101 Dalmatians ~ Lost in Adaptation

[@Purple-ur2sc]

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

[@petrastedman669]

I lowkey want it on a shirt.

[@RuthBhmand]

@@petrastedman669 plenty of online and real life businesses that offer a custom shirt print, soooooo just do it😊

[@moonlightingjam]

If anything, most men do need to have an asshole to be bottoms 😁

[@karenroque3583]

I’m crying cuz in what universe are those considered mutually exclusive concepts? 🤣 In fact I’m pretty sure we have name for people like that.

[@kuroiryu9434]

I'm glad I wasn't listening to this episode at work because that line killed me and I'd have received the weirdest looks.

[@hopekeeley2122]

“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

[@kt00na]

I really can't tell if that comment was just buried under a pile of dry British humor or if Dom genuinely has no idea. Alternately this video was made a month+ ago and just got finished editing and uploading now.

[@oriaanhunter]

I came here to say this lol

[@hopekeeley2122]

@@kt00na perhaps he’s just lucky, and if so, then it’s well deserved

[@ebonimccain6988]

He's not a big music person he might have no idea

[@michaelcirco3948]

In Dom's defense, libel laws in the US are very different from the UK, hence a certain author's ability to bully her twitter critics located therein. If Kendrick and Drake were Brits, the latter wouldn't be the the butt of the song of the summer.

[@JimmyC1994]

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

[@CyberDrewan]

Now THAT sounds like a movie with a satisfying ending.

[@WlmaAlexender-zl6nx]

There isn't enough popcorn in the world for that movie's debut.

[@tannerblack4498]

Fortunately*

[@elywahl9520]

OK but imagine that Cruella is a better fighter then the blind guy from John wick 4 🤣😂🤣 just cruella and wick gun fighting 🤣😂🤣

[@Persnikity-yv3nh]

The crossover we never knew we needed

[@thesman1305]

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

[@LittleMissLounge]

Yeah, Saving Mr. Dearly wasn't as compelling of a film.

[@YujiUedaFan]

Roger Rabbit was another one!

[@daelen.cclark]

I wonder where she said this. She sounds really cool.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Quite true.

[@nemowindsor8724]

Thanks for trying to highlight the animators as actors and major forces worth talking about!

[@Tadicuslegion78]

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.

[@allison576]

Bill Peet was practically my whole childhood. I read reread his autobiography so many times as a kid

[@andrebrynkus2055]

That guy was awesome. I read dozens of his books when I was six. I had no idea his work was so significant, he was just an author with great art to me.

[@TwinRiver100]

any idea what the disagreement on the Jungle Book was?

[@GrifterMage]

I loved his books growing up; I had no idea he was involved with Disney, but looking at the animation of that era it makes so much sense.

[@Tadicuslegion78]

@@TwinRiver100 the TLDR version, which Disney themselves have put into a couple Making of Videos on the Jungle Book, Bill Peet wanted to tell a more faithful version of Kipling's book and Walt said, Naw, I want singing and dancing and fun, and Peet said, okay then, I quit. Hence Disney telling the new people like the Sherman Brothers (again, they themselves have said this) Your first instructions are, do not read the book.

[@KirbyIsCute]

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.

[@astrinymris9953]

But in the book Lieutenant Tib AKA Willow was female. Why'd they feel the need to change that detail? She could still bravely risk her life protecting the puppies.

[@KirbyIsCute]

@@astrinymris9953 Huh, never read the book so I didn't know about that. Yeah, I have no idea why they changed the gender. Maybe they already had a voice actor in mind for the cat (that happens sometimes).

[@WobblesandBean]

​@@astrinymris9953 Because Disney was still sexist and they already had three female main characters. Can't have too many 🙄

[@nemowindsor8724]

@@astrinymris9953probably because he was renamed Sergeant Tibbs and they wanted a military thing. I also think it’s a bit sweeter to show the cat being a protector if he’s male, more of an inversion of the maternal protector tropes.

[@maciej5866]

He's my favourite character in the movie.

[@TellyKNetic]

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.

