The Little Rascals - Complete Collection

Wheezer and his sister, Mary Ann are living at an orphanage waiting to be adopted. Wheezer eventually gets adopted, but not with Mary Ann who gets left behind. At his new home, Wheezer gets a lot of brand-new expensive toys, but he misses his friends. They help Mary Ann break into the house so she can see Wheezer, and then enter themselves while his new mother throws a dinner party. The gang plays in the huge house, and Jean plays with a knob that sets off the police and fire alarms, bringing the police and fire departments to the house to capture the Rascals prowling around. Wheezer's new mom now decides to adopt Mary Ann herself and to convince her friends to adopt their orphan friends.

The gang is hanging out at the railroad yards where Joe and Chubby's dad works as an engineer on a train. Farina and Harry admire the engines from a turntable while Jean, Mary Ann and Wheezer play in the gondola car. After Joe's father takes his lunch, he warns Chubby about the dangers of the railroad yard as the scene fades. A crazy vagrant jumps aboard, releases the brake and starts the engine in reverse before jumping back off with Joe and Harry stuck trying to operate the locomotive, as Farina chasing them from the front. Joe, not knowing what to do, manages to reverse direction, but Farina gets his foot caught in a switch directly on the tracks as the train rolls toward Farina, who saves himself by lying back low, letting the train pass over him. Joe and Harry manage to reverse directions several times, repeatedly running over poor Farina each time, and just missing crashing into the gondola car. Eventually, they do manage to latch onto to the gondola car with Jean, Mary Ann, and Wheezer in it. Farina finally frees himself just in time to climb up the cowcatcher, and into the engine with Joe and Harry. Chubby pulls another switch, and soon everyone is careening through town out of control, smashing through a stalled grocery truck. Wheezer, having the time of his life, hopes they hit an ice cream truck next. Farina, when he isn't pulling the whistle, is busy praying that he survives! Up ahead, another train is coming right at them on the same track; luckily, it backs up onto a side track just as the gang's runaway charges past them. Joe finally finds the switch to slow the train to a stop, and a conductor and trainman rush up to check the runaway locomotive. The kids hurriedly tell about the crazy man who set the train off and ask about a reward for stopping it. An egg on the train, left over from the grocery truck, rolls off and splatters messily on Farina's head. The scene fades out, and then it is revealed that Joe's father has been telling a story to all of the kids all along since his lunch break, but Mary Ann points out that Farina slept through the story. A chicken lays an egg on the roof, which rolls off, and splatters on Farina's head, waking him up, like in Joe's father's story.

Farina is extraordinarily lazy, and tries to avoid all physical activity. He gets his girlfriend Trellis to feed him, do some of his chores around the barnyard, and make him more comfortable in his rocking chair. When she has to leave to play with her little sister, Farina barely takes notice when Joe Cobb comes by and tells him he might win $50 in a cute baby contest. Mary Ann wants to enter Wheezer in the contest but he tells her she is cuckoo. She tells him he is going to be a baby whether he wants to or not. She then gets Jean to help her dress him in baby clothes. Joe even tries to pass off Chubby as a baby to enter the contest. Farina takes it upon himself to dress and bathe his baby brother Thermos but tires himself out so much while trying to fix a very uncooperative baby stroller that he stops to take a nap on the way to the contest. After a while, Joe comes back around to reveal the contest was actually a month ago. Still too lazy to swat away a bee when Trellis reappears, she obligingly whacks him on the nose with a board.

