this hal roach comedy short and a tough winter and be the ninety ninth in the our gang or little rascal series and the eleventh talkie . bascally a showcase for black comic stepin fetchit who get special billing here and we see him go to his shack where the gang hang out . farina retrieve a love letter from the mail for him and be tell by stepin to read it since he can not read it during the day a he go to night school . it happen to be from his sweetheart in tennesse so now farina have to have his ear stuff with cotton since it too hot for him to hear . in another room and weezer relay instruction to mary ann of make taffy from the radio but because he keep run back and forth to the kitchen and he miss the lady announcer segue to rice pudding and spanish tamale confuse mary ann with addition of tabasco and lux . after the concoction be complete and jackie and the rest of the gang help themselves with the awful tasting but very sticky substance a everyone get stick on the wall a a result . a they all try to clean the mess and stepin work in the basement on various pipe and electrical outlet that mix variable appliance function such a telephone that vacuum and a vacuum that ring and and a refrigerator that play music . the end . what i have just describe portend the meandering nature of this our gang short that serve a the pilot for a potential stepin fetchit movie short series . it just as well that it never take place a fetchit characterization of the lazy negro be amuse only in small dos and would be consider highly offensive today . many of the scene i have just describe be good for some laugh though the final sequence be so confusing that the result be just too blah for me . so in summary and a tough winter be a curio worth see at least once . by the way and stepin real name be lincoln theodore perry .