WEBVTT - The Little Rascals with Tariq Ra'ouf 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:02.120 On the Bechdel Cast. 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:04.000 The questions asked if movies have. 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:07.920 Women and them, are all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands, 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:12.400 or do they have individualism? It's the patriarchy, Zephyn bast 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.280 start changing with the Bechdel Cast. 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:23.400 I call this meeting of the the man Hating Bechdel 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:24.759 Cast Club. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:31.800 To order, O tay otay. That was my takeaway. That 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:37.720 was my takeaway. Welcome to the bechel Cast AKA. Some 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:41.360 critics would say the man Hating Club, O tay. 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.920 My name is Jamie Loftus, my name is Caitlin Droonte. 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.360 This is our show where we examine movies through an 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:51.920 intersectional feminist lens, using the Bechdel Test simply as a 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.240 jumping off point. It's not the focus of the show. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:01:00.400 We just use it to launch bigger conversations about little 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.840 boys who hate women. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.759 And little boys who like women but are a shame. 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.240 Yes. The Bechtel Test, of course, being a media metric 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.600 created by queer cartoonist Alison Bechdel, sometimes called the Bechdel 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:18.440 Wallace Test, it has many versions. Ours is do two 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.319 characters of a marginalized gender have names? Do they speak 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.520 to each other? And is their conversation about something other 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:29.640 than a man. Ideally, we like it when the conversation 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:33.840 is like narratively relevant and not just like throwaway dialogue. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:40.680 We'll figure out if the he man women hating characters 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:46.160 of this movie past the Bechdel test. But yeah, today's 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:51.160 episode is The Little Rascals nineteen ninety four, directed by 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:52.560 Penelope Spherus. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.320 Yes, I think our second Penelope Spherus on the show 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.040 because we also did Wayne's World. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.280 M we sure did. Today we have a wonderful guest 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.680 with us to discuss the movie. We're very excited. He 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:10.760 is a writer and journalist. It's Tarak rove Hi. Welcome. Hello, 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:15.160 you brought us this movie. Tell us about your relationship, 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.040 your history, et cetera with it. I love how we 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.239 start ours by being like, you brought us this movie. 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.920 So why why. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.480 Why did you make me watch this? 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.720 Well explain yourself. 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.040 Uh, you know, it was really fond of it for 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.040 such a long time. I remember watching it as a kid. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.800 I remember watching it just being in awe and like, 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.280 I specifically remember the pickle scene, like remembering the pickle 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.920 scene as a kid, being like I love pickles, I 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:46.080 love the pickle dance. And like it just was a 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.440 fun time and I and I was like, I haven't 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.800 seen the Little Rascals in years. So I was like, 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.760 I saw that on your on your most requested list. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.000 I was like, m hm, yeah, let's let's do it, 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.919 especially because I I kind of remembered that they were 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.799 in a club and it realized quite how women hating 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:08.400 their club was. Until I was watching, I was like, oh, okay, 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.000 I thought it would be a really fascinating movie to 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.120 dissect from this lens it is. 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:17.920 I also didn't remember the extent to which like gender 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:22.680 politics plays into this children's movie. It's yeah, wild, Yeah, 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.480 I have to be honest like that. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.600 I went into this viewing being like, this is going 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:33.520 to be a breeze. It's a kid's movie, eighty minutes long, amazing, great, 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.400 and then you know, within the first two minutes you're like, oh, 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.760 I have to lock the fuck in, like this is 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:40.960 this is a text. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.360 So this was a big movie of your childhood tark right. 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.480 Yeah, I mean, like I think I was, like I 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.880 was probably I was born in ninety one, and I 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:51.600 don't remember when this movie came out, but I was 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.080 like roughly around like the same age as these kids, 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:55.840 I think when it came out, so. 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:57.960 Yeah, I came out. I remember this being like a 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:04.200 very popular like VHS pick. This came out in ninety four. 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:06.200 Yeah, I was ninety four. 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.640 Yeah, so I was like I was definitely like in 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.320 the age range of like Alfalfa. Like when I watched it, 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:13.800 I was like, oh, I like this. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.000 Right, Well, some of the kids are like they seem 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:20.400 to be like like Buckwheat and Porky are like four 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.719 maybe five years old Alfalfa and some of the older 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.479 kids are like nine. But yeah, because I'm the same 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:33.280 age as like the actors who played Alfalfa and Waldo 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.560 and a couple of the other ones, I. 