then Stimie said, "I don't know where weez goin', but wherever it is weez on our way!"
America has become so "woke", that we have lost the ability to laugh at ourselves. It's a pity that wokism (sp?) is destroying America. These are some funny shorts, that depicts life at that time. And, I'm thinking that in some ways, times were better back then.
When I was a kid in the early 70's i watched the reruns all the time and I was so in love with Mickey. The episode that really stands out to me was the left right left club. When Mickey ran out into the street after a ball without looking for cars, got hit and ended up with a broken leg
Thanks to Hal Roach , who started that era . I used to to watch the Our Gang /Little Rascals series on tv during my childhood . On DVD /RUclips , I still enjoy them . May they all RIP . 💐
In seventies these things were all over cable TV, we didn't realize the ramifications or the derogatory aspects of this. This stuff was pointed straight at kids.
*'Buckwheat say 'O-TAY!* ( *He was never the 'Lead' and barely a 'principal player' who was usually only allowed 'sight gags'...but he is surely the best-known and loved of all the 'Gang' members* )
They were all my favorites….every single one of those children I loved on screen. My favorite episodes were the surprise birthday cake, the down hill go cart race and the mule, Algebra, who went after people when someone sneezed and would sit down when the alarm clock rang…until the clock got broken.
The thing to me, that made the Little Rascals shorts great, compared to the 1994 movie, is that the original kids weren't really great actors - they were just kids, being kids. And that's what made them funny. The movie forgot that, and got kids who were actors, pretending to be kids, just being kids. And it came across as forced.
I always enjoyed the Little Rascals. I suppose it's a bit corny, but I especially liked the propaganda episodes made during the war years to drum up support for the war effort. Talk about waaayyy over the top -- especially the musical numbers -- but still an amazing reflection of the times.
One of my many favorites was the radio talent contest & Spanky getting disgruntled with the emcee who couldn't remember their music ensembles name "The international silver string submarine bah-yund". And his marbles rolling out of the violin case " It slipped" I read that Jinx the monkey was not very nice & the kids didn't like working with him.
I have vivid memories of the Wild Man from Borneo. “Yum Yum Eat ‘em Up.” Once you’ve seen it you can’t forget it. Also there’s one where the gang does a production of Romeo and Juliet, reminiscent of the Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland “let’s put on a show” stuff. It involves Alfafa as an onion eating Romeo and Buckwheat stepping in to play Juliet after Darla drops out because of Alfafa’s bad breath. Hilarious.
In the 70s I saw 'Moan and Groan, Inc.' a bunch of times. I heard it was banned and I had to do some research as to WHY that one was banned. In short, it was because the "crazy" guy was Jewish. How would you even know that he was Jewish ? there is one scene where he counts in German Ein Zwei Drei. Ok, maybe it was Yiddish ??? I still don't know why that was a big deal. Then another was banned because it involved a Divorce, "Big Ears". Seriously ? Who would be offended by that to the point where it needed to be banned?
My grandmother had the entire series on VHS and I watched them so much as a kid. I think the VHS with "The Kid From Borneo" also had an episode where they make a car and actually drive it down the street while it was falling apart? Memory's hazy on it, but I remember laughing so much over it.
Thank goodness all of the Hal Roach talkie shorts have just been restored by the independent distributor ClassicFlix and are available uncut and in excellent quality. I've just been discovering a lot of them for the first time thanks to the new Blu-rays and they're hilarious! Like windows into our past, warts and all. Hopefully we never forget our history, both the good and the bad.
I will be 65 in May. I literally grew up on them. My brothers & & I loved them all but "Uncle George" was our fav. My fav kids were Spanky & Alfalfa. My dad had watched them at theatres before we were even born. I remember seeing Hal Roach being given a lifetime achievement by the Oscars when Roach turned 100. What an incredible saga.
Cabin Fever Entertainment was the one that brought Little Rascals to me 21 vhs tapes with 4 episodes a tape and they had the 3 "banned" episodes entirely uncut and that was the point it wasn't just the show, it was the history of the show, each tape opened with a commentary by Leonard Maltin and I enjoyed his bits almost as much as the children:)
There are too many favorite episodes to state here, but what I can say is that many kids wanted a dog like Petey who would comfort you when you were sad and protect you in times of trouble. One of the episodes did win an Academy Award for best short.
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No, how about the fact that "The Little Rascals" was pointless and totally not-funny.
@@davidlafleche1142 Gee you must be the life of the party.
@@davidlafleche1142 what do you consider funny? watching grass grow? get a life my friend.
@@davidlafleche1142 Go watch computer generated crap then. The actors don't even do anything these days.
@@davidlafleche1142, Why are you here at all?? Every party has a pooper and that's why we invited you. Party pooper...party pooper...😂
No childhood was complete without THE LITTLE RASCALS!!!
Truth Indeed
@Yogi Bear2k2 Not exactly, I'm from Venezuela and my mom used to watch them as a kid in her little black and white tv during the 70s and then she talked me about it and I started to watch it, that happened with a lot of classic shows and cartoons.
Uncle George was one of the cutest ones..no racism at ALL, just good clean fun. I loved Amos and Andy too. LIGHTNIN was my man. I watched all these with my Grandaddy, I was a little thing, we all loved them. They don't make good entertainment like this anymore. Too scared to and don't know how. 🙄These folks were great actors.
I am 89 yo, Mexican-American, and these movies were what I grew up on...Note, the kids were mostly all working class or poor. The "gang" scripts showed the kids as resourceful and creative with available resources. They were all decent role models for children.
In a way, I feel sorry for today's "American" kids who have lots of store baught toys.
