Spooky Hooky is a 1936 Our Gang

Our Gang

Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...

short comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Gordon Douglas

Gordon Douglas (director)

Gordon Douglas was an American film director, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five-decade career in motion pictures. He was a native of New York City.-Hal Roach and Our Gang:...

. It was the 149th Our Gang (61st talking episode) short that was released.

Plot

Finding out that the circus will be coming to town for one day only, Spanky McFarland, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and Porky conspire to stage an "epidemic" in order to skip out of school. The boys go so far as to write a phony excuse note, to which they affix the name of a local doctor. But then it is revealed out that the schoolteacher Miss Jones (played by Rosina Lawrence but named Miss Jones instead of Miss Lawrence on this episode) had made plans to close school and take all the kids to the circus for free. Now, the four clever boys are on the horns of a dilemma: How can they retrieve that excuse note from Miss Lawrence's desk, with the schoolhouse securely locked up for the night? They sneak back to the school, break in, and retrieve the note (and manage to scare the school's janitor out of his wits). But its a cold, dark, and rainy night. The boys all get a cold and cannot come to school or the circus the next day. As all four of their mothers say in unison while feeding them cold medicine, "For the last time- you can't go to school today!".

Cast

• George McFarland
  George McFarland
  George Robert Phillips "Spanky" McFarland was an American actor most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s...
  
   - Spanky
• Carl Switzer
  Carl Switzer
  Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer was an American child actor, professional dog breeder and hunting guide, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as Alfalfa, one of the series' most popular and best-remembered characters.-Early life and family:Switzer was born in Paris,...
  
   - Alfalfa
• Eugene Lee - Porky
• Billie Thomas - Buckwheat
• Dudley Dickerson
  Dudley Dickerson
  Dudley Dickerson was an African American film actor. Born in Oklahoma, he appeared in nearly 160 films between 1932 and 1952, and is best remembered for his roles in several Three Stooges films.-Career:...
  
   - Sam, the janitor
• Rosina Lawrence
  Rosina Lawrence
  Rosina Lawrence was a Canadian-born American actress, singer, and dancer. She was a native of Ottawa, Ontario.-Career:...
  
   - Miss Jones
• John Collum
  John Collum
  John K. Collum was an American child actor of the 1930s.-Career:Born in Illinois, Collum was the son of Hal Roach's casting director, Joseph Collum, and appeared in twenty-six of Roach's Our Gang comedies from 1932 to 1938...
  
  - Extra
• Von The Dog - Dog