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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Butch is a bully, but in "Tiny Terror", he is fiercely protective of his baby brother.
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* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: In "Science Fair and Foul", it's implied that Buckwheat has built a fully functional voice-activated robot in just a few hours.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In "Rascals' Revenge", the Rascals were scared so badly by the disguised Butch that they forgot about retrieving their football.
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* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: In "Big Top Rascals", Butch complain about the makeshift circus and ask for a refund. When Spanky says, "But we let you in for free," Butch suggests that everyone's money be refunded.
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* RecycledPremise: "The Case of the Puzzled Pals" has Alfalfa, Buckwheat and Porky as amateur detectives, similar to the final Roach theatrical short, "Hide and Shriek".
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* UnroboticReveal: This happens in "Science Fair and Foul" after Alfalfa, in the lower part of the robot disguise, lands on an ant farm exhibit.
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* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: In at least three shorts ("Yachtsa' Luck", "Cap'n Spanky's Showboat" and "Tiny Terror"), Pete is shown as a passenger in the Rascals' wooden car, rather than being hitched in front. It isn't stated what propels the car in these instances.
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* ElectionDayEpisode: In "Alfalfa for President", Alfalfa and Waldo run competing campaigns for class president at their school.
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* BabysittingEpisode: The animated short "Tiny Terror" has Butch leave his baby brother, Spike, with the Rascals so he [Butch] can go fishing. Among other things, the baby escapes the treehouse, crawls onto a nearby tree limb, and bombards Alfalfa and Spanky with apples. Then after Darla leaves for her piano lesson, Spike flees in one of Buckwheat's contraptions and leads the boys on a chase through the city, onto a construction site and to a drawbridge over the river. The boys think Spike landed on a ship bound for China. [[spoiler:By the end of the cartoon, Spike has crawled back into his carriage as if nothing happened.]]
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* BabysittingEpisode: The animated short "Tiny Terror" has Butch leave his baby brother, Spike, with the Rascals so he [Butch] can go fishing. Among other things, the baby escapes the treehouse, crawls onto a nearby tree limb, and bombards Alfalfa and Spanky with apples. Then after Darla leaves for her piano lesson, Spike flees in one of Buckwheat's contraptions and leads the boys on a chase through the city, onto a construction site and to a drawbridge over the river. The boys think Spike landed on a ship bound for China. [[spoiler:By the end of the cartoon, Spike has crawled back into his carriage as if nothing happened.]]
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* OffModel: In "Cap'n Spanky's Showboat", when Captain Smokey is at the helm of the refurbished ''Mississippi Queen'', Darla is wearing white socks and pink shoes, rather than her usual pink socks and white shoes.
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* BabysittingEpisode: The animated short "Tiny Terror" has Butch leave his baby brother, Spike, with the Rascals so he [Butch] can go fishing. Among other things, the baby escapes the treehouse, crawls onto a nearby tree limb, and bombards Alfalfa and Spanky with apples. Then after Darla leaves for her piano lesson, Spike flees in one of Buckwheat's contraptions and leads the boys on a chase through the city city, onto a construction site and to a drawbridge over the river. The boys think Spike landed on a ship bound for China. [[spoiler:By the end of the cartoon, Spike has crawled back into his carriage as if nothing happened.]]
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* BabysittingEpisode: The animated short "Tiny Terror" has Butch leave his baby brother brother, Spike, with the Rascals so he [Butch] can run an errand for his mother.go fishing. Among other things, the baby escapes the treehouse, crawls onto a nearby tree limb, and bombards Alfalfa and Spanky with apples. Then after Darla leaves for her piano lesson, Spike flees in one of Buckwheat's contraptions and leads the boys on a chase through the city and to a drawbridge over the river. The boys think Spike landed on a ship bound for China. [[spoiler:By the end of the cartoon, Spike has crawled back into his carriage as if nothing happened.]]
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* BizarreTasteInFood: In "Beauty Queen for a Day", Porky offers Dolly Van Dumpling a mayonnaise and pickle sandwich.
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-->'''Dolly:''' Thanks, honey lamb, but I'm trying to quit.
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* BizarreTasteInFood: In "Beauty Queen for a Day", Porky offers Dolly Van Dumpling a mayonnaise and pickle sandwich.
-->'''Dolly:''' Thanks, honey lamb, but I'm trying to quit.sandwich. After she refuses, Porky eats the sandwich himself.
-->'''Dolly:''' Thanks, honey lamb, but I'm trying to quit.
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* TheUnintelligible: Nobody could understand what Porky is saying... unless Buckwheat was around to translate. I(n "Science Fair and Foul", Porky's speech impediment causes the destruction of Buckwheat's voice-activated robot, so Spanky and Alfalfa end up operating the robot from inside.
