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Post by mtw12055 on Aug 14, 2010 16:54:02 GMT -5
Here's an interesting topic. What do you guys think happened to everybody after their Our Gang days (not the actors but the characters)? I'm not very creative with these kinds of things but here goes:
Froggy - became the world's first human jukebox
Mickey Gubitosi - became the most annoying Mayor that Greenpoint ever had. His lack of ability to get anything done (other then whining) caused Greenpoint to completely dissapear off of the map. This explains why nobody has been able to figure out where the heck Greenpoint is supposed to be!
Sherwood/Spud - nobody knows what happened to him. Some people say that they last saw him walking by a well...
Chubby - changed his name to Jared Fogle and went on to advertise for a popular sandwich reastraunt.
Mr. Hood - tried his hardest to get as far away from the Rascals as possible. He later changed his last name to 'Wilson' (his mother's maiden name) and remarried to lovely woman named Martha. The two moved into a quiet neighborhood, only to find their next door neighbor to be an obnoxious pain named 'Dennis'. Shortly thereafter, he went to therapy.
Jackie Cooper - got big and grew whiskers. He married Miss Crabtree.
Any others?
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Post by Mark on Aug 14, 2010 19:33:10 GMT -5
LOL! I'll come back when my not-so-witty, uncreative mind thinks of some good ones.
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Post by mtw12055 on Aug 15, 2010 10:55:16 GMT -5
Breezy Brisbane - achieved his lifelong dream of becoming President....
He became President (and founder) of the Street Car Conductors of Brisbane, Australia (SCCBA).
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Post by Mark on Aug 15, 2010 12:49:36 GMT -5
Alfalfa- becomes the Grammy Award winning vocalist, with many certified platinum albums
Spanky- becomes Alfalfa's agent
Butch & Woim- become mobsters, with a history of violence and money ("Dog Daze", for instance)
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Post by mtw12055 on Aug 15, 2010 16:35:01 GMT -5
Dorothy/Echo - became a parrot
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Post by bigears on Aug 16, 2010 13:35:15 GMT -5
Scotty-opened a chain of lemonade stands
Stymie-became a spokesman for Rogaine
Jerry-lost all his money in the stock market and had to sell his toy firetruck on EBay
Buckwheat and Porky-became English professors
Wheezer-wrote a book of poetry using his Mother's old love letters
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Post by mtw12055 on Aug 16, 2010 17:30:12 GMT -5
Kennedy the Cop - was sadly killed by dairy products.
One day while taking a bicycle ride, poor Mr. Kennedy was hit by a dairy truck. His last words were "take the cheese off my chest!".
At his funeral, Kennedy's pallbearers consisted of old friends Farina, Jackie Cooper, Chubby, Wheezer, Stan Laurel, and Oliver Hardy. Unfortunately, the casket was accidentally dropped when Mr. Laurel decided to blow his nose in the middle of carrying it.
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Post by myhomeo on Aug 17, 2010 16:59:10 GMT -5
Alfalfa began a meteoric rise to the top, completely redefining crooning for all time. Though dismissed by some adults who insisted, "What's the matter, are you sick?" and "Well, it sounds awful," millions of young girls in pigtails and oversized eyeglasses flocked to his concerts.
Guided by his Svengali-like manager 'Colonel' Barnaby, Alfalfa soon found himself trapped making a series of dismal, interchangable films for MGM. Though mocked by many as an outdated joke, the King of Crooners revitalized his career with a highly praised television comeback special and reinvented himself as a major Vegas attraction.
Sadly, however, behind the scenes he continued to spiral into depression and paranoia. Surrounded by syncopantic childhood pals and fueled by heroic amounts of raw onions and 'Settles-It' Powders, his behavior grew more and more bizarre, as when he used a marble in a slingshot to shoot out a television set playing an old Bobby Breen movie, complaining, "That guy's got no soul." Other times he'd claim to be a football hero, a professional wrestler, or one of the Three Musketeers.
Alfalfa was found in his bathroom one day in an advanced state of rigor mortis. Cause of death was believed to be overhydration caused by drinking enough tap-water to cause his stomach to inflate to several times its proper size. Others believe his last concert, where he periodically exhaled streams of bubbles after inadvertently consuming liquid soap, might have had something to do with it.
When asked if there had been any way in which this tragedy could have been prevented, longtime personal assistant Porky reportedly whispered, "Dosh, ah dunno..."
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Post by RJH on Aug 17, 2010 20:56:30 GMT -5
Mary Kornman - Secretary for the Department of Education
Jackie Condon - Spokesman for Fine Hair Products for Men (upon retirement replaced by Buckwheat)
Farina - In recognition of fine performances for getting run over by cars and trains, falling off buildings and bridges, encounters wtih fire and dynamite, and just plain getting beat up - Hollywood Stuntman
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Post by myhomeo on Aug 18, 2010 16:45:24 GMT -5
After losing Club Spanky in a mob takeover, Spanky went into the theatrical business, eventually becoming a major Broadway mogul. A master of staging lavish spectacles on a shoestring budget, his elaborate musicals and avant-garde stageplays (Including an ahead-of-its-time production of 'Romeo And Juliet' featuring an African-American drag queen as Juliet) often seemed on the verge of disaster. Still, he always turned a tidy profit thanks to his innovative 'Pay As You Exit' strategy.