One summer day, circa 1940, my cousins and I looked for hours to find the perfect "forks" in tree branches to make slingshots. That day is engraved in my mind. Trust me, being poor has many good aspects. ...but, what do I know?
Well said,,
You know a LOT! 👍😊❗
My Dad (born 1925) taught us how to create a glass "bottle cap" so it moved sleekly across the asphalt of the street. A penny was allowed in a regular cap for weight but the beauty of a green 7-up bottle ring gliding into the next box was perfect. I am 62. My knees still have scars from playing "Bottlecaps" in the street in the 60s. Peace and love, big brother!
you know more more than the credit you give yourself. especially in this day. good knowledge is not easily come by now.
I like reading your childhood memories.
Who can forget Stymie when offered an artichoke? "It might've choked Artie, but it ain't gonna choke me"
"Well, well, well ... look who fell in the well" 😝
''It ain't going to choke Stymie''
😂😂😂
that was alfalfa not stymie
@@tomgardner8825 the artichoke clip was stymie
Still remains fabulous to this day, never get tired of watching them.
Trump lost big-time to Joe Biden. Only stupid people voted for Trump. He's a loser.
Like your handle 👍 a person after my own heart . 😄
@@benitomaldonado7080 kiss kiss. lol
These were what was on television, & to us kids were just funny. With "The Kid From Borneo", my very young age-peer friends & I got the humor that little Spanky was just mixed up in his thinking that the black guy from Borneo was his "Uncle George", & that Uncle George, who loved & craved candy, was a cannibal. "Uncle George" always made a "gimme" grasping hand gesture, while saying "Yum, Yum! Eat 'em up! Eat 'em up!", whenever he saw candy. But all the Little Rascals mistakenly thought he wanted to eat them as humans. To us viewer kids, that set up was hilarious! It didn't promote racist sentiments in us. It was just ridiculously funny! As little kids, we all got it, & could handle it!
“I didn’t know ham and eggs could talk”
“Well they’re saying hello to my stomach right now”
So many classic lines. Just great watching them back in the 70’s. They used to be on in the morning before I left for school. Great way to start the day!
"What's 3 and 1?" "Oil"
@@jonnyq680 HA HAha hAA hA Ha ha ha......
I never had artichoke before working a restaurant/ banquet venue. But I knew that it ain't gonna choke Stymie.
We loved The Little Rascals. I understand how some of what was acceptable at one time may not be for another, but the ubiquitous theme music and phrases like “Yum, yum, eat-’em up” and “Don’t drink the milk…” and Alfalfa bleating “I’m in the Mood for Love” are wonderful memories. Lest we forget, if you enjoyed The Little Rascals, you accepted a world that was multi racial, respectful and accepting regardless of gender, physicality or position. It was wonderful.
Oh, God...Robert I forgot that song until you mentioned it!!!
I loved Alfalfa's singing!
And I agree....the kids were good to each other.
Nothing seemed forced, just children playing, which is what children do best.
We had so much freedom and less scheduled time, which I think was better.
Thank you!
The East Side Kids were inclusive too, as well as The Three Stooges and others. It wasn't just the Our Gang series.
DON'T DRINK THE MILK . . .
IT'S SPOILED! I LOVE IT!!!!
belonged to the He Man Woman Haters Club. lol
Very well spoken..,are we the only one's who still feel this way ?
I loved watching these when I was a little kid. Had no clue what racism was back then I just thought they were all very funny kids and wanted to be one of them.
Thats because they were, modern "sensibility' has taken the joy out of everything.
They are fun to watch
@@frankdenardo8684 Most definitely are...
The "racism" wasn't intentional it was a different era.
The rascals were not racist, they got along with each other,a world where blacks and whites were equal. poor but equal.but that's what made them the same
I was a kid in the 50s and loved The Little Rascals! They were all my favorite characters and can't imagine the show with anyone missing. The Wildman from Borneo was our very favorite. Just ask my Mom. My sister's and I drove her crazy running around the house yelling "Yum Yum Eat Em Up"!! Thanks for reminding me.
They paid homage to this episode in the first Captain Underpants movie. The possessed toilets all said "Yum Yum Eat 'Em Up!" Sadly, I was the only one in the audience (adults included) who got the reference and almost soiled myself laughing very loudly.
I liked the way he swallowed those sausages and Spanky's eyes. 😂😂
@@billboyer8897 sad isn't it? I would have. 😂
I loved the little rascals when I was a kid, I remember it used to be on weekday mornings at 6am so I would get up early every day to watch it before having to get ready for school. My favorite episode was when Spanky was bug huntin and found his dads stash of cash and started throwing it out the window.
Mine too!
So true I wanted to be like alfalfa so much lol ladies man great memories
same here bro and still love it
I loved these shorts. My fav episode is probably the babysitting one, the one with the cake and a very young spanky.
I watched Our Gang/Little Rascals when I was eight and I'm still watching them at 67.
I have three box sets and two dvd's of shorts. Fast Freight and Saturday's Lesson are still my all time favorite shorts, but the first appearance of Froggy in the club talent show short is great...Froggy became my favorite Rascal for his voice.
My favorite episode of all time: Yum Yum Eat 'em UP! :D
@@JustMe-vk4fn Also Mine,My familiy's and Leonard Maltin's alike.
Glad it is still shown. See above.
"Don't drink the milk!"
"Why not?"
"It's spoiled!"
I suspect that Hal Roach would have shot anyone who would have dared to even whisper the word "Residuals" in the presence of the child actors or their parents!
"If he hollers let him go, eenie meenie miney mo!"
My daughter loves that line.
Oh, the birthday cake...
@@dianeridley9804 happy birthday Mr hood happy birthday to ya. I ???? And brought this gift to ya.
