This is the version people really don't talk about. It goes both ways in the same movie, and either way the "What's in this drink?" is implying that they don’t want to get drunk, not that it's poisoned.
It really gets taken out of context now by people with no sense of subtlety or subtext. It is a common gag in old movies as an excuse for behavior that might be frowned upon, and the joke is there is usually nothing in the drink, ie no alcohol as you say.
I performed this song in high school for a musical revue with a girl who was taller than me. I think the music director must have seen this Skelton/Garrett rendition because that's how we played it, the guy wanting to go and the gal wanting to hold him back. We changed some lines, deleted the reference to alcohol, and I had some lines about my car might not start, and getting stuck in the snow with no shovel, and she had some about maidenly modesty and wanting to cook me some dinner and the way to a man's heart being through his stomach. It was very funny, the audience loved it, we got a long applause and there might have been a curtain call or two.
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I post this scene every Christmas just to prove how STUPID people can be... how they don't even know the song, much less the movie... political correctness run amok. These are consenting adults trying to seduce each other. Not a thing in the world wrong with that. "What's in this drink?" LIQUOR! Not to mention how tiresome it is to see every single old movie and song re-made or changed to suit another time. What in the world are writers doing anyway???? Certainly not coming up with anything new.
@@acbacbacbacbacb Honestly, the first part of the song with Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban, in my opinion, is just a delightful flirty song between the two of them.
