THE WIZARD OF OZ *REACTION* IS THE WICKED WITCH brat? 

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was it literally her just not being able to decide whether or not Dorothy was ugly? O__O lmao wtf

That one was hilarious, they also did another Oz skit that I don't know could not be made today.

It's on RU-vid! Just search MadTV wizard of oz ending

I remember that lol

Love that skit

aw man, memory unlocked! I LOVED MadTV too lol. to me, they were funnier than SNL and I'd watch it with my mom and late dad. good memories

Literally the only time someone was treated humanely on this set 😂

@@brockbuster Wellll, except gelatin is occasionally made from horses, soooo... 😬

omg really😍 thats crazy

​@@lunacouer I mean... So long as they enjoyed it?

That sounds so lovely and special 🤗 We still watch the Charlie Brown specials every year-we love them so much!!!

yes😍

Old lady you? U could be between 40-80 but thanks for the memory for sure 😍

​@@PettyPumpkinsThe other Peanuts specials are good, too. Give them a try. There's even a summer camp one in which Peppermint Patty and Marcy meet the Little Red-headed Girl; and a Super Bowl one that features Linus prominently as Charlie Brown's wingman (kinda). But, yeah, The Great (Petty) Pumpkin Halloween special is hard to beat

When I was a kid, 50's, this movie was only broadcast once a year around Easter time.

And she was amazing as the Wicked Witch.

I saw an interview with one of the Munchkins who said that Margaret was the sweetest person on set. When she wasn't in makeup she often spent time with them and made a point to gift each of them with an autographed photo.

Ain't that a commentary on human worth

Toto hot paid nothing and had no idea she was in a movie - she probably got some cheese and head pats - her owner got bank though. Now Toto is buried under a freeway in Ventura.

And the sequins on Dorothy's ruby slippers were made out of gelatin too.

@@pobstrelWHATTTTTT

Indeed. Arthur Freed went up to the front office and said, "The song stays or I walk." The song stayed, and of course it became a timeless classic!

I remember seeing it as a kindergartener, and the subway scene… I had nightmares for WEEKS, couldn’t be in parking garages for a year…. Yeah, I remember vividly rehashing all the trauma again years later as an adult and just… unlocking that scene from repression…

The actors in the stage preform....which can be seen online. Sing the songs in The WIZ way better 🎉 . The movie in hindsight is really only to see the celebrities.

The WIZ is just the ghetto version of the Wizard of Oz, it’s really not worth seeing, it sucks!

@@daphnemaxwell149 what makes it ghetto? Both families are struggling and Dorthy makes her way through an unfamiliar land/dimension/dream… is it their black skin that makes ghetto? Just asking.

right😍 I said that and its better the wizard of oz is good but the wiz is better I have the dvd and im proud of it.

I went as the Wicked Witch for years then as adult I would wear the same costume when handing out candy. The kids loved it but the parents even more so. Even though she is the villain, i was/am in awe of her as a character and she really created the modern archetype of "The Witch"

The larger point is self-reliance. Stand-up for yourself. And everything you need is already within yourself. You have the ability to think (brains). You have empathy and compassion for others (heart). And you are brave (courage). You are not lacking anything one needs to be a good and successful person. Now go out into the world and stand-up for what you know to be right! These are excellent lessons to teach a child. (Or anyone dealing with a challenge.)

Seconded

I really want to read the books! Can anyone recommend where to start and with what title ?? Aren’t there many original OZ books ??

@@care_hopexo You could just start with _The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,_ the basis for the movie. It's very different and quite trippy. _The Marvelous Land of Oz_ also is very interesting. I was going through them in order. I have to get back to them at some point. There are 14 by Baum, I think, and then some from other authorized authors.

​@@HuntingViolets I think there are about 25 more non-L. Frank Baum Oz books from the original publisher after Baum's death, most by Ruth Plumly Thompson.

@@oliverbrownlow5615 Thanks.

@@oliverbrownlow5615 : ​No, it was 26 more. 14 by Baum, then: 19 by Ruth Plumly Thompson, 3 by John R. Neill ( who had illustrated the "Oz" books since Book #2 - "The Marvelous Land of Oz," ) 2 by Jack Snow, 1 by Rachel Cosgrove ( listed by her married name in the Wikipedia listing of the "Oz" books, ) and 1 by the mother/daughter team of Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw.