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.120 Made the mistake of being like, what is Alfalfa up 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:39.720 to today? 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.719 Oh, yeah, don't do that, don't google him. 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.320 Really, I mean, well, just I don't want to. Let 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.240 let's say that, I don't want to talk about it. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:52.080 It's a long story short, it's a bumber. It's a 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:53.880 bummer bug hall Man. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:54.440 Bug a Hall. 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:56.280 I was like, what a fun name. Wonder what he's 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.600 up to. Don't recommend, don't recommend finding out when he's 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.520 up to anyways, we'll. 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.560 Circle back, sure for sure, But Yeah. This was also 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:09.760 a big movie of my childhood, and I watched it 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.839 a ton as a kid, probably from like you know, 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:18.120 ninety four to ninety seven, and then that's when Titanic 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.200 came out, so I pretty much only was watching that 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:26.279 for many years. Same, but I rewatched this movie recently, 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.279 kind of apropos of nothing. I was like, oh, that's 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.840 on a streaming platform. This is a movie I used 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.800 to love as a kid, and I rewatched it probably 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:38.120 like a year ago. It's pretty recently. Did not remember 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:42.799 most of it. I do very distinctly remember the scene 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:47.040 where the I guess it's four kids, two of them 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.240 are stacked on the shoulders of two others. They go 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.320 into the bank to try to get alone. Did not 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.200 remember it was from mel Brooks. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.880 Which is kind of the I mean, as we'll talk 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:02.520 about the cameo situation. This movie really runs the gamut 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:08.000 of kinds of cameos. Some age great, one really doesn't. 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:12.320 One does not know because he's not our fascist dictator 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:13.039 of America. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:13.600 Yeah. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:15.760 Yeah, my jaw dropped when I saw him. 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:20.440 I was and unfortunately at the time I can see 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:24.320 why it made perfect sense. You're just like, fuck, that 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.400 was in our lifetimes. Anyways, Well, he. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:31.440 Made a few cameos in different movies alone too, and 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.760 then he's also in Zulander. As we discussed recently. 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:39.640 Right inescapable. But baby, Raven Simone, you're just. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:43.760 Like, yes, I love that. I had to pause. I 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:44.640 was like, what I know. 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.039 It's like all the famous trousers of the day. I 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.520 was like, wow, they got they got the they brought 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.560 it in the heavy hitters. Although I will say so 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.040 none of the cameos have names. But for some reason, 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:59.160 Raven Simone is credited as Steimy's girlfriend at the club, 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:03.080 which makes it sound like she's twenty five and not 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:06.919 a little bit the clerb. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.720 Like, no one's gonna no one's gonna clock this. But 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.800 the little sister from Smart House was also in this, 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:17.400 which I recognized her. She was like very tiny. 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:21.160 Yeah, oh my god, well spotted because we've covered we've 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:22.360 covered Smart House. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.320 And I didn't wow. 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.400 And then yeah you got you got Riba Riba in 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.240 her second best cameo after Barbin Star go to Visa 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.680 del Mar. Oh my gosh, right, that's her best one. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.000 You've got WHOOPI Goldberg. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.760 Yeah, it's a great one. Daryl Hannah, who I didn't 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.760 recognize as Daryl Hannah, but then I realized and I smiled. 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.400 Wow the end, I feel like maybe that's why we 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.160 remember this movie so well. As partly it's just because 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.040 like we remember all the stars and we were like 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.360 in awe from it, and then we didn't remember any 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:55.000 of the plot. 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:56.320 Yeah, totally. 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:57.960 No. 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.440 I again, I didn't remember the they were in a 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.480 he man woman haters club and that that was like 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.480 a huge focal point of the movie. 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:09.040 Really, I was curious if okay, so that is. 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.760 Not that did not stick with me. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.120 I'm a little ashamed to say that. As I was 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.760 watching this film, I thought to myself, I was like, 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:17.640 this movie's really bad. 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:25.440 Okay, I thank you for some light defenses of this movie. 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:31.200 I will you know it does does it fix feminism 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.400 the way it tries to claim that it does at 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.280 the end, I would say, no. 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.640 Didn't work for bug Hall. He's a member of the 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.680 he Man Woman Hating Club to this day. