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Fishy Tales (1937)

Cast: Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer   

Tags: Comedy Family Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

While staging a "William Tell" exhibition in a vacant lot, junior marksman Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer accidentally incurs the wrath of neighborhood bully Butch (Tommy Bond) -- or, as he announces himself, "you're darn right it's Butch!" When Alfalfa...

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Framing Youth (1937)

Cast: Hal Roach   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Our Gang's resident crooner, has been preparing for weeks to perform in a radio talent contest. With Spanky McFarland as his manager, Alfalfa is a shoe-in for first prize -- until neighborhood bully Butch (Tommy Bond), who...

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Reunion in Rhythm (1937)

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

A followup to the musical-revue short Our Gang Follies of 1936, the one-reel Reunion in Rhythm was apparently filmed under the title Our Gang Follies of 1937. Its release title reflected the fact that, in addition to such current Gang members as...

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The Pigskin Palooka (1937)

Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Even allowing for the fact that it's only a one-reeler, the "Our Gang" comedy "The Pigskin Palooka" goes by so rapidly that the viewer will be gasping for breath! Having written of his football heroics in military school, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer...

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Glove Taps (1937)

Cast: George "Spanky" McFarland   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

After appearing as a peripheral player in several earlier "Our Gang" shorts, Tommy Bond made a spectacular return to the series in Glove Taps. Here and in all future appearances, Bond is cast as neighborhood bully Butch, the bane of the existence of...

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Bored of Education (1936)

Cast: Little Rascals   

Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Family Comedy Slapstick 

Length: 1rlmin

Producer Hal Roach had intended to terminate his "Our Gang" short-subject series at the end of the 1935-36 season, but was talked out of it by Louis B. Mayer, the head of Roach's distributor MGM. As a cost-cutting measure, Roach shortened the running...

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Three Smart Boys (1937)

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

The Three Smart Boys in this one-reel "Our Gang" comedy are Spanky McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas and Eugene "Porky" Lee. Once again anxious to get out of school, Spanky once again decides to stage a phony epidemic. This...

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Hearts Are Thumps (1937)

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

It is Valentine's Day, and Our Gang members Spanky McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas and Eugene "Porky" Lee aren't impressed. Deciding that romance is the bunk, the boys form the He-Man Woman Hater's Club. Alfalfa is willing...

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Pay As You Exit (1936)

Cast: Darla Hood   

Tags: Comedy Showbiz Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Hoping to attract customers to Spanky McFarland's barnyard production of ~Romeo and Juliet, star performer Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer proposes a "pay as you exit" policy: If the kids like the show, they'll pay the alotted one-cent admission on the way...

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