[@ZeldaQueen64]

There's also a hilarious bit where the dogs run out of the house dragging some furs with them. Cruella makes some reference to there being a spirit of some sort (she couldn't see the dogs in the confusion), and her husband makes some comment like, "Right, must be one of your ancestors!"

[@timothymclean]

A model with two hair colors _does_ sound like a neat marketing gimmick.

[@phoenixfritzinger9185]

Forced to be a Dollskill model for the rest of her life, what an ending

[@quiestinliteris]

Haven't gotten very far in the video yet, but I had no idea there was a Mr DeVil. I even recall Cruella making disparaging comments about marriage in the movie. Odd that they trimmed some of the other sexist bits but had to add "Single women bad."

[@ZeldaQueen64]

@@quiestinliteris Cruella just married him because he dealt in furs. She seemed to operate on a weird morality in general. She seemed to like the Dearlings well enough (Mrs. Dearling went to school with her, but Cruella got expelled for -- seriously -- drinking ink), but she doesn't to actually *care* about others. The Disney movie made her much more overtly villainous, though I feel like her dissing on Anita's marriage was more classism and mocking her for being happy with a quiet life, a songwriter husband, and some dogs.

[@TheEquus92]

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.

[@tessat338]

Oh gosh, you're so right! Dalmatians were originally bred and trained to guard carriage horses and to run along behind them. They're associated with fire fighters because Dalmatians were kept by fire companies to guard the horses that drew the fire engines while the fire fighters were occupied with putting out fires. They require a lot of exercise and can be very aggressive towards strangers.

[@joannamyers1268]

Both 1 and 2 are unfortunately common when any movie starring a pet becomes popular. I remember hearing about Dalmatians being a more difficult breed than people think, but I didn't know about them being crossed with the German shorthaired pointer. That's really interesting; I'm glad to know that.

[@DrawciaGleam02]

I heard about the dalmatian adoptions from a KZbinr who grooms people's pets. (I mean cleaning them up and removing fur mats)

[@frankficcle7081]

​@@joannamyers1268True, when Finding Nemo came out, the sale of clownfish skyrocketed.

[@basementdwellercosplay]

They should have done what my parents did when i wanted a Dalmatian, they got me a few plushes. We did get a dog but he was selected specifically for our family and lifestyle, a family lap dog who would go on walks a few times a week until he was old, which is what people need to do before getting any pets!

[@wakeangel2001]

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.

[@butterflyslinky]

It was specified in the book that Mr. Dearly paid a lot of money to get those stories run. He essentially just took out full-page, front page advertisements the moment his dogs went missing. We stan.

[@elywahl9520]

Not just that back then all it cost to be put in the paper especially front page is just to buy the spot... in other words they could have literally bought first page to get more recognition

[@Kahtisemo]

I could also see some public curiosity with Mr. Dearly having "saved the government" apparently being a target. He's probably got some favors to pull around town 😂

[@sheyannev2757]

No because for me the unrealistic part was DeVil offering (I believe) $300 for the puppies, I immediately went “each, right? Ohmygod she means TOTAL?!”

[@rowandunning6877]

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

[@ApequH]

I have started saying more of the dumb things I think, it has some benifits

[@WeatherInOrlando]

Gorillas are really strong in their default natural state, do you ever think about what the upper strength limit of a gorilla could be if they worked out? If someone ever taught a gorilla how to lift?

[@ccggenius]

The other day my friend said he doesn't let his cat out because he wouldn't know what to do with the freedom. I replied by saying "have you considered giving him 3/5ths freedom"? Reception was... mixed. I think the line would've played WAY better in fiction that IRL.

[@bobtheball5384]

​@@WeatherInOrlando... holy shit

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

@@WeatherInOrlando Time travelled and inspired video game about this.

[@laurenochs6120]

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.

[@Critiqu3]

I only knew because I read the book. What's weird though is that Dalmatian puppies are born completely white and only get their spots as they grow older, so the horseshoe shape miraculously showed up AFTER he was named, not before. What are the odds?

[@joannamyers1268]

I always assumed this too. In 101 Dalmatians: The Series, a female puppy named Cadpig is identified as the one who almost died. I've watched the show, but I don't remember that specific episode.