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:45.640 Yikes, which is ironic because Alfalfa is the only boy 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:46.920 in the club who loves women. 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:47.400 Well. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.960 But also I have but I have some thoughts on 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:54.400 Alfalfa and his little boner haircut. Oh my god, how 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.280 many boner drugs are going to be in this movie? 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:57.319 Starring seven year old? 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.760 It was still a little uncomfortable. It was a little 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.720 Reba McIntire saying like like, are you is that a hair? 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:08.880 A hairla? Or you just happy to see me? 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:09.320 Was like. 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:11.400 Years old. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.079 It was a child, you're speaking to me? 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.439 Read the room. A lot of the jokes. 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.000 Though, in this movie are like comedy gold. The joke 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.600 writing in this movie is largely very fun. I like 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:25.800 Penelope Spears as a comedy director. There's lots to discuss, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.040 but yeah, we'll get there. I love it. 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:32.600 I feel like Kaitlyn, you're rarely the defender of the movie. 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.840 This is exciting. So this is a childhood favorite of 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.679 yours that you recently revisited. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:39.920 Yes, and Jamie, what about you? 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.079 I had not seen this one. I don't know why. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.960 I've found that I mix it up constantly with the 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:50.079 Sandlot because the posters look very similar. But no, I 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.760 hadn't seen it before, and it's like it's a weird 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:58.040 little movie. I didn't hate it, and I didn't hate it. 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:01.559 I guess that's my review. I didn't hate it. I 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.679 think it is like pretty fucking impressive that Penelope Spheeris 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:10.360 pulled off a movie this like vast with a cast 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:14.520 this young, because like the kids are doing okay, I mean, 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.880 you're not gonna get a star every time, and in 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:18.520 this case, I think they're kind of batting. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:19.200 Oh for ten. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.800 No offense to the kids, except actually the fancy the 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:27.000 fancy little kid, I like Stymy and the fancy boy. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:28.880 I was like, they they were they were cooking. 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:33.240 Oh you mean Waldo Alo Wishous Johnston the third. 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.880 Oh my god, fancy McCaulay culkin is how I refer 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.880 to my notes. For a second, I was like, is 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.120 it no? But McCaulay culkin played Ritchie Rich around the 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:43.640 same time. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:45.000 So I also found. 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.120 It interesting, like looking back at because I knew that 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.480 the Little Rascals had history. I didn't know it was 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:53.120 like over one hundred years of history. So I have 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:55.840 some some notes on that. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:57.800 But it's you know, I think it's. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.920 Like an interesting way to adapt it for the nineties. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.840 I like that these like little Newsy kids live in 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.160 la in nineteen ninety four and that's just cannon Like 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:13.880 it's sweet. Yeah, it didn't really solve feminism, but I 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.400 think it's nice that it thought it did. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.760 It was it was trying for something. 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.080 Does I think it solves feminism? Is that when the 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:24.120 movie stands, you think. 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.880 I don't actually think so. But at the end when 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.240 they're like, yeah, women, you're allowed in our club in 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.760 which we hate women. You're welcome here now. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.920 But I'm like, I don't see them getting leadership positions 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:40.000 anytime soon. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.600 I'll tell you what they're basically framed is like the 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.679 girlfriends now, which I have a whole shpielan. We'll talk 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:46.480 about it, but. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:52.280 Well, yeah, Stimey's girlfriend at the club. Yeah, and the 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.360 club we all vam or what is the thing is 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.920 that it? No, wait, I don't know. I don't I 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.679 know what you're talking about. It's just funny to hear 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:02.280 it from you and the clerb. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:03.600 We all sam. 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.320 Yeah, anyway, let's take a quick break and then we'll 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:22.640 come back for the recap. And we're back. We're okay. 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:26.200 Here's the recap of the Little Rascals nineteen ninety four. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:33.760 A little boy named Spanky. The names in this incredible. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:34.680 Yeah we got we gotta bring that back. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:40.200 Kids name Spanky, kids named Froggy, kids named Porky and 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.720 Buckwheat and Alfalfa and wim. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.560 Yeah they all have Looney Tunes names. 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:50.640 Okay, So Spanky sends a note around town via pd 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:55.080 the Dog to announce an emergency meeting of some sort. 