The Rascals built all kinds of vehicles like the boat in Three Men in a Tub and that taxi in Free Wheelin. Where did they get the tools, the materials and the know-how for those vehicles?
In the short "Hi'-Neighbor!", the boys were getting a lot of parts from either junkyards or what other people were using, so that's probably where they get the stuff to built.
While there is certainly no continuity in the shorts, where do the older kids go when their actors are let go from the series? Do they go to a middle school or high school somewhere outside of town?
Maybe they're just not around while the younger kids are doing their stuff.
1994 movie
How in the world did these kids learn to build functioning Go-Carts?
Well, they didn't have videogames or the internet. They had to find something to do.
Well yeah, but it's funny how these kids are at the very least 5-7 years old, and they are smart enough to build Go-Carts that can move...
The internet did exist by 1994, but it would have been difficult for these guys to get access to it.
Well, there are kits you can buy that tell you how to build functioning go-karts. It's really not that out of the realm of possibility.
Why was the movie given a setting update? It seems to be set in the 90s.
A lot of movies are given setting updates. It's to make the characters seem "hip and trendy" and relevant to kids of the latest generation. Kind of like how Alvin and the Chipmunks were given "gangsta" style clothing or how The Smurfs takes place in modern-day New York City.
Also saves money to avoid a period setting. It doesn't sound expensive, and wouldn't have changed the plot much, but setting in in the 1930s would mean making sure every building, vehicle, outfit, and prop has to be accurate. It all adds up rather quickly.
How Waldo knew that Darla was on the He-Man Woman-Haters Club clubhouse after her disastrous date with Alfalfa? I was seeing the movie with mother and my brother tonight and then I realized something: upon meeting Darla and Alfalfa, Waldo was never informed that Darla and Alfalfa were going to have a date on a clubhouse located in an abandoned lot, so that makes his appearance after the clubhouse's destruction look somewhat strange, like if he guessed that Darla would be around the zone, as even his chauffeur was waiting for him down the hill.
Knowing Waldo, I wouldn't be surprised if he stalked her and that's how he where they were. Also, there was a phone that wasn't too far away from the clubhouse. It's possible that she got his (or his parents') number offscreen and then called him offscreen as well.
When Butch and Woim's chase of Alfalfa and Spanky leads them into a ballet school, the former two accidentally incur the wrath of ballet instructor Miss Roberts who promptly walks them outgrabbing the boys by their ears. As cathartic as it is to see the boys get put back in their place, I can't help but question one detail. If you watch the scene, you'll notice a few people at the end of the hallway, including a woman who appears to be walking in their direction. Even though others can see it and the boys are audibly crying in pain, why doesn't anyone stop her? I would think that even in the early 90's, an adult caught manhandling a kid would've gotten fired, especially if they had a job requiring close proximity to other children.
Maybe Butch and Woim are known troublemakers. The reaction of others could be "oh look, those two misbehaved again".
Miss Roberts was upset at what all of the boys did, but Butch and Woim were the only ones she caught, so they bore the brunt of her anger. Maybe those other people couldn't clearly see everything that was going on at a distance, but there's also the possibility of them sympathizing with her if they could, as a mother might do the same to her own sons if they behaved in such a way.
When Spanky hides at a gentlemen's club to escape from Butch and Woim after leaving the ballet school, why he was kicked out by a member of it once Butch and Woim had left? The man was discriminating him for wearing a dress? Spanky couldn't explain to him why he was wearing it?
When Alfalfa runs from the ballet school in his underwear, he dives into a pool and swims to he opposite side. As he retrieves his underwear, he turns to see Darla and Waldo in the wading pool. How'd Darla leave the ballet recital so quickly, and have time to get changed, get drinks and relax in Waldo's pool before Alfalfa got there, when he left before the recital was over?
Maybe Waldo’s father drove Waldo and Darla to his place after the recital. Note Alfalfa is running the whole way and it takes longer to get to most places on foot than it does by driving. The time span between when Alfalfa leaves the recital and when he arrives at Waldo’s place may even be longer than what we see, so that might have been enough time for Waldo and Darla to be driven to his mansion and get relaxed in his pool.
Why the housemaid of Waldo's mansion didn't let Butch and Woim enter into the mansion though she didn't do anything to stop Alfalfa from entering? She doesn't know that they were trying to beat him up. What if Alfalfa had stolen something from them and was escaping with it? To be fair, Butch and Woim could have also said that Alfalfa was their brother so the housemaid would have retrieved him for them...
Most likely, Butch and Woim have a negative reputation with adults as well as children in the neighborhood.