[@ZipplyZane]

@@joannamyers1268 Cadpig is her name in the book as well. They always go out of their way to make sure she can make it, as she's not able run like the rest of the pups, and is basically in a doggy wheelchair. And then she's a Very Important Dog in the sequel.

[@joannamyers1268]

@@ZipplyZane Didn't know that. Pretty cool.

[@jadesfire7920]

I think in the movie Lucky is the one who almost died. You see him being more sensitive to the cold than the other pups. Understandable that Disney didn't go with a character named "the Cadpig".

[@professorbutters]

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.

[@heathergarnham9555]

She hated Cruella because she would always dr0wn her kittens

[@WobblesandBean]

​@@heathergarnham9555 OH JESUS

[@robertgronewold3326]

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

[@catdragon2584]

And Glenn Close absolutely KILLED it as Cruella, she was so iconic!

[@RabblesTheBinx]

Yeah, but... Glenn Close was the _only_ thing people liked about that movie.

[@robertgronewold3326]

@@RabblesTheBinx You say that like it's a bad thing.

[@PinkPopcast]

@@RabblesTheBinx Glenn Close was not the only thing people remembered about that movie. It’s a fantastic production with a fun script written by Home Alone’s own John Hughes and filled with charming performances (a lot of first’s for younger millennials who’d never heard of Hugh Laurie before 1998). People can enjoy things you don’t and visa versa and That’s okay 👌

[@bobson3014]

@@RabblesTheBinx That's not true. She stole the Movie, but that doesn't mean people didn't like the rest of the cast. Especially Hugh Laurie and Mark Williams who were introduced to an international audience through that movie, or enjoy the script or dog stunts which as a child in that era, we definitely did.

[@kendobunny]

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.

[@lionkingquan]

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

[@koganusan]

he looks unfairly good in that lace dress

[@verminter]

The fact that he's just like, "Why on earth would I get rid of my chest hair to wear a dress? My beautiful watchers deserve the very best of all worlds!"

[@ThatCoalSoul]

Starting to be as iconic AND expected as The punchline of 90% of Tomska's sketches is DEATH!

[@Aryasvitkona]

@@koganusan I'm a trans woman and I'm MAD at how good he looks in it, I couldn't pull that off, I've tried

[@brandonlyon730]

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.

[@SuperSongbird21]

That would explain why they also drive horribly . . .

[@blandedgear9704]

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.

[@jlouisa]

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

[@RabblesTheBinx]

I mean, it's not like it's an uncommon thing to do. Some of the biggest songs of all time were diss tracks, even before music recording was a thing.

[@annabeinglazy5580]

Honestly, If He wrote a summer Hit or an Evergreen Like Last Xmas, and Made Sure He got decent royalties... He might be Set for Life. Just Had to be really Business savvy, which tends to be a pitfall for Young artists 😅

[@EnerKaizer]

the timing is very funny, considering a very succesful rap song just released which is basically just a gigantic diss-track in the same vein as Rogers song.

[@vidoquen111]

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

[@c0mpu73rguy]

And warmth. Her house was as hot as an oven according to the book.

[@jemboy1987]

There was a novel prequel to the live action film. It's referenced in there

[@HuntingViolets]

And her husband.

[@petrastedman669]

No need to get spicy about it. It could still happen.

[@HelenRock002]

In the 102 Dalmatians game, they make the pepper reference. Dottie, the mother dog, mentions how badly Cruella smells of it.

[@tremorsfan]

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.

[@keittykit]

That's so cool. I would love to read how she slowly descends into obsession (while growing into her iconic self)

[@SodaCider641]

This should have been the plot of the 2021 film Cruella. That would be awesome!

[@mil_enrama]

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

[@jaymartin8273]

She totally did :=)

[@GeminiTasiri]

She's the only thing I remember from the live-action film. And I don't even know if I remember that from the film directly or from the trailers!

[@mariaskabardonis8353]

She’s the best Cruella

[@jessrl8025]

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.