Farina and Harry have created a boxing arena, the 3rd Ward Athaletic Club, to charge admission from the other kids to watch the fights, but the fights, like one between youngsters Wheezer and Donnie, are boring and Farina needs to find a good one to make more money. Meanwhile, Joe Cobb and Chubby Chaney are fighting over Jean, and Farina sees the opportunity of a big fight between the two stepbrothers. Farina convinces the two to participate in a "heavywate" battle, convincing each that the other will lay down in the second round when they don't show signs of wanting to fight. During the actual match, Bobby Mallon announces it as "Graham McCracker" but both the boys are waiting for the other to back down. Joe even wants to leave but a bully in the audience tells him to stay and fight or else he'll have another fight on his hands! The club doesn't admit ladies because "the sight of blood splashing around makes them faint", so Mary Ann gets turned away at the ticket booth. She attempts a disguise to gain entry but is discovered. Jackie Cooper makes his debut with the gang as a spectator demanding his money back after the baby fight and later as the ringside reporter for the big bout. Mary Ann, not one to give up, abducts Jackie from ringside and takes his place dressed in his clothes. When neither Joe or Chubby shows signs of wanting to fight, Farina fears he will have to give back all the money he has made. Mary Ann tells Farina to muss Joe's hair up and he'll fight. Farina tells Chubby that is the signal to make Joe lay down. When Chubby musses Joe's hair he really gets upset and ends up punching everyone out, including Farina acting as the referee! In the end, both Joe and Chubby are knocked out, and Farina announces the result, just in time to get hit with a soft tomato by the bully.

Since the new baby was born, Wheezer has not been getting very much attention in the house. When he misses breakfast, Wheezer has to dress himself with Pete's help and cook for himself, mistakenly using Plaster of Paris to make some rock hard and inedible pancakes. One accidentally hits mom, but he uses another to save his posterior from a spanking, a stunt that doesn't work. He afterward grumbles off to the park where Farina tells him he once replaced a baby brother with a goat, but then the gang comes by in their Halloween costumes to scare them both, Chubby distorting his voice that it sounds loud and unearthly. Plan in mind, Wheezer tries Farina's idea by taking the baby back to the hospital to get rid of him, smashing light bulbs to make the sound of a tire popping so that the cars will stop and let him pass. At the hospital, all he has brought them is the doll from the bed. The nurse calls and tells Wheezer's mother what has occurred. Mom plans with Mary Ann to cry so hard over the loss of the baby that Wheezer will go back to the hospital to bring the baby back. On his return, Wheezer is told the baby has been returned to heaven. Heading back home, his light bulb gag fails him as he is caught by motorcycle cops. He has to run for it, and once home, he is told that he has to pray to get his baby brother back. By now, mother sneaks the baby into the room to teach her other son a lesson, and how, the playful infant bops Wheezer on the head to announce his presence.

The gang has been playing around a seemingly deserted house in the neighborhood, but Officer Kennedy tells them to stay out of it. Looking for something else to do, the gang takes Kennedy's advice to look for buried treasure, but they do so in the old house. The dilapidated and spooky mansion is home to a crazy man who pulls his own hairs out and makes loud howling noises to scare the kids, at one point sharing an imaginary dinner with a very real knife with Farina. After a series of practical jokes on them, Kennedy returns to make sure the kids aren't in the house, getting his finger stuck in a Japanese finger-trap he examines, but eventually catching the eccentric terrorizing the kids at the other end of the handcuffs.

Officer Kennedy's wife, Mrs. Funston Evergreen Kennedy, wants to bring culture to the community by forming the Golden Age Dramatic League out of the neighborhood kids and performing "Quo Vadis," or "The Gladiator's Dilemma." Kennedy takes care of the special effects and has several adult parts in the production. Mrs. Kennedy has to constantly coach the kids with their lines, the young actors warping them or completely improvising along the way. Playing Nero, Chubby has to lift his costume to read his lines from the inside of his costume, referring to the others as "Mary Annicus" and "Farinacus." The parents are enjoying the play with their kids involved, but some rowdy kids kicked out of the show take their revenge by hurling eggs at the kids on stage. This turns into a war of hurling pies between the kids on stage and the audience. As Mrs. Kennedy tries to end the whole debacle, she herself becomes the target for a nearly endless shower of pies.

Jackie has eyes for Mary Ann and goes to Officer Kennedy for advice on how to win her heart. His first attempt results in her beating him up, so Kennedy has Jackie court her by dressing up and bringing candy. Unfortunately, Speck Haines enters the picture as a rival for her affection. Mary Ann thinks they should duel for her, and they head off to practice their swordplay, slashing everything in sight before deciding to resort to a fist fight with Mary Ann dressed up as a princess through the whole thing. Though he has Chubby arrange to bring Kennedy to break up the fight, Jackie holds his own in the fight, conquering over Speck, as Mary Ann rushes over to announce she liked him best. Speck is upset that she put him through the fight and punches her in the face. Jack rises to defend Mary, and Speck's dad rushes to protect his son. Jackie's grandma, spry as she is, rushes to the scene, to face off against the upset father, popping him on the nose and kicking him, and forcing him to run away.

