I just love how utterly gluttonous Templeton is. I mean he's just devouring everything he can find not caring how big he gets, then after eating that bannana he is at capacity. Not to mention that drunken look of satisfaction and the bout of hiccups makes the scene perfect. Then the next morning while Charlotte and Wilbur are rebuking him for his actions, he makes it clear he doesn't care, and just enjoyed himself.
I also found it utterly hilarious the look of satisfaction on his face and the way the all that food just moved around INSIDE his body while he's singing.
@@Rylosalex I also love how cartoony and over the top this scene is. I mean he uses a fork as a pogo stick, he crashes into a watermelon leaving an imprint of his body, then deflates the watermelon like a balloon while spitting out the seeds, and the corn on the cob typewriter. It really makes me wonder if the animators were cracking up during this scene.
Yes! That satisfaction is the best! He’s proud of how much he eats and loves showing it off! I love seeing all that food moving around in his belly. Just shows how much he enjoyed himself!
@@Noratcat I wish we got a behind the scenes look of interviews when the animation staff and got to know which scene was their favorite and which scenes had them cracking up.
I was inspired to research exactly what the outcome of Templeton's feast was. This rat ate nearly 4 pounds of food.Thats almost 12 times his body weight. The amount of calories in everything he ate totals to nearly 1900 calories. That's OVER 30 times the healthy calorie intake of a rat! Templeton is amazing!!
Probably "just being Templeton,"after all in the book,here he informs Wilbur that he has seen that the pig in the next pen has won first prize and adds,"and I quote,Furthermore,I wouldn't be surprised if Zuckerman still changes his mind about you. Wait until he's in the mood for some real crisp bacon and ham! He'll take the knife to you,my friend." What a cad and heel! But then he is a rat.
At least here (and in the book) Wilbur does choose to take Templeton's behavior for what it's worth,by telling him Charlotte's good news. And in the book,again,the way this is also Wilbur's way of ignoring the rat's arroagance and his crack to Wilbur(that Zuckerman could still have second thoughts about keeping him.) By now Charlotte is fairly sure that Zuckerman will let Wilbur live until the day Wilbur dies.
Just loved Paul Lynde, he was a genius at subtle humor. Taken from us way too soon. One hell of a loss. They really could not have picked a better guy to do this voice.
this character wouldnt be half as iconic without paul lynde's performance imo-- he's hilarious and delivers his lines with so much enthusiasm! this had to have been fun af, especially after he starts sounding drunk 😂
So poetic, "everything so well ripened and seasoned with the passage of time and the heat of the day." next time I eat some terrible food I'll describe that way.
It’s actually funny cause the food is supposed to be all spoiled (rotten Cotten candy, melted ice cream, soggy sandwiches, etc.) yet the animators made the food look clean & still edible.
Templeton truly was the most accomplished character both in the book and in the film. Man got what he was promised and a little extra considering how near the end he finds a mate and has kids of his own.
Loved Paul Lynde as the voice of Templeton The Rat. 2 bad his life cut short on 1/11/1982 from a heart attack at age 55. He still could've had a career. May he RIP.
Yup. In other words, you don't have to starve yourself and be strict, it's okay to indulge once in a while! Go ahead, enjoy it! By all means, you might as well! Templeton would say that.
"She's going to become a mother. For your information, there are five hundred and fourteen eggs in that peachy little sack." "This HAS been a night." Not too many suggestive lines in this film, but there's definitely one.
The big, sloshy belly physics at 1:39 and the stomach bubble sounds from 2:39 are what corrupted me as a child to my affinity for big, fat, sloshy tummies.
Well ripened indeed... Looks like Templeton got pretty drunk on some of that fermented fruit. Oh what a ratly hangover! One of my favorite scenes from this movie! Such a catchy tune!
I was always so disappointed that he didn’t eat all that food that fell down on him with that tablecloth. But then again, he already clearly had his fill. I’d also love to see someone make a short cartoon about what Templeton did between the time he runs off yelling “glut!! Glut!! Gluuuuut!” and the morning after. Probably just slept some of it off :p
I think it has to do with the fact that my mother was overweight, The Lion King didn't help exactly. And I can never stop long enough on this. Sooo.... Yeah there were signs
Templeton is not all bad despite his mischief, gluttony, and misbehavior. Wilbur wouldn't have safely transported Charlotte's egg sack to the barn if it weren't for him.
Sandwiches, lunchmeat, cheese, fruit, tuna fish and pickles, egg salad, hotdogs with mustard, hummus, and dill relish, hamburgers, pizza, baked chicken, meat loaf and mashed potatoes, pasta, pastries, and even dim-sum foods like sticky rice, roasted duck, dumplings, chow mein. If I was told by the goose that every one of these foods were at the fair, I'd be just as hungry, mouth-watering, and ravenous as Templeton. Even he would devour all of that. We'd have a great big lunch together.
