I need some help on "The Little Rascals"

[Fezzie-Lo]

<p>I know I stink cause I never post unless I need some board&nbsp;member input but you guys had some great calls when Rod and Fed brought up the Rascals the other day. </p><p>I'm 23 and I've just seen clips of the show&nbsp;over the years but&nbsp;whenever they talk about the old shows I just die laughing at the descriptions. I'm dying to grab some of these on DVD. When I went to check on Bestbuy.com there are just a shitload. Can anyone who knows about these DVD's let me know which 2 or 3 are the best ones to get? </p><p>Thanks,</p><p>SEEEYAAHHHH</p>

[PapaBear]

<p>Rod and Fed </p><p>I hope you get over your cold, soon.</p>

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

<p>Be nice papa Bear.</p><p>Your best bet is to check your local video store. I'm sure they will have them.</p><img src="http://www.osirusonline.com/rfnet-fuzzybutt.gif" border="0" /> &quot;We sound just like Cheap Trick only the guitars are louder,&quot; - Kurt Cobain &quot;I prefer to listen to Cheap Trick.&quot; -Homer Simpson

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[PapaBear]

<p><font face="Courier New" size="2">I was just Rascalin' around. This looks good.</font></p><p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><a href="http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PRODUCT&PROD_ID=725901&cid=25608&fp=F" target="_self">5 Disc set on Overstock.com</a></font></p><p><font face="Courier New" size="2">I has 300 minutes of LR for around 20 bucks after shipping.</font></p>

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[FUNKMAN]

<p>they're all pretty good, i would have to say the one's where spanky is at his youngest seem to be the best. there is one when they get taken on a trainride after they exchange clothes with a group of kids and it's one of the best. the man who is responsible for watching the children is especially funny.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>other good episodes:</p><p>when they go camping at some creek.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>they form their own fire department and spanky has worms and won't take his medicine.</p><p>one of the boys wants to buy his mom a dress for her birthday&nbsp;and he and his friends make a cake and put a bunch of crazy items in it and charge the neighborhood kids some money to come to the cake party and get a chance at the wonderful prizes</p><p>i haven't seen them in quite a long time so i can't remember any names</p>

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[mothershucker]

<p>Weeep Woooow.</p><p>I like the one where they bake the cake.</p>

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[curtoid]

<p>Your friendly neighborhood Jafter is the local expert on Rascals - until he shows up, I'll try and add some stuff....<br /><img height="452" src="http://www.thelittlerascals.net/ArborDay.jpg" width="579" border="0" /></p><p><br />There were over 200 Little Rascals/Our Gang shorts that were produced in about a 20 year span. You can sort of divide them into three &quot;eras.&quot; There was between 80-90 silent films produced by Hal Roach as well as with MGM (1922-1929), about 75 sound films produced by Roach &amp; MGM (1929-1938) and then about 50 final sound films produced without Hal Roach just for MGM (1938-1943). </p><p><br /><img height="171" src="http://www.thelittlerascals.net/JackieC.jpg" width="228" border="0" />&nbsp;<br />The quality of the silent ones are tough to get through - no one has done a really good restoration on them. You have to be a hard core fan of silent films, old films, or Little Rascals to get through them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /><img height="186" src="http://www.thelittlerascals.net/RobertMickey.jpg" width="248" border="0" />&nbsp;</p><p>The MGM ones without Roach are when they were on their last leg, and they began recycling stories. Spanky, Porky, Darla, Alfalfa are in these but older, and unfunny. Froggy and Mikey (aka: Robert Blake) were in these as well, and were the best thing about them. TNT use to rerun these. </p><p><img height="187" src="http://www.thelittlerascals.net/DarlaCandy.jpg" width="249" border="0" />&nbsp;</p><p>In the early 1990s Cabin Fever home video put out a 21 VHS set made up of the&nbsp;really good Roach/MGM shorts. The transfers are crisp and clean - they are hosted by film critic Leonard Maltin, who wrote the book on the Rascals. These were also shown on AMC movie channel as recently as 2003. Most (if not all) of the shorts that R&amp;F were talking about were in this set. </p><p><img height="191" src="http://www.thelittlerascals.net/2.jpg" width="107" border="0" /><img height="192" src="http://www.thelittlerascals.net/9.jpg" width="107" border="0" /><img height="188" src="http://www.thelittlerascals.net/13.jpg" width="104" border="0" /><img height="191" src="http://www.thelittlerascals.net/7.jpg" width="105" border="0" /><img height="191" src="http://www.thelittlerascals.net/Volume1Cover.jpg" width="105" border="0" />&nbsp;</p><p>Recently someone began selling well produced DVDs of many of the Cabin Fever tapes compressed down to a 6 DVD set that can be found on ebay. I don't know the story on them - if they are legit or not - but they sure look that way. They are very good quality. I only found them on ebay, though. Hallmark Home video also has begun putting many of these out as well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /><img height="262" src="http://www.thelittlerascals.net/HallmarkDVDs.jpg" width="373" border="0" />&nbsp;</p><p>What you see at Best Buy, or Costco, are usually compilations of the silent films and some of the early Hal Roach ones. Check out the years - anything before 1929 is going to be silent - anything in the 1930s are pretty much the good ones and the ones you want - and the 1940s are the ones they began to run out of steam.&nbsp; <br /></p><p><img height="470" src="http://www.thelittlerascals.net/Epidemic.jpg" width="636" border="0" />&nbsp;<br /></p><p>Spanky began as a 4 year old in 1932 and worked until he was 14 year old ten years later. He was the star, even getting his own movie in 1936, and you can't go wrong if he is in it. Especially if Alfalfa is in them (he was there from 1935-1940). Before them, the stars were Wheezer, Stymie and Jackie Cooper.&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v64/curtoid/curtoid.jpg" border="0" /> </p><p><em>The source of all hate</em></p>