It's a very windy night and Kennedy The Cop is on duty following Jackie, who's been locked out of the house by Wheezer. Jackie didn't want to study for school, so his father gave him a spanking. Eager to see Jackie spanked again, Wheezer tooses his book out the window. Upon going after it, he gets locked out of the house by the brat. This leaves Jackie wandering around house to house looking for help with Officer Kennedy unknowingly right behind him. Meanwhile, Farina is scared by his kid brother, Hector, covered in flour and looking like a ghost, and then again by Jackie pressing his face against the bedroom window. Jackie eventually finds a ladder and finds refuge in Mary Ann's room, but she's so excited to having him sneaking in that he's better off not staying. Kennedy trails Jackie through the neighborhood until Jackie comes upon a real burglar, inadvertantly knocking him out on his own. Kennedy comes around to take credit for the capture upon which Wheezer answers with a long Bronx cheer.

The Gang has it in mind to do a little hunting, but Spud Janney is stuck having to stay home to babysit Wheezer, who has the croup. This ruins everyone's plans as they have already loaded up the wagon hitched up to Dinah the Mule, who belongs to Spud, but he won't let anyone take her without him. The wagon is a horse-drawn nightmare with swerving bent axles and large spoked wheels carrying the kids' creations, including an old bathtub which Farina uses as a boat; its horn consists of a goose that screams when pressed by a pedal. Spud finally decides to go along camping, letting Mary Ann come along to keep an eye on Wheezer. In the forest, everyone has plans to trap a bear, but instead, they come across bootleggers who send their buddy out in a gorilla suit to scare the gang off from their hideout. Everything backfires, and the gang attacks and catches the gorilla in a bear trap thinking he's a bear, leaving the costumed bootlegger screaming for his cronies to save him. Meanwhile, Wheezer, who has been rubbed in stinky limburger cheese by Chubby, chases a skunk he has confused as a kitty cat into the hollow log the gang is hiding in, driving them out the other end!

One cold wintry day, the gang helps Stepin Fetchit read a love letter on the radio. Fetchit claims he can't read it because he learned to read in night school and can't read anything during the day. However, he doesn't want Farina to hear what the letter is about, so he puts cotton in the boy's ears. Meanwhile, he tries to help them clean up the results of a taffy disaster, the result of Wheezer calling out the wrong ingredients.

While the Rascals are hanging out, Farina reveals he has got a job as a page at the Greenpoint Civic Center, thinking he can get $200 as his wages. The gang all dreams of what they can get with that money and hope to get jobs there too, but Farina reveals they are only hiring young black boys. He does promise the gang he can sneak their pets into the city pet show to win money. Jackie is kept busier trying though to keep his sister, Echo, clean and out of mud, but Wheezer has an even harder time just keeping his puppies close by because he trained them to come running to the sound of a bell, and they keep him chasing after them all over town after the twins lead the pups down the street and toss the bell into a gutter. Meanwhile, the gang arrives to get their pets into the city pet show, but their menagerie of pets, ranging from a parrot, a pig, a goat, frogs and mice, get them sent away by the doorman. He gets distracted enough for them to barge in and take over several stalls, sending away the dogs already in them, causing havoc at the pet show and costing Farina his job for helping them. The gang departs dejectedly, but Wheezer finally rings the church bells and his pups coming running back to him. Meanwhile, Echo in a pretty new dress jumps right back into the mud in front of Jackie, and after her mother scolds Farina for pushing her in, she ends up landing in it herself!

