Cap'n Spanky's Showboat
| Cap'n Spanky's Showboat | |
|---|---|
| File:.png | |
| Premiere date | November 20, 1982 |
| Run time | 11:05 |
| Starring | Scott Menville Julie McWhirter Dees Patty Maloney Shavar Ross Peter Cullen |
| Music composed by | Hoyt Curtin |
| Director(s) | Gordon Hunt (voices) |
| Episode navigation | |
| ← Previous | Next → |
| Title card | |
| |
"Cap'n Spanky's Showboat" is the first part of the ninth episode of The Little Rascals season one, and the twenty-second episode overall. It aired on November 20, 1982 on ABC. It was voice directed by Gordon Hunt.
Eager to get a ride on an old steamboat, the Mississippi Queen, the kids try to repair the ship, which was not maintained by Captain Smokey for a few years after he quit his job due to declining traffic.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
(Darla and Buckwheat discover dirt particles spreading over the floor they had just finished cleaning)
- Spanky: Are you okay, pal?
- Alfalfa: (dazed) Yeah... what happened?
- Darla: (upset) I'll tell you what happened! You threw dirt out all over my nice clean deck!
- Alfalfa: Gosh... I'm sorry, Darla...
- Darla: 'Sorry' doesn't scrub the deck, but you will! Get to work!
- Alfalfa: Oh... a man's work is never done!
(Alfalfa proceeds to scrub the deck with brushes and sponges on his hands and knees)
(After Alfalfa flies off the paddlewheel and gets twisted into the hammock)
- Alfalfa: Oh... Why do these things always happen to me?
Characters
In order of appearance: | ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
Organizations
Locations
Objects
- Parachute
- Backpack
- Sandwich
- Vacuum cleaner
- Mop
- Spider webs
- Brushes (worn like sandals)
- Sponges (worn like sandals)
- Tub of water
- Ship's whistle
- Spider
- Buckwheat's Big Brush-Off
- Paint brush
- Washers
- Dryers
- Paddlewheel lever
- Fire pail
- Smokey's uniform
- Cane
- Sign displaying performers
- Baseball
- Pennants
- Red carpet
- Hand whistle
Vehicles
- Rascals' makeshift car
- Mississippi Queen
- Rowboat
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: November 20, 1982 on ABC
- Germany: September 12, 1999 on Junior
Behind the scenes
- The episode title is a play on Captain Spanky's Showboat, which was an Our Gang theatrical short in 1939.
- The boys using their feet as their "emergency brakes" is likely a callback to the final scene in the Our Gang short Hi'-Neighbor!
- After Alfalfa inspected the ship's whistle, a live spider jumped on his nose and he had a cross-eyed look - which may be a callback to a scene from the Our Gang short Night N' Gales.
Errors
- After Darla attempted to pull the boat's whistle, the colors of her shoes and socks flickered, and then became pink and white respectively, the inverse of her usual white and pink color scheme respectively.
Critical reception
- This episode was notorious for the infamous closeups of Darla's and Buckwheat's bare feet - to which some viewers may have objected. Despite the negativity, the episode was rebroadcast in the second season on November 26, 1983 - implying that the episode did very well in the ratings.
In other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| German | Kapitän Smokeys Raddampfer | Captain Smokey's Paddleboat |
Home availability
- Not available. 😥
References
