Dog Heaven has Pete interacting with other neighborhood dogs.Animal Talk: In Fire Fighters, the first few minutes depict several neighborhood animals acting like humans.To be fair, it's difficult to tell whether the dog is being mean or is just incredibly stupid.Animals Hate Him: In "Dogs is Dogs," Wheezer and Dorothy's spoiled, whiny stepbrother is pushed into a well by his own dog.Animal Reaction Shot: Pete's speciality."Join Spanky, Alfalfa, and the rest of Our Gang.".And the Rest: Because so many characters appeared in the series, modern day promotional material will often list a few of the Rascals' names, followed by "and the rest." Example, from an old AMC promo:.An Aesop: The later MGM entries regularly end with an adult lecturing the kids on good behavior.Petey, a dog, attempts to put out the fire by peeing on it. All-Natural Fire Extinguisher: The He-Man Woman Haters Clubhouse catches fire after Spanky sabotages Alfalfa's date with Darla.All Just a Dream: Seein' Things, Mama's Little Pirate, and Our Gang Follies of 1938.All Girls Want Bad Boys: Every now and then, Darla will prefer Butch over Alfalfa.Despite the number of times he has had his ego knocked down, Alfalfa can't help but return to his old traits. Aesop Amnesia: Alfalfa has a cocky side to him that always lands him into trouble.Adults Are Useless: Part of the series' charm was that the kids would regularly (and unintentionally) teach the adults a lesson.Spanky, initially shocked, can't help but join them.
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#WAS THE ORIGINAL LITTLE RASCALS ALFALFA FEMALE SERIES#
A 1979 animated Christmas Special on NBC, whose voice cast included Matthew "Stymie" Beard and Darla Hood, as well as a series of public service announcements.A series of clay-animated Little Rascals Color Specials, produced for television in the 1960s, presumably by Bura and Hardwick, the British studio responsible for Camberwick Green.The cover of the first issue featured an unnamed girl who was probably intended to be Darla Hood but bore a greater resemblance to Dorothy DeBorba.
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It featured Spanky and Alfalfa, along with some original characters. Dell Comics published a 12-issue Little Rascals comic book series from 1957 to 1962.
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After it fared poorly at the box office Hal Roach went back to making shorts.
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Ever since then, each iteration of the series had at least 1 black child, who in the shorts got to play with their white counterparts, eat in the same places as them, and even go to school with them! This is not to say racial humor wasnt ever used (see below), but it was radical enough that Southern theaters often complained or outright refused to show the series. Hal Roach was actually planning to make a whole series out of Ernie Morrison, one of the first black child stars in Hollywood, but when distributors said it wouldnt fly, he put Morrison in the Our Gang films alongside Allen Hoskins as Farina and the white child actors for the rest of the group. Part of the reason why the series is remembered even to this day is that it showed black and white children playing together as equals, which was more or less unheard of for films of its day.