Every gang of misfits needs a bully to run from, and Butch was ours. This week Blake and Jordan reunite with their old castmate Sam Saletta, the leather-jacketed troublemaker who made the Rascals' lives miserable in the 1994 classic. Sam was the "voiceover kid" out of Chicago before he ever met Steven Spielberg, and he walked out of his screen test 90% sure he had the part. He did, and nearly thirty years later the three of them pick right back up like no time has passed.

Sam finally spills the story of how Blake and Jordan actually got their roles: the original Woim got sent home for calling a kid "fuckface" on the playground, and the original Froggy flipped a Connect 4 board in the school trailer. From there the guys trace Sam's whole run, the TV circuit and Seventh Heaven alongside sister Nikki, three or four years as Sam Dullard on Rocket Power under cartoon legend Charlie Adler, and the voice change that quietly ended his cartoon career. He talks about stage-parent Karen (pushy in the good way), chasing normalcy as an independent kid who watched Hollywood chew people up, and the high school music program that launched a second career as a professional musician.

The back half gets into the real stuff and the ridiculous stuff in equal measure. Sam explains how his family handled the money, why he knew about and signed off on the investment in moving to LA, and the residual-check absurdity that ends in a check for literally zero dollars. He shares how first-season American Idol wanted a contract owning his past, present, and future, why he walked, and how he made peace with Butch after years of people trying to test him for playing one of the most legendary bullies in cinema history. Plus the pig pucky rankings you've been waiting for (oatmeal and dirt, dead last).

And yes, the guys build out the full Butch cinematic universe: he buys the clubhouse, tears it down, puts up luxury condos, and hires Woim as his loyal maintenance man. From our childhood to yours, this is The Not So Little Rascals.

🎥 What happens in this episode?

00:00 Cold Open: Pig Pucky, Ranked

00:47 Reunion: Butch and Woim Back Together

01:28 The Chicago Voiceover Kid and Meeting Spielberg

04:36 The Replacement Rascals: How Blake and Jordan Really Got In

06:49 Typecast as the Bully, and the People Who Try You

09:30 The TV Circuit, Seventh Heaven, and Sister Nikki

10:20 Rocket Power, Sam Dullard, and Charlie Adler

13:52 When the Voice Changed

15:00 Stage-Parent Karen and the Sibling Dynamic

18:14 Favorite Rascals Memories and School as a Kid Actor

21:10 Burroughs, Music, and Chasing Normalcy

26:02 The Third Act: COVID, Real Estate, and Buying a House from a Little Rascal

28:51 How the Money Was Handled, and Residual-Check Hell

34:20 Perform Forever? His Son, and Watching the Movie Together

38:17 Pig Pucky Rankings and Butch's Hypothetical Future

44:06 Anonymity, American Idol Season One, and Making Peace with Butch

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