His fortune made, he retired in late middle age, choosing to spend the rest of his days fishing, though he often had to coax Junior out of the steam cabinet first.
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Post by RJH on Aug 18, 2010 23:36:14 GMT -5
Jean Darling - Acupuncturist. (Makes sense only if you're familiar with her sticking pins in everyone in Barnum & Ringling, Inc.)
Froggy - Ventroliquist
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Post by myhomeo on Aug 19, 2010 16:42:39 GMT -5
Froggy: Moved to the Rocky Mountains, which cleared his throat congestion right up. Became a popular singer-songwriter in the 1970's. Did a Christmas special with the Muppets. Died in a plane crash.
Scotty: Peter Pan at Disneyworld, 1958-1963. He got the job because he knew the guy who did Pinnochio.
Tommy: Formed an avant-garde jazz trio with that scary Scottish girl and that Zeppo-Marx-In-Mating-Season 'No Two Ways About It, You're The One For Me' kid.
Jerry, AKA Percy: After developing a lengthy police record for drag-racing boys in their underwear, was moved to New York for a fresh start by his parents. Started using the name Donald around the time his hair started to go weird. Still tries to impress bimbos by taking them for rides in his fire engine but refuses to allow anyone else near it. "It's MY fire engine, MINE!"
Buckwheat: Joined Nation of Islam.
Darla: After a ravaging attack of tuberculosis damaged her looks and her health, moved on doctor's orders to the small seaside town of Sweethaven, where he found herself being courted by a pair of sailors.
Butch and Woim: Own a leather bar downtown.
Janet: Killed by an angry mob.
Breezy Brisbane: Embittered by the fact streetcars no longer existed when he reached adulthood, he attempted to become a bus driver but soon quit, complaining "It's not the same." Subsequently formed a rock band, The Punk Blacksmiths.
Waldo: Invented the Internet.
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Post by myhomeo on Aug 21, 2010 14:22:03 GMT -5
Uh-Huh - Became a corporate yes-man.
Harry Spear - Did porn under the psuedonym Eugene Obliwitcz, earning the eternal graditude of Dickie Moore, who would otherwise have been stuck with this dumb joke.
Dickie Moore - Went into the beef stew business.
Jackie Cooper - Married Mary Ann Jackson, but went through a nasty and humiliating divorce years later in which she described in open court being forced to play 'love games' where he wore a little straw hat and cowered behind a desk while she had to don a blonde hair and stride around with a switch declaring she'd punish severely the next child who gave her a foolish answer. To escape the scandal, he changed his name, moved to another city, and eventually became the editor of a great metropolitan newspaper.
Wheezer - After starting a department store ("Who wants t'buy somethin'!"), he wrote a book on training puppies.
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Post by booklover on Aug 26, 2010 9:48:40 GMT -5
All of your responses are fun and amusing, but if you REALLY took a good look at the characters personalities and interests:
Spanky-The take charge type, loves to eat and run his own business...could have become a restaurateur.
Chubby-Open, friendly personality...could have gone into public relations or even politics.
Darla-loves to sing and dance and be the center of attention...could have pursued a career in show business.
Tommy-possibly never grew out of his bullying stage, but as an adult, couldn't get away with hitting and threatening people, so he channels his agression and dominating personality elsewhere and becomes a drill sargent.
That's basically all I've got so far. Not trying to sound demeaning to women, but a lot of the girls - Mary Ann, Dorothy, Janet, etc.-probably grew up and settled down to become hosuewives/moms. Let's face it, that was the norm back then, there wasn't as many opportunities for women as there were men. However, a lot of women did go into the working world during WWII, so maybe that would have happened to the majority of the girls in the series.
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Post by mtw12055 on Sept 7, 2010 17:52:58 GMT -5
Mary Ann became a professional wrestler (she frequently practices on childhood friend Jackie Cooper).
Dinah the Mule was charged for illegaly kicking random strangers with her hind legs. She was sent to the glue factory, but managed to escape. She became a horse (with the aid of plastic surgery) and was able to hide from the police. She changed her name to Mr. Ed and became a popular televsion star.
Harry Spear put an act together in Vaudeville involving his ear wiggling talent. He eventually teamed with nightclub performer Chubby Chaney (best known for lip syncing to records of Charley Chase) and comedian Mickey Gubitosi (best known for his eyebrow lifting talent) for the popular broadway show "Earzapoppin!".
The trio were hired by director Moe Hailstone of Miracle Movies (their motto is: "If it's a good movie, it must be a Miracle!") for a film version of the broadway show. Sadly, the film bombed at the box office. Due to several conflicts, the team eventually split. Harry became a male model (the ears were his trademark), Mickey unintentionally destroyed Greenpoint, and Chubby opened an acting school for lip syncers ("Don't Give Me Any of Your Lip--Unless Charley Chase or a Lawyer is Involved"). They were later reunited on Junior Jasgur's Labor Day Telethon.
Janet Burston had a short-lived singing career (most of her fans consisted of people with broken hearing aids). She later acted as a writer and creative consultant for the Star Wars Holiday Special (1978). Her last public apperance occured just weeks after the special aired, with one hundred people in attendance (fifty of whom brought the tar, while the other fifty brought the feathers).
Afterwards, it was learned that Janet's acting coach was, in fact, an onion (hence the hardly realistic crying scenes she gave in the past), which Joe Cobb immediately disposed of.
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