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.520 This note is seen by a kid named Stymy when 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:03.079 he's playing baseball. Then a kid named Froggy at his house. 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:05.760 I guess that's his name because he has a very 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.040 like raspy froggy voice. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.839 Which I no offense to Little Rascals defenders. I found 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:16.199 so obnoxious and distracted it hard to listen to. Not 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.920 the kid's fault, but I was like, Okay, yeah, not 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:20.520 my favorite. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.120 I loved it. 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:26.640 I do like I hope that this is the movie 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:31.040 that breaks the podcast. I hope the little I hope 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:32.400 the Little Rascals do us end. 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.000 This episode is going to end in blood and tears. 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.200 No swee be Froggy. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:38.800 Uh. 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:43.000 Then Pete goes to two kids who are fishing, Porky 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:49.319 and Buckwheat. Then eventually the boys the Little Rascals gather 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.839 at their clubhouse for a meeting at the Clerb At 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:57.320 the Clerb House, uh huh, for a meeting for the 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:03.440 he Man Woman Haters Club they recite their oath, which states, 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.840 I do solemnly swear to be a he man and 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.760 hate women and not play with them or talk to 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:13.840 them unless I have to, and especially never fall in love. 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.040 And then it goes on about what the punishments are 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.920 and blah blah blah. A character named uh huh who 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:27.720 seems to only say uh huh, takes minutes from the meeting. Meanwhile, 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:32.400 outside to bullies who are not allowed in the club. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.360 Oh my god, having great great bully names. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.920 Yeah, butch and wom And I'm like, is that like 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.160 worm but in a. 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:42.520 In like baby noozies? 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:42.880 I think? 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.320 Get right. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.640 The two bullies talk about how they're looking forward to 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:56.000 beating the Rascals in an upcoming go kart race with 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.680 their go kart, which is called the Beast. Meanwhile, the 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:05.000 little Rascal's go kart, the Blur, is their club's pride 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:09.640 and joy. They pay respects to it and to their hero, 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.480 their idol, a race car driver named A J. Ferguson, 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.400 and they're like, he's the best race car driver that 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.640 ever lived. Then they select a name out of a 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.880 hat to see who's going to drive the Blur in 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.880 the upcoming go kart race and the name that they 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:32.480 select is Alsalfa, who is not there at the meeting. 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:39.560 They discover that Alfalfa is secretly spending time with his girlfriend, Darla, because, 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.720 unlike the other members of the he Man Woman Haters Club, 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:49.760 Alfalfa is sensitive and romantic and he loves women. And 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:51.720 Darla is like, well, then why the fuck are you 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.560 in this ridiculous misogyny club. 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:59.160 I love Darla. I love Darla so much. Darla takes 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:03.160 no nonsense from these little boys. She has no time 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:04.120 for them. I love it. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:06.240 She doesn't very grown. 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.360 Yes, she's so grown, despite being like four years old 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.160 when production started, so little. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.520 She's so tiny and you can just hear I don't know. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:18.760 Like the blooperrial was so cute because you're like, God, 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.560 these kids are these kids are are just like hanging 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.720 on by their little fingernails trying to remember these sentences. 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:30.040 It's so cute. And Darla's little blooperrial segment at the end. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:31.960 Is like, stop looking at the camera. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:37.560 Yeah, so cute. I have a whole spiel about the 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:41.480 age difference between her and her various love interests, but 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:47.320 we'll get we'll get to it. Wow, okay. So Alfalfa 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.600 tells Darla that he's going to take her on a picnic, 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.040 and she suggests they have it at his clubhouse so 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.440 that he can prove that he's not ashamed of her 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.640 and that he's proud of her. So the next day, 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.359 Alfalfa goes to pick up Darla, he's attacked by a 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:09.199 dog that belongs to Waldo. Aloisious Johnston the Third, a 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.160 rich kid who absolutely sucks. 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.760 Unfortunately, he's so funny, and I hate it. It is 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.880 it feels very nineties that they make a little social 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.639 statement with what a piece of shit he is. Like, 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:23.600 they go out of their way to be like he's 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.680 a mini oil baron and you're like, what a detail, 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.639 what a detail to just have there. I kind of 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:31.320 loved it. 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.760 And produces a great joke where yeah, he's like, my 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.760 dad just bought the local oil refinery and Darla's like, 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.160 that explains why you're so refined in Alfalfa and why 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:42.360 you're so oily. 