Movie is based on a book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written in 1900. In the book, Dorothy, who is 8-10 years old (instead of 16 yo Judy playing her as a 14 yo) actually goes to Oz - it is a real place. MGM felt audiences couldn't accept this idea. The author, L. Frank Baum, wrote 13 more sequels, and other writers were authorized to continue after his death. There have since been many variations on the Oz concept, some more faithful than others. When I was growing up, the very first book I ever read was the third, Ozma of Oz. In 1985, Disney combined the second, Land of Oz, and Ozma into Return to Oz (also one of my favorite). It was not a musical and Disney had to steer clear of the MGM film, but Return is VERY faithful to the darker vision of the books. (Most people were turned off to this movie but has gained a cult following, being considered a sort of love letter to Oz.) The books ARE dark - although Baum was constantly besieged by young readers begging for more Oz. In Wizard, the witch sends a pack of wolves to take out the four and the tin woodsman has to use his axe to chop off the head of each. Then she sends a flock of crows to peck out their eyes, and the scarecrow has to wring the neck of each.

Movie has been described as the ultimate "chick" flick, two women fighting to the death over a pair of shoes. In the early days c. Stonewall, someone would hint to another "I think he is a friend of Dorothy" as code, if you get my drift.

The books are all in the public domain and available on line, with their original illustrations, which show what Baum had in mind. You can also just type the name of the character into Wiki and it will quickly show you the illustrations.

The "oil" for the tin woodsman was Hershey's chocolate syrup, the same as used for the "blood" in Psycho. The "crow" that plucked the piece of hay off the scarecrow was Jimmy the Raven, used in many films at the time, including It's a Wonderful Life. Baum was briefly an editor for a small Midwestern newspaper, where he heard about a house which had been picked up by a tornado, carried about a mile and dropped down with little damage. He also had heard (a joke) about a farmer who was too poor to feed his horses grass, so he put green eyeglasses on them to fool them when he fed them sawdust. In the first book, Emerald City is not really green. The Wizard required everyone to wear green googles, which were locked on. In the sequels, Emerald City became all green and each of the four "counties" each had their own distinctive color - Munchkinland was ALL blue. NOT asbestos (which I used to believe) but gypsum, which was cheaper. They had four different horses - one uncolored, the other three colored with Jello. The horses kept trying to lick it off. At the time of this movie, just about every high school student had been drilled with geometry, including the Pythagorean theorem, and they would have gotten the joke that the scarecrow gets it COMPLETELY wrong The screenplay went through so many crazy revisions, including one where Dorothy and the Scarecrow get romantically involved - the vestige of this is in the final line "I think I will miss you most of all." The original book had FOUR witches. The unnamed witch of the North sent Dorothy to see the Wizard. When he was shown to be a fraud, they traveled to see the Good Witch of the South, Glinda, so it made more sense than Glinda not telling Dorothy about the power of the slippers in the first place. Mad TV did an awesome "alternate ending" spoofing the movie idea: MadTV - Wizard of Oz (Alternate Ending)

It's a breathtaking effect. Really captures the awe and terror of a tornado bearing down on you.

right😍 i stated that as well I have the dvd I hold onto it dearly.

Miss Gulch was not a Karen. She was an Almira. Glinda remarks upon the Wicked Witch's oder after she disappears from Munchkinland, saying, "What a smell of sulpher!"

@@oliverbrownlow5615 True, Miss Gulch's first name was Almira. At the same time, I love the Ms. Mojo Channel's Top 10 list of Karen behavior in movies (Miss Gulch ranked No.1). Thanks for sharing!

Margaret Hamilton reprised her role as the Wicked Witch in several television appearances in the 1970s. *She made guest appearances as the witch and herself on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood three times in 1975 and 1976, prior to the airing of the Sesame Street episode.* In those episodes, her character interacted with the residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, though she was not wearing the complete green make-up that she would wear in the Sesame Street episode. *Fred Rogers had wanted to dispel children's fears and explain that the witch was an imaginary character.* *Out of costume, Hamilton explained the psychology of her character and why children need not be afraid of a television witch.* ----- ----- ----- Well, that clearly didn't work as intended.