4: The bully is always standing right behind you the moment you gloat about escaping from him. And then, when the locomotive goes forward, your friend Farina will get caught in the tracks, and you'll run over him.

Hobo Joe is crazy! He'll put the train in high speed reverse and jump off. 3: If you and your pal Chubby go ahead and climb aboard the working locomotive - even after your dad, the engineer, warned you to stay off - and Hobo Joe jumps onboard, watch out! There's trouble ahead. 2: Stay away from castor oil, Limburger cheese and mush. If you do you'll lose out, because the teacher has special plans for the day. 1: Never skip school by pretending to be sick. This DVD is an excellent refresher course on the rules of life. I started watching its eight discs start to finish - 80 movies in all, or nearly 24 hours, not counting the special features or the three silent episodes at the end.Īnd I say it was time well spent. I'm possessed by this subject at the moment, not only because I watched The Little Rascals in Our Gang on TV every day growing up, but also because the imprint of that old series was deepened when an enormous DVD box set arrived at the office. The DVD box set manages to make the ephemeral nature of broadcasts into a trophy. Repackaging TV shows and movies has been one of Hollywood's most successful ventures. They all took their professional names from the Our Gang series of the '20s and '30s, America's most enduring movie shorts. Here's a musical and cultural quiz: What links the bands The Rascals, Spanky and Our Gang, Weezer, and Buckwheat Zydeco? The set is an excellent refresher course on the rules of life.Ĭourtesy Genius Products and RHI Entertainment There's a new DVD set of The Little Rascals in the Our Gang series of the 1920s and '30s.

Names of the original little rascals