I'm wondering if it's a comment on fascism? As Firefly is literally advocating for complete totalitarianism, with some added corruption for good measure.
I enjoy this one and "You Nazty spy!" that was a good one except it was a few years later. Still I enjoyed this one better than the You Nazty spy. This was longer and the jokes were a little bit less slap stick and more political humor. Its only a little bit. The Marx brothers relied more and normal jokes instead of slapstick humor that the 3 Stooges used. Still both comedic geniuses.
Groucho Marx's Gilbert and Sullivan influence was particularly evident in the song, as it's essentially "As Someday It May Happen" and "From Every Kind of Man Obedience I Expect" from The Mikado.
At least I admit what I'm going to do. The last man nearly ruined this place you didn't know what to do with it, if you think this country's bad off now, just wait till I get through with it!
"The last man nearly ruined this place, he didn't know what to do with it. If you think this country's bad off now just wait till I get through with it." The theme of EVERY US President, Democrat or Republican.
Such a treasure to watch a precode movie. The sanitization of film between 1934 and 1960 stopped many talented people from doing better drama or comedy. In some cases it offered alternatives not used in the original material, e.g. a play, but generally it only made movies more politically correct. The irony is that the same film companies who created the code were the same which tried to bypass it, e.g. when a director tried to keep more "politically incorrect" scenes.
“I think this was supposed to be a parody of the genre” you don’t really get the Marx Brothers do you? Actually, respect for musicality courses in their Vaudeville veins. Musical comedy is a genre; see Andy Samberg for details
This basically sums up the political situation in many countries these days, including America, Turkey etc.. This might be the main song for the German Party AfD, of which I hope they never make it into the parlament. Marx Brothers are amazing.
Correct me if I wrong, since you may consider me to be under the same type of stupid, but didn't he mention the Hays Code all those four months ago simply because it was relevant to that particular era for the Marx brothers? I doubt that he was trying to make a political stance against you lot.
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I've been around other people hypocritically comparing the stale and barely extant Hays code to modern official and non-official insanity: I suppose it's possible he could have meant it non-politically, in which case I owe an apology. However, it seems unlikely.
[MRS. TEASDALE] For our information Just for our illustration Tell us how you intend to run the nation [FIREFLY] These are the laws of my administration: No one's allowed to smoke Or tell a dirty joke And whistling is forbidden [DIPLOMATS] We're not allowed to tell a dirty joke Hail, hail Freedonia [FIREFLY] If chewing gum is chewed The chewer is pursued And in the hoosegow hidden [DIPLOMATS] If we choose to chew we'll be pursued [FIREFLY] If any form of pleasure is exhibited Report to me, and it will be prohibited I'll put my foot down, so shall it be This is the land of the free The last man nearly ruined this place He didn't know what to do with it If you think this country's bad off now Just wait till I get through with it The country's taxes must be fixed And I know what to do with it If you think you're paying too much now Just wait till I get through with it (instrumental break) I will not stand for anything that's crooked or unfair I'm simply on the up and up, so everyone beware If anyone's caught taking graft and I don't get my share We stand him up against the wall and pop goes the weasel Ah! [DIPLOMATS] So everyone beware Who's crooked or unfair If anyone's caught taking graft unless he gets his share [FIREFLY] If any man should come between a husband and his bride We find our which one she prefers by letting her decide If she prefers the other man, the husband steps outside We stand him up against the wall and pop goes the weasel Ah! [DIPLOMATS] The husband steps outside Relinquishes his bride They stand him up against the wall and take him for a ride
I think Trump or Drumpf watched this clip and adopted the principals into his campaign. Specifically "If you think thing's are bad now, just wait till I get through with it"
Great Marx Brothers movie --but in this scene I've always hated the part when Groucho approved of the young "beautiful" woman leaving her older frumpier husband for the young "handsome" man and saying put him up against the wall and "pop goes the weasel".
People all over the world have been wondering how Biden came up with his plan to be president. It's all revealed in the film clip above. Of course, when Groucho announced this in DUCK SOUP, he was only joking. Groucho, after all, had a functioning brain, and a great sense of irony and sarcasm (and really good writers).
“if anything like pleasure is exhibited. Tell me and it’ll quickly be prohibited. I’ll put my foot down, so shall it be; This is the land of the free.”. and “… 🎶 we line him up against the wall and 🎵 POP goes the weasel! 🎶 “. Fascist political theory in smaller than a nutshell, this definitely is right at the heart of it 😂, and I’m not 100% convinced that ‘Duck Soup’ didn’t actually hasten the onset of WWII 😂.
Also, with the knowledge that there are surely no accidents in a Marx Bros skit/film, i find it quite funny how he plays “Dixie” on the piccolo as he’s singing about all the stuff he’s going to outlaw and how he’s going to enforce those bans with “POP goes the weasel”. No “America The Superior” hypocrisy here. I love Groucho. Chico & Harpo too, but Groucho is the baby 😂 (of the talented Marx bros).
I don't think Trump wants to outlaw fun. That'd be too PC. Besides, standing old white men up against the wall for, essentially, being old white men is more of a third-wave feminist platform. The patriarchy must be dismantled, somehow, and if a purge will do the job, so be it.
To all those answering I found what I was looking for. It was the music called Dixie which was used in the civil war. That’s the music I was looking for.