Oh momma!!
Darla Hood was my favorite. She continued her career as a singer. Born in Leedy, Oklahoma . Died from a blood( hepatitis ) transfusion while having an appendectomy . She had a net worth of around 1.5 million. Not bad for a Little Rascal.
That scared me when she said.."Oh, the he-man woman haters club." I put myself in Alfalfa's place as being in trouble with Darla.
Back when a million was a million!
I liked her in "The Bat" with Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead.
Truth
She was so talented and mature for her age.
Loved all of them. What the heck was racism? They all played together.... All had fun. They made my childhood a better one. Thank you, Gang!
racism is an adult thing, not a kid thing.
we as kids couldn't care less and actually enjoyed all these shows
Racism is any opinion that isn't left wing.
In my San Francisco childhood, I liked to think they lived way over behind Golden Gate Park. Nice memories...
There was nothing racist about them just fun
I'm SO Sick of this racism shit!
I truly enjoyed these shows as a kid and now!
I loved watching the little rascals on Sunday afternoons in the 70s. All the old black and white shows were aired on Sundays like Blondie and Ma and Pa Kettle and Laurel and Hardy.
"Yum.Yum. Eat'em up!"
This is on my DVD collection. They played these locally on a series called Comedy Capers. They also showed short films by Andy Clyde, Charlie Chase ("Watch and miss it"), and Harold Langdon. But the best were The Little Rascals. The funniest were the ones where Spanky was really little and later teamed up with Scotty. Spanky was funnier before he teamed up with Alfalfa. I think it's interesting that one of the smartest characters was the black character, Stymie. He was always outsmarting people. One of my favorites is Stymie trying to save his dog Petey from getting gassed by the dog catcher. Another favorite involved a mule named Algebra ("C'mon Algebra. This is no place for you"). OK, I'm going to have to pull out my DVD collection and watch some of these.
Lol, that's what I remember most is "yum yum, eat em up, eat em up".
I love those too. Same opinion of those characters. I never saw the Borneo one.
My favorite episode! Want some weenies uncle George! Lol
@@KutWrite Then there's the one with Spanky doing Shakespeare at the talent show "Friends, Romans, and countrymen, lend me your..."(holds up shield to defend against a barrage of peashooters).
@@richardb6260 Haha! Yeah!
When I was kid I thought the Little Rascals were my age. I was shocked to find out they were grown adults. Children don't see other children thru the lens of race , but other kids having fun being themselves.
I had a huge crush on Roddy McDowell when I was in my teens and early 20's. Was stupid hurt when I found out he was my dad's age.
@@sharolynwells I've been a Roddy fan all my life
Wait what?? They was all adults?? I’m just finding this out in 2022 my childhood was a lie !!!!
Until older infants program them, kids just have fun with each other.
You mean they were adults at the time you were a kid?
Hands down one of the greatest TV shows when I was growing up. I don't think there was one of them that I can even remember that I didn't like out of all the shows and all the characters were all put together perfectly. It's a shame those days are gone now. Us who were fortunate enough to be able to watch this growing up have seen the best times this world has ever seen and will ever see, it was the best time to grow up.
I was told when I was younger that my dad was in the Little Rascals. He was supposed to be a little kid that was pulled around in a wagon with a big bonnet on his head. I was never impressed till he said that he got to meet the horse "Fury". Shows that even then I had my priorities straight.
*Fury* O.O My favorite show ever. :D Oh, how I loved horses.
Buckwheat is otay!
@@JustMe-vk4fn ccc CCD c CD be be ec
He was probably one of those babies in the episode where spanky babysitting while the gang go fishing one baby did have a cute bonnet on
What gets me is, it’s been at least a hundred years since these were produced, they were a mirror of the age, depicting a simpler more innocent time from today. We’re a hell of a lot smarter now and should be able to recognize these films for what they were. Entertainment.
When you say, "a simpler more innocent time from today" you're referring to the fictional world of the shorts, correct?
@@milesflanagan4899 No, he means the days when racist humour was mainstream.
@@hilariousname6826 Ahh, those "innocent" times - lol.
Are we indeed “a hell of a lot smarter?!!” I don’t think so. Back then, kids could cook, make beds, do farm work, drive tractors and even cars for a short distance (and cars mostly had standard transmissions-there are even grownups today who’ve never seen one-let alone driven one).
@@johntapp7232 ….kids still do all of that today, or hadn’t you noticed?
Tommy Bond (Butch) needs to be remembered for his work in preserving the films for posterity. Mary & Mickey (Kornman & Daniels) were silent era Rascals who went on to be teenaged comedy stars in the early talkies. My favorite episode was the one where Spanky and Buckwheat play hooky from Sunday School to go fishing and get lost in the woods at night.
TCM showed one of their teen shorts with a flashback to them much younger.
That was Little Sinner. Porky was with them too.
The part where they're scared witless by the celebrants from that church baptismal party was utterly hilarious!
@@stevenpilling5318 That was after the eclipse was finalized.
He forgot Jackie Condon as well
Besides “The Kid from Borneo” my other favorite short is the one where Spanky’s dad loses patience trying to explain his job to him as a shipping clerk. Spanky goes on to refer to him repeatedly as a “shipping cluck”, lol.
The one with the haunted house.Another favorite is actually a line from Stymie with a artichoke."It may choke arti but it won't choke stymie".Classic.
The He-Men woman haters club episode was good too.I liked many of the shorts. Good stuff.