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.840 That's hilarious as those are good. The jokes are good, 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:48.760 the good jokes, Thank. 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:53.080 You, thank you. Okay, So Waldo sucks, but he takes 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:57.959 a liking to Darla to Alfalfa's dismay. Alfalfa and Darla 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:02.639 go on a candlelight picnic the clubhouse the clubhouse, but 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:07.719 the little rascals sabotage it by putting a whoopee cushion 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.880 under Alfalfa. They put kitty litter in their sandwiches, all 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.399 this kind of stuff, and then they start like banging 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:19.359 on the door. So Alfalfa hurriedly shoes Darla away and 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.400 tries to clean everything up, but he accidentally doesn't blow 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.399 out one of the candles, so the clubhouse catches fire. 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:29.000 The kids try to put out the fire, but the 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:30.240 clubhouse burns down. 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:34.640 I love this sequence when they're the little baby firefighters. 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.680 It's so cute, cute. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.440 I like the entire time, I'm just like, where are 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.760 any of the adults? The adults like they they they 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:45.680 just don't exist in this worl These. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:46.600 Kids are never home. 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:50.000 I kind of love the like just lot because it's like, 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.600 because I was worried that they're gonna like single out 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:56.000 specific kids, but it's just like, this is a world 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.400 with no parents, except at the end when you see 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.160 that they do have parents and they look exactly like them, 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:05.320 but bigger and I liked that joke a lot, Like 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:10.439 these parents are are bad at their job, but I 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.000 love that. I feel like it is like this like 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:16.240 fantasy for like people of our generation to be as 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.280 loose as the little rascals are. 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:22.040 Do whatever you want, live life without a care in 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.720 the world, without any adults. You know, you can't do that. 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:28.240 Your parents have no idea. You've organized a hate group. 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:31.080 Underground. 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:34.440 They didn't used to know these things, right, And these kids. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:37.119 Are like not going home for what seems like days 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.680 at a time. They're just sort of like sleeping out 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:40.879 at the club house. 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:44.440 Maroon Alfalfa fishing out on a lake on their own. 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:46.320 I like that. 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:48.919 Yeah, it does feel like this. This takes place in 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:52.080 the South one hundred years ago, but also in Los 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.720 Angeles in the nineties, and both reads are correct. 0:19:56.160 --> 0:20:00.400 Yeah, absolutely, for sure. It's great. Okay, so the house 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:06.760 is burnt down. Meanwhile, because Alfalfa had tried to hide Darla, 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.959 she realizes that he is ashamed of her, so she 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:14.240 dumps his ass and leaves with that rich prick Waldo. 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:14.880 Hie. 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:19.280 Yeah, yeah, it's I wrote down. This is very specific, 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:23.600 but it reminded me of when Jane Fonda divorced her 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:31.280 activist husband and married Ted Turner. Wow, Jane Fonda heads 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:32.520 will well know. 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:34.600 Are they still married? 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.680 No, she divorces ass too. She's I mean, she's the best, 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.200 but she was married to Ted Turner. 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:43.879 Which is why suspicious truly. 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:45.360 Yeah. 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:50.600 In any case, the rascals put Alfalfa on trial and 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:54.520 then on probation, and his punishment is to guard their 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:57.800 go kart the Blur day and night, and he can 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:01.760 never talk to, or see or think about Darla ever again. 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:06.400 So that night, when Alfalfa's guarding the go kart, all 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:08.840 the boys join him for a little sleepover in a 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:14.480 tent and they're talking about why they think girls are gross. Meanwhile, 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:18.600 Darla is having a sleepover with her girl friends and 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:22.960 they're talking about why they think boys are gross. It's 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:27.160 a really fun like intercut scene. The next day, the 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:31.040 boys get to work on rebuilding their clubhouse, but they 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.760 don't have the money for lumber, which they try to 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:40.320 buy from Norm from Cheers, so a few of them 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:43.399 go into a bank. This is the scene that I 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.639 distinctly remember from watching this as a kid. They're like 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:50.080 stacked on each other's shoulders and they try to get 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:55.720 a bank loan from mel Brooks, which he denies them. Meanwhile, 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:59.320 there's a scene where Alfalfa writes a love note and 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:03.800 then has Buckwheat and Porky deliver it to Darla. But 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:08.800 it's this whole comedy of errors situation where Darla ends 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:12.760 up even more mad at Alfalfa because there's like, yeah, 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:14.760