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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, Creator/PattyMaloney, [[Creator/JulieMcWhirter Julie McWhirter Dees]], Creator/ScottMenville, [[Series/DiffrentStrokes Shavar Ross]] and Creator/BJWard.

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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''.''WesternAnimation/RichieRich1980''. Its voice cast included Creator/PeterCullen, Creator/PattyMaloney, [[Creator/JulieMcWhirter Julie McWhirter Dees]], Creator/ScottMenville, [[Series/DiffrentStrokes Shavar Ross]] and Creator/BJWard.
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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. Later Alfalfa, who faints after Darla tells him that the bank robbers are not his disguised friends.

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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. Later Alfalfa, who faints after Darla tells him that the bank robbers are not his disguised friends.

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* TotemPoleTrench: Used in two episodes.

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* ToonPhysics: In "The Case of the Puzzled Pals", Butch leaves Alfalfa suspended in midair for about a second, after which Alfalfa lands gently on his feet.
* TotemPoleTrench: Used in two three episodes.
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** Buckwheat and Porky do it again in "Poached Pooch", to hide Pete (whose collar Butch had stolen) from the dogcatcher.
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** During a repair task in "Cap'n Spanky's Showboat", just before Darla was seen barefoot, Alfalfa was seen climbing a ladder with no adult watching.
** In "The Case of the Puzzled Pals", at Alfalfa's surprise birthday party in the treehouse, there was a cake with lit candles, which implies they were lit by one of the Rascals and not an adult.
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** Also, in "The Irate Pirates", Spanky discovered a treaaure map while swimming. Plus, the Rascals were roperating a rowboat to an island. Both these events were done without adult supervision.

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** Also, in "The Irate Pirates", Spanky discovered a treaaure treasure map while swimming. Plus, Later in the same short, the Rascals were roperating operating a rowboat to an island. Both these events were done without adult supervision.



* LimitedWardrobe: With a few exceptions, the Rascals seldom change their clothes. This comes into play early in "Yachtsa' Luck", when Darla freaks out over a ketchup stain on her dress, and Waldo offers to buy her a new dress. The next time we see Darla, she's wearing the same dress as before.

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* LimitedWardrobe: With a few exceptions, the Rascals seldom change their clothes. This comes into play early in "Yachtsa' Luck", when Darla freaks out over a ketchup stain on her dress, and Waldo offers to buy her a new dress. The next time we see Darla, she's wearing the same dress as before.before, with no ketchup stain.



* 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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* MilesGloriosus: Captain Muscles in "The Zero Hero" turns out to be this after one of the GenreSavvy bank robbers deflates his costume. Later Alfalfa, who faints after Darla tells him that the bank robbers are not his disguised friends.
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Hanna-Barbera artists Iwao Takamoto and Bob Singer created the character designs by tracing photographs of the actual ''Our Gang'' child actors. This technique was previously used for the studio's animated spin-offs of ''Series/HappyDays''.

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Hanna-Barbera artists Iwao Takamoto and Bob Singer created the character designs by tracing photographs of the actual ''Our Gang'' child actors. This technique was previously used for the studio's animated spin-offs of ''WesternAnimation/TheHarlemGlobetrotters'' and ''Series/HappyDays''.



* 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 directs TV 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. Plus, "Rock & Roll Rascals" had references to rock music.

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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 directs TV 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. Plus, Also, "Rock & Roll Rascals" had references to rock music.



* CorporateBranding: In "Porky-O and Julie-Et", Porky hands Julie Jamm a jar of H&B Jam. This may be a reference to Hanna-Barbera.
* DelayedDebut: The series debut was supposedly delayed two weeks due to an animators' strike.

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* %%* CorporateBranding: In "Porky-O and Julie-Et", Porky hands Julie Jamm a jar of H&B Jam. This may be a reference to Hanna-Barbera.
* %%* DelayedDebut: The series debut was supposedly delayed two weeks due to an animators' strike.



* ForgottenFamily: None of the Rascals' parents are seen in the series, but Darla's uncle appears in "Big City Rascals." In "The Case of the Puzzled Pals", Spanky mentions his mother and also reveals a note from his mother.

