Little Rascals Bad Luck

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 6:05pm

Someone e mailed this to me the other day & I thought I would share it

Alfalfa - Carl Switzer - Shot to death in a bar fight @ 31
Buckwheat - William Thomas - Heart Attack @ 49
Chubby - Norman Chaney - Died @ 22 after an operation
Darla - Darla Hood - Died @ 47 of Hepatitis
Brisbane - Kendall Mc Cormas - Suicide @ 64
Froggy - Wm Robert Laughlin - Killed @ 16 in motor scooter accident
Mickey Daniels - Died @ 55 of Liver disease
Stymie - Matthew Bear - Died of stroke @ 56 after a life of crime & drugs
Scotty - Scotty Beckett - Diead @ 38 after a brutal beating
Wheezer - Robert Hutchins - Killed @ 19 in a plane accident
Pete The Pup - He was poisoned by an unknown assailant
Spanky - Age not listed but died a natural death
Butch - Currently lives in Calif
Robert Blake - Accused of murdering his wife & alive in Calif

Updated On: 1/27/09 at 06:05 PM

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 6:07pm

Poor Butch. I'd hate to live in California.

No, seriously, this is really eerie. I'd never heard this before!

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 6:12pm

Travis Tedford - Spanky in the movie. Working at Wal-Mart

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 6:14pm

There will always be only one Spanky .

Ditto for all the others as well.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 6:16pm

In the newer 1994 version of Little Rascals, "Waldo Aloysius Johnston III" was played by a kid named Blake Ewing.

My sister's become obsessed with him because he's in this community theatre production of AIDA that was posted on youtube that she watches at least five times a day. He appears not to have grown at all since then-- he looks exactly the same as he did in Little Rascals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIfiIqhf8qY

Updated On: 1/27/09 at 06:16 PM

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 6:23pm

Times Square-are those hair plugs on that kid? He looks young for that.

Anyway, there's nothing like the actual Little Rascals. I never could figure out of they talented actors at their young ages, or did the director know how to get it out of them, or did they just follow them with a camera and they were being natural?

It used to be my favorite program. I'd like to see them again, but is it true what they say about Bill Cosby and the ban on showing them?

[SNAFU]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 6:23pm

Actually according to the complete unedited DVD collection. Chubby died after going on a crash diet and losing 200 LB.
Wheezers plane accident was while he was in the service.
I don't give much credence to the Bad luck or Little Rascal Curse. I mean there was a huge cast of kids and SH*T happens. Damned if there was a Little Rascals curse then there is an I Love Lucy Curse too. Most in that show are dead now too.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 7:07pm

Roxy- you know what's cursed? Tomatoes! REALLY! EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO HAS EVER EATEN A TOMATO HAS- or will someday- DIE!

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 7:25pm

No wonder people thought tomatoes were poisonous until the 1820's!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 7:42pm

I totally agree Joe

Thanks for enlightening everyone here.

[Jon]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 8:15pm

Isn't Blake Mciver Ewing the incredibly effeminate boy who was D.J.'s friend on Full House?

He also played The Boy in the original L.A. company of RAGTIME.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 8:16pm

Yep, that's him! His Radames is... very girly and nasal, but he's not a bad actor.

[Mekroth]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 9:33pm

Wait... What do they say about Bill Cosby?

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 9:51pm

That he bought up all the rights to the Little Rascals and will not allow them to be shown ever again due to racism.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 10:20pm

Yeah it is really racist

Little kids playing together & none of them care a whit about each others race.

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 10:40pm

I think Cosby had a problem with Buckwheat.

[blueroses]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 10:47pm

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 10:53pm

"The widely-circulated rumor that entertainer Bill Cosby bought up the rights to Our Gang to keep the racial stereotypes off of television is false. Cosby has never owned any rights to the series at any time."

[ifuweregay93]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 10:57pm

"Wooking Pa Nub In All Da Wong Paces"

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 11:08pm

Shouldn't a list that's supposed to demonstrate bad luck contain just examples of bad luck?

"Spanky - Age not listed but died a natural death
Butch - Currently lives in Calif"

[SNAFU]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 11:17pm

I was given the remastered full collection recently which are unedited. The quality of some of the earliest ones are pretty shabby (They weren't digitally remastered), and the sound is kind of crappy however...
For the time they were produced they are actually pretty progressive. Yes, there are racial jokes inserted into them but most of them seem superfluous and almost an afterthought.
In the world which the children interacted, those never ending summer days of childhood, race never seemed an issue. Each member of the gang was respected and valued as an equal member of the group by the group.
In working my way through the entire 84 shorts, I am amazed at how far ahead of their time they were. They captured a glimmer of a world of equality in childhood play and friendship during a very segregated time in this country.
Gotta go it's time to grease Weezer!

Updated On: 1/27/09 at 11:17 PM

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 11:24pm

Whenever they baked a cake, and that scary sound emanated from the kitchen, I used to put my hands over my ears because I was so afraid of it.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 11:27pm

I love how Buckwheat's character started out as a little girl then changed to a little boy as he got older.


Learn that poem! learn that poem.....

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 11:32pm

I loved Buckwheat. I think he and Weezer were my favorites.

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 11:35pm