[@Purple-ur2sc]

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

[@joaopedroauriemo]

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

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

As an aspiring sniper, teachers are my Kryptonite. (Please take this out of context.)

[@bunnygodofchaos574]

...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.

[@ninakircher2599]

Already taking the advice about the intrusive thoughts

[@HeyNonyNonymous]

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?'"

[@alenazwiep2996]

Also the only irredeemable villain in the play Twisted. "I just want a coat made out of puppies!" "What the FUCK is wrong with you???"

[@RabblesTheBinx]

As it should be. Seriously, her name is literally "cruel the devil", why in the FUCK did they give her a sympathetic backstory?!

[@malthewriterwizard]

Don't forget about OUAT's unconditionally evil twink Peter Pan!

[@callmewisteria]

I was always obsessed with her character and had no idea why until I watched Once Upon A Time and saw her and went...she's messed up, but it's hot. And that's another big piece of "how I learnt I'm gay."

[@angyvirtu3593]

OUAT's Cruella is one of the best depictions of her.

[@chheinrich8486]

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

[@scarlettptheoriginal]

​@chheinrich8486 okay, cool, I just thought I would join in with your fun, but clearly you don't want that unless people's contributions are perfect.

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

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.

[@PennyHays44]

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.

[@shinyagumon7015]

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.😅

[@gamestation2690]

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

[@kaspianepps7946]

I can't remember where, but I once read that she wrote it with the hope that it would be adapted into a Disney film after seeing some of their earlier book adaptions. That might explain why the film rights were brought so quickly - maybe she reached out to them.

[@kuroiryu9434]

It would be difficult to have a less healthy relationship .

[@gamestation2690]

@@kaspianepps7946 There’s an extra on the DVD and Blu-Ray about the letters Smith and Disney exchanged together.

[@OGPUEE]

Fun fact: when Dodie Smith sold the film rights to Walt Disney, she hadn't seen him and when he visited her in person in England, she was surprised by his appearance, because she imagined him as a mean, gnome-looking Jew.

[@spinningpeanut]

​@@OGPUEEmister Disney upon hearing that: film cancelled we're done with this shit.

[@stacybender4414]

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)

[@darklordofsword]

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?

[@lucavalente6620]

With a spooted hen

[@inarifox8912]

No, i watched that series religiously as a kid. No mentioned here, but there was also like a 101 dalmation birthday video. Those were my childhood.

[@Critiqu3]

Dom didn't mention it but I remember that series including Cadpig, who was one of the puppies in the book, but got cut from the movie. She returns in the Starlight Barking too, so it's nice that the animated series included her.

[@alanpennie8013]

Not quite it appears. But I'd never heard of it until today.

[@AdamYJ]

I do. It was the only Disney version that used Cadpig, who was a big part of the book.

[@Pinkstarclan]

"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.

[@autumngalix4616]

Congradulations, I have no context for your comment.

[@VerdantRange]

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.

[@farewelltimetofly]

Or the fact that all of her extremely peppery food also came in bizarre colors! I remember light blue fish and black ice cream. Thanks for requesting this one! I was obsessed with the book as a kid.

[@amvanderveen5189]

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"

[@anna_in_aotearoa3166]

You should have "Splendid Vet TM" put on your business cards! 😆 Being a vet seems like a really paradoxical proposition- surely one would have to be a real animal-lover to put up with the hours & the often uncooperative clients (& their human owners!)...? And yet at the same time, having to see so many animals suffering (and sometimes even having to be euthanised to end that pain) would surely be incredibly difficult as a profession for somebody who is an animal-lover!

[@GriffinPilgrim]

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.

[@alanpennie8013]

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.

[@mirrankei]

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.

[@thummumcrysanth]

I'm trying to figure out if I read both books in my early grades--it's ringing a few bells.

[@NihilTruth]

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

[@TheJCampb]

Cruella drops a song two days later, claiming she's too rich and famous to steal puppies...

