Thread by @BCDreyer

Always happy to point out to Wizard of Oz watchers that the WWW's skywriting is addressed not to Dorothy (i.e., "Surrender, Dorothy") but to the citizens of Emerald City (i.e., give Dorothy to me). It originally read in full "Surrender Dorothy or die."

Also always happy to brood over the fact that the Witch's head monkey gets better billing than Aunt Em.

How many viewings did it take me to figure out what the Munchkin barrister says after "This is a day of independence / for all the Munchkins and their descendants"?

Many.

BTW I've decided that the witch we see Almira Gulch transform into is the Wicked Witch of the East, who, playing chicken with the Gale farmhouse, ends up getting crushed by it.

The Wicked Witch of the West is her identical twin.

YMMV.

It's "If any," which is a perfect thing for a lawyer to say.

There are so many great wordplays throughout (esp. "Oil can what?"), but the "You will be a bust" joke is pretty good too.

Note Dorothy's confusion as she's repeatedly told that she will be a bust and her relief when they add "in the Hall of Fame!"

My god, that g.d. wig.

And in conclusion: Decades before "Ideal, she avers," I'd already learned "aver" from The Wizard of Oz, so there, Stephen Sondheim.

"SOMEONE HIDE JUDY'S TITS."

Except this further thought, on the messiness of art: Read Aljean Harmetz's splendid book and you will learn that there were so many ways in which this film might have turned out to be a massive dunghill. That it's great seems almost a happy accident.

"What if Dorothy sings swing and Princess Ozma sings opera?"

Or something in that vein, as I recall.

I love the movie just as it is, but I wouldn’t mind, just once, seeing the version with Fanny Brice as Glinda, Gale Sondergaard as the WWW, and W. C. Fields as the Wizard.

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And of course the Scarecrow's recitation of the isosceles triangle thing is 100 percent incorrect.

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