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Post by mtw12055 on May 10, 2019 14:30:27 GMT -5
The Bingo Game was a tie-in with the Dell Little Rascals comics, with many of the same new characters ("Fatso," "Miss Pretty," "Mr. Grumble") featured, alongside the more familiar batch. Oddly, the game makers traced photographic likenesses of the Roach kids, rather than reusing their comic book likenesses.
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Post by mtw12055 on May 11, 2019 17:16:55 GMT -5
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Post by malaria on May 12, 2019 16:29:22 GMT -5
LOL. The Darla and Spanky figures are quite well drawn (tracing may indeed explain that), but the bulging Alfalfa (looks like he's about to emit a full-on weep-wah) is atrocious, and his "mother" looks like Oscar Wilde.
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Post by myhomeo on May 13, 2019 12:55:52 GMT -5
Me, I'm wondering how in the world the Gang got their hands on an actual SAFE. I mean, even if someone threw it out, how'd they manage to drag it back to their clubhouse?
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Post by mtw12055 on May 13, 2019 16:17:45 GMT -5
Me, I'm wondering how in the world the Gang got their hands on an actual SAFE. I mean, even if someone threw it out, how'd they manage to drag it back to their clubhouse? In one comic, Buckwheat finds one, presumably in a junk yard, and drags it back to the clubhouse in a wagon. The punchline is that they won't have to worry about a combination for the safe since there's no wall in the back of it. |
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Post by malaria on May 13, 2019 16:49:25 GMT -5
LOL.
In my HS, the sound effect "BWWWWAAAAAA" was routinely used to refer to (or openly insult) the obese. Pretty sure the ending of "A Lad 'n A Lamp" was the referent there, with a secondary assist to a certain bulging birthday cake.
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Post by shirleymurphy on May 14, 2019 17:53:41 GMT -5
better candidates for a Little Rascals 1980s film:  |
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Post by malaria on May 17, 2019 15:58:13 GMT -5
A first-time starter named ALPHALFA was entered into today's 9th at Belmont but late-scratched. The sire is Alpha, who was a nice hoss a few years back. Odd tie-in... as a kid, I somehow got the notion that "Alfa Romeo" had something to do with Alfalfa. My Homeo, indeed.  |
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Post by myhomeo on Jun 3, 2019 11:50:21 GMT -5
On the CD of the podcast John's Old-Time Radio Show, the host discusses his fondness for the music of LeRoy Shields and mentions how he got turned on to 'old-timey' 20's and 30's music from watching The Little Rascals on television.
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Post by malaria on Jun 6, 2019 10:09:25 GMT -5
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Post by malaria on Jun 10, 2019 18:52:44 GMT -5
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Post by mtw12055 on Jun 14, 2019 16:47:26 GMT -5
May have been brought up already, I don't know if this fits exactly, but during the 1990s, there was a resurgence of 'gang of kids' movies -
"The Sandlot" (gang of kids hanging out during the Summer of 62)
"The Mighty Ducks" (Emilio Estevez teaching a gang of kids to play ice hockey)
"Heavyweights" (gang of kids taking on a mentally insane Ben Stiller at a fat camp)
"Little Giants" (Rick Moranis teaching a gang of outcast kids baseball)
"The Big Green" (gang of kids learn soccer)
"Slappy and the Stinkers" (gang of kids adopt a seal)
..and of course the big Rascals reboot, among others.
And prior to that, there had been "The Bad News Bears, "The Goonies," Rob Reiner's coming-of-age story "Stand by Me," and a few others. Ron Howard also a Rascals-style TV movie called "Little Shots."
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Post by malaria on Jun 15, 2019 14:31:46 GMT -5
Of these, Stand By Me was the best, though perhaps too dark even for the Rascals oeuvre. Also, the fat kid became slim and handsome, unlike poor Chubby. Like many Rascals, River Phoenix met a sad and untimely death, and Corey Feldman was the Scottie Beckett of the bunch.
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Post by myhomeo on Jun 15, 2019 15:07:55 GMT -5
There's also NOW AND THEN, which is all girls, though.
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Post by mtw12055 on Jun 21, 2019 4:28:43 GMT -5
An obscure one from the long-running Walt Disney Presents Disneyland's Magical Wonderful World of Sunday Movies in Color The Disney Sunday Movie, "The B.R.A.T. Patrol." And one of the kids is even named "Darla." Go figure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDE42dthhoU |
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