Bug Hall

So it's like 3AM and I can't sleep. I don't remember the last time I was up this late for no reason. I don't feel tired, yet all I want to do is go to sleep. Because it's three in the morning and I have nothing better to do. But no. I suspect it is the three cups of tea I drank tonight that may be keeping me up. So, in hopes that this might make me a little sleepier, I shall become (at least for tonight) an insomniac blogger.

Rant-y introduction over.

Do you remember this guy?

OF COURSE YOU DO. This guy here is Alfalfa, the most adorkable love-struck five year old ever, as seen in The Little Rascals, a movie that came out in 1994 and I watched many many times in my childhood. This is one of those movies that I'm pretty sure everyone has seen, and can unconsciously quote it every once in a while ("Quick! What's the number for 911!?"). This little guy, and his odd hairdo (which, thinking back, I'm pretty sure they slip a boner reference in with it?), defines this movie. And this movie was awesome.

Now why am I bringing this up? Well, fast forward fifteen years, and the American Pie series hands out another straight-to-DVD movie (Americana Pie Present: The Book of Love). What do we have in the opening scene? A teenage boy masturbating into a peanut butter sandwich?  Ah, now that's classy (and only to be expected, come on now, you know what you're watching).

BUT WAIT. What's that you hear?

That's a small part of my childhood collapsing in on itself as it collides with my teenage-hood, because, yup, that boy is AL-goddamn-FALFA. Many years later, Alfalfa still only has one thing on his minds- girls. I guess it's nice to know that some things never change.

I never thought I'd say this but here it is: Alfalfa standing next to 

Eugene Levy.

Seriously, I just spend an hour and a half (because yes, I secretly like the American Pie movies, I think they are mindlessly, stupidly, funny) watching a movie featuring Alfalfa trying to bone the blond girl from 2 Broke Girls. Eugene Levy,  K-Fed, Bret Michael, and Screech (from Saved by the Bell) also made appearances, as contributors/founders of "The Bible."  It was a weird 90 minutes.

I found this little connection to be simultaneously hilarious and kind of sad. But I did a little imdb-lurking and read up a bit on the actor. So here we go:
1) His name is Bug Hall. His first name is Bug. For real.
2) He's had appearances on all three CSI's and Criminal Minds. How have I not noticed him before??
3) He also had a small part in Hercules. Seriously, he was in something I liked from every period of my life (childhood, elementary school, and now).
4) I just realized he kind of looks like a combination of Sean Austin and a family friend of mine. The mind-blowing properties of him have no end.
5) Finally, as far as I can tell, he's the only Little Rascal who kept up acting at a steady pace. Good job Alfalfa!
6) He's got a 6-pack now. Just putting it out there, I would not have guessed that from his Little Rascal days.

So anyways, there's my little childhood-tainting fact of the day. If you have any other "What they're doing now" stories for childhood favorites, I would really enjoy hearing them. But for now, it's 3:30 and I'm feeling much more prepared to sleep. Good night!


(P.S. HAHAHA I JUST REMEMBER HOW HE WIGGLES HIS EARS IN LITTLE RASCALS. I'm so glad they didn't add that into his later movies. It would be so much less cute, and more creepy)