<font color=black>This message was edited by curtoid on 9-28-05 @ 11:27 AM</font>

[Judge Smails]

<p><img height="98" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006JKBHC.01-A1UXSKFBYERK7U.THUMBZZZ.jpg" width="76" border="0" /> </p><p>I just picked up this DVD from my local Pathmark for $1.00 a couple of weeks ago.&nbsp; &quot;Our Gang Follies of 1938&quot; It's 65 minutes long and you can't go wrong for a dollar.&nbsp; I remember loving these shows when I was a kid, but for me they didn't hold up.&nbsp; If you say you never saw a complete show I'd get something cheap like this before blowing your money on something you'll only ever watch once if that.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;It's easy to grin, when your ship comes in, and you've got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile, is the man who can smile, when his shorts are too tight in the seat&quot;</p>

<font color=black>This message was edited by judge_smails on 9-28-05 @ 9:21 AM</font>

[jafter]

<p>Curtoid nailed it.&nbsp; Thank you brother.</p><p>As for me I love the episodes where Spanky is little 4-7 and Stymie is the main man.&nbsp; The Alfalfa years are ok and I also like the pre Spanky years with Wheezer as the little kid.&nbsp;&nbsp; Any of the later ones I will not watch I can not stand Froggy.&nbsp; </p><p>Any way the Cabin Fever set are good quality I bought the entire set when they were on VHS 22 tapes 4 &nbsp;episodes&nbsp;per tape.&nbsp; They rereleased the first 12 vhs tapes on dvd 2 tapes per dvd worth picking.&nbsp;</p><p>My favorite episodes are: (no particular order)</p><p>Birthday Blues- Birthday cake with prizes classic Stymie and spanky.</p><p>Bedtime worries - Spanky is young and he has to sleep in his own room &quot;Hey Santy Claus can you get me a drink of water&quot;&nbsp; </p><p>Wild Poses - Spanky goes to get his picture taken from Otto Focus</p><p>First Round up - Camping trip at lake classic Jelly and bread sceen</p><p>Hook and Ladder - the gang has their own fire department. </p><p>Kid From Borneo - Uncle George the wild man from Borneo&nbsp; &quot;Yum Yum eatem up eatem up&quot;</p><p>Shrimps for a day - 2 adults find a magic lamp and end up in the orphanage with the gang.</p><p>A lad an a lamp-&nbsp; classic&nbsp; kids look for alladins lamp and try to have their wishes come true &quot; I wish I had a watermelon&quot;,&nbsp; &quot;I wish my daddy was out of jail&quot;, and &quot; I wish cotton was a monkey&quot;&nbsp; &quot;all he needs is a tail&quot;</p><p>Free Wheelin - Stymie has a taxi cab and gives dickie a ride for excitement.&nbsp; </p><p>Love Business - Jackie and Chubby are in love with Ms. Crabtree &quot;Don't call me Norman call me chubsy ubsy&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

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[curtoid]

<p>I don't know why I didn't check with <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rascals" target="_self">Wikipedia first</a></strong>, but they have a pretty comprehensive history listing as well as a <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Gang_filmography" target="_self">list of the episodes</a></strong>. They also include the story of the Cabin Fever VHS and DVDs</p><p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/Thekidfromborneo-ourgang.jpg" border="0" /></p>

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[Tall_James]

I have the Cabin Fever DVD set and am quite happy with it.&nbsp; It is constantly being passed around by my friends and whenever someone see it on my DVD shelf, it is always followed by &quot;Can I borrow that?&quot;

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[torker]

<p>Weeep Woooow.</p><p>I like the one where they bake the cake.</p><p></p><p><em>I got a brush.</em></p>

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[Lumber]

