Helping Grandma

This Hal Roach comedy short, Helping Grandma, is the one hundred third in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series and the fifteenth talkie. The gang work at Grandma's (Margaret Mann) store and help themselves to the goodies there. A local man is trying to buy that store. So are a couple of representatives from a chain. Which of them has a better deal? And will the kids still be allowed to hang there? I'll stop there and just say this was another funny film in the long-lasting series though there are some uncomfortable moments like when Stymie tastes some of the products like gasoline! Ms. Mann does get a bit melodramatic near the end but since it doesn't last too long, it's tolerable. Otherwise, Helping Grandma is mostly enjoyable for what it was. P.S. This marked the series debut of Shirley Jean Rickert.