@@rickwashington3737 The short that I was describing was hilarious to me because if memory serves me (and this was decades ago) the father got so exasperated by trying to explain to Spanky what he did at the office that it affected his ability to carve a simple turkey at the dinner table. The father kept looking at Spanky to see if would say something else that might trigger him and Spanky would just innocently look skyward as the dad makes a complete stooge of himself with a carving knife-hilarious stuff! I think that later on an intruder enters the house and tries to pass himself off as “Santa Claus” to Spanky. Wish I could catch that short again.
@@rickwashington3737 My dad drops that Stymie quote all the time
@@jonathanw1019 Yeah it's a funny one
@floyd ruttles Admirable.
Alfalfa was my favourite Our Gang member, despite his terrible singing voice. (I recall seeing them on TV in the 70s, when I was a kid.) Too bad he was fatally shot in a dispute in 1959. He was also a 3rd degree freemason. Hal Roach did a great job with these child actors. RIP Mr. Roach, your contributions will be fondly remembered. ☺
he also played on it's a wonderful life, the one who turned the key to open the dance floor.
Paul, I didn't know the details about Carl Switzer's death.
Sorry he died relatively young.
@@gcbranger1189 -- yes, I remember that! I always thought he was a handsome kid.
Butch killed Alfalfa, Petey the dog was shot and killed in Norco CA
i met Dickie, he told me great story, of how Laural & Hardy was at filmings, and how one day Stan Laural, walked over and told STymie he had a great camera precence and needed something people could remember him by, and gave him his boler hat...SYMIE's Hat is Stan Laurals!...your welcome have a smile 🙂
Nice info. Thanks 😊
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Yup I remember hearing that
As all of us here, I grew up watching the Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts. This was mainly in the 70s. My favorites were the ones made in the 30s, before MGM bought them and started making them with good morals and patriotic. They were hilarious, original, and not racist. I loved most of them. Still do, and would love to see them aired regularly, without any restrictions.
The one where they try to scare off Miss Crabtree's boyfriend by creating a rival with one getting on another's shoulders and wearing a long coat. "You stole my girl and you have to get out of town"
@@richardb6260 hahahah.. I def remember that one. Super funny.
I remember watching them as a young boy back in the 1960's. Great fun.
The dark side of PC. Most of my black friends watched and loved The Little Rascals too. They understood they were from a different time. At least among themselves on screen, they were all equal.
I always conduct myself by the mindset, walk a mile in their shoes. I've never been a woman, Black, or Asian, so I cannot definitively say because I as a Caucasian male have not experienced something, that it doesn't exist. That said, these shorts are not only a cherished memory of my childhood, but seem to exemplify the innocence and simplicity of the great depression era in which most were filmed. It has been said that was our greatest generation. If this is true, then the Little Rascals epitomize the greatest generation.
I grew up in the 50's, and in the baby boom generation us kids were always getting together to recreate "Little Rascals" plays and situations. We had a blast in those days.
my thoughts exactly. I love your comment
Yes, I grew up in the 1950's watching The Little Rascals on TV. Well they DID air the Wild Man from Borneo and I watched it several times on TV - I loved the "yum, yum eat'em up" that the Wild Man said over and over again.
I still laugh every time I watch the Borneo one. The actor who played the wild man was a former professional boxer named John Lester Johnson!
*Would that be 'Jack' Johnson...likely the best 'Unknown' prize-fighter in American history?* *The fight staged in Reno was the 'first of it's kind' in America where people came from all over the country to watch a 'one-time staged event' where a boxing match was the only feature*
After I first bought the DVD , that was the first time I watched Borneo . Especially when the parents in the episode haven't realized that the kids will get the wrong idea .
I did google John Lester Johnson ... in which that confirms that you're right .
@@gerrynightingale9045 no, those are two different people - John Lester Johnson also was a professional boxer though, and in 1916 he fought future World Champion Jack Dempsey to a draw - and broke several of his ribs. Dempsey said in his opinion Johnson should have been judged the winner.
@@gerrynightingale9045 "The Arizona Nightingales"
Loved the eggs & ham talking one, with kids having to save Petey. The whole poor relative, take any hand out given by Aunt. Sibling riverly with Sherman & Nero.
They talking to my stomach right now
How about celebrating Hal Roach’s Our Gang which had “diversity” before it became a term and a means to resegregate? One of my favorites was Stymie saying, when he was told that a piece of food was an artichoke, “It may choke Artie, but it ain’t gonna choke Stymie.”
The black kids were used in a stereotypical way! The cast at times used them as pawns to help with a scams.
@@calm1047 The black kids weren’t the only ones stereotyped. All the kids were “imperfect,” some were too fat, too skinny, one wore ridiculous glass and no one was above being mocked. I judge the shorts based on the time they were made. You should read up on the Our Gang/Little Rascals series and the man who made them, Hal Roach and director Robert F. McGowan. For the most part, the shorts were funny and are still funny.
@@calm1047 They were all used in stereotypical ways. But one thing I caught in this vid, is in the early days of these, the 20's, the black child actors were the highest paid. $250 and $325 a week in the 20's was serious coin.
We all have favorite lines...."Who is this?" "I don't know, you called me!" "What number is this?" "How many guesses?"
The skill of the Hal Roach Studio in making short comedies cannot be over-stressed. The blend of great writing, acting, direction, photography, music and sound effects made that produced the Our Gang and Laurel & Hardy films is what makes them timeless, to be enjoyed for generations to come.
Too bad he fucked the actors when it came to paying them.
Very good story but you want to know. ( 8:47
They were so talented for being so young.
Interesting that a series with a mixed-race cast was accepted back when the KKK was still a potent social force. Showing children interacting happily without considering skin colour would have to be an influence for good.
Stymie on discovering an artichoke: it might've choked Artie, but it ain't gonna choke Stymie!
This was the 30’s
KKK peaked in the 20’s
Rascals did a silent shirt burlesquing it! They had a club called the ‘cluck cluck clams’
Title card:
“ Farina [black kid]. Does not know what the club is about, but is in favor of anything”.
the kkk was an early Guardian Angels of New York.
Ya makes us wonder ... Did ya fall for the political BS hook line and sinker? Remember the nation fought a bloody war to free slaves . I know shocking. Back then just as today most people just wanted to live their lives and let others do the same.
Yes agree !!!! They made them stars!!! What’s less racist than that!!!
“Yum yum……eat em up…” will live forever!
As well as “don’t call me Norman, call me Chubsie Ubsy ”
My favorite is the dog named Pete the pup AKA Petey. I had a cat who was white with spots of black, gray and tan. I got him at a local pet shelter and I called him Petey. He lived to be 15 years old. 😢 he since passed away do to age
I have had two cats, one current named Petey. Also named a band I was briefly in Pistol Pack'n Petey & the Saddle Sores!
......past away DUE to age......never did learn to spell ??
And Petey was an American Pit Bull Terrier this was b4 pits got a bad reputation
Echo said his owner killed him.
What was trademark for Petey was the black circle around his eye. I always found that strange but I guess that's somewhat common in the pit bull breed.
I so loved those shows! It's hard to pick a favorite, but I'd say the very young, unself-conscious Spanky is up there. My favorite ending is in the short in which he wears an alarm clock around his neck to remind him when to take his medicine. At the end, he's sick of taking a spoonful at a time. He tosses the clock, pours some medicine into a spoon, drinks the rest of the bottle and tosses the spoonful. His older brother sees the empty bottla and asks what he did with the medicine. Spanky's closing answer "Aw, I gave it to the worms."
The episode where Jackie Cooper moons over the luscious and understanding Miss Crabtree is classic. Jackie-Lynn Taylor was a replacement for Darla. They kept her an embarrassingly long time for her to be wearing one of those child's short skirts. But she was good, and as an older adult, toured with some of her films, and had packages shown on local stations. I think she even appeared with one or more surviving alums of "Our Gang."
Too bad many of the kids met tragic ends, steeped in poverty. They brought us so much joy. Whatever his faults, Hal Roach is due a debt of gratitude for persisting and bringing us such fun, and giving minority actors a break with good parts and heartfelt stories.
Most of the kids in my neighborhood, when I was growing up, were devoted fans of the Little Rascals. We would get together on weekends and during the summer and would have adventures similar to the ones that we'd see on the Little Rascals shows. We would get together and bring with us any junk we could find trying to make things that we saw on the shows that were props used by the Rascals. I can remember we were pretty good at putting together our own props with the same attention to safety that the Rascals used. I have no idea how none of us were ever seriously hurt during those days, but I do remember we would always have so much fun doing it.
WOW
Didn't you always want to make a taxi with a mule and a radio and a fire engine? Now all kids get are this perverse "I have TWO moms!" or Drag Queen Story Hour.
I remember watching the two-reel short, "Helping Grandma" many times as a child on Toronto's Global Television Network. Even though it was a two-reel, it only lasted about seven minutes. It was a historic short because it showed parts of Spanky's screen test; namely, bug hunting.
I received, as a gift, the full Our Gang (The Little Rascals) VCR set from my late Mom as an adult. Tommy "Butch" Bond was the guest salesman. It was during her family-named "QVC Addiction"--the only addiction that my mentally-disciplined Mom ever had, lol. It was great to see the full episode of "Helping Grandma" as well as many other TV edited shorts.
Thanks Mom...miss you.
"Helping Grandma" was the main setting and story for the 2014 Little Rascals movie and they revisited baking the cake.
I loved that one, which, in many ways, plays like a silent film. As a kid, I think I really liked the way the kids beat up and tormented the evil son-in-law.
Porky and Buckwheat were my favorite duos who can outwit their opponents.
I liked Spanky. One of my favorite episodes was when Spanky was baby sitting the neighborhood kids and one of the kids kept saying "Remarkable!" That was hilarious. Also the school play ... "Friends, Romans and country men...!"🤣😂🤣😂
"Mama, the dress is in the bag"
Can’t remember if that’s the same episode but I remember Spanky putting glue on a baby’s diaper to keep him sitting still lol
Remarkable was spanking. He was 2
"Lend me your ear". Then proceeds to get pelted by pea shooters
My favorite episode is the Kid from Borneo. There is no racial slurs in it. To me it is the funniest of all of their episodes.
Watched these on TV as a kid in the 50"s..brings back memories...
The "yum yum eat 'em up" from the Wild man of Borneo became a catchphrase in my family growing up.
Same! I didn't find out the source until 1986 when it came on. Called Dad right away!
As a kid, my favorites were "Helping Grandma," "Shiver Me Timbers" and the one where the adults become little kids through the magic lamp and where, at the end, Spanky gets revenge on Mr. Crutch("I wish Mr. Crutch was my size.")
Yeah, that was a good one. I don't remember any of 'em by titles, though.
Two adults becoming little kids via magic lamp is "Shrimps for a Day". That one is my favorites and the messages and story is timeless and important.
I liked the adults become kids short too...that was an early talkie.
@@roycem4945 the faces of the kids after receiving castor oil, classic!
@@frankgallego3782 and when the kid gags and tries to spit it out -- so she gives him another spoonful. -- So many witty moments and cleverness it this episode.
"The Kid From Borneo" is NOT banned from broadcast television. It airs regularly on a program entitled, "Comedy Classics", on Weigel Broadcasting's MeTV-Plus, available for syndication, but currently airing only on Chicago's WCIU-TV, virtual channel 26.5, RF channel 23.7.