[@ayindestevens6152]

When you put it that way…

[@KevinTheTimeGeek86]

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

[@cofteaamsr1717]

awww

[@KevinTheTimeGeek86]

@@cofteaamsr1717 Yeah, She's 5 months old now, and she's been living with us for 2 of those months. She's so precious. :)

[@cofteaamsr1717]

@@KevinTheTimeGeek86 aww thats sweet. also Corgi's are always sweet dogs.

[@or_gluzman561Peace_IL_PS]

cute 🐶

[@KevinTheTimeGeek86]

@@cofteaamsr1717 Yeah. Specifically, she's a Pembroke Welsh corgi. But she's still absolutely adorable, and I love having her around, even if she's a bit energetic at times.

[@RANima71498]

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.

[@OGPUEE]

Also you must mention that Kahl based villain on his ex-wife :).

[@brandonlyon730]

She was originally going to be Cruella herself, but even after that idea got scraped you can see a lot of De’vil in Medusa.

[@TheGreyTurtleEntertainment]

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.

[@Electric999999]

She probably thinks it's flattering.

[@TheGreyTurtleEntertainment]

@@Electric999999 I don't know. It's made clear she hates it. But also in all non animated appearances she's written to love it.

[@cooperminion825]

I thought it was bc there were no lawyers willing to take her case bc she, like a certain desperate cheeto, never pays her bills

[@Juuchan17]

...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.

[@yamiyomizuki]

yeah I remember that book from when I was a kid and it might be more out there than anything I can remember having hallucinated.

[@heckyeahponyscans]

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.

[@TheKingBahamut]

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

[@robertgronewold3326]

Likely it was Walt Disney's hands off approach that is the main reason. He and then his nephew literally had a view that source material was just a suggestion, and to 'have fun with it'.

[@rclark777]

@@robertgronewold3326 I mean, in a way they're right, Stanley Kubrick had a similar mindset and was a great success, but this only works for certain books, and only when the creators of the adaptation are actually talented.

[@Serai3]

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...

[@susanowen1709]

"She had a good reason which I can't remember" The Setter had been in charge of making the preparations for the Dalmations' arrival. Unfortunately, all the food that had been collected for them was burned up when the bakehouse caught fire. There was no spare food since everything that was available had already been brought to the bakehouse; there was nowhere for them to sleep; no way to hide them because there were too many people in the street; and the Setter felt that she had failed Pongo et. al. It was a bit small of Pongo to make the feather-brained remark. Missus was much kinder, chiding him after his comment: "'Just very young,' Missus said gently. 'I doubt she's had a family yet...'"

[@Serai3]

@@susanowen1709 Ah, thanks. I remembered the fire but not that the Setter was connected to it. As for the comment, it was a joke. Which is why I loved it.

[@StardustWhip]

Fun fact: The original runt of the litter and nearly-lost puppy, a girl named Cadpig (named for a term meaning the literal runts of pigs' litters), would eventually be used as a member of the main cast in 101 Dalmatians: The Series.

[@KristinaLarson-v5e]

Cadpig was one of my favorite puppies in the book.

[@kimberlyborowiak9779]

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.

[@jenntheiceraptoress2306]

Yes, Perdita's puppies were the ones that were the right size to help pull Cadpig's wagon.

[@yamiyomizuki]

it's kinda unfair to say that the sequel reads like the author was on something. nothing I've been on ever inspired anything that weird.

[@kimberlyborowiak9779]

@@yamiyomizuki truth

[@monicaenns9967]

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!

[@zenfrodo]

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

[@petrastedman669]

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.

[@aristidetwain9117]

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.

[@marcusestube]

It's so obvious that I can't imagine it was unintentional. Especially when you see the original illustrations and the Nannies are walking side by side right behind the Dearlys walking side by side.

[@katsucandy]

Sometimes a family is a young straight couple, a middle aged lesbian couple, two dogs and their 99 puppies

[@farewelltimetofly]

It's so funny, because I hadn't read the book since I was a sheltered young child without the faintest clue I was or could be anything but straight, so it had never once occurred to me how incredibly queer Nanny Butler was; but as soon as he mentioned her name, memories came flooding back, and oh my god no wonder I thought she seemed so cool! 😂

[@dvass7253]

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

[@autobotproductions1244]

To see her is to take a sudden chill

[@katieb.7107]

⁠Cruella~ Cruella~ She’s like a spider waiting for. the. kill.

