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It is implied that the immigrant producer Tateh will go on to create this property in the last chapter of Ragtime. In an entry in this property, a hotel page gets fired when his friends crash a dog show with turtles, mice, and a pig. The phrase “okey-dokey” was supposedly popularized by an actor in this property named George McFarland. Characters in this series form a club called the Cluck Cluck (*) Klams in the film Lodge Night, one of many entries that informed the character of Hominy Jenkins in Paul Beatty’s novel The Sellout. Members of this series include a terrier with a ring around one eye named Pete the Pup, as well as Spanky, Buckwheat, and Alfalfa. For 10 points, Hal Roach created what series of comedy shorts about a group of mischievous kids? ■END■
ANSWER: Our Gang [or The Little Rascals] (The second sentence describes the short “Pups Is Pups.”)
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