I saw that one myself as a kid in the sixties, me and my sister couldn't stop laughing.
It is one of the funniest things ever made. Good.
Yum yum eat um up.
Ha! I saw The Man From Borneo many many times on a Dayton station when I was growing up.
"A Rough Winter" with the fabulous Stepin Fetchit has been dropped, too. Still available on YT.
I loved The Little Rascals!
Although I didn't know the history behind the series, I enjoyed them because the writing and dialogue were credible, and the characters were such a great mix of personalities. Although there was the occasional bully, they usually got some comeuppance in the short movie.
The children seemed to treat each other with respect without being unrealistically sweet.
Alfalfa was my favorite; with Buckwheat, Darla, and Spanky running close seconds.
They seemed written with a child's point of view -- nothing was trivial --- the daily activities of kids doing what they do best:
acting out adventures, putting on plays, or escaping school.
Alfalfa's singing voice wasn't funny but credible -- everyone had to sing the Star Spangled Banner and recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day at school, regardless of singing talent!
The choice of songs for Alfalfa we're doozies: Silver Threads Among The Gold, or some other old favorite. Epic.
It is too bad the kids didn't earn residuals, because they would have been comfortable in their later years.
I'm inspired to buy the DVD package for my grandchildren.
Better than locking their brains into a hand-held electronic game.
Thank you for posting the history of Our Gang.
Nicely done.
My favorite episode is the one you showed a snippet of. Alfalfa accidentally inhales a whistle and then has to sing. So every time he inhales the whistle sounds. Too funny!
That's my favorite episode too! 🥂
"Stymie, What did Nathan Hale say just before he was hung?"
"Brother, this sure am goona be a lesson to me." LOL 🤣
We always watched them growing up and well into our twenties. Loved them all.
Was that the same episode where I learned how to use "isthmus" in a sentence?
Stymie was my favorite as a kid. You forgot to mention Wheezer.
Interesting note, in the 2012 Three Stooges movie, there was a kid in it named Wheezer. Coincidence or an Easter egg as a nod to the Little Rascals?
Wheezer and the puppies....Remember when the only kid who had a job was Stymie? Or it was Farina....anyway, he got a job and Thomas Sowell speaks about how black teens more often were employed than white kids when he grew up in Harlem in the 1940's.
Spanky: "Hey Stymie, where ya goin'?" Stymie: "I'm goin' fishin'." Spanky: "Got worms?" Stymie: "Yeah, I got worms, but I'm goin' fishin' anyways. . . ."
That was common in those days I’m told.
These were funny as hell. And no one has the right to ban these
Shorts.
@Let Your L⚡️GHT Forever Shine ❤️ where the hell did you ever see death and torture in a Little Rascals short??
@Let Your L⚡️GHT Forever Shine ❤️ Why is there always someone with a religious rant in the comments.
Loved watching these when i was a kid in the 50s never saw race only funny kids.sorry that our history is being erased but you can't take away the enjoyment we had . I enjoyed all of them.
I watched them in the '60s and certainly saw the race - I mean, how could you miss it??
Many years ago in Jr. High in the 70's, I had a teacher who was the granddaughter of Darla. I remember her as a dark haired cutie just like Darla.
"Birthday Blues" is still my favorite. The weird sounds of that oven still make me laugh!!
I still love the little rascals, I wish they put it back on TV!!!
Alfalfa was my favorite hands down. My favorite short (The Awful Tooth - 1938) was one in which there is a baseball mitt the gang wants but can’t afford. They hit on the idea to have a dentist pull their teeth and collect enough money from the tooth fairy to pay for the mitts and team uniforms.
I alway's loved the "Kid from borneo", the Taxi cab with the gadgets, the golf course, and the firehouse episodes. So funny!
Always*
The funniest part of the taxi-cab was the mule. A little door would lift up exposing the food when he was supposed to go and closed when he was supposed to stop. I love how they re-created this in the 1994 movie.
Fire at the firehouse!
I remember watching Little Rascals with the last cast with Spanky, Alfalfa, Porky, Darla & Buckwheat. I did see The Burneo Wildman.
My favorite is when Spanky has a crush on his school teacher & when Spanky as a baby was trying to kill the bugs.
its been years since I saw any of these shorts.
it saddens me to know how some of the cast members had died when older.
And to think no residuals were given out. That's was alot of money not given out to those that could of used it to make their later years better. Sad😢.
"I'm bug huntin'!!" I love the 1932 "Spanky" reel, where he and Pete hang out, and he takes the cutest bath in the history of baths🥰🥰
i don't care "The Kid from Borneo" is one of the funniest, best, and knee slapping shorts of all time.
Couldn't agree more. One of my favorite films of any kind. There's not an ounce of bad feeling in it.
@Crib Cozy. Knee slapping?
@@rogerrendzak8055 its a old term meaning when something is so funny you often hit your knees in feeling so good. nowadays ppl just snort.
Thanks for a few minutes where the world seemed OK again. Good to take a brain break once in a while. Well put together👍
One thing I always thought was amazing about those shorts was the diverse cast and the fact their school wasn't segregated, even though there were still some blatant and cringe-worthy racial stereotypes in use.
Some, but generally, the kids were just kids.
You have to understand that even white kids were stereotypes, we had the obese kids, the ugly ones, the freckled ginger ones, and very few attractive kids of the time. So, the producer included children of different races and types to bring laughter to the public. If it was racist back then, then what blacks do as comedy today, us even more racist!