It's the first day of school, and the gang is moping around on the loss of their teacher, Miss MacGillicuddy who went off and got herself "married." Jackie and Wheezer, meanwhile, are walking to school when they unknowingly accept a ride from a beautiful blonde woman who unbeknownst them is their new teacher, Miss Crabtree. Without identifying herself, she listens to Jackie proudly describe the pranks he and the guys have planned to drive her off the job in order to run off and go swimming. She listenly intently before letting them off a bit before the schoolyard to surprise Jackie later. When she appears in class later, Jackie recognizes her and does a perfect doubletake, trying to slip out of the classroom with a mask on but failing. Miss Crabtree calmly but assuredly collects all the boys pranks: Chubby's red ants, Farina's sneezing powder and Buddy's white mouse. They guys are convinced they are in trouble, hurling names at Jackie as they file past him, but the punishment never comes because the new teacher has planned a get-acquainted day with ice cream and cake. It's also all but too late to cancel Jackie's last stunt, fake notes which are supposed to send the four conspirators home. They only get so far before they turn back to confess, but Jackie can't bring himself to turn himself in, but Miss Crabtree's figured it out herself, bringing ice cream and cake out to him under a tree as a sign of truce.

Jackie is cicrculating a "partition" to keep school open during the summer so that Miss Crabtree can't find a husband to take her away from them. When a gentleman comes round the schoolhouse in her absence, the gang gets suspicious and start telling tales to keep him from taking her away from them. What they don't know is that Jack is really their teacher's brother, and he plays along. They steal his clothes when he goes for a swim in the lake to keep him from returning. Meanwhile, the smaller kids, Wheezer, Echo and Stymie, have been stealing the desserts of the older kids, and Bonedust gives his classmates the answers for their questions from a book called, "The Minstrel And Blackface Joke Book." It turns out to be a very hectic lesson with all sorts of wrong answers and with Miss Crabtree getting more angry and angry, and the gang unaware of what they're doing wrong. Once things are explained, she asks if anyone has seen her guest, hesitating to mention he's her brother. Jackie, Chubby and Farina confess through tears what they did and why they did it. Miss Crabtree ends up flustered and embarrassed and runs out of the school house to discover her brother returning in a dress, the only thing he could find to cover up. The little kids, meanwhile, appear wearing his clothes, having taken them from where they saw the older boys hiding them.

The gang has been hanging out at the general store which has been owned by Margaret Mack for over twenty-five years, but a local opportunist named Pennypacker is trying to buy it out from under her for far less than it is worth. Meanwhile, two chain store officials are offering her much more, closer to the real price. The kids mistakenly scare off the two men from buying the store while Grandma is out, but they leave a contract offering $3500 for the place. Pennypacker discovers the contract and hides it from the kindly grandma and compels her to sell the place for a paltry $1500. He then imitates her voice over the phone when the chain store officials call to announce their arrival. After several requests from the kids trying to delay for time, Margaret signs the more unscrupulous contract just as the chain store men come with their final offer of $5000 for the location. Pennypacker is ecstatic because he has made the deal of a lifetime, but then one of the chain store representatives notices that Grandma actually signed a blank sheet of paper under the actual contract. Pennypacker's contract is worthless. When Grandma finds out that Pennypacker impersonated her on the phone and tried to swindle her, she punches Pennypacker out and he bounces off the counter toward Wheezer who then bops him one more time with a hammer.

Wheezer can't sleep at night because Jackie is so infatuated with Miss Crabtree that he talks to her in his sleep. Things are also going to get awkward as the pretty new teacher is now going to be a boarder in the house. Jackie's mother wants the kids to pick up the social graces from her, but mothballs which fell into the dinner stew have the kids imitating her disconcerting reaction to the taste of dinner. Her presence also brings round Chubby to woo her. He's been practicing to romance her on the cardboard cut-out of Greta Garbo at the local Greenpoint Theater. However, Chubby can't seem to get any alone time with Miss Crabtree as Jackie keeps wandering through and distracting him. Jackie even eavesdrops and heckles his best friend to hamper his efforts, but Miss Crabtree keeps her sense of humor amidst all this attention. Eventually, Jackie's mother comes round to find out what's going on and overhears Chubby's declaration of love to his teacher. They sound very familar to her, and no wonder! Wheezer has been selling Chubby her old love notes from Jackie's father to her. When she goes to confront Wheezer over his "business," she finds him asleep in bed with a catcher's mask on and Pete at his side for protection.

