tavm Review of Spooky Hooky

Spooky Hooky (1936)

Spooky Hooky was another good Our Gang comedy

[8/10 · 12 December 2014]

This Hal Roach comedy short, Spooky Hooky, is the one hundred forty-ninth entry in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series and the sixty-first talkie. A partial remake of the silent Circus Fever, once again there's a circus in town and Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and Porky want to go there instead of school the next day so they fake a note from their parents to excuse them. But when Miss Lawrence passes by Spank and Alf with their "colds", she nonchalantly tells them her class were going to see the clowns the next day. So now the boys have to retrieve the note but the school's now locked for the day and there's a rainstorm on the way...Quite a funny and maybe scary one for any little kiddies stumbling onto this one. Dudley Dickerson appears as the janitor who easily gets scared some of the time. His part may have been cut from syndication prints since I didn't remember him from my '70s childhood. Perhaps stereotypical concerning his race of the time but no harm done, otherwise. So on that note, I recommend Spooky Hooky.