Plebian:
"If you won’t scold and dominate us we will never give you cause to hate us."
Erudite:
"Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face."
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In "Battle Of The Planets", Casey Kasem's character would yell out "TransssMUTE!", causing him to morph into the leader of G-Force.
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"Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face."
It's from Dr. Strangelove, (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb). Uhh, that dude, Major Buck Turgid? No, that was General B.T. played by George C. Scott. It was the other dude, the "bodily fluids" guy.
Hmm, noodling around for a possible connection (although we are sans Plebian for the nonce) I note that Sterling Hayden (Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper, the bodily fluids guy) was also in . . . wait for it . . . 9 to 5. Getting a little lazy, there, Hoopgod? Dolly Parton fixation getting the better of you?
Hayden also played Captain McCluskey in The Godfather. I don't think I'd ever have recognized those two roles were the same guy.
The first quote is from Mary Poppins, when Jane and Michael are singing their nanny advertisement.
I played Mr. Banks in the 4th grade play.
Connection:
Possibility 1: Both movies are about the end of the world, one through nuclear holocaust, the other through the tyranny of flying British nannies.
Possibility 2: Peter Sellers played every character in both movies
Possibility 3: Both were nominated for (and lost) the Best Picture Oscar in 1964.
Possibility 4: Stanley Kubrick really, really, really wanted to direct the Chimney Sweep dance scene in Mary Poppins, but instead was "forced" to direct Dr. Strangelove after Disney found out that he once ate a small child in film school.
Ben, apparently you don't recall a little role you played whilst in preschool? Does this line strike any chords with your memory of your early years?
"Mein Führer! I can walk!"
That's right: Ben Birken was in stage productions of both Mary Poppins and Dr. Strangelove.
AND Mary Poppins was Peter Sellers in drag.
(Oh, and yes, they were both nominated for Best Picture of 1964.)
Point to Mr. Birken.
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