Farm Hands

Froggy, Buckwheat and Mickey

Production Notes

Length: One Reel
Producer: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Director: Herbert Glazer
Photography: Jackson Rose
Editor: Leon Bourgeau
Titles:
Writer: Robert A. McGowan and Hal Law
Released: June 19, 1943
Studio: M-G-M

Main Cast

• Mickey Laughlin
• Robert Blake
• William Laughlin
• William Thomas Jr.

Supporting Cast

• Murray Alper - Mickey's Father

The Short

Plot: Mickey is spending the weekend at his uncle's farm and invites the gang to come along, but pretty soon it becomes obvious these boys are not used to living on a farm. They are awakened at daybreak by a rooster to do chores, the first of which involves milking a cow as they sit by the cow waiting for her to fill up milk bottles. Mickey briefly descends into the well (shades of Sherwood in Dogs Is Dogs ) to retrieve water before feeding the chickens. They think they have to mash the chicken feed to feed the chickens during which Froggy loses some jumping beans into the mixture resulting in jumping chickens. When the mule runs after them, the boys take cover in a haystack if but to get served with it into the baling machine which they somehow survive into square bales of hay. Having had enough, they vanish off into the horizon.
Quotes:

• None
  

Notes/Trivia:

• Janet Burston doesn't appear in this episode. This would be last episode where she or any of the other characters are absent as the Our Gang shorts were eventually winding to an end.
• The hay bale "gag" would be repeated years later and much funnier in the episode, "Jeepers, It's The Creeper," in the second season of Scooby Doo, Where Are You.
• This short marks the final appearance of Happy and Mickey's father.
• Robert Blake who plays Mickey Gubitosi appears but isn't credited.
• Goof:When Buckwheat approaches the cow with the pail of milk, the milk is at a higher level than when he picked up the bucket.
• Goof:When the boys are hammering the cornmeal, Froggy is heard speaking, but his lips do not move.
• Goof:When one of the adults approaches the well with a bucket, it can be seen that there is no bottom in it. The bucket actually cracks through one side when it is dropped.
  

Sequence

• Previous Short: Calling All Kids
• Next Short: Little Miss Pinkerton

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