The authorities discover Farina living alone and taking care of Stymie, having been innocently borrowing from the church collection plate to feed themselves. Although they're doing okay on their own, it's decided that Stymie ought to be in the orphanage. Farina decides to throw his friend a going away party with a lot of candy, but by the time the rest of the gang finally arrive, the party treats are all gone. When an orphanage official arrives, the gang unites to protect Stymie, leaving it up to Miss Crabtree to resolve the dispute amicably.

Jackie and the gang want to play baseball, but they can't find any of their gear. Jackie suspects his stepbrother, Wheezer, is on a selling spree of his possessions for money, and he's right. Wheezer and Stymie have the stolen merchandise in a wagon and are peddling it door-to-door. They eventually reach the home of lonely little rich girl Shirley Jean Rickert, whose mother leaves her alone to head to Watt Street and whose father forgets to come home. She's so desperate for company that when Wheezer and Stymie reach her home, she invites them in to play in her mansion. Eventually, the gang catches up with Wheezer and enter the place looking for him. Chubby discovers a reducing cabinet and tries it out, but before long, the baby that Wheezer and Stymie had been pushing along in their wagon has triggered the burglar alarm, and a police squad rushes to the scene to round up the kids. Chubby starts screaming for help. About the only thing that he has been able to shrink is his clothing and hat.

Grandma Mack has been a loyal parent figure to the Little Rascals for a long time; she spends time reading and playing games with them, but when her son-in-law and his new wife come around, they want to put kind old Grandma Mack in the county home and take over the store. As Dan is nosing around, he discovers a letter from the Imperial Steel Company to his mother-in-law. Apparently, the bonds her husband left her years ago are worth a lot of money, so he ups the chance to cart her off to the County Home. Unfortunately, thinking the bonds are worthless, Grandma Mack has given them to Chubby to tie onto his kite tail. Dan races off to fight Chubby for the kite after breaking Grandma's glasses so she can't read the letter. Fortunately, Stymie notices that the water in a fishbowl makes objects behind it look larger, and Grandma is able to read the letter through the fishbowl and discover that the bonds are now very valuable. She vaults to Chubby's rescue with incredible energy, joining the gang in their role in defeating her villainous son-in-law.

Wheezer loves Pete. The two of them romp and play around the house, but things are not well. Wheezer's parents are squabbling and could be heading to divorce. After making an effort to stop the fighting, he turns to to his old friend Stymie for advice. Together the two conspire for Wheezer to get sick and bring them together to get him better. Stymie feeds Wheezer some lard and soap among other stuff and Wheezer does indeed get sick. Wheezer asks Stymie and Dorothy to find some medicine in the medicine cabinet in order to cure Wheezer. Stymie's mother calls the doctor, thinking that Wheezer swallowed a bottle of poison from the cabinet. At the hospital, Wheezer turns out to be okay, and he explains to his parents as to why he attempted to get sick. Realizing what they've done, the parents agree to never fight again.

The gang has been playing hooky and skipping school to go visit the Sea Captain and listen to his old tall tales from the ocean. When Miss Crabtree gets frustrated by these absentees, she visits the captain to get his help in chasing the kids back to school and, together, they plot a scheme to scare the gang straight. When they return, the captain makes the kids think the is taking them out to sea as pirates (the boat actually never leaves the dock) with the purpose of scaring them out of their minds. He hires his crew to act as pirates in an attempt to even further scare the kids. Sure enough, the scheme the school teacher and captain have cooked up works.

