- First aired: 23 October 1982
- Story by: Earl Kress
- Duration: 11 minutes
Cast[]
- Julie McWhirter Dees as Alfalfa and Porky
- Scott Menville as Spanky
- Shavar Ross as Buckwheat
- Patty Maloney as Darla
Summary[]
Darla decides to enter her chocolate cake in the Bilgebury Bake-Off contest, but Porky ate the entire cake before the Rascals got to enter the contest. However, when the day of the contest came, Darla came down with an illness ("turkey pox"), but the boys entered Darla's house (with her consent, of course) to retrieve the cake that Darla baked, and bring it to the auditorium where the contest is taking place. The Rascals try to replicate Darla's recipe by using random ingredients. Plus, since the judges never got a chance to meet Darla in person (and likely won't this time around), the Rascals have Alfalfa wear a blond wig with pigtails and a different pink dress, to make the judge think he is Darla.
The boys return to the auditorium with the ingredients and one of Buckwheat's inventions to bake the cake efficiently, and when the boys asked for the piece of paper with the recipe on it, it got caught inside Porky's sandwich, and after Alfalfa started to read it, the piece of paper with the recipe on it split apart and the bottom half fell to the stage. The boys put both halves together and put the ingredients together. Then, Buckwheat's mixing machine is ready for action, but the machine gets out of control and Buckwheat tries to turn off the machine, but the switch snaps off, and the mixture splatters all over the stage area, but Buckwheat stops his machine by pulling the plug.
As a last ditch attempt to win the contest for Darla, yeast is added to the mix, and the cake goes in the oven - but apparently, too much yeast was used and the cake blew up so much, it took up the entire floor of the stage, and Spanky used a fork to stop the expansion - and splattered the entire studio, including the judge, the contestants, and the audience. Regardless, Darla's recipe ended up winning by default, and Spanky supposedly expected to receive prize money which he intends to give to Darla, but based on the boys' disbelieved reactions and fainting in the end, the prize was not what they expected it to be.
Trivia[]
- Darla's appearances in this segment were fewer than normal. She also had very few appearances in "Horse Sense".
- The baking contest was called the Bilgebury Bake Off Contest, a spoof on the Pillsbury Bake-Off - which was held every two years, and as of the season this episode aired, would next occur 21 February 1984.
In Other Languages[]
- German: "Der Backwettbewerb"