The noise Templeton's stomach bubbles make at 2:52 gets me every time. A shame they neglected to implement stomach bubbling noises for his scenes after that banana bloated him up...
Templeton would love the modern fair. Bacon fat, chicken gristle, melted shaved ice, stale deep dish pizza, turkey leg bones, fried cookie dough that's been in the sun all day...
frostdragon64 you have to remember that the book was originally published in 1952. Everything was extremely cheap back then compared to how it is today. My dad always told me about how he bought his first car for $100 and it was a car that you'd see for like $5,000 today.
@@mattgerrish908 Living standards in America have plateaued in the 1960s. One of the reasons for the halt in rise of living standards in for middle Americans was the Immigration Act and the use of overseas cheap labor. It allowed the SWIFT system to deminutize an average American's negotiating power - and with it, the standard of living in America. Essentially, America was exporting prosperity, and importing poverty. The marketing pitch was that America gained the benefit of cheap labor, but in fact, the social and political costs included welfare and foreign wars - far outstripping any benefits of "cheap labor". The only real benefits were to rich people who could widen the profit margins by paying hteir employees less - "Socialize the costs, Privatize the profits." Without the use of immigration and foreign cheap labor, Steve Jobs would have lost nearly all of his negotiating power and would never have been able to garner billions to his name, because in reality, no man is worth millions of people (billions, really) in anything but a socialist economic model. Steve Jobs wasn't a great engineer or "businessman" in the economic sense. He was a leader of lawyers - using government edicts to make it impossibly expensive for innovators to bring their products to market - unless they worked for establishment businesses like Apple which were backed by government funds, regulations and ultimately the use of force. Combined with the cheap labor bought with US government military guarantees and largesse (which created the SWIFT system and financial girdings underpinning it), this made Jobs very rich - he could now buy islands and fleets of aircraft - while American living standards stagnated, and the price of goods and services remained as they were in 1960s - one of the reasons why the government had to rig the economic indicators from inflation to CPI to GDP. Seriously, who in the world believes that inflation does not include food and energy?
This song just randomly pops into my head here and there since I watched this with my daughter almost 20 years ago 🤣 Also bc later in her childhood we watched Bewitched together and I became an Uncle Arthur fan.
OMG, I ALWAYS LIKED "TEMPLETON" What a character, and ONLY "Paul Lynde" could play that part SOOOO WELL!! "Templeton" ALWAYS did the darndest things. Always getting into mischief and EATING CONSTANTLY!! He LOVED HIS FOOD!! However, it was all just in innocent...good fun!! He DID care about the others too. By helping Charlotte deliver the messages for the web to save Wilbur's life. That's what made "Charlotte's Web" such a GREAT movie!! Everybody getting along and helping each other out!! Those are some of the BEST MEMORIES EVER!!
Grew up watching Charlotte's Web & Templeton's song was allways my favorite . Now I think it may have on a subconcious level influeneced me to breed rats . Pet rats aren't like their cousins, they aren't that musical. Though I had 1 that used to beat box in its sleep & they really are alot smarter than you'd think. RIP Paul Lynde
Ditto here! I was fortunate enough, after having read the book in my 2nd grade class, to have seen "Charlotte's Web" in 1973 with my class at the Radio City Music Hall in NYC. Truly, a memory I will always cherish!
One of my favorite parts of the movie, I sing this song whenever I'm feeling a little gluttonous, or anytime anyone talks about going to a fair. Also on a side note, I live in the state of Maine where the author of Charlotte's Web ( E.B. White ) was from.
I love how, despite being selfish and greedy, he's not technically stealing anything. The food was left there by the people. It was basically his for the taking.
I remember this from my childhood, but looking back on it now I'm like "Um, did he find some discarded booze too? Cause he's acting more like he's drunk than anything else." The food high is a real thing but I've never seen it make someone unable to stand or have blurry vision. As a kid I thought the pitcher he fell into at 1:25 was lemonade but now methinks it was something else...You'll notice right after that is when he starts acting drunk. Nice #gettingcrappasttheradar while simultaneously introducing legions of children to fat fetishism there, you guys!
Farewell Charlotte you ol’d schemer 😂 As an adult dying laughing at the cleverness. As a kid, this scene always stood out for its veritable smorgasbord 😘
Love Paul lynde and love Templeton! When I see people react frightened when they see a rat, I never get it. When I see rats in the subways in NYC, it always remind me of these scenes of Templeton. Although I can't say the same for spiders.
I had a social studies teacher named Mr. Gumerove in HS who had an overbite and looked like Templeton, so whenever I did an impression of Mr. Gumerove I basically did a Paul Lynde voice.
I'll never forget the wonderful comedian Paul Lynd! Here's one of his greatest works! Second in my opinion to his role as a wizard relative of Sam's on Bewitched! Those were the days!!! Don't make em' like him anymore! RIP Paul.
