McFarland's nickname " Spanky " is erroneously said to have arisen from warnings by his mother not to misbehave during one of the initial discussions with Hal Roach in his office.

In the gang, Beckett played George " Spanky " McFarland's best friend and partner in mischief.

Coupled with a brief suspension in Spanky McFarland's work permit, Our Gang went into a four-month hiatus, during which the series was revised to a format similar to its original style and German-born ' Gus Meins was hired as the new series director.

At the conclusion of his song, Spanky and Alfalfa go to get their ice cream only to find that it has melted, but the kind and clever Miss Lawrence hands the boys two fresh ice cream bars.

Spanky tries to change Alfalfa's mind about girls by making him speak to her after her ballet recital, but the two end up ruining the recital ( due to a mix-up caused by Buch and Woim seeing them ), which only makes Darla more upset.

Breezy's mother refers to him as " Brisbane " in the films Readin ' and Writin ' and Spanky, the only shorts in which that name appears ; the kids refer to him as " Breezy ," presumably as a nickname for Brisbane.

Spanky can only be accessed in the practice menu.

In the 1936 Hal Roach feature " General Spanky " starring the Our Gang children, Buckwheat gets his foot tangled in the cord that blows the whistle on the river boat.

Directed by Gordon Douglas ( who coincidently has a walk-on as a delivery boy in Teacher's Pet ), and starring the mid / late 1930s Our Gang line-up of Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, Darla, and Porky, Bored of Education won the 1937 Academy Award for Short Subjects ( One-Reel ).

George " Spanky " McFarland ( October 2, 1928 – June 30, 1993 ) 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.

" While this story has considerable folksy appeal, Spanky himself refuted the tale, saying that the name was given by a Los Angeles newspaper reporter.

Spanky was an example of such a child in his earliest movies – a toddler who could act – so the name had meaning to the movie-going audience of that era that was lost for later generations.

Use of the " Spanky " name by McFarland for subsequent business or personal activities was expressly granted to McFarland in one of his studio contracts.

Paul " Oz " Bach, founder and bass player for the popular musical group Spanky and Our Gang, was born in Paw Paw on June 24, 1939.

In 2001, the auction charity was attended by Alice Cooper, former world boxing champion Michael Carbajal, daredevil Spanky Spangler and others.

Frank ' Spanky ' Dyson is a professional rugby league footballer of the 1950s and ' 60s, playing at representative level for Great Britain, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Huddersfield, and Oldham, as a fullback, i. e. number 1, and was one of rugby league's most prolific goal-kickers,

This victory earned Doug a shot at the ROH World Championship on 27 July 2002, which was fought under ironman rules in a four way contest, which also featured Christopher Daniels, Low Ki and Spanky.

The channel was originally launched in 1985 as The Nostalgia Channel through the efforts of former Our Gang child star George " Spanky " McFarland.

It was there that Kendrick adopted the ring name Spanky, a nickname he was given due to his method of staying awake during long drives on the indy circuit.

On June 1, however, Spanky was stripped of the title and it was abandoned, making Spanky the last ever MCW Southern Light Heavyweight Champion.

He returned to Zero1 as " Spanky " and was quickly pushed to capture the NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship.

Despite the change in the Buckwheat character's gender, Billie Thomas's androgynous costuming was not changed until his appearance as a runaway slave in the 1936 Our Gang feature film General Spanky.

During the first half of his Our Gang tenure, Thomas ' Buckwheat character was often paired with Eugene " Porky " Lee as a tag-along team of " little kids " rallying against ( and often outsmarting ) the " big kids ," George " Spanky " McFarland and Carl " Alfalfa " Switzer.

As a result, the film was part of the MGM catalog acquired by in 1986 by Turner Entertainment, who holds the rights today as a subsidiary of Warner Bros. General Spanky was released on VHS and laserdisc in the early 1990s.

The gag in which Spanky ( Travis Tedford ) winds up on a flying water hose was originally used with Farina in The Fourth Alarm.

* The scene in which Spanky and Alfalfa accidentally find themselves performing in a ballet recital was inspired by the plot of the 1937 short Rushin ' Ballet.

Other movies influenced by or making use of Uncle Tom's Cabin include Dimples ( a 1936 Shirley Temple film ), Uncle Tom's Uncle, ( a 1926 Our Gang episode ), its 1932 remake Spanky, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I ( in which a ballet called " Small House of Uncle Thomas " is performed in traditional Siamese style ), and Gangs of New York ( in which Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis's characters attend an imagined wartime adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin ).

General Spanky is a 1936 American comedy film produced by Hal Roach.

Stymie and Dickie Moore tried it in the 1933 short Fish Hooky, while Spanky and Alfalfa tried pulling it off in both the 1935 short Teacher's Beau and the 1936 short Two Too Young.

* General Spanky ( 1936 )

* General Spanky ( 1936 )

Most casual fans of Our Gang are particularly familiar with the 1936 – 1939 incarnation of the cast: Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla, Buckwheat, and Porky, with recurring characters such as neighborhood bullies Butch and Woim and bookworm Waldo.

* 1936: Divot Diggers, Bored of Education, General Spanky

Lee got his break in motion pictures in 1935, after producer Hal Roach noted how much the eighteen-month-old toddler looked like Our Gang star Spanky McFarland, also from Texas.

Bond was hired at Hal Roach Studios for the Our Gang series in the summer of 1931 to begin work that upcoming fall, at around the same time as George " Spanky " McFarland was hired.

Former Our Gang members Jackie Cooper and George " Spanky " McFarland made the presentation to a flattered Roach, with McFarland thanking the producer for hiring him 53 years prior.

When Roach bought the rights to the back catalog of Our Gang films he had produced from MGM in 1949, he did not buy back the rights to General Spanky.

New Roach discovery George " Spanky " McFarland joined the gang late in 1931 at the age of three and, excepting a brief hiatus during the summer of 1938, remained an Our Gang actor for the next eleven years.

As part of the arrangement with MGM to continue Our Gang, Roach received the clearance to produce an Our Gang feature film, General Spanky, hoping that he could possibly move the series to features as he had done with Laurel & Hardy.

Special features on this DVD relating to Rejected include a new text commentary by Hertzfeldt ( via closed-caption boxes ), footage from the abandoned cartoon " the Spanky the Bear Show " that later evolved into a central scene in the film, original pencil tests, the 2001 audio commentary, and dozens of pages devoted to Hertzfeldt's original sketches, storyboards, notes, and deleted ideas from the film.

A spin-off of Roach's popular Our Gang short subjects, the film stars George " Spanky " McFarland, Phillips Holmes, Rosina Lawrence, Billie " Buckwheat " Thomas, and Carl " Alfalfa " Switzer.

A child actor during the 1990s, he is best known for portraying Our Gang kid Spanky McFarland in the 1994 feature film The Little Rascals and for being the first Welch's " advertising-spokeskid " beginning in 1994 at age 5.

** Spanky, an Our Gang short film

The Our Gang series includes a total of 220 shorts and one feature film, General Spanky, featuring over forty-one child actors.