Football Romeo

This M-G-M comedy short, Football Romeo, is the one hundred seventy-fourth entry in the "Our Gang" series and the eighty-sixth talkie. Alfalfa feels sad because he sees his crush Darla walking around with Butch not knowing the girl is trying to get him jealous in order to defeat the bully in the upcoming football game. His mom knows about this and writes a note telling her son Darla will reveal his poem he wrote to her in front of the audience if he doesn't show up for the game. Well, Alf now has some motivation...This short shows Alfie really lovelorn over who his girl picked over him. This is a real nice dramatic turn for Carl Switzer when he shows this side. But by the time of the game, some of the more typical funny gags are put to good use and I also liked those twins-who I believe were first shown in Party Fever-doing the play-by-play announcing. So on that note, Football Romeo was a sweet short all around in the Our Gang series.