The top grossing movie in 1987 wasn’t Robocop or Full Metal Jacket, but instead a domestic buddy comedy that unexpectedly combined three of the biggest leading men of the time—all from their own different arenas.
I remembered something about Aladdin sneaking in to meet Jasmine and having spent the last 10 minutes learning about every bawdy thing Disney supposedly stuck in their movies, Aladdin says ‘take off your clothes.’ My god man - the little mermaid erection scene, who framed roger rabbit flashing, the lion king SEX in the dust …
Oh dang you’re serious! I may have cults on the brain—wrote about some this week—but what struck me when I was going down this rabbit hole is the cult of Disney. The Disney was/is a perv is just one element. There are theories about his brain being frozen, the secret club at Disneyland (real), and I left out the black unicorn character in Fantasia so racism is a recurring theme too. I’ve know a few Disney zealots too that go every year and the collectible market is huge, etc. I almost got kicked out once (for spitting off the gondola) and my HS grad night was there and I just happened on a picture of my date and I posing with a monstrous chip (or dale)? Oh and my dad was super into the backstory of who framed Roger Rabbit, not to mention Jessica. I also had a girlfriend who got a rabbit and we named her Jessica and when we broke up and she threatened to kill the rabbit.
Oooh man that would've freaked me out as a kid. Reminds me of those "gotcha" YouTube prank videos where you're told to focus on something and suddenly there'd be a ghost or a creepy thing appearing out of the blue.
But this type of misinterpretation was quite common in the age of early home photo cameras, too. I recall plenty of shots where people thought there was some blurry shape or ghost, which turned out to be an out-of-focus finger of the person taking the picture or the camera's neck strap, etc.
There's a classic Far Side cartoon where the dude is about to develop a photo of a UFO, only to have his wife or mom open the darkroom door to bring some milk and cookies in!
I remember that. I also love the scene of 'Goodnight Sweetheart' Oh, and putting the phone in the shower.
I had to look up the shower/phone thing!
I remembered something about Aladdin sneaking in to meet Jasmine and having spent the last 10 minutes learning about every bawdy thing Disney supposedly stuck in their movies, Aladdin says ‘take off your clothes.’ My god man - the little mermaid erection scene, who framed roger rabbit flashing, the lion king SEX in the dust …
Maybe we should cowrite something about hidden Disney dongs!
that'd be a banger
I'm down. Send me a blurb or something and we can just add to it until we're done. We can publish at your spot this time, if that works.
Oh dang you’re serious! I may have cults on the brain—wrote about some this week—but what struck me when I was going down this rabbit hole is the cult of Disney. The Disney was/is a perv is just one element. There are theories about his brain being frozen, the secret club at Disneyland (real), and I left out the black unicorn character in Fantasia so racism is a recurring theme too. I’ve know a few Disney zealots too that go every year and the collectible market is huge, etc. I almost got kicked out once (for spitting off the gondola) and my HS grad night was there and I just happened on a picture of my date and I posing with a monstrous chip (or dale)? Oh and my dad was super into the backstory of who framed Roger Rabbit, not to mention Jessica. I also had a girlfriend who got a rabbit and we named her Jessica and when we broke up and she threatened to kill the rabbit.
I mean, Jessica Rabbit had no peer when she was introduced to me in 1988.
I'd be down to think about hidden dongs.
Did you ever see Heavy Metal?
I did, maybe 35 years ago? Don't quiz me.
Oooh man that would've freaked me out as a kid. Reminds me of those "gotcha" YouTube prank videos where you're told to focus on something and suddenly there'd be a ghost or a creepy thing appearing out of the blue.
But this type of misinterpretation was quite common in the age of early home photo cameras, too. I recall plenty of shots where people thought there was some blurry shape or ghost, which turned out to be an out-of-focus finger of the person taking the picture or the camera's neck strap, etc.
There's a classic Far Side cartoon where the dude is about to develop a photo of a UFO, only to have his wife or mom open the darkroom door to bring some milk and cookies in!
That's how serial killers are born.
True, but I know a few who never drank milk and only ate cookies.