101 Dalmatians ~ Lost in Adaptation 

"Just because someone's a bottom, doesn't mean they're not an asshole" So true😂

“Can you imagine a song defaming someone becoming a smash hit” Dom you beautiful bastard you, putting this out in the midst of Kendrick and drakes feud

Just after Cruella finds her furs destroyed, the black half of her hair turns white and the white half turns green. Then, for even more salt in the wound, Mr. DeVil gets a new job making 100% cruelty-free polyester clothing, which Cruella is forced to wear in order to promote it.

An unfortunate fun fact: The movie boosted the popularity of dalmatians which led to two things: 1. People getting dalmatians without understanding the breed's needs (it's a very active dog that needs a lot of training) and abandoning them at shelters en masse . 2. Backyard breeders mass producing them to the point where the breed as a whole has a ton of health and behavioral issues even to this day. Nowadays dalmatians are being crossed with other breeds (mostly the German shorthaired pointer) to breed out the health issues.

Cruella De Vil kidnapped 99 adorable puppies... Unfortunately, each and every one of them belonged to John Wick....

Dodie Smith is quoted as saying the adaptation IMPROVED her story. Few adaptations get that kind of commendation.

The real MVP of this adaptation is a bit of a forgotten person named Bill Peet who was a Disney story man for Disney from Pinocchio to Sword in the Stone, he solo'ed both 101 Dalmatians and The Sword and the Stone but left Disney over disagreement over the Jungle Book. Bill Peet went on to have a second career as a Children's Book Author, a very successful one. According to Smith herself, Peet did a fantastic job telling her story.

"we should all start vocalizing our intrusive thoughts more. you never know what they might inspire." great moral of this story

Excuse me sir, but the live action version is VERY fondly remembered. Cruella's evil fashion designer became a benchmark.

Video starts with dom in a dress yall it’s gonna be a banger

Did anyone else not notice the spots on Lucky's back were in the shape of horseshoe? I thought he got his name as I assumed he was the puppy who almost died at birth but was revived, thus he was "lucky" to have lived.

I would kill to have just one adaptation reference Cruella's obsession with pepper.

I always liked the cat from the film. While Walt was still running the studio, he never seemed a fan of cats so they usually were villains or whatnot. But the cat from the Dalmatian movie was awesome! He would risk his life to save all the puppies, making sure not even one would be left behind. He even goes so far to try to use his own lanky body as a shield to protect them when the goons cornered and was ready to bash them. He's a good kitty and deserves more recognition.

I love the fact that Dominic actually mentioned Roger getting famous for writing the song and no one batted an eye about it.

Oh, THANK you for mentioning Cruella’s cat! She’s my favorite, too. I love how she directs the dogs to Cruella’s collection, and then personally shreds an exquisitely expensive chinchilla coat. She’s classy AF.

I think we can justify the dog-napping making the local news. I looked it up, a dalmatian puppy can cost anywhere from $450 to $1200, so the theft of 15 of them is a heist of at least $6,750 and up to $18,000 dollars, a newsworthy amount if you ask me.

glen close absolutely killed it as cruella. i still remember her from watching the film as a small child

I really appreciate the work that went into that colour wheel of professions- teacher opposite sniper, firefighter opposite youtuber etc. A great gag to pause and read.

Okay, am i the only one who remembers the Disney channel animated series that... basically just follows up the "they buy a big farm in the countryside and all go live there" thing?

"Will sass film adaptations for food" is an offer many people would take up, especially with your talent for it😂

Got the earworm again,😂“if she doesn’t scare you no evil thing will“

Fun fact: the Rescuer’s animated film nearly had Cruella be the main villain of a movie that was based on a separate book series. The idea was scraped but the main villainess in the movie Medusa is heavily influenced personally and design wise by Cruella even having a similar car. Ironically Medusa’s main sidekick Snoops is a bit of Cruella’s husband in the book, he was a greedy evil man but was also completely spineless.

I once came up with my own backstory for Cruela. Her father was a diplomat who as out of the country for most of her life. Every time he did come home however, he gifted her a new fur coat. Soon fur became the only way for her to feel love.