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* TheUnintelligible: Nobody could understand what Porky is saying... unless Buckwheat was around to translate. I(n In "Science Fair and Foul", Porky's speech impediment causes the destruction of Buckwheat's voice-activated robot, so Spanky and Alfalfa end up operating the robot from inside.
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* BabysittingEpisode: The animated short "Tiny Terror" has Butch leave his baby brother with the Rascals so he can run an errand for his mother. Among other things, the baby climbs a tree and bombards Alfalfa and Spanky with apples.
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* BabysittingEpisode: The animated short "Tiny Terror" has Butch leave his baby brother with the Rascals so he can run an errand for his mother. Among other things, the baby climbs escapes the treehouse, crawls onto a nearby tree limb, and bombards Alfalfa and Spanky with apples.
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* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: In "Big Top Rascals" episode, Butch complain about the makeshift circus and ask for a refund. When Spanky says, "But we let you in for free," Butch suggests that everyone's money be refunded.
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* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: In "Big Top Rascals" episode, Rascals", Butch complain about the makeshift circus and ask for a refund. When Spanky says, "But we let you in for free," Butch suggests that everyone's money be refunded.
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* TotemPoleTrench: Used in two episodes.
** In "Yachtsa' Luck", Alfalfa and Spanky don a nautical jacket with cap and eyepatch to pose as "Too-Tall Smith" in order to recover Waldo's gold coins from a pair of pirates at a tavern. Their cover is blown when the collar of the jacket snags on a low-hanging hook on Waldo's yacht, and Spanky walks out from under a dangling Alfalfa.
** In "Alfalfakazam!", Buckwheat and Porky are revealed to have done this in Spanky's SawAWomanInHalf variant.
** In "Yachtsa' Luck", Alfalfa and Spanky don a nautical jacket with cap and eyepatch to pose as "Too-Tall Smith" in order to recover Waldo's gold coins from a pair of pirates at a tavern. Their cover is blown when the collar of the jacket snags on a low-hanging hook on Waldo's yacht, and Spanky walks out from under a dangling Alfalfa.
** In "Alfalfakazam!", Buckwheat and Porky are revealed to have done this in Spanky's SawAWomanInHalf variant.
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* ScareDare: This starts the plot of "Rascals' Revenge": Butch kicks the gang's football into an abandoned house, and dares them to go retrieve it, despite Officer Ed telling the Rascals that the old house is private property.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In "Pete's Big Break", Buckwheat is shown operating a makeshift movie camera while the kids rehearse for the TV commercial. His voice actor, Shavar Ross, grew up to become a respected filmmaker.
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* AmbiguousTimePeriod[=/=]AnachronismStew: The cartoon is supposedly set in [[TheGreatDepression the late 1930s]], but it includes microcomputers and commercial television. "Pete's Big Break" features a black man who owns a TV station, and in "The Zero Hero", Spanky and Buckwheat mention push-button traffic controls. Wikipedia considers it a SettingUpdate.
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* AmbiguousTimePeriod[=/=]AnachronismStew: The cartoon is supposedly set in [[TheGreatDepression the late 1930s]], but it includes microcomputers and commercial television. "Pete's Big Break" features a black man who owns a directs TV station, commercials (it was his daughter whose puppy Pete rescued), and in "The Zero Hero", Spanky and Buckwheat mention push-button traffic controls. Wikipedia considers it a SettingUpdate.
* HilariousInHindsight: In "Pete's Big Break", Buckwheat is shown operating a makeshift movie camera while the kids rehearse for the TV commercial. His voice actor, Shavar Ross, grew up to become a respected filmmaker.
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* MilesGloriosus: Captain Muscles in "The Zero Hero" turns out to be this after one of the bank robbers deflates his costume.
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* MilesGloriosus: Captain Muscles in "The Zero Hero" turns out to be this after one of the GenreSavvy bank robbers deflates his costume.
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** PositiveDiscrimination - considering the original "Our Gang" shorts, I guess it evens out.
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** PositiveDiscrimination - considering the original "Our Gang" shorts, I guess it evens out.
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* GadgeteerGenius: Buckwheat
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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The French dub has one, sung by a chorus of children over a montage of clips from both the theatrical shorts and Hanna-Barbera's animated shorts.
* AmbiguousTimePeriod[=/=]AnachronismStew: The cartoon is supposedly set in [[TheGreatDepression the late 1930s]], but it includes microcomputers and commercial television. "Pete's Big Break" features a black man who owns a TV station, and in "The Zero Hero", Spanky and Buckwheat mention push-button traffic controls. Wikipedia considers it a SettingUpdate.
* AmbiguousTimePeriod[=/=]AnachronismStew: The cartoon is supposedly set in [[TheGreatDepression the late 1930s]], but it includes microcomputers and commercial television. "Pete's Big Break" features a black man who owns a TV station, and in "The Zero Hero", Spanky and Buckwheat mention push-button traffic controls. Wikipedia considers it a SettingUpdate.
