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Full Of It #231 - Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Patreon)

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2023-01-15 00:00:02
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2023-02

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Hotly requested since her passing last year, today we'll be feeling cosy nostalgia as we chat about Dame Angela Lansbury and the movie that introduced her to me as an enamoured soft boy, Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Contains brief mentions of suicide and The Holocaust.

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Anonymous

So looking forward to this weekends Traitors podcast, I'm currently full of the flu, and have been up since 5am, so I'm watching the US version, and it's surprising me (but also, y'know, not surprising me) how backstabby the Americans are. Literally during the second episode in the middle of a mission, one says to another contestant "I'm voting for her in tonights banishment" and then adds "and if you don't vote for her, I'm voting for you next time" Also, classic American subtlety, two of the three traitors are INSTANTLY, correctly called out as Traitors (either in confessionals, or amongst the faithful), which is especially funny when one of these was "I'm so confident I can pull of being a traitor" prior to being selected. 😂

Anonymous

The first time I saw this movie, I must’ve been maybe 8 or 9 years one afternoon when my mother told me there was going to be a movie on tv that she loved as a kid. She didn’t say what it was called or what it was about, but I sat down to watch it while she made estrellas in the kitchen.(that’s Spanish for Star soup) I didn’t get up for the food because I was so enamored by Angela and the animation and the songs that for once in my life, food took a back seat. My mother brought me the estrellas in a bowl and allowed me to eat in the living room while my eyes were glued to screen. That was the first and last time I saw the movie before seeing it again 15 years later on Disney +. Yet it was already my favorite movie seeing it that one time. One scene I’ll always remember being enchanting and slightly creepy was when Mr. Brown is sleeping on a bench and has a vision of Ms. price in a show girl outfit walking along the train tracks. It’s one of those scenes in a movie that makes you wonder “the hell was that scene for?” But it’s memorable for sure. Hearing you sing the Water fetching song from the jungle book brought back all the serotonin from when I first watched that movie when I was a child. I have a fascination with Disney in the 60s in particular right before Walt Disney died. When we think of classic Disneyland attractions, Pirates, the Haunted Mansion, Small word and the train with the dinosaurs on it, came from that time around the 1964 worlds fair. The Jungle Book taps into the culture of Americans having extra money to travel on planes and having interest in different parts of the world like India. That interest was surely a point of inspiration in the attractions for Disneyland that are still in operation to this day.

Anonymous
>>99717500

Ooh! I'm a massive Germanophile, and could help you with what German snacks we definitely cannot get in the UK. Lorenz Currywurst crisps and MezzoMix would be top of the list if I was making something for the gerls, also, Ahoj-Brause!!

Anonymous
>>99717500

Fantastic! I‘m quite unsure what is available at ALDI, Lidl etc in the UK. Some help is greatly appreciated! 🙏🏻 I thought about Knoppers in different variations, MezzoMix or Spezi was high on my list too and some GOOD snacking pretzels (hurts my German heart to spell it like that xD)

Anonymous
>>99717500

Are you on the ol' Discord? Be much easier to team up on this over there as I don't get notifications of replies on Patreon, or I'm on Twitter @KrisWhoTweets - also you can email me at thinkabouteurovision@gmail.com (that's my podcasts email, just don't want to put my personal email in a public place)

Anonymous
>>99717500

I‘m not (yet) on the Discord but that would make it easier! I have lots of ideas and just not sure to add things that are typical in Germany yet globally available or go really niche and go for specialties. But that would mean to have a very southern German perspektive on it.

Anonymous

Thank you so much for this episode! 🙏🏻 So interesting to hear your perspective on the movie and to hear your rednition of the songs 😅 so on pitch! I would love to thank you girls with a German snack box but I know that German candy is easily available in the UK? Would you be interested in specialties? Like Maaaaaarzipan! ^^ let me know! Hugs and Kisses!