Wheezer and Dorothy are living a miserable existence with their stepmother who dotes on her real son, Spud Bailey and mistreats Wheezer for letting Pete sleep in bed with him. The only saving grace is his best friend, Stymie, who refers to Wheezer's stepmother as "Old Hatchet-Face." When Stymie comes round looking for breakfast and discovers that Wheezer and Dorothy have not eaten either, he gets Spud to fry up some ham and eggs, telling Spud that "ham and eggs can talk." After easily tricking Spud, the three kids have a nice breakfast. However, as Spud is checking out an uncovered well, his own dog, Nero, pushes him in; he has to rely on Stymie, Wheezer, and Dickie to save him. Spud promises not to tell on them if they pull him up, but when he as at the top of the well, he changes his mind and gets dropped in again. He once again promises not to tell on them if they get him out but he's so rotten, he promises to tell once he's clear out of the well. Meanwhile, Nero has killed one of neighbor Mr. Brown's chickens, and Spud decides to blame Pete to save his own dog. The angered Mr. Brown plans to shoot Pete. In attempt to save Pete, the kids throw eggs at Mr. Brown. Pete is taken away. Wheezer is heartbroken. As he cries outside the Greenpoint Dog Pound, a lady comes around to help get Pete out. The lady turns out to be Wheezer's and Dorothy's wealthy aunt. It seems Wheezer's dad has been sick and couldn't come for his kids, so she has come around to take them home. On the way out, she gives the stepmother a swift kick in the bottom for being nasty. Wheezer is now happy and excited, but he wishes Stymie could come along with him. Little does he know, Stymie is now dressed up in a suit of his own and stowed away on the spare tire to go along with him.

Summer vacation is over and all the kids in Greenpoint are hesitantly returning to school. Among them, Breezy Brisbane is the most hesitant. His loving mother sends him off and tells him to study hard for a good job, but he decides to slack on by and aim lower. He stalls for time by hanging around the local Blacksmith, but then he leans on Brisbane to be a better student as well. When the Blancksmith tells about a miscreant who got himself tossed out of school, Brisbane takes the idea to heart and decides to be as incorrigible as possible to get himself thrown out of school. He sets off a tirade of practical jokes and distractions set to frustrate Miss Crabtree, but when he mocks Sherwood for reading a poem written by his mother, she is more than glad to exile him from school unless he recites the poem as well. Brisbane is more than anxious to be tossed out and leaves with an unsupportive arms-raised triumphant victory. However, once he gets out, he realizes there's just nothing to do but wait for his friends to get out of school. There's no one to attend his club and fishing is so tedious he can't stand it. The whole time, his conscience is bothering him and nagging him to learn the poem. When Breezy finally breaks down and returns to school to apologize, he begs the teacher to not let the other kids ridicule by his reading Sherwood's poem aloud to the class, but that's her punishment for his attitude. As Breezy recites the embarrassing poem verse word-for-word, tears are streaming down his face, for his comeuppence as the other kids laugh at him. Fortunately for Breezy (and not so for everyone else!), Marmalade chases a skunk into the schoolhouse, mistaking it for a cat, causing everyone to run away!

A wealthy Greenpoint debutante decides to throw a party for the children of the neighborhood in order to increase the rating of her husband running for political office. The lawn party proves to be too big to resist for a number of criminals to exploit and burglarize the house. (Their last job was bungled when one of them flicked on the police alarm after confusing it for a light switch). Escaping the detection of a police officer on patrol, they send two diminutive members of the gang to infiltrate the party disguised as babies. The two criminal little people dressed as infants are quickly noticed by Stymie when he overhears them talking, but none of the adults believe his warnings. Wheezer and Echo also learn about the two crooks or "fidgets" heading for the safe and rally the gang to stop them. By now, the gang's hostess and her guests have discovered their missing valuables, and to make things worse, the kids are caught near the opened safe. The chief of detective refuses to believe the gang's story about a couple of "fidgets." At that moment, Stymie sticks a pin into the rear of one of the phony babies, causing it to talk and turn round to punch him before the cops, but not before the police officers present applaud the gang for being heroes and saving the day.

Breezy Brisbane is using the barn on the property of his home to put on a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin, but his parents have also assigned him to watch over his little brother, Spanky. Having to race back and forth after the precocious kid between takes affects the play, already hampered by production problems, and to make things worse, Spanky keeps finding more things to call attention to himself and appeal to his attention, such as killing the bugs in the house. Pounding the walls results in him finding the hidden stash in the wall where his cheap father has hidden his inheritance from his grandfather. Not knowing what it is, he starts tossing it all out the window, which is the final nail on the casket for Brisbane's suffering play. The boys' father has now come home to discover the kids diving into and grabbing up the free cash and rushes to save it. Some of the kids give back what they have collected, but having learned his lesson, he decides to put it in the bank away from little hands. Stymie, meanwhile, is trapped in the abandoned barn as a platform he is on is pulled up and down by a goat trying to catch him.

