Halftone image of Alfalfa in "My Favorite Blonde"  
Halftone image of Alfalfa in "Pat Brady, Outlaw" (Roy Rogers Show)
 
Halftone image of Alfalfa in "Gas House Kids"
 
Halftone image of Alfalfa in "Motorcycle Gang"
 
Halftone image of Alfalfa in "Kelly the Second"
 
Halftone image of Alfalfa in "The Kid With the Map" (Roy Rogers Show)
 
Halftone image of Alfalfa in "Redwood Forest Trail"
 
Halftone image of Alfalfa in "Reg'lar Fellers"
 
Halftone image of Alfalfa in "Southern Exposure"
 
Halftone image of Alfalfa in "The WAC From Walla Walla"
 

4alfalfa.com

An Internet Appreciation
of Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer,
one of Our Gang's
most unforgettable
Little Rascals™

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Episode Commentary
Plot summaries, commentary, and ratings (on a scale of 1 to 5 cowlicks, natch...) See our Top Ten favorites...
An Alfalfa Appreciation
Why we like Alfalfa. Some random thoughts on his career and his place in American pop culture.
Alfalfaddendum
Information, images, and commentary on Alfalfa's "other" film and TV work. There's more of it than you may think!
Alfalfa's Greatest Hits
Lyrics, background info, and links to other versions of the tunes Alfalfa crooned.
The Froggy Files
Info on the later MGM episodes (this is liable to be messy...)
Alfography
Alfalfa's off-screen life is coming into clearer focus.
 
Alfalfa Nation
Dolls, cartoons, mistaken identity, alfalfa crops...all things Alfalfa.
Censored!!
An accurate compendium of Our Gang/Little Rascals scenes and episodes containing ethnic/racial stereotypes.

Rascology
This week in Alfalfa-related history.
Dear Alfalfa
A chance for Alfalfa's fans to send him their own messages.
Alfalfalinks
Other sites and resources which might interest Alfalfa fans.
News/Updates
Late-breaking Alfalfa-related news. Info on new additions to 4alfalfa.com.
Contact Us
Send us your comments, ask us questions, correct our mistakes, tell us we're crazy...but just contact us!
 
 
   

This website is based in part upon a television series distributed by King World Productions and Turner Entertainment Co./ MGM.
 
 

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

From "Second Childhood" (1936)

Alfalfa doesn't seem to like Grandma's sing-along rendition of "Oh Susanna" in this popular episode about the gang's transformation of a grouchy old lady into a roller-skating party animal. See more in our Commentary section.

(Alfalfa would have been 77 years and 235 days old today)

Judiann Hancock
 Daughter of Harold Switzer


Message to Alfalfa's fans

Excerpts from our exclusive interviews

Welcome!...

...to 4alfalfa.com. This site was created especially to co-incide with the 75th Anniversary of Alfalfa's birth on August 7, 1927. An extensive compendium of this remarkable performer's career is long overdue, and we hope this Internet Appreciation will help fill that void. We will be focusing extensively on "the Alfalfa that most people don't know". Over the weeks and months to come, we hope to build an extensive, reliable repository of information on Alfalfa's off-screen life in order to gain some until-now unknown insights into this amazing talent. If any of our visitors has such information (family members, friends, professional associates), please contact us.

Click on any of the images at right to start your journey through 4alfalfa.com (note that some sections will be following soon). A good introduction might be An Alfalfa Appreciation, an illustrated essay celebrating Alfalfa's unique appeal. Or you could jump directly to our Episode Commentary, which provides exclusive 4alfalfa.com commentary of each of the 34 Little Rascals episodes in which Alfalfa appeared during the Hal Roach era. Do his singing performances form your fondest memories of Alfalfa? Then you'd probably be interested in Alfalfa's Greatest Hits, a song-by-song look at the tunes made "famous" by everybody's favorite crooner (with apologies to Bing...)

In large part due to his death in 1959 at the age of 31, Alfalfa's life has in recent years been the subject of widespread urban mythology and misconceptions. One of the biggest inaccuracies concerning Alfalfa is that he couldn't get any acting jobs as an adult. It may surprise even faithful Little Rascals fans that Alfalfa appeared in over 50 films and TV shows outside of the Rascals series, most of these as a grownup. We take an extensive look at these little-known performances in Alfalfaddendum.

Regardless of your favorite section, we hope that 4alfalfa.com is a place you feel comfortable visiting again and again... to celebrate and re-live the memories that this amazing talent has given generations of fans for nearly three-quarters of a century.

Enjoy!

Tom Ludwig
4alfalfa.com


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