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Our Gang returns!
I loved "The Little Rascals" when I was growing up. I'm glad to see they have a nice mix of episodes with my favorite characters. Spanky, Alfalfa, Jackie, Buckwheat, Marianne, and Pete (the dog!) are all here!

If you are unfamiliar with the Little Rascals, it was a series of short comedies filmed in the 1920's and 1930's called "Our Gang". The films were about poor kids and their very funny escapades. (Note: there is racial stereotyping that was common at the time of filming, not that that is any excuse!) These were intended to be stand-alone films. In some films, the gang had parents. In others, they live in an orphanage. There were plenty of other inconsistencies like this from episode to episode. Hal Roach sold the original series to MGM, bought it back, and renamed it, "Hal Roach's Little Rascals". More episodes were filmed into the early 1940's. No episodes were ever produced for TV, but it started playing on TV in 1955 under the name, "The Little Rascals". Jackie Cooper played "Jackie". (Robert Blake played "Mickey", but not in any of these episodes.)

Here is an episode guide, with a tiny description:

Teacher's Pet: Jackie brags to a nice woman about the tricks they plan to play on the new teacher. Guess who their new teacher is?

School's Out: Jackie is worried that the new teacher, Miss Crabtree will get married and leave. So when the gang thinks she has a boyfriend, they try to discourage his interest.

Readin' And Writin': Brisbane tries to get kicked out of school after his mother reminds him that he can be president if he does well.

Spooky Hooky: Spanky and Alfalfa want to skip school and go to the circus, so they send Buckwheat and Porky to put a fake doctor's note on the teacher's desk. When they find out the teacher is taking the class to the circus, they do everything they can to get the note back.

Sprucin' Up: Spanky and Alfalfa show off to the new truant officer's daughter.

For Pete's Sake!: After Marianne's doll is destroyed by the local bully, the gang tries to get her a new one. They end up trading Pete, the dog, for a doll!

The Kid From Borneo: The gang decides that a wild man from Borneo wants to eat them up.

Dogs Is Dogs: Pete, the dog, ends up at the pound after he is accused of eating Mr. Brown's chickens.

The Pooch: Stymie steals a pie, but is forgiven when he gets the other kids' dogs from the dogcatcher.

Dog Heaven: Pete, the dog, is upset because Joe spent money on a girl rather than a promised dog collar. Pete saves the girl from drowning, but gets in trouble when Joe thinks Pete pushed her into the water.

CLASSIC LITTLE RASCALS
I am now 27 Years old From United Kingdom and these Kids where apart of my Youth, when i was about 7 Years old i remembered watching these kids and love how they had there Own Fire Engine..How much i wanted to be there with them, Remembering how they hated Girls at that youthful age, That Always made me grin Because at that age of 7, they where Public Ememy to me aswell..Since then years have gone By, and it look like i never see then again, But I check your Site and was made up to see that i was able to Own these classic Episodes again and even better on DVD.. Now i will be able to share these classic Little Rascals moment with my 3 Neices and let them see the Great Fire Engine....***CLASSIC** :o) ... Read more

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Classic Curly
Short and simple, if you're a Stooges fan, this is a must have. It is nice to see this on DVD and the quality is decent. More importantly, the shorts selected for this disk are real good Curly shorts. Maybe not the best ones of Curly (I'd have a hard time deciding that) but for us Stooge lovers, this is great.

Great DVD, only one weak short.
A-PLUMBING WE WILL GO (1940) is my favorite Curly short. It's got hilarious scenes and tons of fun. Curly's maze of pipes is great, even though Shemp does it better in VAGABOND LOAFERS (1949). A+

WOMAN HATERS (1934) is the only short on the tape that is bad. Spoken in rhyme. This is the first short, and one of the worst. D-

PUNCH DRUNKS (1934) is okay. There's some funny scenes. At least it's better than WOMAN HATERS (1934). C-

MEN IN BLACK (1934) is great. This was the only short to even be nominated for an Academy Award. There are great gags. "Did you ever see and apple with the skin on the INSIDE?" This deserves to be nominated for an award. It should've won. A-

THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS (1934) is funny, co-starring Lucille Ball. The Stooges and Lucy. Who wants more? A-

This also includes MICRO-PHONIES, one of Curly's best.