During a stop-over in Greenpoint, some orphans slip off a train and meet the gang playing in the park. The gang has never ridden a train before so one of the older orphans, who want to run away and be cowboys, describes the food they get on board in order to switch clothes with them and get them to take their place. While this is happening, the train leaves, and by time the gang is confused as the missing orphans, Mr. Henderson of Travelers Aid is assigned to deliver the kids to their destination. He's not particularly fond of kids and the Rascals make the trip tumultuous not just for him but for all the other passengers in their car. Wheezer removes his toupee and squirts him with his pen; Spanky loosens Henderson's tie, and continually punches (actually taps) him in the face. A lady offers to hold Spanky for him, but Spanky "pops" her as well and she gives him back. Spud harasses Dorothy in the seat in front of him by pulling her curls but she retaliates by pulling two hands full of his hair. Later he pulls her curls again and she chases him from the passenger car. When they return Dorothy is wearing an orphan uniform and Spud is wearing her dress and bow. Spud explains that she gave him a buck to trade clothes with her. Spud then gets into a fight with Breezy for calling him a great big sissy. Mr. Henderson breaks them up, mistaking Spud for Dorothy and forces him to go to the girl's seat. When she returns from taking something for her headache (caused by the Rascals), Dorothy's mother is horrified to find Spud in her little girl's place. Wheezer notices the steam pipe, and when Breezy tells him to turn the valve, the car fills with steam. All Henderson can do is remind everyone they're not his kids. At night, Henderson fights with Spanky over the blankets, but then an inebriated novelty salesman arrives and gives the kids sample noisemakers. The other passengers are getting even more upset by the minute as Stymie tries to sneak Pete back to sleep with him, accidentally letting loose a monkey that frees all the other animals into the sleeper car and setting off the fireworks in the salesman's case. Ambulances are waiting as the very frazzled Mr. Henderson arrives at the destination just to get the message that he has to return with the kids to pick up the real orphans who have just now been discovered.

Accompanied by Spanky and Pete, Stymie is searching for food, ordering food from a vendor but not having the money to pay for it. The gang's upset with Stymie for stealing a pie, but he gets in their good graces again by freeing their dogs from the dog catcher's truck. He's so upset that he snatches Pete, telling Stymie to bring him five dollars if he wants him back. All Stymie can do is pray for the money from Heaven, and a gust of wind promptly blows the money to him from a woman's hand nearby. A policeman tries to get the money back, chasing Stymie through the area. Once he loses the officer, Stymie rushes to the Greenpoint Dog Pound to discover that the vindictive dog catcher has rushed to gas Pete. At that point, an employee remarks that there's no gas to gas anything. The dog catcher opens the hatch to find Pete waiting patiently inside to come out and get his revenge on the dogcatcher before rejoining Stymie.

Due to a shortage of manpower in the city, the public is asked to assist in emergencies involving local fires. Dickie decides to start his own fire department with the gang, possibly reopening the one created in The Fourth Alarm. He takes the role of fire chief with Stymie as his partner, aggravated by his brother, Spanky, constantly needing his medicine. With Breezy Brisbane as lookout, they soon spot the real fire department racing to a fire and the gang rushes to their dog-powered and mule-drawn vehicles clanging through the streets nearly ready to collapse from the weight. Although they quickly lose sight of the real fire engine, they soon find another fire at a nearby warehouse and rush to put it out. Unable to read, Stymie rushes in to dump the boxes and cans marked "dynamite" and "black powder" dangerously close to the others. The explosions rouse the attention of the real firemen who arrive just as the gang puts out the fire, leading to a promise of reward for their brave job. At that moment, the alarm clock reminding Dickie of Spanky's medicine goes off. All by himself, Spanky pours a spoonful, chugs down the bottle and purposely dumps out the amount in the spoon. When Dickie finally comes over and wants to know where the medicine went, Spanky confesses he gave it to the worms!