[@DrWhack]

Look out for Cruella De Vil 🎶

[@ZipplyZane]

First bluesy piece I learned on piano. It's very fun to play.

[@Kaiheart]

An Easter egg I discovered recently: In the show Bluey, there is a dalmatian named Chloe and her house address is 101. Just that was a cute nod.

[@Setsunako6587]

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

[@yamiyomizuki]

am I safe in assuming that you mean the French quarter in New Orleans? I don't remember that from when I was there but that was getting on 18 years ago now.

[@kolonarulez5222]

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

[@dragonfan8647]

102 Dalmations IIRC

[@coyoteartist]

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.

[@veronikamajerova4564]

The second book is deffo the unhinged sequel, but it´s pretty fun read. And also, Cruella´s (former) kitty lives with the Dearleys quitte happy and content life, got a husband (another white Persian) and is good friends with the barn cat. The sequel takes place few years after the first book ends, so Pongos and Missus pups are now young adults, and Pongo is starting to have mid-life crisis.

[@coyoteartist]

@@veronikamajerova4564 You had me at unhinged. Going to have to look for this for sure then. Might have to look for I Capture The Castle too. I vaguely recall it sounded interesting.

[@Christoph52]

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

[@kattahj]

Same!

[@MCMIVC]

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

[@skyslasher2297]

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

[@jiado6893]

9:50 The body animation is amazing, you see the strain of Mr. Dearly keeping track of who they've already counted, and adding them all up in batches to the running total. You can glean all this with the sound off!

[@Mr135Jonathan]

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.

[@TomasTDE]

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.

[@elizabethtrudgill3567]

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

[@gamepopper101]

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.

[@autumbreeze1129]

"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 😁

[@TwistedChungus]

It's amazing to me just how few people realize how few genuinely ORIGINAL fully animated movies Disney has made. For context, original in this instance means: - Not an adaptation of a pre-existing story [so no... most of them] - Not recycling pre-existing music [so no Fantasia, or the other animated orchestra movies of the war and post-war years] - Not recycling pre-existing characters [so no movies based on Mickey, Donald, Goofy, etc.] With those three criteria? Their first original fully animated movie... is Dinosaur. From 2000. Their **39th theatrically released animated movie**.

[@jrgrimm6091]

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

[@SevenEllen]

5:15 I got WAY too engrossed, laughing and crying, at that bit in the paper under "Tories admit 'it puts us in the red'". This paper was sold in 1958. Nothing's changed.

[@laurenfleming4374]

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!

[@Grace-er9ep]

Genuinely everyone saw her as the apex of evil when I was a little kid. We were united in hatred of the puppy-killer. Having Glen Close play her in the live action was low-key unfair though because she was so egregiously fabulous. Still evil though lol

[@SuperSongbird21]

11:08 That would probably explain why Disney had an unused song for the film called "The Creation of Cruella De Vil", which reads like a musical Lovecraft tale and is pure nightmare fuel.

[@ahtijansson9283]

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.

[@92JazzQueen]

Just imagine

[@missanne2908]

The absolute first movie I ever saw, back in the day when theaters had ushers, loge seating and crying rooms. My six year old brain was baffled about how the number of dalmatians increased when the parents were absent.

[@tyger166]

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.

[@oneinathousand2156]

Even with all the changes, this movie is probably one of the most accurate Disney animated adaptations of anything they’ve ever tackled, whether it be a novel, fairy tale, or myth.

[@barleysixseventwo6665]

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

[@veronikamajerova4564]

Yeah, superpowers. Like telekinesis, long-distance telepathy, flying (and not only by themselves, but on anything they can touch (combo of flying and telekinesis)), so you have groups of dogs flying on trucks, for example.

[@jackaylward-williams9064]

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.)

[@Electric999999]

"The Spiderwick Chronicles" Now that's something I haven't heard anoyne talk about in a long time. The person who requested this did it at least 5 years ago (they commented 101 Dalmation street didn't exist at the time, so early 2019 at the most recent), so he's got quite the backlog, just thought it might help you decide.

