Our Gang
Overview
 
Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 short films about a group of poor neighborhood child
Child
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ren and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach
Hal Roach
Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an American film and television producer and director, and from the 1910s to the 1990s.- Early life and career :Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York...

, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively natural way, as Roach and original director Robert F. McGowan
Robert F. McGowan
Robert Francis McGowan was an American film director and producer, best known as the senior director of the Our Gang short subjects film series from 1922 until 1933.-Career:...

 worked to film the unaffected, raw nuances apparent in regular children rather than have them imitate adult acting styles.

In addition, Our Gang notably put boys, girls, whites and blacks together in a group as equals, something that "broke new ground," according to film historian Leonard Maltin
Leonard Maltin
Leonard Maltin is an American film and animated film critic and historian, author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives.-Personal life:...

.
Quotations

"Okee-dokee!" and "Okey-doke!" (George McFarland|Spanky)

"Oh-Tay!" (Eugene "Porky" Lee|Porky and Buckwheat (character)|Buckwheat)

"Gee, you're pretty, Miss Crabtree. You're prettier 'n Miss MacGillicuddy." (Jackie Cooper|Jackie), Teacher's Pet and Love Business, both 1930

"Don't call me Norman, call me Chubsy-Ubsy." (Norman %22Chubby%22 Chaney|Chubby), Love Business, 1930

"Yum-yum. Eat-em-up !" (The wild man, The Kid from Borneo, 1933)

"I wish Cotton was a monkey. All he needs is a tail." (Spanky, A Lad an' a' Lamp, 1932)

"Don't drink the milk, its SPOILED". (various characters, Mush and Milk, 1933)

"I don't think I'll taste so good, mother says I'm spoiled!" (Spanky, The Kid From Borneo, 1933)

"You said it!" (various characters)

"That'll learn 'em." (Scotty Beckett|Scotty)

 
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