Cruella was also the only irredeamble villian in Once Uppon a Time. The only one who is a total sociopath: "Some people struggle not to be drawn into the darkness. But ever since I was a little girl, I've said... 'Why not splash in and have fun?'"

Love that this video was made well before the Kendrick Lemar/Drake feud started and Dom makes a joke about how it is impossible to think someone making a hit song defaming someone. Hilariously awesome timing.

"Can you imagine a song like Cruella de Vil in real life?" [Looks at Euphoria/Not Like Us/Meet the Grahams]

I understand that Dodie Smith had a much more healthy relationship with Walt Disney than P. L. Travers did.

The film was also a big influence in the animation industry. Everyone from Matt Groening to Akira Toriyama have cited it as among their favorite Disney films, and its unique art style was what Bruce Timm and Brad Bird were inspired by in their respective works.

I recently rewatched this with my nephew on Disney+. We have a corgi puppy who barked at the screen whenever the dogs started barking. It was adorable. :D

As someone who mainly saw the spinoffs and hasn't really seen the original film the biggest twist for me here was that not all the puppies are related to eachother. Makes more sense than a single dog birthday over a hundred puppies, but you know as a kid you just don't question these things.😅

Based on Dodie's other writing, the other female characters in the book, and the fact that Missus is shown as being the emotionally wise one: she was describing the personality of a Dumb Dog. The detail about the Dearly's laughing at how she got lost in the park just reads as classic from the owner of a dog that was not overly gifted betwixt the ears, but who was wonderfully loving. I've only had one real Dumb Dog in my life. His brain was probably smooth enough to roller skate on, but he was as sweet as a dog can be.

7:20 probably meant to explain how the family doesn’t instantly go broke trying to raise over 100 dogs

"Just because someone's a bottom doesn't mean they're not an asshole." - words of wisdom. I hope someone comes down to the comments before finishing the video and sees this with no context.

...After that outro I'm just imagining Dom chained to the corner of a living room, some rich guy watching a movie. He pauses it, claps his hands twice, Dom delivers a one-liner, and the man throws him a bacon piece and keeps watching.

The bit about accountants being the exact opposite of music artists is insane because the wheel implies that teachers are to opposite of snipers

12:51 Being a vet myself, I immediately made a screenshot of this to send to my friends, who are also vets. Though I see your "almost midnight on Christmas Eve", and raise you "3 AM on New Year's Day"

It's finally here! When I first requested it, it was before 101 Dalmatian Street came out. I'm surprised you didn't mention how after Cruella was financially ruined, the black half of her hair turned white and the white half turned green.

More faithful of an adaptation than I was expecting, considering how different a lot of Disney movies tend to be from their source material.

I think the in universe explanation for why Cruella doesnt do anything sbout the song, is because despite hating it, its still a banger and as shes unrepentantly evil, cant pass up good PR. Hell in various interpertations of the character for stage and (small) screen, it's implied shes the one who bought the song expressly to use it in her "house of DeVille" marketing.

One thing that stuck out to me as a child when I read this book, was the mention of Cruella drinking ink.

Interesting side note: copyright/license issues are part of the reason companies make reboots and sequels. It doesn't have to be good for them to keep the rights, it just has to be made. (That's why there are so many Spiderman movies)

It is one of my favorite children's novels. I would definitely recommend it to anyone. I would not recommend the sequel which does read like the woman was on something. One touching part which was left out was that the original Perdita was able to be a wet nurse as she was lost when she went looking for her own puppies. These puppies were among the puppies being kept by Cruella so she was reunited with them at teh end.

My childhood self is asking when the puppies bake Cruella into a giant cake

I loved the book Cadpig and her wagon, and the litter of just the right size pups that loyally pulled her along, that turned out to be book Perditas lost pups!

"Cruella De Vil. Cruella De Vil. If she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will."

...I may just have to join your Patreon just to hear about another's spiral into madness when it comes to "The Starlight Barking". I honestly want more people to know this thing exists... because yeah, the plot is so absolutely bonkers, I feel like it's a total fever dream of a book.