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Last time, honest
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* AmbiguousTimePeriod/AnachronismStew: AmbiguousTimePeriod[=/=]AnachronismStew: The cartoon is supposedly set in [[TheGreatDepression the late 1930s]], but it includes microcomputers and commercial television. "Pete's Big Break" features a black man who owns a TV station, and in "The Zero Hero", Spanky and Buckwheat mention push-button traffic controls.
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* AmbiguousTimePeriod: AmbiguousTimePeriod/AnachronismStew: The cartoon is supposedly set in [[TheGreatDepression the late 1930s, 1930s]], but it includes microcomputers and commercial television. "Pete's Big Break" features a black man who owns a TV station, and in "The Zero Hero", Spanky and Buckwheat mention push-button traffic controls.
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* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: The "Big Top Rascals" episode sees Butch complain about the makeshift circus and ask for a refund. When Spanky says, "But we let you in for free," Butch suggests that everyone's money be refunded.
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* PajamaCladHero: Alfalfa as Alpha-Man in "The Zero Hero":
-->'''María:''' Why are you wearing your pajamas in the daytime, and outside?
-->'''Alfalfa:''' Uh … my regular clothes are in the wash.
-->'''María:''' Why are you wearing your pajamas in the daytime, and outside?
-->'''Alfalfa:''' Uh … my regular clothes are in the wash.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Consider yourself lucky if you owned a VCR in 1982 and had the foresight to record the ABC broadcasts, or you recorded the more recent showings on Creator/CartoonNetwork UK & Ireland, on Australia's Creator/SevenNetwork or on Singapore's [=MediaCorp=] Channel 5.
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* TreehouseOfFun: The Rascals often gather in their treehouse.
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-->'''Alfalfa:''' So, Darla, now that I'm a superhero, too, you can cancel your date with Captain Muscles today.
-->'''Darla:''' Well, I'm not giving up my chance to meet a ''real'' superhero!
-->'''Alfalfa:''' I'm a broken man.
-->'''Darla:''' Well, I'm not giving up my chance to meet a ''real'' superhero!
-->'''Alfalfa:''' I'm a broken man.
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* LoopholeAbuse: In "Science Fair and Foul", Buckwheat makes the other boys promise not to peek at his science fair project before the fair is held. But since ''Darla'' wasn't in on that promise, Spanky decides that they, Alfalfa and Porky can inspect Buckwheat's project on the sly.
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rascals-small_6585.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Sit down, Alfalfa, and enjoy the ride!"]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Sit down, Alfalfa, and enjoy the ride!"]]
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Creator/HannaBarbera and King World co-produced this SaturdayMorningCartoon for Creator/{{ABC}}, based on the ''Our Gang'' theatrical shorts, as part of a 90-minute omnibus with ''WesternAnimation/PacMan'' and ''ComicBook/RichieRich''. Its voice cast included Creator/PeterCullen, PattyMaloney, [[JulieMcWhirter Julie McWhirter Dees]], Creator/ScottMenville, [[Series/DiffrentStrokes Shavar Ross]] and Creator/BJWard.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: In "The Zero Hero", when Darla finally goes on the date she won with her favorite TV superhero, Captain Muscles:
-->'''Captain Muscles:''' And so I saved the universe once again. I'm pretty terrific, eh, Delilah?
-->'''Darla:''' ''[no longer impressed]'' The name is Darla!
* AmbiguousTimePeriod: The cartoon is supposedly set in the late 1930s, but it includes microcomputers and commercial television. "Pete's Big Break" features a black man who owns a TV station, and in "The Zero Hero", Spanky and Buckwheat mention push-button traffic controls.
* BabysittingEpisode: The animated short "Tiny Terror" has Butch leave his baby brother with the Rascals so he can run an errand for his mother. Among other things, the baby climbs a tree and bombards Alfalfa and Spanky with apples.
* BambooTechnology: Used in Buckwheat's HomemadeInventions.
* BeachEpisode: "The Irate Pirates". As viewers might expect, Darla wears a bikini here.
* BigEater: Porky
* BindleStick: Darla carries one in "Beauty Queen for a Day", and Porky carries one in "King of the Hobos".
* BlackAndNerdy: Buckwheat
* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: The "Big Top Rascals" episode sees Butch complain about the makeshift circus and ask for a refund. When Spanky says, "But we let you in for free," Butch suggests that everyone's money be refunded.
* CowboyEpisode: "Showdown at the Rascal Corral" wasn't set in the Old West as such, but Alfalfa did play cowboy.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: In "Beauty Queen for a Day", the boys compete for the affections of their new neighbor, Dolly Van Dumpling, all but forgetting about Darla.
