“I can’t place her, though I only saw the Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts a time or two as a kid.”
Here she is charming chubby and joe in boxing gloves:
“My favorite was “Spooky Hooky”, where the guys skip school only to find out the entire class got taken on a field trip to the amusement park. Pretty funny stuff.”
You got the title mixed up.
The one where they play hooky when the rest of the class goes to the amusement park is Fish Hooky.
Spooky Hooky is the one where spanky and alfalfa decide to pretend to be sick so that they could go to the circus. To that end they concoct a phony note to be placed on the teachers desk only to learn that the teacher is taking the class to see the circus. Now alfalfa, spanky, porky, and buckwheat have to retrieve the phony note before the teacher sees it. But the school is closed and locked up. So they have to break in on a rainy night to try to get their note back.
Oops, my mistake! I remember the circus ep now. Good one.
I also really liked one where this rich kid in a neck brace goes for a ride in one of the kid’s homemade taxi cab or something. They spend about half the ep going down a steep hill in it. At the end, Stymie or one of the other kids “fixes” the rich by twisting his neck “normal” or something. Funny stuff.