One of Dodie Smith's dalmatians really did have fifteen puppies and one was brought back to life via massage . . . The quest to find a foster mother was really captivating to me as a kid because it was so much . . . realer? . . . than anything you'd find in most children's books. Also the details about the Dearlys initially keeping Missus and Perdita separate in case they fought, which would be a real life worry if all this went down. These weren't cartoon dogs, they were real dogs that happened to talk. Pongo was named after one of Dodie Smith's real life dogs, so Missus probably was too. I think it's possible that real-life Missus just happened to be a ditzy dog. :) Missus "looking around wildly" whenever the Dearlys let her off leash and, in Starlight Barking, Missus being "a champion mouse-chaser" sound like anecdotes about a real dog. Thank you for mentioning the white Persian cat, she is truly the MVP.

Was surprised you didn't mention the reasonably popular "wait, this is pretty gay, isn't it" reading of the dynamic between Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler! Doubtless unintentional, but fun.

The Starlight Barking is (err) barking. I absolutely love it. Incidentally Reynold's News (and The Sunday Citizen) was a real Sunday paper with a confusing name which went out of business in 1967. Whats My Crime is a parody of a real US game show called Whats My Line which was popular in the 50s and early 60s. There are a lot of jokes in this movie which are probably incomprehensible to 21st century viewers.

I loved Starlight Barking as a kid, never bothered me back then that the sequel was a weird metaphysical-fantasy-sci-fi-religious(?) adventure. Made perfect sense.

Fun Fact: The Sunday before Mardi Gras, there's a dog-themed walking parade through the French Quarter called Barkus (Get it, like Bacchus?), where people dress up dogs and pull them around in wagons and shopping carts or whatever to support animal shelters and advocate for pet adoptions. There's a theme and a royal court and everything, it's SUPER cute 🥰! I say all that to say, the last float is drawn by the Krewe Ella DeVille. It's as funny as it sounds: a bunch of Cruella DeVille cosplayers (IN CHARACTER, lol), with their float made-up to look like a cage 🤣! Yes, there are puppies in the "cage" and they are also up for adoption. It's all in good fun. Each Barkus float (even this one) has plenty of water and treats for the riders, even this one, lol

My favorite line in the book, one which I quote whenever I get the chance, happens while they're on the road. They stop at a village where they're supposed to be fed, but the dog responsible, a lovely Irish Setter with lustrous red fur, shows up crying about how she couldn't manage it. (She had a good reason which I can't remember.) She's so over-the-top distraught at her failure that Missus gently tells her it's all right, not to worry about it, and thanks her for making the effort. The dog happily trots off, having been forgiven, and as they watch her go off back home, Pongo quips, "Feather-brained as well as feather-tailed!" I love that line so much. However, I didn't like how Disney made Cruella ugly. She wasn't ever described that way in the book. She was clearly mean and villainous, but she was also stylish and the illustrations made it clear that she was beautiful. (The actress closest to the way she looked is Bebe Neuwirth.) I've always thought beautiful villains far scarier than ugly ones, but Disney decided after Snow White that they couldn't have any more beautiful villains, so...

Thank you so much for recognizing the work of the animators, Dom. It’s really important that they get their due credit, especially the work of legends like Marc Davis. If ever you get to talking about the Rescuers, please PLEASE mention Milt Kahl, who was the sole animator for that film’s villain. It was his last movie as an animator and he went out with a bang. He’s pretty important in the animation industry for his absolutely stunning work and how he seemed inhumanly good at making fluid bouncy animation for everyone.

As someone who loves old TV and movies, the What's My Line reference in this movie makes me smile every time

Given the recent hot topic of the music world, it just occurred to me that "Cruella DeVille" by Roger Radcliffe would be one of the oldest ever diss tracks in a real world context.

"One Badass Kitty" is either the greatest band name or the Best Book Title EVER.

I was always shocked Roger is able to write the Cruella song and have it be a hit *before* anyone knows (for sure) that she's a baddie. Yes, in the silly feature with talking dogs, my wee suspension of disbelief was broken by the concept of libelous lyrics.

