The WORST episodes of Little Rascals
Every episode of Little Rascals ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Little Rascals!
The Little Rascals, also known as "Our Gang", was an American comedy series about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they shared together. It began as a series of short films in the 1920s, and was brought to television in the 1950s.
#1 - Our Gang
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/5/1922
Mary Jane's mother owns the village store, and finds her business suffering because her landlord runs a competing shop right across the street and is threatening eviction. Ernie and Pat, with the help of their pets, lure the skinflint's customers away by various means.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#4 - A Quiet Street
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/31/1922
A new kid moves into town and is soon bullying little Jackie. When the gang finds this out, they beat up on the kid, only to discover that his father is a cop. Meanwhile, the police are after a criminal named Red Mike, and the gang mistakenly thinks they're the ones being chased.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#5 - The Champeen!
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/28/1923
Ernie takes advantage of a feud between Mickey and Jack, becoming a fight promoter and putting the two rivals in a boxing ring.
#6 - The Cobbler
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/18/1923
When the cobbler, Mr. Tuttle, receives his back pension, he takes the gang for a car trip out to the country. When the car breaks down, some of the kids go exploring in a nearby barn, only to meet up with a criminal named Dandy Dick.
#7 - The Big Show
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/25/1923
After being chased away from the county fair, the gang decides to open their own junior version of the fair, complete with wild animal displays, rides, and animal stunts. To top it off, they give a live performance set inside a giant movie frame, and impersonate several popular film stars of the day.
#8 - A Pleasant Journey
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/18/1923
The boys switch places with some runaways who are about to be taken back to San Francisco. The welfare lady in charge of taking them back sprains her ankle and enlists her child-hating boyfriend to escort them. The journey, to say the least, is a disaster.
#9 - Boys To Board
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/8/1923
The boys, along with kindly old Pop Malone, decide to escape from Mother Malone's boarding school, where they are subjected to Mother Malone's nasty temperament. While on the lam, they meet up with an unfriendly bootlegger.
#10 - Giants Vs. Yanks
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/13/1923
While the boys are playing their baseball game, a couple living nearby offer to take care of Jack's baby sister, Imogene. Eventually, the gang goes into their house when they realize there's a litter of puppies in there. By this time, however, the doctor has realized that one of the servants has a contagious disease and decides to quarantine the place, giving the gang a chance to turn the house into a disaster area.
#11 - Back Stage
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/3/1923
The gang meets up with the head of a vaudeville troupe, who enlists them to help him out when his co-stars have abandoned him. They manage to make a complete wreck of the act, and Jack's bugs get loose in the auditorium, putting the audience into an itching frenzy.
#12 - Dogs Of War!
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/1/1923
After Mary leaves the gang's mock-war to go do some work at the local movie studio, the boys decide to break into the pictures as well, but are chased away. They manage to sneak in and sabotage a film-in-progress, adding their own unusual footage.
#13 - Lodge Night
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/29/1923
Joe arrives as the new boy in school, and the boys decide to initiate him into their secret club, the Cluck Cluck Klams. During the proceedings, a couple of auto thieves break into the barn, and when they make their getaway, Farina and Jackie are in the back seat.
#14 - July Days
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/26/1923
The local blacksmith, Dad Anderson, builds nifty sail-propelled scooters for the boys. Meanwhile, Mickey imitates his big sister's beau in his efforts to win Mary's affection.
#15 - No Noise
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1923
The gang visits Mickey in the hospital, who's having his tonsils taken out. Before long, they create mayhem in the hospital, and get thrown out. To get back in, they switch vaccination orders with some other kids, but the staff catches on and gives them some false diseases to worry about.
#16 - Stage Fright
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1923
The gang performs in a Shakespearean playlet authored by Miss Ocheltree. The material is way over their heads and it's past their bedtimes, so everything inevitably goes from bad to worse.
#17 - Derby Day
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/18/1923
As the gang are selling lemonade across the street from the racetrack, they meet Mary, who's rich father owns one of the horses. She gets them into the track, and they're sufficiently impressed to start up their own junior version.
#18 - Sunday Calm
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/16/1923
The gang travels by wagon to go on a picnic with their families. After losing a wheel, the parents put on a new one, and the gang races off with the wagon, leaving the parents behind. They have a picnic without the parents, only to be overrun with insects.
#19 - Tire Trouble
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/13/1924
The gang are running their own taxi service, and come across Ernie and Farina delivering laundry to J. William McAllister, the wealthiest man in town. His doctor and his wife have both convinced him that he's sick, but when the kids visit him, they convince him otherwise. They all drive off in the taxi to Emerald Beach and have the time of their lives.
#20 - Big Business
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/10/1924
The gang starts up their own barbershop, giving the neighborhood kids haircuts that wouldn't become popular for another sixty years. When they see Mickey in his Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, they kidnap him and give him the works. Mickey then decides to join them in their enterprise.
#21 - The Buccaneers
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/9/1924
The gang hides out on Captain Whelan's boat after being chased by the police. The boat gets loose, however, and they drift out to sea. A Navy ship comes by to rescue them, but the gang mistake them for the enemy. After being captured, they're put to work scrubbing the decks.
Watch Now:iTunes#22 - Seein' Things
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/6/1924
Farina has nightmares whenever he eats meat. After he eats the contents of a picnic basket, he dreams of being chased around by giant versions of the kids in the gang.
#23 - Commencement Day
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/4/1924
It's the last day of school, and Mickey gets into a big fight with Snoozer, the school bully. The kids take turns performing in front of the parents, with Mary struggling through ""Mary Had A Little Lamb"" and Mickey trying to play ""Humoresque"" on the violin.
Watch Now:iTunes#24 - Cradle Robbers
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/1/1924
When the gang hears about prizes being offered at a baby show, they get their younger siblings ready to earn some money. Mickey dresses Joe up to win the prize for fattest baby, but Joe runs off when it comes time to be inspected by a pediatrician. The gang then stages its own baby show, but their mothers arrive with the police to reclaim their babies. The gang hides in a gypsy's wagon, and find themselves being kidnapped by the unknowing gypsy.
#25 - Jubilo, Jr.
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/29/1924
Jubilo reminisces about his childhood, and his mother's birthday many years ago. His father is too stingy to buy gifts, so Jubilo decides to buy a 3 dollar hat for her. He tries several ideas for earning money, including starting his own circus.
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