To be fair, Alfalfa is polite to the housemaid when he excuses himself from the mansion. Plus, he was already on his way outside when she replied "Well, you'd better", so there was no need to physically escort him from the premises.
When Spanky is caught by Miss Crabtree tricking people into believing the singing show isn't free and that they have to pay him to enter, why she gets so angry at him? I understand she is his teacher at school and that she doesn't approve his lack of honesty, but she isn't his mother and they aren't in school. And she even implies that it was okay for a four years old to do it, so she is corrupt and/or hates Spanky?
Oh, goodly heavens, no. What Ms. Crabtree means is that she expects a 4-year-old to be less likely than Spanky to know right from wrong and do the right thing. She'd still be upset over 4-year-old did it, but would be less surprised if that were the case. As for Spanky himself, there's this concept called in loco parentis, where teachers act in the role of a parent in a parent's absence, providing moral guidance to their student and making decisions in their best interest. It's a thing it shapes policy at the administrative level and home-school agreements and has apparently played a big role in the history of the teaching profession.
Another one with Miss Crabtree. Why she says that it's impossible to deliver back the money Buckwheat and Porky collected? The audience was still on the show. She could have said like something like "Sorry for the misunderstanding, but the show is free. Those little rascals were tricking you to pay but here's your money back".
It would be kind of hard to tell just by looking at dollar bills which ones belong to which parties and who paid admission for each group coming in to see the show. Admission was three dollars and the sum of money collected was about $500, so Spanky and the other boys would have had to collect money from 167 people, give or take. Give me all that money back would have taken forever, even if it was possible to tell whose money was whose, and then there is no guarantee that some of the people Spanky took money from didn't take off.
At the climax, how Darla realizes that it was Waldo who sabotaged Alfalfa's singing during the fair? He just insulted Alfalfa by calling him "soap-sucking nincompoop" given his disastrous performance on the fair's singing show, but that doesn't prove that he put soap on his water glass. He could have known that maybe because he witnessed the performance or because the audience commented about it very much.
It's implied that Waldo committed the prank to mock Alfalfa and set up an opportunity to mock him even more for falling for it. By taking extra time to verbalize his delight in what happened to Alfalfa more than anyone else did, he implied that he pranked Alfalfa for his own enjoyment because he looked down on him, which he did. For that matter, Waldo probably said what he did right in front of Darla because he didn't think she was smart enough to put all of this together.
How Darla was able to leave Waldo behind and take his car to rescue Alfalfa and Spanky from Butch and Woim? When Waldo decides to stop the go-cart so Darla can leave because she has realized his true colors, it seems at first that Waldo wants to redeem himself and help the gang, but in the end it's shown that it was Darla all the time and that Waldo was the one left behind. But how is this possible? Waldo is much stronger than Darla and somehow Darla took his go-cart and left him behind? Maybe Darla is much stronger than any of the boys in this movie?
Darla either gave Waldo a tongue-lashing or pummeled him until he got out of the cart.
Can Waldo really sue Darla or any other members of the He-Man Woman-Haters Club for taking his go-cart during the race? It's not like they beat him up nor cheated. Indeed, Waldo should be the one to be sued given his cheating and attempts to drive Alfalfa and Spanky out of the race with his go-cart's blades. To begin with, why his go-cart had blades? Did he intended to use them with any other racers?
Waldo is well-off, and capable of securing the resources necessary to have his car outfitted with high technology. Since Waldo was apparently very anxious to win, there's a good chance he would have used his spiked wheels to stop anybody else from winning if it came to that, but he might have anticipated Alfalfa interfering in some way and relished the opportunity to use it on him the most. He's a kid. He probably threatened to sue as a way of expressing his temper because he lives in a world of high powered people and is accustomed to getting his own way. As a minor, Waldo is not capable of filing suit on his own. He'd probably have to get his dad to go along with it, and if he's responsible, he's dad will give him a talking-to about wins losses being part of a game and part of life, and about the importance of fair play and winning with humility and losing with grace.
One for the Samus Is a Girl reveal with A.J. Ferguson. Wouldn't it have been noticed that A.J. was a woman if she happened to be interviewed for the pre-race or post-race segments given that usually a driver will be seen with a cap on his or her head unless being interviewed in Victory Lane while still in the car immediately after winning the racenote also worth noting is that A.J.'s actress, Reba McEntire, doesn't exactly have a particularly low voice and didn't wear a short haircut in the scene leading to the reveal of her gender?
The 2014 Movie
Why would the production team have bothered producing a scene based on the kid from Borneo if that film was banned for its stereotypical depiction of Black people?
