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Private Notes
The gang is putting on a performance of "Out in the Snow You Go." Butch wants to sing in the production, but that job is already filled by Alfalfa, so Butch decides to sabotage Alfalfa's performance.
The gang's club has organized a father and son picnic, but poor fatherless Mickey is in tears. The boys arrange for Mr. Henry, who runs the gas station, to attend the picnic with Mickey.
The gang is about to start their football practice, but Alfalfa's dad wants to talk to him about his poor grades. He tells Alfalfa what kind of a future he has in store if he doesn't study more. We see the gang in college: Alfalfa is the football star, but gets poor grades, and this leads to him being disqualified from the big game.
Alfalfa switches places with a wealthy look-alike, who gets stuck having to clean up Alfalfa's yard. He recruits the gang to clean it up for him, with the promise of ice cream sodas. Since he's wearing Alfalfa's clothes, he doesn't have the money to pay for them, and the gang has to wash dishes. Meanwhile, Alfalfa is finding that the pampered life of a rich kid is not all it's cracked up to be.
The gang gets chased away from a big Hollywood premiere, so they decide to make their own movie and present it to the neighborhood kids with a big premiere. At the screening, the gang stands behind the screen to dub over the dialogue. Alfalfa has to handle Buckwheat's dialogue, since Buckwheat is stuck in the cement outside the theater. The film runs out just as Alfalfa has started his song, so he sings it "live" for the kids.
Sunday night is hash night at Mickey's house, since the family income isn't enough for something better. This doesn't keep his dad from complaining, though, and Mickey's parents always end up fighting and Mickey always ends up crying. The gang decides to help him by entering a radio contest in which they perform a play which copies the situation entirely.
Darla is crying because Spanky and Alfalfa have shunned her for the new girl, Sally. Luckily, Sally doesn't think much of the boys, and the two girls decide to trick them. Sally invites the boys over to her house, where she gets them to have a tea party with her and dress as girls. Meanwhile, the whole gang is behind the hedge witnessing everything.
Alfalfa can't eat, since he's obsessing on Darla. His dad, thinking it's a more serious problem, gives him a stomach remedy prepared with Settles-itt Powder. The gang goes over to Butch's garage, where he convinces the gullible kids that he's preparing dynamite right before their very eyes. Alfalfa notices that the main ingredient is Settles-itt Powder, and drinks the whole thing down to the astonishment of the gang. Then his stomach swells to extreme proportions, and he now thinks he's swallowed dynamite.
