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Post by mtw12055 on Nov 4, 2015 20:21:57 GMT -5
1980s commercial featuring clips of the Gang, Laurel & Hardy, the Stooges, and Popeye. Anybody know who's doing the voice of Betty Boop?
Stymie in a bikini commercial, with a reference to "A Lad an' a Lamp."
Another "Uh-Oh Gang" ad.
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Post by mtw12055 on Nov 5, 2015 11:37:03 GMT -5
Someone did a cross between a parody of the Rascals and a parody of the Howard Stern Show. It's a bit on the mature side so I won't post it here. But if anyone's curious, Google "Little Howie and the Stern Gang."
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Post by mtw12055 on Nov 6, 2015 11:08:40 GMT -5
Clips from "Shivering Spooks" at about 2:30 and during the musical number at 6:27.
The infamous Simpsons clip (well, part of it). Odd seeing Chubby tossed into the mix, but still glad he was acknowledged.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2015 17:03:32 GMT -5
In July 1984, weeks before the animated series went off the ABC airwaves, on the CBS game show Press Your Luck, host Peter Tomarken asked the question "By what collective name did we know Darla Hood, Stymie Beard, Jackie Cooper, Robert Blake and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer?" A woman buzzed in quickly after Darla's name was mentioned. She answered with the modern name The Little Rascals. The other multiple choice answers were The Hardy Boys and The Bowery Boys. Given that Darla was the first name mentioned in the question, someone would have had to be stupid to give one of the other two multiple choice answers that each mention "Boys". Sounds like the question was set up to give away spins.
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Post by mtw12055 on Nov 22, 2015 0:40:33 GMT -5
The female version of "The Odd Couple" features an Our Gang reference. During a trivia game:
Olive: Farina? Is it Farina? Vera: Wasn't Farina in the Our Gang comedies? Mickey: Right. The cute little black girl with a circle around her eye.
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Post by mtw12055 on Nov 28, 2015 10:44:48 GMT -5
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Post by mtw12055 on Jan 1, 2016 18:53:46 GMT -5
Those familiar with the behind the scenes stories of "The Brady Bunch" will know that star Robert Reed and creator Sherwood Schwartz frequently butted heads over the scripts. Reed apparently used to write memos to Schwartz describing his disdain towards the scripts. Here's a snippet from a Reed memo that eventually got him written out of (what wound up being) the final episode:
The rest of the memo is quite lengthy, as Reed explains (and explains, and explains some more) to Schwartz the differences between comedy and drama.
While I respect Reed's dedication to his craft, I can't help but find it humorous that he would go to all of this trouble to reject a script. And surely he couldn't have expected a great Shakespearean style script to come from the BB writers. Here's the full thing, if anyone is interested. I know "Our Gang" is only mentioned briefly, but it's still quite a read:
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Post by tboneator64 on Jan 1, 2016 19:57:19 GMT -5
^ The above 'Our Gang' reference by Robert Reed begs the question: Just which 'Our Gang' short subject involves the misuse of Hair Tonic, and how did they pull off the appearance of orange hair on Black & White Film? The nearest thing that I can recall is Alfalfa's clever use of Lard to give his hairdo a slick appearance in SPRUCIN' UP (1935). CHEERS!
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Post by myhomeo on Jan 2, 2016 14:56:41 GMT -5
Sort of a pop culture reference: Was recently re-reading WAKE UP DOWN THERE: THE BEST OF THE EXCLUDED MIDDLE, a collection of articles and such about UFOs and believer-culture. One article concerned a man who researched channeled 'alien alphabets', that is, people who wrote in odd symbols and pictograms in trance they claimed came from alien entities. The researcher noted a common symbol was a backwards 'R' and the interviewer noted dryly the aliens were apparently big 'Little Rascals' fans.
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Post by RJH on Jan 2, 2016 15:34:04 GMT -5
Maybe Robert Reed didn't know what he was talking about since he seems to refer to the oldest boy as Bobby instead of Greg, and doesn't identity any of the children by name. There were some interesting haircuts in "Our Gang" and "Big Business." The closest thing to a misuse of hair tonic could be Farina being displeased by his hair job in "The Love Bug," though that was a result of electric hair curlers and certainly no orange dye.
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Post by mtw12055 on Jan 23, 2016 20:52:30 GMT -5
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Post by tboneator64 on Jan 23, 2016 23:59:43 GMT -5
Redd Foxx gets off a pretty good one-liner, as well! Plus, Stymie can be seen in the background for most of the scene that follows. He can also be seen in many appearances on Norman Lear Sitcoms of the 70s, most of which I've probably seen at one time, or another! Thank you very much for sharing this link! CHEERS!
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Post by mtw12055 on Jan 24, 2016 17:16:58 GMT -5
Redd Foxx gets off a pretty good one-liner, as well! Plus, Stymie can be seen in the background for most of the scene that follows. He can also be seen in many appearances on Norman Lear Sitcoms of the 70s, most of which I've probably seen at one time, or another! Thank you very much for sharing this link! CHEERS! Little piece of trivia: Sammy Davis, Jr. co-directed this particular episode with Jim Drake. Stymie and Redd were friends. When Matthew Beard decided to publish his memoirs, it was Redd who suggested simply calling the book "Stymie." Sadly, it was never finished (possibly never even started).
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Post by rascalstooge on Jan 25, 2016 14:28:26 GMT -5
Funny that Reed would mention Archie Bunker and GI because Carroll O'Connor was considered for the Skipper role.
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Post by myhomeo on Feb 20, 2016 14:41:12 GMT -5
New one just turned up: An old episode of THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW has a send-up of Shirley Temple in which they mention in passing 'child actors' Butch Spanky and Alfalfa Buckwheat in OUR GANG GETS BUSTED.
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