Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas

Ye Olde Minstrels (1939)

Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Comedy 

Length: 11min

To raise money for the local chapter of the Red Cross, the Our Gang kids stage an old-fashioned minstrel show with the help of Billy "Froggy" Laughlin's uncle, played by real-life minstrel man Walter Wills. What follows is not an Our Gang comedy at...

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Practical Jokers (1938)

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Hoping to get even for all the practical jokes perpetrated by neighborhood troublemaker Tommy "Butch" Bond, the Our Gang kids plan to sabotage Butch's birthday party. The weapon of choice is a firecracker, which is substituted for one of the birthday...

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Bear Facts (1938)

Cast: Little Rascals   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Upon learning that Darla Hood's father (Jack Pepper) owns a circus, Our Gang members Spanky McFarland and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer try their best to impress Darla, hoping to land circus jobs. Never letting the facts get in the way of a good story,...

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Football Romeo (1938)

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

The Our Gang kids square off against "Butch's Assassins" in a crucial football game. Star player Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer balks at participating, leaving it up to Darla Hood to coerce and cajole him into donning his uniform. The climax of the game finds...

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Three Men in a Tub (1938)

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Seven-year-old heartbreaker Darla Hood throws her steady beau Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer over in favor of wealthy Waldo (Darwood Kaye), who owns a junior-sized motorboat. Determined to win Darla back, Alfalfa challenges Waldo to a boat race for the...

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Canned Fishing (1938)

Cast: Hal Roach George "Spanky" McFarland   

Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Again concocting an elaborate hooky-playing scheme, Our Gang kid Spanky McFarland places a block of ice on the chest of his pal Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer. The strategy this time is to convince their mothers that Alfalfa has a bad cold, and that Spanky...

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The Awful Tooth (1938)

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Hoping to earn enough money to buy baseball equipment, the Our Gang kids elect to have all their teeth pulled out. Their logic is sublime: If the Good Fairy is willing to slip a dime under the pillow for one tooth, imagine how much the kids will earn...

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Hide and Shriek (1938)

Cast: Gordon M. Douglas Darla Hood Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Opening his own detective agency, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer dons a deerstalker cap and rechristens himself "X-10, Sooper Sleuth." His first assignment: to find out who stole a box of candy from Darla Hood. Suspecting that little Leonard Landy and Gary...

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Came the Brawn (1938)

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Last week, fickle Darla Hood declared that she would not go out with neighborhood bully Butch (Tommy Bond) until he started behaving like a gentleman. This week, however, Darla is ga-ga over "muscle men" in general and self-styled wrestler Carl...

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