by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Romance enters the lives of the Our Gang kids, prompting them to go to their surrogate "grandma" for advice. After Joe Cobb, Mickey Daniels, and Allen "Farina" Hoskins go a-courting, the gang reassembles at a fancy beauty salon where their pal Eugene "Pineapple" Jackson is working as a page. Within a few minutes, the kids reduce the establishment to shambles, and the cops arrive to cart them off to reform school -- where Grandma comes to the rescue once more. Originally released on April 5, 1925, the silent, two-reel Our Gang comedy The Love Bug is seldom shown in its original form; most prints have been struck from the radically edited version included in the Mischief Makers TV package of the early 1960s.