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* %%* ForgottenFamily: None of the Rascals' parents are seen in the series, but Darla's uncle appears in "Big City Rascals." Rascals". In "The Case of the Puzzled Pals", Spanky mentions his mother and also mother, from whom Alfalfa reveals a note from his mother.note.



* HandyFeet: In "Cap'n Spanky's Showboat", Darla and Buckwheat have brushes and sponges attached to their respective bare feet, and used them like skates to efficiently clean the deck of the Mississippi Queen.
* InventorInspiration: In "Fright Night", Buckwheat dresses as George Washington Carver, an African-American inventor. It could be inferred that Carver may have been Buckwheat's inspiration.

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* HandyFeet: In "Cap'n Spanky's Showboat", Darla and Buckwheat have brushes and sponges attached to their respective bare feet, and used use them like skates to efficiently clean the deck of the Mississippi Queen.
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InventorInspiration: In "Fright Night", Buckwheat dresses as George Washington Carver, an African-American inventor. It could be inferred that Carver may have been Buckwheat's inspiration.



* MagicGate: In "Cap'n Spanky's Showboat", as the Rascals enter the gate that barred off the dock, Spanky and Darla had briefly become invisible due to a goof.

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* %%* MagicGate: In "Cap'n Spanky's Showboat", as the Rascals enter the gate that barred off the dock, Spanky and Darla had briefly become invisible due to a goof.



* NightOwls: In "After Hours", the Rascals are working at a departmentb store warehouse in the middle of the night, when they should be in bed asleep.

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* %%* NightOwls: In "After Hours", the Rascals are working at a departmentb department store warehouse in the middle of the night, when they should be in bed asleep.



* ProtestEpisode: In "Save Our Treehouse!", the gang protest against a used car dealer's decision on destroying the treehouse to build a used car lit. The Rascals hold signs as if unionized workers were on strike.

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* %%* ProtestEpisode: In "Save Our Treehouse!", the gang protest against a used car dealer's decision on destroying the treehouse to build a used car lit.lot. The Rascals hold signs as if unionized workers were on strike.



* RandomlyReversedLetters: In "Beauty Queen for a Day", a "No Girls Allowed" sign with a reversed S has been taped to the treehouse window.

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* RandomlyReversedLetters: In "Beauty Queen for a Day", a "No Girls Allowed" sign with a reversed S ''S'' has been taped to the treehouse window.

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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 directs TV 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.

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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 directs TV 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. Plus, "Rock & Roll Rascals" had references to rock music.


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* DelayedDebut: The series debut was supposedly delayed two weeks due to an animators' strike.


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* ProtestEpisode: In "Save Our Treehouse!", the gang protest against a used car dealer's decision on destroying the treehouse to build a used car lit. The Rascals hold signs as if unionized workers were on strike.
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* ForgottenFamily: None of the Rascals' parents are seen in the series, but Darla's uncle appears in "Big City Rascals." In "The Case of the Puzzled Pals", Spanky mentions his mother and also reveals a note from his mother.
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* HandyFeet: In "Cap'n Spanky's Showboat", Darla and Buckwheat have brushes and sponges attached to their respective bare feet, and used them like skates to efficiently clean the deck of the Mississippi Queen.
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* CorporateBranding: In "Porky-O and Julie-Et", Porky hands Julie Jamm a jar of H&B Jam. This may be a reference to Hanna-Barbera.


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** Also, in "The Irate Pirates", Spanky discovered a treaaure map while swimming. Plus, the Rascals were roperating a rowboat to an island. Both these events were done without adult supervision.


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* InventorInspiration: In "Fright Night", Buckwheat dresses as George Washington Carver, an African-American inventor. It could be inferred that Carver may have been Buckwheat's inspiration.


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* MagicGate: In "Cap'n Spanky's Showboat", as the Rascals enter the gate that barred off the dock, Spanky and Darla had briefly become invisible due to a goof.


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* NightOwls: In "After Hours", the Rascals are working at a departmentb store warehouse in the middle of the night, when they should be in bed asleep.

