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Post by wheezer on Jun 4, 2016 18:30:03 GMT -5
In the movie Coraline, the titular character describes one of the ghost children as a "Little Rascals Chick with all these ribbons and braids".
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Post by wheezer on Jun 13, 2016 19:19:02 GMT -5
New one, I believe: The author of the popular CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS children's book series stated he gave his two boy heroes the last names Beard and Hutchins after his favorite Rascals, Stymie and Wheezer. Moreover, their schoolteacher nemesis, Mister Krupp, was sorta named after Mister Crutch from 'Shrimps For A Day.' (He remembered it wrong.) Additionally, author Dav (sic) Pilkey used "Yum, yum! Eat 'em up!" (from 'The Kid From Borneo') and the "certainly ain't no midget" joke (from "Mama's Little Pirate") in two of his books. And one of the two main characters has two pets named "Porky" and "Buckwheat". Furthermore, the character "Super Diaper Baby" has the last name "Hoskins" (possibly a Farina reference?). I think it's safe to assume Pilkey was/is a Rascals fan. "The Our Gang film shorts, also known as The Little Rascals, were a television staple for decades and were among Dav Pilkey's favorites." -- From David "Dav" Pilkey by Dennis Abrams. "2. George and Harold's last names (Beard and Hutchins) were the last names of Dav's two favorite "Little Rascals" (a.k.a. Hal Roach's Rascals, a.k.a. Our Gang) characters: "Stimey (Matthew Beard)" and "Wheezer (Bobby Hutchins)". " -- Straight from his website. I used to be obsessed with Captain Underpants when I was younger, so it's nice to see that's connected to the rascals. (Also: "3. George and Harold's school, Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, got it's name from "Curly" of "The Three Stooges". Curly's given name was Jerome Horwitz. " )
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Post by mtw12055 on Aug 14, 2016 15:18:17 GMT -5
From an episode of "Duckman." At 5:16, Duckman gets beaten up by the Little Rascals. This is one of those references that genuinely made me laugh out loud. The joke actually begins at 4:56, but the Rascals don't appear until 20 seconds later. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNHYMDjGR3s
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Post by RJH on Aug 15, 2016 23:00:18 GMT -5
A suggestion: can you insert the screen grab you put in the Wiki in your post here? That's quite an interpretation of Buckwheat and Pete especially.
Somehow I missed the run of that cartoon.
A shame that if they used the early triumvirate of Farina, Joe Cobb, and Jackie Condon, they might not have been recognized by any of that viewing audience.
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Post by mtw12055 on Aug 16, 2016 1:14:46 GMT -5
A suggestion: can you insert the screen grab you put in the Wiki in your post here? That's quite an interpretation of Buckwheat and Pete especially. Somehow I missed the run of that cartoon. A shame that if they used the early triumvirate of Farina, Joe Cobb, and Jackie Condon, they might not have been recognized by any of that viewing audience. Edited to inude screen grab. Yeah, I didn't know about this show until a friend recently suggested it to me, insisting that I was a lot like Cornfed Pig, Duckman's partner in crime. I've largely enjoyed it so far, and can even forgive the unfunny running gag involving the "Grandmama" character. Funny how this show was done by the same people that gave us "Rugrats" and "The Wild Thornberrys." It still has a slight Nickelodeon kids' show vibe to it.
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Post by mtw12055 on Aug 16, 2016 22:23:04 GMT -5
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Post by mtw12055 on Aug 29, 2016 15:55:51 GMT -5
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Post by myhomeo on Aug 29, 2016 16:54:39 GMT -5
Oh, keep forgetting: In ODD SQUAD: THE MOVIE, a spin-off of a popular PBS kids show about kid agents who use math to fix outbreaks of oddness, the team leader, Ms. O, refers to her group as 'Rascals,' then 'Scalawags.'
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 21:30:18 GMT -5
Oh, keep forgetting: In ODD SQUAD: THE MOVIE, a spin-off of a popular PBS kids show about kid agents who use math to fix outbreaks of oddness, the team leader, Ms. O, refers to her group as 'Rascals,' then 'Scalawags.' Was the PBS kids show in question called Square One TV, or a segment from that series called "Mathnet"?
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Post by mtw12055 on Sept 2, 2016 22:48:18 GMT -5
Oh, keep forgetting: In ODD SQUAD: THE MOVIE, a spin-off of a popular PBS kids show about kid agents who use math to fix outbreaks of oddness, the team leader, Ms. O, refers to her group as 'Rascals,' then 'Scalawags.' Was the PBS kids show in question called Square One TV, or a segment from that series called "Mathnet"? I'd imagine ODD SQUAD: THE MOVIE is a spin-off of ODD SQUAD: THE TV SERIES.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2016 8:12:42 GMT -5
I remember back in 1984, during the final months of The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour, Jon Bauman asked a question "Which character from the Little Rascals is 'the father of all foods': Buckwheat or Alfalfa?" The answer was Alfalfa.
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Post by mtw12055 on Sept 6, 2016 13:23:28 GMT -5
In Rich Hall's documentary on California, Rich pays a visit to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery and passes Alfalfa's grave. The tour guide doesn't quite get the story of his tragic end right, though. youtu.be/plNdBHnR0Ig?t=7m13s
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Post by mtw12055 on Sept 16, 2016 12:54:24 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2016 15:38:39 GMT -5
Just to inform you folks, if any of you have Game Show Network (GSN), the network had re-acquired the summer 1984 episodes coming into effect on September 29 (starting from Ep. 200). The episode with the references to Darla, Stymie, Alfalfa, and two other characters is Ep. 210 and should air on GSN on Thursday, October 13 at 9:30 a.m. ET.
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Post by mtw12055 on Dec 31, 2016 2:25:23 GMT -5
Got the entire Ebersol era of Saturday Night Live on DVD recently, partially for the Buckwheat/Little Rascals parodies, and partially because I find the performers from these seasons underrated. Lots of hit and miss material, not at all uncommon for SNL. Season 7 was mostly dreadful to sit through, but I'm now moving into Season 8, which has much more energy to it - even in the weaker sketches.
Anyhow, it's been interesting to see some of the rarer Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat skits, particularly the Rascals reunion with Robert Blake.
The episode hosted by Louis Gosett, Jr. has a few references I wasn't aware of beforehand. During the SNL News segment, Brad Hall reports on Spanky McFarland's 54th birthday. Once the audiences recognizes Spanky's picture, they respond very warmly. Brad tells the audience that Spanky was found to be linked to U.S. Secretary of Labor Ray Donovan. "...three men known to Donovan were found murdered in "Our Gang style killings; they were hit in the back of the head with pea shooters and sling shots." Brad then adds that while Donovan denies having any affiliation with Spanky, he admitted to once having an affair with Darla.
Later on in the show, Eddie Murphy and Louis Gossett, Jr. play a poor father and son in a sketch. They break character, complaining that the idea of the sketch is too obvious and stereotypical, since they are both black. Eddie then notes that everyone expects him to play Buckwheat because he's black and Gossett to play Stymie because he's bald.
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