The Kid From Borneo (Little Rascals)

Year Published: 1933

Creator: Hal Roach Robert McGowan Carl Harbaugh

Complete Record: Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's Uncle George is in town. Uncle George manages a show called "Wild Man From Borneo", featuring a foreigner with a mentality of a seven year old child. The kids' father refuses to let the real Uncle George come over so their mother has the kids visit him at the show's location. Their mother explains to the kids that Uncle George is the black sheep of the family. They come to the show location and another worker tells the kids that Uncle George will be right there. They mistake the Wild Man From Borneo named Bumbo (a man dressed with horns) for the real Uncle George, which is never seen as he was off running an errand. The Wild Man spots Stymie's candy, shouts "Yumm Yumm Eat-Em-Up, Eat-Em-Up!!!", and chases the kids back to their house. When there, the wild man asks for more candy, saying “Yumm, yumm, Eat-Em-Up!” and chases the kids throughout the house. When there, the wild man runs after them, messes the house up, eats everything in the refrigerator whole (including containers plus eggs & their shells!), drinks wine, gets drunk, virtually destroys the house more and continues chasing the kids inebriated, wielding a kitchen knife wanting to "Eat-Em-Up, Eat-Em-Up". The Little Rascals themselves fend off the Wild Man in their usual mischievous ways. Stymie is almost done in until Dorothy cracks the ruffian over the head with a vase. The Kid From Borneo is countervailed by the Rascals, but at the expense of the destruction of some of the house by the mistaken uncle George. Then, the mother arrive and asks Spanky where uncle George is. She is directed upstairs. Upon entering, only to find the Wild Man From Borneo laying in bed (recovering from the cheap wine and the kids' attacks) with the covers pulled over him. Thinking that it's her brother / the real Uncle George, she's shocked to find the primitive tribesman Bumbo and jumps out of the 2nd story window to escape the brute. When the father comes home soon after, Dickie says "Uncle George is upstairs." then the dad states, "I was going to punch that guy's head & I"M gonna!" as he's rolling up his sleeves. He looks for him and finds out that it's something far worse, the actual Wild Man who throws him literally out the 2nd floor window with no effort whatsoever. Then the Wild Man is chased out of the house by Spanky armed with a roman candle by blasting him in the rear, thereby ejecting the Wild Man out of a second story window. There he joins the father and mother, where all 3 run off into the distance as Spanky giggles with his signature laugh. ddffgg