What a waste of my time!!!

Truly Dreadful Film

Overrated

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

. . . for an arm, leg, or tail from time to time? If "anthropomorphism" is the art of attributing animal characteristics to criminals, certainly the term "Zoolaunderlimericks" can be used to denote "Alfalfa's" mistaking a fish for his shin (an anagram of "Nish," which brings to mind "knish," the more popular of which are filled with fish) during the "Our Gang" episode FISHY TALES. Noted Real Life shrink "Oliver Baggy" will tell you that Alfalfa's strange misperception during FISHY TALES is not as bad as mistaking your wife for a hatpin. At least you can eat a fish. (Purists might argue that this would constitute cannibalism, but who's counting?) Within a few years of FISHY TALES' release, "Dr. Seuss" would break into the entertainment industry by writing rhyming narrations for U.S. Army boot camp "training"\propaganda cartoons. This arrangement, funded by U.S. taxpayers and War Bonds (not to be confused with "Ward Bond") , was NOT a "match made in Heaven." Bradley, Patton, MacArthur & Co. would have been better off if "Spanky" heard a "Who," not Hitler. FISHY TALES may have inspired the Good Doctor's "Private Snafu," but "Run, Alfalfa, run!!" does not sound like a winning War Cry.

FISHY TALES is an amusing short from the OUR GANG crowd. Alfalfa is in this one and takes part in the film's funniest scene in which he pretends to have damaged legs much to the amazement over the other kids. Otherwise the story is about a competition in which the kids shoot arrows with rubber suction caps on the end, only to fall foul of a bully when a shot goes awry.At just eleven minutes this is a very short comedy in which the gags barely have time to register. I think perhaps too much was crammed into the running time so the pacing appears to be a little too fast for the humour to really register. It would have been better for the team to just focus on a single set-piece rather than trying to do too much. Still, it's worth it just to see the kids in action once more.

This Hal Roach comedy short, Fishy Tales, is the one hundred fifty-eighth entry in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series and the seventieth talkie. Buckwheat has just gone fishing when he arrives at the clubhouse in time to replace Porky (because of his eating the target) in the William Tell exhibition in which Alfalfa shoots a dart on the apple on Bucky's head. Unfortunately, one of those darts hits Butch who gets plenty angry especially when a second hits him courtesy of Junior but he doesn't know that as he still wants to beat Alf. Spanky has his pal pretend to have a broken leg with Bucky's fish in a stocking being that particular leg. When Butch comes to see it, he seems convinced until...This was quite a funny short what with what I just described as well as some cats and a few other creatures that I don't want to reveal here. So that's a high recommendation of Fishy Tales.

An OUR GANG Comedy Short.Bully Butch has threatened great bodily harm to Alfalfa. Now it's up to Spanky's FISHY TALES to convince Butch that Alfalfa is in bed with a dislocated leg & is unable to fight...A humorous little film. Highlights include the `William Tell' episode -with Buckwheat as the target - and the cats ‘n' crabs.