<font style="font-size: 9px" face="Verdana">quote: </font><font style="font-size: 9px" face="Verdana">quote: </font><p>Weeep Woooow.</p><p>I like the one where they bake the cake.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>I got a brush</em></p><p><em>.</em></p><img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y201/torker1313/toyy.jpg" border="0" /> <em>Ask me tomorrow but not today. <em>I got a mousetrap<br /></em></em>I got a mousetrap

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[Fezzie-Lo]

<font style="font-size: 9px" face="Verdana">quote: </font><p>&nbsp;</p><font style="font-size: 9px" face="Verdana">quote: </font>Rod and Fed <p>&nbsp;</p><p>I hope you get over your cold, soon.</p><img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/snowmaninva66/NewWorldOrdercopy.jpg" border="0" />You say it, like it's a bad thing?!WHATSOEVER...All Hail Queefsha!!! <p>&nbsp;</p><p>Nice Head PapaBear. I may just have circa 50 posts but I've been listening since the first night of dotcom 11-3am on WNEW. Sometimes when Iris calls she would refer to the boys as &quot;Rod&quot; and or &quot;Fed.&quot; Fez would always get annyoed and try to correct the mistake. I'll try to make the references more current for you in the future. </p>

<font color=black>This message was edited by Fezzie-Lo on 9-29-05 @ 12:36 AM</font>

[Fezzie-Lo]

I would like to thank all the responses people. I'm gonna check some of these out this weekend.

[PapaBear]

<p>I'll try to make the references more current for you in the future. </p><p>Please don't do that! I learned something new tonight! I wasn't busting balls or anything. </p>

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[Fezzie-Lo]

No Prob man. I love the board, not here to flame anyone. I just didn't get the comment and I took it as a shot. Be good

[mothershucker]

<p>In &quot;Birthday Blues&quot;, Stymie is cooking the cake, and when he wipes his brow, and flings it, the white wall gets black speckles on it. </p><p>&quot;White people are so scared of black people.....&quot;</p>

I shucked it, and I shucked it, and I shucked it, i'm quite the mother shucker

[curtoid]

<blockquote style=""><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 9px; ">quote:</font><p>In &quot;Birthday Blues&quot;, Stymie is cooking the cake, and when he wipes his brow, and flings it, the white wall gets black speckles on it. </p><p>&quot;White people are so scared of black people.....&quot;</p>

I shucked it, and I shucked it, and I shucked it, i'm quite the mother shucker[/quote]<div>In real life, Stymie and Dickie Moore (the main little white kid in Birthday Blues) were supposedly bestest friends. Stymie ruled. He was so much better than Buckweat.</div><div><br /></div><div><img border="0" src="http://www.geocities.com/horrorhostunderground/tsm/images/gallery/jdimes/stymey.jpg" width="201" height="151" /></div>

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[jafter]

<p>Stymie was one smooth mutha.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img height="500" src="http://vaiden.net/stymie.jpg" width="200" border="0" /></p>

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[FUNKMAN]

<p>what's that?</p><p>that's an artichoke, want some?</p><p>uhah! it may have choked artie but it ain't gonna choke stymie</p>

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[JimBeam]

<p>Where can you but the Cabin fever DVDs online ?</p><p>I checked both DVDEmpire and DVDPriceSearch and couldn't find them.</p><p>I only see the ones put out by Good Times, Artisan and Passport Video.</p>

I have balls !!!

[jafter]

<p>I bought mine when the first were released.&nbsp;&nbsp; You may be able to buy them on ebay.&nbsp; I remember giving Ronnie and Fez some for Christmas one year.&nbsp; Ronnie loves the episode where Alfafa wants to be a crooner.&nbsp;&nbsp; I'm the barber of Seville. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img height="200" src="http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/6a/4d/1071599-movie-resized200.jpg" width="200" border="0" /></p>

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[curtoid]

They are on ebay.

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[torker]

<p><font size="1">They are on ebay.</font></p><p>Otay!</p><p>ps~<em>I don't know, but I'm on my way!~</em>Stymie</p>

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[curtoid]

<div>Leonard Maltin's book is still available and is pretty good, if I remember.</div><div><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0517583259.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="240" height="240" onmouseover="sitb_showLayer('bookpopover'); return false;" onmouseout="sitb_doHide('bookpopover'); return false;" border="0" /></div><div><br /></div>After looking into it closer, Hallmark bought the rights to the good shorts that Cabin Fever use to put out. Instead of putting out multi-volumes all at once, they are putting them out one volume at a time. They don't match up exactly with the Cabin Fever ones, but they are pretty close. So far there are only two sets out (pictured above in my other rambling post) with a third planned for November (under the title &quot;Collector's Edition 3&quot;). They seem like they are going to put them all out, just at their own pace, so if you were patient you could always just get the Hallmark ones, and just wait every 3 - 6 months for another volume. This is if you can't find the Cabin Fever ones, or are afraid they are bootlegs.&nbsp;<div><br /><div><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BB18LI.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" height="500" border="0" width="340" /></div></div>

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