The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.
Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
- Stymie
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Norman 'Chubby' Chaney
- Chubby
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Jackie Cooper
- Jackie
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Dorothy DeBorba
- Dorothy
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Allen 'Farina' Hoskins
- Farina
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins
- Wheezer
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Mary Ann Jackson
- Mary Ann
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Shirley Jean Rickert
- Shirley
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Donald Haines
- Donald
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Clifton Young
- Robert 'Bonedust'
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
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- TriviaWhen Wheezer pays for his 5c worth of candy, he gives Grandma a bogus coin, known as "company scrip", tokens issued to employees, typically by rural logging or mining companies, as a substitute for real money, which could only be used in each company's store. Grandma lets him slide, and drops the token into a cash drawer with some scrip tokens of different denominations, buttons, metal washers and other worthless items. In the drawer, the right edge of a cigar store coupon - another form of scrip that could only be used in one kind of store - can be seen.
- GoofsAt the end of the short, Oscar Apfel (Mr. Pennypacker) visibly grimaces before Wheezer hits him with the hammer.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Our Gang: Inside the Clubhouse (1984)
Featured review
Helping Grandma was another very enjoyable Our Gang short
This Hal Roach comedy short, Helping Grandma, is the one hundred third in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series and the fifteenth talkie. The gang work at Grandma's (Margaret Mann) store and help themselves to the goodies there. A local man is trying to buy that store. So are a couple of representatives from a chain. Which of them has a better deal? And will the kids still be allowed to hang there? I'll stop there and just say this was another funny film in the long-lasting series though there are some uncomfortable moments like when Stymie tastes some of the products like gasoline! Ms. Mann does get a bit melodramatic near the end but since it doesn't last too long, it's tolerable. Otherwise, Helping Grandma is mostly enjoyable for what it was. P.S. This marked the series debut of Shirley Jean Rickert.
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- tavm
- Oct 19, 2014
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- Runtime20 minutes
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- 1.20 : 1
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