Anonymous

Aw I love hearing Luther’s little meow in the background🥰 hearing so many people rave on about the traitors is making me feel as though I’m majorly missing out, I may have to give it all a watch?

Patrique

OY MISTER YOU ME DAD? Best reference 😂😂😂

Anonymous

Amazing pod as usual darl. Absolutely loved this film as a kid, the animated underwater sequence blew my 8 year old tits clean off. Could never get into Murder She Wrote either. Something about nosy cahs sticking their nose in people's business really rubs me up the wrong way. I can't get into Dora the Explorer for the same reason. That, and because I'm 34 years old. Love you both heaps!!!!

Anonymous

I have 2 specific memories of Ange growing up. The first also being Bedknobs and Broomsticks. When me and my brothers were younger, if my mother didn't feel like cooking she'd make us a 'lunchy dinner' which consisted of a toasted sandwich, crisps and a chocolate bar. I specifically remember eating dinner and watching the movie one night and being transfixed on the Beautiful Briny Sea scene and how catchy the songs were. I often say to myself 'Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee' but that could also just be because of your Wendigo Solutions episode where you're under a table thinking there's a shooter. The second memory I have is her performance in Mrs Santa Claus, a tv movie musical from 1996. I got it free with a newspaper in like 2008 and watched it pretty much every day after school for about month. I adored it. Set in 1910, Mrs Claus gets stuck in an American city, befriends an immigrant stable lad, helps the suffragette movement and stops an evil business man using child labour to sell his knock off toys. I know you're not a musical person but if you like Ange I'd give it a go, it's a very cosy and charming movie.

Anonymous

This film was my childhood too. Witchcraft, musical numbers, Nazis, and Lansbury - what a dynamite combination! Portobello Road is a personal fave, especially the sections which are interpreted by the various cultures of wartime London. I'm constantly quoting, "Who do you think you are, the Queen of Sheeba?" Oh and on the note of the Annie and Oliver! VHS, I had exactly the same tape but would always fast-forward through Oliver! because it was too sad and Annie is a camp extravaganza. Just started Traitors US on iplayer and I don't think they understand the game (I'm on ep 2). Very money orientated, which is...okay I suppose, but their logic and reasoning so far seem very straightforward. Still going to give it a go tho' as Allan Cumming absolutely chews the whole set to pieces in every shot.

Anonymous

Watched Bedknobs over Christmas with my husband who is British Indian, got to the (really long) dance sequence in Portobello Road where it's different cultures dancing, the Indian men came on with turbans and husband was like 'wtf have you got me watching??'. That section really hasn't dated well haha. I'm a massive Wizard Of Oz fan, one of those VHS's I had on repeat as a kid. My friend put it on for her 5 year old at the weekend and she lasted about 35 minutes before turning it off haha. I think kids have so much more choice now whereas we had about 8 VHS tapes.

Anonymous

There’s a weird adult dimension to ‘Bedknobs and Broomsticks’ with Professor Browne wanting Miss Price’s arse, the Nazis and the backdrop of the war that I didn’t really get as a child but could sense and it made me uneasy and fascinated. I was haunted by the scene where Professor Browne sees the ‘ghost’ of Eglantine walking along the railroad tracks all done up as his glamorous assistant. Professor Browne is such a great character because there’s all the build-up of flying on the bed to get to him and you expect you’re going to find this great wizard and then he’s just a bit of a shit. Same concept as the Wizard of Oz I guess. I like kids’ films that include a good mix of magic and disappointment because that prepares you well for adulthood!!

Anonymous

I’m a similar age to you and Nova (born in 94) and I feel like I watched a lot of moves like Bedknobs and broomsticks, The Swiss family Robinson and Hatari! Because they were films that came out when my parents were young. You should do one on Hitari, controversial for its use of live animals being caught on safari in the 60’s by the cast.

Anonymous

Yes I’m high maintenance… but I think you gotta be… and frankly I enjoy it