Yeah, part of my childhood, I had no idea about racism. They all looked like the kids in my neighborhood. The kids I played stickball with, went to school with and went Trick or Treating with on Halloween! ✌☺
Truth Indeed
I remember the one where they tried to keep their teacher (Miss Crabtree) from getting married so they put soap in the food. But when the found out that she wasn't going to leave them, they ended up having to eat it and they were all blowing bubbles. Pretty funny!!
I vaguely remember one where they put plaster of Paris in the gruel they were fed at an orphanage and it hardened in their bowls.
Don't forget the one where they tried to bake a cake with prizes inside. The sound effects in that were unforgettable. That was portrayed in the second Rascals movie in 2014.
the kids said she treated them like her family she was well loved!
What about when the old lady made all the orphan children take castor oil?
What had to be the saddest/scariest one was whem the evil dog catcher put Petey in his mobile gas chamber and tried to kill him. He told the boys that their dog was dead and they all cried. Luckily, the dog catcher hadn't paid his gas bill and Petey was fine. One of the kids said something like "Get him!" and Petey chased the man down the road.
It's been decades since I saw the little rascals and I don't recall the silent films but I do remember much of it with sound. I wish they would bring these back as reruns again.
Censorship is one person telling others that they are incapable of being as smart as them!!! 2022
"I can explain it to you...but I can't understand it for you." My youngest nephew said that in grade school. Got sent to the principal's office for it. Went down there and said how proud I was for his saying that, rather than getting into a fight.
Bill Feld
Yes! It's not so much the censorship of the P.C. generation that pisses me off . It's their arrogant I'M BETTER THAN YOU
attitudes. 😠 😠 😝
Used to check 16mm prints of these out of the library and screen them at home. LOVED The Little Rascals and I do remember screening The Kid From Borneo. This was the late 70's and my buddies laughed their asses off.
Stymie - "Why does he have a bone in his nose?"
Spanky - "Maybe he likes to smell them!"
Funny!
Another classic Spanky line: (to Bumbo) "Do you live in a technocracy?" (I'm sure Spank meant to say Democracy, but it came out wrong)
An outstanding show that I loved as a kid. Banning episodes is simply typical of snivelling, politically correct cowards.
Amen
As kids, we didn't see the difference.
My favorite "Little Rascal" was Baby Jane!!! 💚 She was my mother! My favorite episode is "Little Papas", which is the one that featured Mom. She was one of the gang from 1936 - 1942 when her agent (Ruth Birch) recommended that she complete her education in public schools!!!
Wow!! Do you have any home movie clips of your Mom from her days in Hollywood that you would consider posting on your channel? It would be awesome to see behind the scenes from of one of the Cast members of a beloved American Institution! Have a great day! 🥂
Good things develop over time, with hiccups. Too bad the kids didn't get residuals and I'm fine with knowing real history/art, not censorship.
I loved the little rascals when I was growing up. My favorite was Butch, he wasn't such a bad bully. I don't have a favorite. My father's favorite would be Stymie and the episode about Uncle George. My mother liked the one about Wheezer and all the puppies that came to bells ringing. The whole family and my friends as well all stole lines from them. One we used a lot was when they made the fire engine and the back end was going everywhere. One of them asked, "Hey Stymie, where you going?" He replied, "I don't know, but I'm on my way." Great memories. Thanks
I've watched these shorts uncensored and while awkward, they were the signs of the time. In a world today where the word ni**er and ni**a are used in almost every other rap or hip hop song, censorship of Our gang/The Little Rascals shorts are perverse. There was one where Farina answered an add for a dog show calling for "colored" applicants and THAT was a sign of that era. To censor it would be to censor history. I found it historically educating.
doing it wrong in this era don't make it right in that one as a older black man it does sadden me that the n word is used constantly but I have no problem with racism being censored.
A few of the cast met tragic and untimely ends
Big Huge
😊 allow me to say DITTO !
Teacher: "What river is known as the Father of Waters?"
Rascals: ?
Teacher: "It's the Mississippi."
Rascals: "Mississippi? You must mean the Mr. Sippi."
@S2 turbine Who can use the word isthmus in a sentence? Isthmus be my lucky day.
What about a young Spanky in front of the class. "Mary had a little lamb. Her fleece as white as snow. If he hollers let 'em go. Eny meny miney mo."
@@FoxRivers778 Give me a sentence with the word 'isthmus'. Isthmus be my lucky day.
@@wdtaut5650 What was the name of that short and who was the teacher that gave the class those questions? The best part was seeing the look on her face when they gave those crazy answers.
@@FoxRivers778 It has been decades since I saw that film. I have no idea of the title. My memory (for what it's worth) says the teacher was a man. I remember there was at least one episode with a young woman as teacher. The Rascals all fell in love with her.
Baby Spanky followed by Stymie. Favorite episode? The Pooch. HUGE Rascals fan!
As a kid in the 1950s, I loved watching The Little Rascals on TV. I actually saw that Uncle George episode once, and I recall the children being chased as Uncle George shouted, "Eat em up, eat em up." (I guess he was a cannibal.) I found it hilarious. I had no idea about racism then.
He was actually chasing them because he wanted to eat up their candy. That was the joke; the kids just *thought* he was a cannibal.
Yum.yum eat em.up was referring to the kids candy in their pockets but everyone thinks it's eating kids
It's a shame they still don't have them on TV. One of my favorites, was the taxi. With little Spanky, them racing down the hill, knocking people all over the place.
Truth Indeed
Rick, was Stimie in the "taxi" with Spanky? I remember them speeding down a very steep street, and they were clearly out of control. And then Stimie said, "I don't know where weez goin', but wherever it is weez on our way!"