101 Dalmatians and The Starlight Barking are two of my favourite books.

Dogs with superpowers and magic? Huh. So that’s where Eren Hunter got their ideas from.

You gotta give Cruella credit; as a Disney villains go she holds her own in company with evil kings, dark sorcerers and straight up gods.

As a child I use to listen to my mother's 101 Dalmatians record on my Fisher Price record player. I wasn't suppose to as it was a glass record and far more fragile than later records. I still say "my nose is froze and my toes are froze and my tail is froze" if I've a chance. I did a author's report on Dodie Smith in Jr High. I managed to borrow a copy of One Hundred And One Dalmatians from the library, although I genuinely had to promise to be careful with it, as it was quite old. I absolutely loved it and for years looked for a copy of the book which actually was quite hard to find until I finally got a copy from a thrift store a few years ago. Seems to me it turned out to be a version printed while I was in Jr High. How I missed it at the time I don't know. Cruella's cat was my favorite character and her getting her revenge was the only way I handled what Cruella had done to her in anyway at all. I of course was a huge fan of both the animated movie and the live action movie. I have been long curious to read the second book.

if someone walking up to me and say “Dang... your dog would make a good fur coat. i would just say to them "oh really so is your mother by the way where is she live again"

The bare necessities next, jungle books needs your treatment 😂

The live action 101 Dalmatians movie did have some great aspects thanks to Glen Close's amazing performance as Cruella (not to mention her awesome over the top costumes). Cruella's introduction is so iconic that they pretty much recreated it for Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada.

Starlight barking is easily the weirdest book I've ever read

My sister is 3 years older than me and used to read a chapter of the book to me each night - She must have read it to me like 10 times at least as I always asked for it. Always loved that chapter with the aristocrat - Hot Buttered Toast, and the random bit where Missus doesn't know her left from her right.

I love that you referenced Starlight Barking. I will be signing up on Patreon. I used to believe that i had hallucinated that book.

Now that 101 Dalmatians has joined Harry Potter, A Series Of Unfortunate Events, Percy Jackson, Matilda, The Witches, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Coraline, The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe, and How To Train Your Dragon on the list of LIA episodes on books that I adored as a kid, I’m strongly considering becoming one of your patrons in order to request The Spiderwick Chronicles, the only book/movie combo from my childhood that you haven’t talked about yet (excluding the other Roald Dahl books that were adapted, but I’m happy counting his collective works as a single series, and I imagine that you’d be reluctant to delve into that man’s history again anyway.)

And that cruella look Suits You dom! Rock it! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Old enough to be aound when Disney films played in theaters and then disappeared for seven years. I think this was the Disney film my mom, younger sibs, and I stood in line to watch, only to have the last tickets sold just as we were next in line.

I really loved this age of animation. Everything just had such charm and character to it that not even the best CG animation ever could. Which isn't to say that CG movies can't have those things but could you imagine if Moana was made using the style of this era of animation or the Golden Age of Disney?

I read the book many times as a kid before I ever saw thr movie. I loved the spaniel the Missus met trying to get help for Pongo after the child hit him with a rock. The old pet seeing the dalmations and remerbering them as carriage dogs from his youth, while makng toast over the fireplace fire, very sweet. It was a lovely scene.

by the way in the sequel book The Starlight Barking there is an alien dog who tries to save the dogs of Earth from nuclear war

Wait this was a book? Is a question I ask far too often on this show

"I ended up going down a rabbit hole even Alice would request be TONED DOWN!" That is such a good line😂 I love the movie. It's a classic I always love going back to, especially since life was so much slower and FAR less complicated than our world is nowadays. And seeing all the other Disney animated dogs as cameos during the Twilight Bark scene never stops being amusing 😁

Dom chose a very weird time to be surprised that dis tracks could make it big on the radio.

The book is also much more heavily Christian and Christmas-themed, with the dogs taking shelter in "the most peaceful and beautiful place they'd ever seen" aka a church, along with the dogs arriving home on Christmas. And Cruella's signature colors aren't just black, white, and red. In the book, there's an equal amount of red and green, with her wearing green jewelry with a red dress and vice versa. Also, the coat in the book was planned to be reversible, with the second side being sheep or lamb fur so Cruella could wear it before the Dalmatian thief police search died down. Additionally, it's fun to note that apparently, Dodie Smith loved the cartoon so much, that not only did she keep framed animation images of the Dalmatians from the cartoon on display for the rest of her life, but her main complaint to Disney on seeing the film was that her name wasn't bigger in the opening credits.