The title says it all!
This package features the first four movie shorts Moe,Larry and Curly made in 1934. The first one,WOMAN HATERS,is a musical,all in rhyme. The Stooges join the Woman Haters club,but Larry decides to quit after meeting a young woman he found so irresistible. He promised he'd marry her,that's why he quit. PUNCH DRUNKS was written by the Three Stooges. Curly fights against a stronger,tougher fighter and wins thanks to "Pop Goes The Weasel",the song Larry,in the audience,played on his violin. MEN IN BLACK features the Stooges as hospital workers who are finally employed after being long overdue to graduate from medical school. In THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS,the Stooges are college football players who impress the hell out of three gangsters and their girlfriends(one of them was a young and beautiful Lucille Ball). In A-PLUMBING WE WILL GO,the Stooges screw up the plumbing rather than repair a simple leak as ordered to. In MICRO-PHONIES,Curly lip-synchs a young woman's recording of "Voices Of Spring" in a recording studio and at a party. The Stooges would later become Woman Haters club members in 1955's GYPPED IN THE PENTHOUSE(with Shemp). A-PLUMBING WE WILL GO spawned two remakes,1949's VAGABOND LOAFERS which would be re-used for 1956's SCHEMING SCHEMERS. The young woman in MICRO-PHONIES is Christine McIntyre,a beautiful actress who gave plenty of moral support to the Stooges.

WOOWOOWOOWOOWOOWOOWOOWOOWOOWOOWOO!
Curly is GREAT! Good old NYUK NYUK action! Filled with thrills and chills!You gotta see the crazy,kooky Docs in Men in Black.
Punch Drunks will have you on the edge of your seat! Curly is a
great tough guy in that one! It'll scare you out of your wits when Curly comes WOO-WOO-WOOING toward you after he's punched out everyone in the ring! I thought the rhyming in Woman Haters was kinda funny, especially when Curly says: "You gave us the works before;you can't do it no more!" What funny bad grammar!
you must see Curly Classics! If you don't see it you'll be a VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCE!NYUKNYUKNYUKNYUK...

I Wish I Could Get My Curly Classics To Play
I bought the three stooges curley classics and couldn't get it to play at all. The dvd player keeps telling me there is NO Disc in player. So i went out and Bought the Three Stooges Collection with Spook Louder,All The Worlds A Stooge and Curly Classics in it and guess what Spook louder and All The Worlds A Stooge play great and the Curly Classics one don't play at all the player is saying NO Disc in player just like the first one i bought i think they better look in to this matter.I would like to know if anybody else is having this problem. ... Read more

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A four-pack of mid-'30s Three Stooges shorts, with enough concentrated nyuk-nyuks to satisfy fans. Two of the shorts are from their first year with Columbia, 1934. "Men in Black" has the boys as residents in a very unlucky hospital. It's nonstop mayhem, featuring an unorthodox approach to healing (the words "Give 'em the anesthetic" usually means a mallet will be applied to skull) and a good running gag about an ill-advised glass door. This one was nominated for the best short subject Oscar. "Punch Drunks" is an all-time Stooges gem, with Curly as Moe's new boxing discovery--but he can only achieve his fighting fury when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasel" on the violin.

From 1937, "The Sitter Downers" has three brides for three stooges, but their honeymoon is delayed by the building of a house, in typical Stooges style. Curly is wound up especially tight in this one, and it has some primo sight gags about home construction. "Playing the Ponies" navigates a zig-zag Stooges storyline, taking them from restaurant (Curly fixes an appetizing filet of sole) to horse track. It has a classic Stooges hand jive, although it shows how slapdash their shtick could get.

The DVD has Columbia's "ChromaChoice" colorized gimmick, which simply means easy toggling between the original (well preserved) black-and-white shorts and the colorized versions. The colorized images are sensibly rendered, but they still have that washed-out paleness they've always had--eggshell greens and light browns abound. So real Stooges fans can ignore the color, and ponder the eternal questions:Why was Moe so angry? Why is a bald man named Curly? What was the deal on Larry? And "Why don't catfish have kittens?" --Robert Horton ... Read more

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Created by producer Hal Roach, The Little Rascals (aka Our Gang) starred in more than a hundred shorts from 1922 to 1944 (one of which, Bored of Education, won an OSCAR®) and one feature, General Spanky.With the Gang aching to hit the gridiron, team captain Spanky’s got to play Little Papa and mind the baby, while Pete is framed by Wheezer’s hateful stepbrother, Sherwood, and sent to the pound in Dogs Is Dogs.Sherwood’s dog kills a chicken, so he blames Pete, but Wheezer and his sister Dorothy have the last laugh; then Spanky and the Gang try to impress the daughter of Mr. Jones, the new truant officer, by Sprucin’ Up. Black & White. 56 Minutes ... Read more