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Hanna-Barbera artists Iwao Takamoto and Bob Singer created the character designs by tracing photographs of the actual ''Our Gang'' child actors. This technique was previously used for the studio's animated spin-offs of ''Series/HappyDays''.



** PositiveDiscrimination: Considering the original "Our Gang" shorts, I guess it evens out.

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* PomPomGirl: At the start of "Rascals' Revenge", Darla provides the image for that page, as the cheerleader in Alfalfa and Spanky's informal football game.
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** In "All the Loot That's Fit to Print", Officer Ed's hair is darker than in his other appearances.

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-->'''Alfalfa:''' Uh, well … ''[blushing]'' my regular clothes are in the wash.

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-->'''Alfalfa:''' Uh, well … ''[blushing]'' my My regular clothes are in the wash.



* RandomlyReversedLetters: In "Beauty Queen for a Day", a "No Girls Allowed" sign with a reversed S has been taped to the treehouse window.



-->'''Darla:''' Well, I'm not giving up my chance to meet a ''real'' superhero!

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-->'''Darla:''' Well, I'm not giving up my chance to meet a ''real'' superhero!
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* CircusEpisode: In "Big Top Rascals", the kids are denied entry to a traveling circus because they don't have any money to buy tickets. So they put on their own circus, charging the neighborhood kids 10 cents each, but Butch and Woim take unfair advantage of their free admission.
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* BlindingCameraFlash: Alfalfa gets one in "All the Loot That's Fit to Print" when, as photographer for the ''Neighborhood Bugle'', he tries to photograph Darla and Waldo, but mistakenly turns the flash toward himself.
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* LimitedWardrobe: With a few exceptions, the Rascals seldom change their clothes. This comes into play early in "Yachtsa' Luck", when Darla freaks out over a ketchup stain on her dress, and Waldo offers to buy her a new dress. The next time we see Darla, she's wearing the same dress as before.
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* BigEater: Porky

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* BigEater: PorkyPorky, although Pete often intercepts his food the way Franchise/ScoobyDoo does with Shaggy.
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* FreeRangeChildren: In "Grin and Bear It", the Rascals are hiking and camping in the wilderness without adult supervision.


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* ScoobyDooHoax: In "Grin and Bear It", even though the Rascals didn't know about him at first, the Phantom Lumberjack is revealed to be a bank robber who stashed the stolen money in a cave.
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** The same color switch can be seen in "The Zero Hero", when Darla says, "My treat at the soda fountain to celebrate!"
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* {{Hammerspace}}: In "Rascals' Revenge", as the Rascals are about to enter the abandoned house at night, Buckwheat pulls a firefly-powered flashlight out of his shirt.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Instead of black hair and hazel eyes, Darla has brown hair and blue eyes.


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* SkintoneSclerae: All characters have them, except Buckwheat and Darla.
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* DraggedIntoDrag: In "Just Desserts", Darla has fallen ill just before the big baking contest, so Alfalfa has to dress like a girl and take her place. Spanky doesn't care that Alfalfa doesn't resemble Darla at all, since the judges have not met her.
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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, Creator/PattyMaloney, [[JulieMcWhirter Julie McWhirter Dees]], Creator/ScottMenville, [[Series/DiffrentStrokes Shavar Ross]] and Creator/BJWard.

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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, Creator/PattyMaloney, [[JulieMcWhirter [[Creator/JulieMcWhirter Julie McWhirter Dees]], Creator/ScottMenville, [[Series/DiffrentStrokes Shavar Ross]] and Creator/BJWard.



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* WealthyYachtOwner: In "Yachtsa' Luck", Waldo states that his family owns a fleet of yachts.
-->'''Darla:''' Waldo, dear, how big is your beautiful, big, wonderful, big yacht?
-->'''Waldo:''' The yacht is sizable enough to accommodate well over 100 guests.
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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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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, Creator/PattyMaloney, [[JulieMcWhirter Julie McWhirter Dees]], Creator/ScottMenville, [[Series/DiffrentStrokes Shavar Ross]] and Creator/BJWard.
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-->'''Alfalfa:''' Uh … my regular clothes are in the wash.

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-->'''Alfalfa:''' Uh Uh, well ''[blushing]'' my regular clothes are in the wash.

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