That Elon Musk bit was gold. 🤣

I read Starlight Barking in 5th grade, barely remember it aside from the bit towards the end where they discuss going into space, and didn’t realize it was a sequel to 101 until years and years later.

Bill Peet was a favorite author of mine as a child. I had forgotten all about him, so thanks for bringing part of my childhood back to mind! ❤

When I was in middle school I would borrow our Library's first edition copy of The Hundred and One Dalmatians so often that I doubt anybody else got to read it lmao. It's such a charming book, despite it's flaws. The dinner party scene where all the food is the wrong color and tastes of pepper is iconic. And then there's Starlight Barking, which is so batshit insane that you can't help but love it for how hard it goes. I can't wait to watch your review of it.

Cruella is a masterclass in how a great villain can make a pretty simple story (a group of puppies trying to find their way home) really thrilling and interesting. And she was SO EVIL. Like, let villains be EVIL again! The kids can handle it!

I've never read the book, but am a touch disappointed that Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler were named "on the nose" as I find it more amusing to have them be the opposite profession.

10:15 Just based on his persona I would guess that Dominic is probably not the BIGGEST rap fan. So to fill those that do not know in, the rap song of the summer seems to be shaping up to be a song where Kendrick calls out Drake by name as a pedo in VERY not subtle ways. So this ending is actually just Roger Dearly dropping the hottest bars of 1961.

fun fact: author of The Moomins Tove Jansson was offered by Walt to buy the franchise and she said no, I'm so very glad she turned him down.

The interlude with the old spaniel was really great.

That's interesting. I've never heard that anyone didn't like the live action. I actually cry multiple times when watching it for some reason. I love the music, the acting, the non-verbal story telling and excellent animal training/acting.

15:18 i remember this part. Yeah, this cat ruled. She got her revenge and lived happily ever after.

It was one of my favorite books when I was a young lad ^^ I even read a chapter to my little bro each night to help him fall asleep.

No mention of little Cadpig? She was the runty pup that almost died at birth in the book. She appears again in 101 Dalmatians the Series but was combined into the character of Lucky in the films.

As a kid I never fully appreciated just how beautiful the art in the movie is. The water color backgrounds are fantastic. Also, someone needs to show Dom diss tracks lmao. Those songs VERY much exist.

In the book, Cruella's husband being forced to leave the fur business and go into making plastic raincoats was the funniest thing ever.

One of my favorite parts that is not in the Disney film is after the Dalmatians escape and are trekking home, a bakery they're supposed to stop at is on fire. While they pass, they see Cruella standing on top of her car, cheering on the fire. It's just so absurd, evil and crazy, I love it

The fact you stated that graphic artists are the opposite of scientists is so true it hurts! I'm a graphic designer and artist so I fully related to this. Fun fact! When I made my career test back in highschool I got a ton of points in favor of science and medicine but decided on graphic design because medical school was too expensive for me (and hard!)

The job wheel gag was a bit of subtle hilarity.

We owned the live action movie on VHS, and I loved it. I don't think I even knew there was an animated version until my teens, and even then I didn't see it until my 20s

You are now officially the only person besides myself who I know has read this book. It was my favorite as a kid. To this day, I don’t believe I’ve ever watched the whole movie but I’ve read the book about a dozen times

"We should all start vocalizing our intrusive thoughts more. You never know what they might inspire." Not a bad idea.... .... .... ...aaaaaaaaand I'm fired.

I thought I was the only one who knew this book existed! Disney did a lot of adaptations like that, Bambi is another that immediately comes to mind.

I have never seen any version of 101 Dalmations but it sounds adorable tbh. I love that even back then, kids were parked in front of the screen in fascination. All those puppies watching the tv so avidly is the cutest. Also, I would totally watch that gameshow.