The Little Rascals: The Essential Collection, Vol.1

The Gang fears their new teacher, Miss Crabtree, will be as ugly and foreboding as her name. When Jackie hitches a ride from a beautiful and charming young lady, he has no idea that it's Miss Crabtree herself.

On the day he is promoted to head clerk (or "head cluck," as Spanky puts it), his father declares it's high time Spanky stopped sleeping in his parents' room and go to bed in his own room. During his first night alone, Spanky envisions all sorts of imaginary horrors, from a bat (actually a moth) to "the boogeyman."

Lovable old Gus is forced to move his tiny lemonade stand when a sidewalk-diner owner and his bratty son complain that Gus represents "unfair competition." The Rascals decide to drum up business for their favorite merchant by staging a makeshift parade and musical show.

Grandma, the owner of a tiny general store, loves to have the kids around, even if they pay for their penny candy with expired subway tokens and buttons. When a pair of representatives from a chain store try to buy Grandma out, the gang's "assistance" nearly scares the suits away.

When open auditions are announced for a radio variety program, the local station is besieged by aggressively over-coached "professional kids." Also auditioning is an impressive-sounding musical aggregation called the International Silver String Submarine Band --- which turns out to be none other than the "Our Gang" kids, equipped (or rather, armed) with home-made instruments.

Despite his mother's admonitions that he'll "never be President" unless he attends school, little Breezy Brisbane concocts a plan that will earn him expulsion from Miss Crabtree's classroom. But though Breezy is able to escape the halls of learning, he is unable to elude his own conscience.

Last week, fickle Darla Hood declared that she would not go out with neighborhood bully until he started behaving like a gentleman. This week, however, Darla is ga-ga over "muscle men" in general and self-styled wrestler Alfalfa in particular.

Though little Wheezer loves both his father and mother, he wishes that they would stop quarreling. Overhearing their plans to split up, Wheezer is at first delighted, assuming that a divorce is some sort of present. Learning the truth, he begs his pal Stymie for advice.

Hoping to earn enough money to buy baseball equipment, the Our Gang kids elect to have all their teeth pulled out. Their logic is sublime: If the Good Fairy is willing to slip a dime under the pillow for one tooth, imagine how much the kids will earn if they extract all of their ivories.

The gang's Eagles Club holds auditions for a performer to send to a radio talent contest with a $50 prize. Despite Alfalfa's repeated attempts to upstage his competition, Darla is elected to represent the club at the talent contest. But when Darla does not turn up at the radio station, Spanky runs to look for her, while Alfalfa decides to take Darla's place on the radio program.