@@Teleman1958 And for the taxi's radio, Stymie sang, "Carolina Moon"
America has become so "woke", that we have lost the ability to laugh at ourselves. It's a pity that wokism (sp?) is destroying America.
These are some funny shorts, that depicts life at that time. And, I'm thinking that in some ways, times were better back then.
*TV pulls a single episode for outdated racial stereotypes*
Conservatives: "OMG THIS IS SO WOKE, AMERICA IS DYING! I WISH WE HAD SEGREGATION BACK!"
PC can be annoying, but it’s downright ridiculous to declare life was better in the 1930s. These shorts showed a fantasy world.
When I was a kid in the early 70's i watched the reruns all the time and I was so in love with Mickey. The episode that really stands out to me was the left right left club. When Mickey ran out into the street after a ball without looking for cars, got hit and ended up with a broken leg
Thanks to Hal Roach , who started that era . I used to to watch the Our Gang /Little Rascals series on tv during my childhood . On DVD /RUclips , I still enjoy them . May they all RIP . 💐
In seventies these things were all over cable TV, we didn't realize the ramifications or the derogatory aspects of this. This stuff was pointed straight at kids.
*'Buckwheat say 'O-TAY!* ( *He was never the 'Lead' and barely a 'principal player' who was usually only allowed 'sight gags'...but he is surely the best-known and loved of all the 'Gang' members* )
Not the best known.
@@skaetur1 *Really?*
*Because you 'think so?'*
( *I don't take advice or knowledge from anyone with NO NAME* )
I'm 62 years old today and I really love the old black and white Little Rascals they were my favorites.
My favorite Little Rascal was Stymie- he was the man. And he was an excellent actor.
He played a man named Monty on good times in the 70s
They were all my favorites….every single one of those children I loved on screen. My favorite episodes were the surprise birthday cake, the down hill go cart race and the mule, Algebra, who went after people when someone sneezed and would sit down when the alarm clock rang…until the clock got broken.
Still the Funniest 😆 Kid Comedy’s Ever. Stymie was the Coolest. Watched all of them as a Kid growing up in the 50s.
I watched..I'm your age..Even then it was Pedofile propaganda..shame on you.
The thing to me, that made the Little Rascals shorts great, compared to the 1994 movie, is that the original kids weren't really great actors - they were just kids, being kids. And that's what made them funny. The movie forgot that, and got kids who were actors, pretending to be kids, just being kids. And it came across as forced.
I always enjoyed the Little Rascals. I suppose it's a bit corny, but I especially liked the propaganda episodes made during the war years to drum up support for the war effort. Talk about waaayyy over the top -- especially the musical numbers -- but still an amazing reflection of the times.
One of my many favorites was the radio talent contest & Spanky getting disgruntled with the emcee who couldn't remember their music ensembles name "The international silver string submarine bah-yund". And his marbles rolling out of the violin case " It slipped" I read that Jinx the monkey was not very nice & the kids didn't like working with him.
As a boomer, I’ve seen them all too.....I’m in the mood for love.
As a 59 year old ,I fondly remember when school was called off and then being ABLE to watch " Our Gang" was like hitting the LOTTERY!!😅🤣😊😍
Buck Wheat was my favorite character, his facial expressions where funnyeeee!!! I also liked seeing how the
Dog was always near.
I have vivid memories of the Wild Man from Borneo. “Yum Yum Eat ‘em Up.” Once you’ve seen it you can’t forget it. Also there’s one where the gang does a production of Romeo and Juliet, reminiscent of the Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland “let’s put on a show” stuff. It involves Alfafa as an onion eating Romeo and Buckwheat stepping in to play Juliet after Darla drops out because of Alfafa’s bad breath. Hilarious.
In the 70s I saw 'Moan and Groan, Inc.' a bunch of times. I heard it was banned and I had to do some research as to WHY that one was banned. In short, it was because the "crazy" guy was Jewish. How would you even know that he was Jewish ? there is one scene where he counts in German Ein Zwei Drei. Ok, maybe it was Yiddish ???
I still don't know why that was a big deal. Then another was banned because it involved a Divorce, "Big Ears". Seriously ? Who would be offended by that to the point where it needed to be banned?
My grandmother had the entire series on VHS and I watched them so much as a kid. I think the VHS with "The Kid From Borneo" also had an episode where they make a car and actually drive it down the street while it was falling apart? Memory's hazy on it, but I remember laughing so much over it.
Thank goodness all of the Hal Roach talkie shorts have just been restored by the independent distributor ClassicFlix and are available uncut and in excellent quality. I've just been discovering a lot of them for the first time thanks to the new Blu-rays and they're hilarious! Like windows into our past, warts and all. Hopefully we never forget our history, both the good and the bad.
I will be 65 in May. I literally grew up on them. My brothers & & I loved them all but "Uncle George" was our fav. My fav kids were Spanky & Alfalfa. My dad had watched them at theatres before we were even born. I remember seeing Hal Roach being given a lifetime achievement by the Oscars when Roach turned 100. What an incredible saga.
I was smiling, grinning and laughing the entire time of this video. I'mn less than 10 minutes I relived a part of my youth! Thank you so very much!
Cabin Fever Entertainment was the one that brought Little Rascals to me 21 vhs tapes with 4 episodes a tape and they had the 3 "banned" episodes entirely uncut and that was the point it wasn't just the show, it was the history of the show, each tape opened with a commentary by Leonard Maltin and I enjoyed his bits almost as much as the children:)
Spanky was an ADORABLE baby! 😍
There are too many favorite episodes to state here, but what I can say is that many kids wanted a dog like Petey who would comfort you when you were sad and protect you in times of trouble. One of the episodes did win an Academy Award for best short.