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

There's a new adaptation of that coming soon, could help in getting it made.

[@chheinrich8486]

The bare necessities next, jungle books needs your treatment 😂

[@AdamYJ]

And since the literary Jungle Books are actually anthologies, maybe also a video on the Chuck Jones “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” special. You know, to cover one of the non-Mowgli stories.

[@professorbutters]

@@AdamYJI infinitely prefer “Mowgli’s Brothers” to the animated Jungle Book. The CGI/live action movie is so much better. I love Rikki-Tikki-Tavi too (especially since Orson Welles does the narration).

[@qwertyTRiG]

​@@AdamYJ There's an adaptation of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi? Wow.

[@AlyraMoondancer]

And please, for the love of Kipling, if you do such a thing, pronounce Mowgli's name correctly. Kipling specified that "Mow" rhymes with "cow," not "go." For me, that's the most distressing change they made in the adaptation, since now *everyone* pronounces it wrong.

[@michaelyoung6442]

I thought Lucky was so named because he was the one that almost died. Honestly, I never noticed the horseshoe pattern.

[@kirstenpaff8946]

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.

[@MichaelLovely-e6d]

I'm not sure of this; but I think there's a film with Glenn Close and Meryl Streep as the leading ladies.

[@Critiqu3]

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.

[@oscardiggs246]

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

[@totalynotcatherine]

12:15 Also Perdita is a character in Winter's Tale. She was left to die in the woods.

[@Zelenal]

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?

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

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

[@annnichols3091]

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.

[@Acelily2179]

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

[@veronikamajerova4564]

Yeah, but that´s partly why I like it.

[@jessetorres8738]

I once read an article about this movie that said Pongo & Perdita had 8 boy puppies (Lucky, Patch, Rolly, Freckles, Fidget, Dipstick, Whizzer, & Thunder) & 7 girl puppies (Penny, Pepper, Jewel, Two-Tone, Cadpid, Purdy, & Spotty).

[@zurilyjones]

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

[@iapetusmccool]

I also read the book (and had it read to us at primary school), long before I ever saw the film. (And consequently thought everyone was misremembering the story when they called Mrs Pongo Perdita).

[@susanowen1709]

Oh, I've read the book so many times I can't even count them. I bought a paperback of it at the Scholastic Book Fair somewhere around 1975, and it was a childhood favorite. I still have that copy, although it's a bit worse for wear after so much time, and the last time I read it was probably about 5 years ago.

[@NukeOTron]

Bill Peet is an author in his own right, having made quite a few children's books with yellow spines and his own unique art. Also, if you really want to find an interesting book to compare to its movie, try The Tale of Despereaux. There is no "Food Man" or "Soup Day" in the book, and the movie went for linear storytelling instead of out-of-order Rashomon-style.

[@AdamYJ]

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.

[@Critiqu3]

She's also in the sequel book, and if I remember correctly, is adopted by the Prime Minister.

[@AdamYJ]

@@Critiqu3 Yes. I've read it.

[@Sammyandbobsdad]

My dad was an animator and one day when he was a young man he was driving and saw a friend and fellow animator working on a road crew pouring asphalt. My dad pulled over and asked what was going on, the last my dad had heard he was working at Disney. The guy said, “Spots man. I couldn’t handle any more spots.” His job was to animate the spots on the 101 Dalmatians.

[@Marmike91]

Now you've looked at two Disney films based on books....I am very intrigued to see you do a 'Lost in Adaptation' on The Fox and the Hound...because OH BOY!!! For those of you who are unfamiliar, The Book is far less pleasent than the film!!

[@steffiacosta1079]

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!)

[@Jon-yv4iu]

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.

[@onetwothree9]

the live action movies were the ones i grew up with and absolutely loved both of them, particularly how Glenn Close and Gerard Depardieu went full ham on their roles. You could tell they were having a blast.

[@GameplayandTalk]

That Elon Musk bit was gold. 🤣

[@katherinealvarez9216]

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

[@BlueJaguarRanger]

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.