* FiveManBand
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Consider yourself lucky if you owned a VCR in 1982 and had the foresight to record the ABC broadcasts, or you recorded the more recent showings on Creator/CartoonNetwork UK & Ireland, on Australia's Creator/SevenNetwork or on Singapore's [=MediaCorp=] Channel 5.
* MirrorRoutine: Butch does it to Alfalfa in "Rascals' Revenge".
* MotivationOnAStick: Their wooden car had Pete hitched in front, with a bone suspended above him.
* QuarterHourShort: Each of the cartoons ran slightly over 11 minutes.
* SerenadeYourLover: Alfalfa does it to Darla in one of the 30-second cartoons. Alfalfa's off-key singing scares Pete away.
* StageMagician: Spanky is this in "Alfalfakazam!".
* StolenGoodReturnedBetter: This happened to Darla's doll in "The Case of the Puzzled Pals".
-->'''Darla:''' Jennifer! And she's wearing a new dress!
-->'''Spanky:''' I needed the doll for measurements.
* SuperheroEpisode: In "The Zero Hero", Alfalfa becomes Alpha-Man in hope of persuading Darla to cancel her date with Captain Muscles.
* TranslatorBuddy: Buckwheat is this to Porky.
* TVHeadRobot: Buckwheat built one in "Science Fair and Foul", which later became a merry-go-round.
* TheUnintelligible: Nobody could understand what Porky is saying... unless Buckwheat was around to translate.
* WritingIndentationClue: In "The Case of the Puzzled Pals", Alfalfa and Darla find one via pencil rubbing on the notepad Spanky used in taking a call from his mother.
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Tropes specific to the Hanna-Barbera version:
* AccidentalMisnaming: In "The Zero Hero", when Darla finally goes on the date she won with her favorite TV superhero, Captain Muscles:
-->'''Captain Muscles:''' And so I saved the universe once again. I'm pretty terrific, eh, Delilah?
-->'''Darla:''' ''[no longer impressed]'' The name is Darla!
* AmbiguousTimePeriod: The cartoon is supposedly set in the late 1930s, but it includes microcomputers and commercial television. "Pete's Big Break" features a black man who owns a TV station, and in "The Zero Hero", Spanky and Buckwheat mention push-button traffic controls.
* BabysittingEpisode: The animated short "Tiny Terror" has Butch leave his baby brother with the Rascals so he can run an errand for his mother. Among other things, the baby climbs a tree and bombards Alfalfa and Spanky with apples.
* BambooTechnology: Used in Buckwheat's HomemadeInventions.
* BeachEpisode: "The Irate Pirates". As viewers might expect, Darla wears a bikini here.
* BigEater: Porky
* BindleStick: Darla carries one in "Beauty Queen for a Day", and Porky carries one in "King of the Hobos".
* BlackAndNerdy: Buckwheat
* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: The "Big Top Rascals" episode sees Butch complain about the makeshift circus and ask for a refund. When Spanky says, "But we let you in for free," Butch suggests that everyone's money be refunded.
* CowboyEpisode: "Showdown at the Rascal Corral" wasn't set in the Old West as such, but Alfalfa did play cowboy.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: In "Beauty Queen for a Day", the boys compete for the affections of their new neighbor, Dolly Van Dumpling, all but forgetting about Darla.
* FiveManBand
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Consider yourself lucky if you owned a VCR in 1982 and had the foresight to record the ABC broadcasts, or you recorded the more recent showings on Creator/CartoonNetwork UK & Ireland, on Australia's Creator/SevenNetwork or on Singapore's [=MediaCorp=] Channel 5.
* MirrorRoutine: Butch does it to Alfalfa in "Rascals' Revenge".
* MotivationOnAStick: Their wooden car had Pete hitched in front, with a bone suspended above him.
* QuarterHourShort: Each of the cartoons ran slightly over 11 minutes.
* SerenadeYourLover: Alfalfa does it to Darla in one of the 30-second cartoons. Alfalfa's off-key singing scares Pete away.
* StageMagician: Spanky is this in "Alfalfakazam!".
* StolenGoodReturnedBetter: This happened to Darla's doll in "The Case of the Puzzled Pals".
-->'''Darla:''' Jennifer! And she's wearing a new dress!
-->'''Spanky:''' I needed the doll for measurements.
* SuperheroEpisode: In "The Zero Hero", Alfalfa becomes Alpha-Man in hope of persuading Darla to cancel her date with Captain Muscles.
* TranslatorBuddy: Buckwheat is this to Porky.
* TVHeadRobot: Buckwheat built one in "Science Fair and Foul", which later became a merry-go-round.
* TheUnintelligible: Nobody could understand what Porky is saying... unless Buckwheat was around to translate.
* WritingIndentationClue: In "The Case of the Puzzled Pals", Alfalfa and Darla find one via pencil rubbing on the notepad Spanky used in taking a call from his mother.
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