This M-G-M comedy short, Dog Daze, is the one hundred eighty-second entry in the "Our Gang" series and the ninety-fourth talkie. The gang owes 37 cents to Butch for caring for a stray dog with two broken legs. That dog was actually a police mascot which meant the gang was now getting a $1 reward from a grateful officer. But that money gets eaten by a goat! Alf gets the idea that getting more stray dogs will result in more money for them. Well, that's not what happens...Okay, Maltin and Bann have a point when they complain about the exaggerated reactions of the kids and the contrivance of the story. And, yes, a lesson is being taught here. Still, it's not heavy-handed in the preachings and I actually laughed at many of the scenes and some of the dialogue. So on that note, Dog Daze was another amusing entry in the Our Gang series. P.S. This was the last entry directed by George Sidney. He'd go on to make features at M-G-M and Columbia like Anchors Away, the Technicolor version of Show Boat, Annie Get Your Gun, and Bye, Bye, Birdie. Many of his OG shorts were quite funny so it's a surprise when he was thus quoted: "It is very possible that doing that series conditioned me to hate all kids. At the time I was only seven years older than the oldest kid. They didn't know...neither did I." He might have been referring to Alfalfa as he was being a real troublemaker by this point. Anyway, his last film was Half a Sixpence in 1967. He'd die on May 5, 2002. And this marked the final OG appearance of Scotty Beckett. He continued to get good movie offers and also appeared on TV on the popular show "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger". Unfortunately, he also was beset by offscreen troubles of drugs, violence, and divorce culminating in his suffering a serious beating on May 8, 1968 before dying two days later. By that time, he left show business and had twice enrolled in college hoping to be a doctor. What a tragic end.
