Ear Pulling - The Noisy Brat (Boys Will Be Boys)(Punishment / Discipline)

@Ted-Says - Young Andrew is a very lively, noisy and annoying child who needs the firm discipline of his mother. She has perfected the use of ear pulling to (almost) bring the recalcitrant boy to his senses and do his daily piano practise. You can judge the results for yourself.
Yes, the brat is Haley Joel Osment early in his career, and yes, it looks like an anachronism when the boy takes off the roller skate; the strap appears to be secured around his ankle with a Velcro clasp but the story is set in the early 20th Century, Velcro was not invented until decades later. And yes, there is a continuity flaw after the roller skate lands on dad's chest.

[@nelllybellly1]

I glad you made mention of HJO. I didn't recognize him (I'm terrible at facial recognition) but found the movie with that clue and it was a surprising delight with a lovely cast of eccentric characters (perhaps caricatures is more apt) that made for great fun. Andy/Red Chief was wonderful but the Swedish housekeeper made me laugh out loud more than once. And the family reconciliation while father and son soared high on Dad's slipped helium hump was sweet and lovely.

[@Ted-Says]

Osment made a very annoying brat and showed that, even so young, he was a great child actor. There's another vid to come.

[@Joe-ms4kk]

Andrew talks like ash Ketchum in pokamon

[@ColonelMarcellus]

Speaking of ear-pulling, there is a great example of a bilateral pull (one ear in each hand) in "The Fellowship of the Ring", wherein Gandalf catches two mischievous hobbits raiding the fireworks supply and pulls their ears while admonishing them. Hobbits will be hobbits, or something like that. (Note: those ears were made of wax for the movie; some cautious acting was required.)

[@Ted-Says]

@Colonel Marcellus - The old Ted says channel had a "bilateral" ear pulling vid on it (humans, of course), in fact I looked at it yesterday as an alternative to this remastered one but it needs to be completely redone from scratch (it will appear here sooner or later). As for Tolkien, totally not my cup of tea, but I can tolerate Tolkien's friend, C.S. Lewis, with regard to some of his fantasy books. In my youth, I preferred the likes of Jules Verne.

[@ColonelMarcellus]

@@Ted-Says I have a sentimental attachment to Isaac Asimov. Some of his stories were rather juvenile and some had drag-out plots, but I got a letter from him once and that was enough for a boy to render some preference. Robert Heinlein had a few good stories, too. Jules Verne is the author of two of my favorite stories.

[@Ted-Says]

@Colonel Marcellus - Yeah, Asimov was an interesting guy, I discovered him from one of his non-fiction books. Wikipedia says he was a prolific letter writer, but it's always nice when an author takes time to write to his readers. In later life, and desperate for money, Mark Twain plagiarised at least one of Jules Verne's stories. Twain, like Edison, liked to take credit for other people's intellectual property, it seems. The American worship of Edison I liken to the French worship of the despotic Napoleon.

[@nelllybellly1]

@@ColonelMarcellus I loved reading the Foundation series as a young teen (just the first three then; I never cottoned to the subsequent books) and he was my favorite scifi author. My admiration grew a few years later when I learned of his particpation in the The New York Society For Ethical Culture and that he was a big fan of Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas.