Honest Trailers Commentary - Mary Poppins (1964)

The writers of Honest Trailers talk Mary Poppins Returns and more before watching their latest trailer for Mary Poppins (1964)
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Honest Trailers Commentary - Mary Poppins (1964)
Hosted by Joe Starr, Dan Murrell, & Spencer GIlbert
Produced by Max Dionne
Tech Director: Josh "JTE" Tapia
Assistant Editor: Emin Bassavand

[@cbrownjc7633]

The things about "Feed The Birds" as a song is, as a kid, I too thought it was boring. However, when I grew up and listened to it as an adult, really paying attention to lyrics of it, the song is really beautiful, haunting and *sad.* The song, at its heart, is about people being so busy that even a small act of individual kindness is something you have to make time for. And how many people *don't.* That song, that I thought was boring when I was younger, brings a tear to my eye when I hear it now.

[@jandm4ever716]

It was Walt’s favorite song

[@Shugs1994]

“I don’t know a lot about the English, but I have watched Downton Abbey” oh Joe we love you over in the UK 😂

[@dum5375]

Joe should watch only fools and horses. He'd love it.

[@kstepko]

Like most children, I didn’t understand the entire suffragette movement. I assumed that Mrs. Banks went to meetings and protest marches with the other ‘ladies who lunch’. In my opinion, Winnifred Banks kept her advocacy for ‘Votes for Women’ a secret because she hadn’t yet built up the courage to freely admit her true thoughts and opinions to Mr. Banks - but, she gains that courage by the end of the movie, because Mary Poppins became a role model for her. Mary has the confidence to speak her mind and not just defer to men, especially when she disagrees with them. When Winnifred Banks ties her ‘Votes for Women’ ribbon to the kite, I didn’t get the impression that she was quitting; rather, she no longer feels like she needs to hide her sash - literally - in the closet. To show that she doesn’t care who knows, she turns the kite into a flying advertisement for ‘Votes for Women’ - and Mr. Banks does not object to or challenge her on that.

[@mswyrr1]

This is a lovely interpretation!

[@swanpride]

It's also the correct interpretation. It is pretty clear that Mrs Banks beliefs in the movement, but she also loves her husband too much to challenge him on it. In the end, she no longer things that she has to hide the badges. You would need to make quite a logic jump to interpret it as her giving up on the movement. We know that she has multiple ones of those badges, hanging one of them at a kite where everyone can see it is hardly expressing "I am done with this". If that's what they wanted to say, they would have shown her throwing all badges away, not using one of them as a flying advertisement.

[@kstepko]

swanpride Yes: though we adore Dan, Joe, and Spencer individually, we agree that, as a group, they’re rather stupid. #kidding

[@mswyrr1]

@@swanpride I need to watch this! And now I'm a little disappointed--just a little, I love Screen Junkies and I admire how hard they work to be insightful, funny, and inclusive--in their casual dismissal of feminist interps. of the film as nonsense.

[@swanpride]

Well, it is a minor plot point overall, it is just annoying that they misrepresented the role of Mrs. Banks (the point that she is always busy with her movement and therefore doesn't care enough for her children is a good one, though). Her first name is "Winifred" btw...the claim that it is never mentioned is wrong too, Mr. Banks calls her that all the time.

[@084345m]

It's funny, I always thought when Mrs Banks ties the "votes for women" banner to the kite it was her way of promoting the cause, and Mr Banks using it as the tail was a subtle way of saying he supported the cause. Great episode!

[@eloramaxwell7020]

Best trailer in a while boys.

[@benabramowitz18]

Did no one made a single “I’m Mary Poppins, y’all!” joke?!!?

[@superfortressstudios]

I was rather disappointed with that

[@KnightFallProd]

Low hanging fruit.

[@whereforeartthoume6459]

It was in the comments in the beginning

[@TimenSpaceGaming]

missed opportunities

[@anonymoushuman8443]

That’s not even a joke.

[@FrenchHornGuy93]

"Dan, you drive..." LOL

[@Lvetto]

I visited this Honest Trailer Commentary one year later, because of the hilarious honesty behind the jokes. So much shade at Mrs. Banks.

[@jessegibby9458]

I actually grew up watching The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, including its equally fun sequels Now You See Him, Now You Don't and The Strongest Man in the World. Gotta love young Kurt Russell!

[@clashfan2875]

Me too! I wanted to go that college when I grew up.

[@mj7087]

I love the 5 straight minutes of Joe trying to hide all the duck tails fan fiction he writes

[@jeffnicholas6342]

Favorite line: 'This is all chemically accurate btw.' Have a jolly holiday!!

[@kevinschultz6091]

I think the idea of the way they dealt with the PTSD next-door neighbor was the exaggerated British idea of "keeping a stiff upper lip, and carry on" - dealing with it by repressing and not dealing with it. EDIT - I believe there's an understated acceptance of "eccentricity" in British culture that runs as a sort of counter-culture to the standard stereotype. This sees to be an example of that.

[@scarletamazon3455]

That's definitely a factor, good insight.

[@danielaart9779]

Was this comment made by an American? And if so, has the writer actually been to Britain?

[@drmattconrad77]

I knew getting my Ph.D in Chemistry would be rewarded one day. Thanks guys for that one!

[@scottmiller364]

The Suffragette through line is more pertinent in the book. Mrs. Banks' Suffragette "friends" fail to show up to her tea party proving that they aren't really friends at all. We learn that both of the Banks parents are so caught up in being good adults that they have forgotten to be good humans. Their political and economical aspirations are cast off so that they can better take care of the people that really need it.

[@kstepko]

Scott Miller Very interesting! I’ve never read the books.

[@kstepko]

Grailsarvas They did talk a lot about the constant pressure that Mr. Banks is under to provide for his family. I think the real split is between the classes, rather than the between genders. Most of the working and lower class characters would have probably lived terrible lives, but that is either ignored or their lives are portrayed as happy and carefree despite their circumstances.

[@alexwright4930]

@Grailsarvas An accurate portrayal of the lives of many domestic servants at the time, or working class women paid less than men for similar work, might have made that point better I guess. Women like Mrs Banks are dependent on their husbands though, who legally had complete control of their children and near complete control of the finances. So, at least if they don't have other wealthy family to rely on, their status is vulnerable and can be dependent on staying married.

[@lcd130]

That Redwall t-shirt is siiiiiiiiiiiick!

[@TheBiz]

lcd130 whoa did not even notice that. Joe has some good taste.

[@tylerfreeman2544]

If I recall from what I have read about the P.L. Travers and Walt Disney dilemma, she didn't JUST give in to him. She became desperate for money, and allowed Disney to make the movie in order to keep up with her financial demands.

[@swanpride]

Pretty much. The story about how Walt Disney badgered her and then tricked her is popular, but in reality, she needed the money and Walt Disney was at least in the beginning very ready to work with her, but her demands were impossible. Well, he tricked her on the animated parts. But the main reason why there isn't an outright romance in the movie is because she insisted on there not being one (which was maybe the only good suggestion she made).

[@tylerfreeman2544]

@@swanpride : Thank you for providing the extra details. It's been a while since I read anything about it, so your reply reminded me of what I had forgotten.

[@isaacrichter3269]

The one you call "Tuppence" is actually called "Feed the Birds" and it just happens to have been Walt Disney's favorite song...

[@callumdoherty7204]

It was played at Walt's funeral at his personal request.

[@dodgyb2001]

It's an amazing song, tinged with sadness.

[@telectronix1368]

@@dodgyb2001 On par with "Hushabye Mountain"

[@dodgyb2001]

@@telectronix1368 Oh yeah, that's another good one...

[@suiauthon]

It's such a good song, I absolutely love it. I went and visited St. Paul's just because I love the song so much.

[@lovingnuance6289]

::Warning! 1964 Gossip:: Supposedly Julie Andrews won the Oscar for Mary Poppins as a way to recognize that she should have been Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. She originated the role, but the studio gave the part to Audrey Hepburn. Drama!!

[@Ize19]

She lost the on screen part, but she did the singing for Hepburn. If you listen closely, you can tell.

[@lovingnuance6289]

Ize19 Marni Nixon sang for Audrey Hepburn, she also sang for Natalie Wood in West Side Story and in the King and I. What’s terrible is that Nixon was not credited in the film! All the work and no recognition.

[@whywherewhenhow]

@@lovingnuance6289 to be fair, the studio didn't let hepburn sing. She had been practicing diligently only to be replaced in the end by the voice of nixon. So they were both screwed over in a way

[@swanpride]

Frankly, the studio was stupid to not cast Julie Andrews.

[@lovingnuance6289]

@whywherewhenhow Absolutely! I read somewhere the studio didn’t tell Audrey Hepburn that they were going to dub her voice, and that she found out while watching the movie at the premiere. Studios may not be great now, but yikes they were terrible back then.

[@LoveShiaGDSN]

Full disclosure: this was one of my favorite movies growing up. It's not that Mr. Banks was supposed to be awful in the beginning. It's that his priorities were a bit out of wack. And Mary Poppins and Bert also taught the children to be more respectful of their father. They made them realize WHY Mr. Banks acts the way he does sometimes and that he does care about them, he just didn't always show it in the most conducive way.

[@rebeccaday8612]

"Father...in a cage?" gets me right in the feels

[@potterpotty01]

i love that line i don't know know a lot about the English but i have watched downton abbey! i'm not Indian but i've seen slumdog millionaire!

[@StewartFletcher]

When Dan reiterated "Can you imagine" I thought he was gonna break out into song

[@LAnimeMaster]

Awesome trailer guys! And I agree Spencer, the movie is so-so in that there's no real plot for a good while. I remember watching this as a kid thinking, "I'm not sure what exactly this is about, but I guess the songs are fun." haha

[@jandm4ever716]

It is about family. George Banks learns to appreciate his family more and the kids begin to understand why their father acts the way he does. Mary poppins came to help fix the family

[@StarsHollow11]

Last week and today you brought up that people watch this before watching the trailers. KZbin shows me the commentaries video first. I have to dig through my subscriptions or search to find the honest trailer itself while the commentaries are always the first video I see when I open the app. So blame the algorithm. Also REDWAAAAAALLLLLL!!!

[@heyelliew]

Mrs Banks has a name! It's Winifred. It's said in the movie quite a bit.

[@swanpride]

I know! there were so many incorrect statements in the trailer. Also, that Mary Poppins doesn't care about the children..she claims that this is the case, but in the context of the scene it is clear that she is lying to herself and mostly acts so cold so that the children attach themselves to their parents above all and not to her.

[@toric6005]

Again soooooo glad y’all mentioned the Computer Wore Tennis Shoes! Cuz legit I thought that was a fever dream.

[@jbearclowater]

Mad props to the team, this is one of the best trailers in a long time.

[@Laf92]

Yea I’m triggered feed the birds is a classic and I thought very well loved.

[@kstepko]

longhorns13192 It’s so beautiful. I still wish I had one of those snow globes of birds flying around the cathedral. They made a limited amount of them for the 40th anniversary of the movie. They all sell second hand for thousands of dollars now.

[@ryansmith-jr4gn]

Never heard of it.

[@MrCoat]

Fun fact: "Feed the Birds" was Walt Disney's favourite song from one of his movies. Whenever he had a meeting with the Sherman Brothers, he would ask one of them to play the song for him on the piano.

[@bluekirty]

These guys just don't get Mary Poppins. But this trailer was fun. So luckily the guy that helped must have done most of it.

[@clashfan2875]

Me too. They kept saying "tuppence" and I just kept getting more irritated.

[@kaykaysamuel650]

i don't know why 'he says ducktales twice' took me out but i've been laughing for five minutes

[@limitedexperience492]

Best line of the commentary, no question

[@wiscatpereira9409]

I think that more weird than the movie... is the book.... because: there is a full chapter dedicated to a dancing cow. There is a shop of ginger bread where a lady breaks 2 fingers and gives them to babies - they are made of sugar - and she mistreats her 2 deformed daughters. ... and there is a full chapter dedicated to Mary's birthday party where ... people are in the zoo in cages and we find out that Mary cousin is a snake.... so if you have time... read the book.

[@emmal2932]

I still think Mary Poppins Comes Back is the weirdest...... Mary shrinks Mr Banks nanny and puts her into birdcage, the whole chapter where the Bank's new baby explains where she came from to two birds, and then Mary goes up to a circus in the sky and makes out with the Sun. They're all really strange though

[@jermhoosierfan]

@@emmal2932 I always wondered if the person who came up with Mary Poppins was on LSD, and now I know.

[@limitedexperience492]

1) Slytherin confirmed 2) Poppins is the cousin of Voldemort's pet confirmed

[@noaholson9047]

Where they high in the 30’s

[@jermhoosierfan]

@@noaholson9047 There was a reason for prohibition, and it wasn't just for alcohol.

[@claystripe6514]

Joe's shirt unlocked a piece of my childhood that's been buried under so much life crap. Thank you, Joe's shirt.

[@mikeacidecw1]

Had me cracking up with this one. One of your best. 😂😂😂

[@StabworthyHeadquarters]

"....he's homeless... right?" I lmfao 😂😂😂😂 Joes saying that Bert curls up in his basedrum at night made me laugh even harder. Thanks for ruining my childhood. He's so obviously homeless I just never thought about it that way. I love you, joe spencer & dan. I'm a screen junkies junkie!

[@DelorienAz]

I somehow grew up having never seen Mary Poppins but having seen The Gnome Mobile and Monkeys Go Home multiple times. Also loved me some Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

[@Ladykyra101]

Yasss!!! "Feed the birds...." LOL! Shut up Dan, that was my favorite song from Mary Poppins. 😭❤

[@SteveCarras]

MIne and Walt Disney's.too.

What a great video. Although, I have to say that it was very difficult to find the actual Honest Trailer to watch it first. It wasn't on your wall. It wouldn't come up when I typed it in the search. I found it by clicking in some of your past videos. It was a chore, but I saw it before I saw this one. 👍😊

[@originalindigodingo]

Your argument is seriously that nobody cares about Feed the Birds, Walt Disneys favorite song, and widely considered the best song in the entire movie?

[@josephl5128]

Piltheser Feed the birds is a beautiful song, it reduces me to a puddle of tears every time. It’s the film’s thesis in song, and I think literally the only reason people are turned off by it is because tuppence is a weird word and she sings it a lot.

[@originalindigodingo]

@@josephl5128 If Americans get to say Tuppence is a weird word, then the rest of the world gets to say Dime is a weird word. Because it fucking is. Its not even spelled right anymore - you came up with the word, and you still manage to both spell and say it wrong by leaving out the s.

[@mezzem6134]

There's a really great video of the Sherman brothers talking about the songs they wrote for Mary Poppins, and in it they emotionally talk about how Feed the Birds was Walt's favorite song, how Walt would randomly ask them to play it for him, and how after Walt died they went to his office to play the song one last time for him.

[@Kbuicke]

That was maybe the best honest trailer of the year 😂 amazing!

[@aarontreguboff3626]

Can I just say how much I love Joe's Redwall shirt!

[@ryanpolk7286]

Please a million times please make a Podcast where the 3 of you are talking about movies like this. This is amazing haha!

[@ET_Bermuda]

I feel like I'm starting to say this too often, but at least half of those outtakes were great! Don't scrutinize yourselves so much!

[@HeavyC31190]

This was an amazing HT!! Also, Joe! Love the Reeeddddwaaaaallllllll!!!! Shirt. Lol

[@theMoerster]

"Ohh Ohh Crap, I got Sacked Tonight" --Jose Mourinho, today

[@amandaparler2080]

I wish there was a way to watch some of the content that was created for ScreenJunkies Plus. You worked really hard on it and it was great! I loved Does It Hold Up and I really, really wish you could bring out all the Honest Trailer Commentaries for trailers past. But I imagine there are multiple legal complications with that.

[@gregwodzynski941]

Loved it. Thanks guys

[@shanehamstra3329]

I loved this trailer so much!!

[@danielkellyuk]

Fun fact: the previous nanny at 11.32 is Elsa Lanchester, aka the Bride of Frankenstein.

[@jasonflay8818]

My favorite 30(ish) minutes of the week!

[@limitedexperience492]

The live-action movies of 50s/60s Disney were largely on the Blumhouse/Tyler Perry model, substituting "wholesome family fare" for "horror"/"sassy comedy". They cost very little to make and always made several times their creation cost back. They were bankable low-budget Surefire Successes that kept the studio making money in between the riskier big-event movies every couple of years.

[@buckeyeb9040]

I recently played in a holiday pops concert with a professional orchestra and we played a medley of songs from Mary Poppins. There were like 4 songs that I did not recall being in the movie.

[@leahlurie4315]

shhhhut up this is literally my favorite movie- its long and has too many songs but you guys did a great job with the trailer

[@leahlurie4315]

also MRS BANKS IS NAMED WINIFRED YOU FOOLS

[@scremped]

Thank you Spencer! I never got the appeal of this movie either. All I know is my chorus teacher in middle loved to force feed us this one and The Sound of Music. I had an KZbin commenter level of hatred for Julie Andrews long before I even heard of the internet because of how often i had to watch these.

[@SteveCarras]

Enjoying this!

[@benabramowitz18]

I thought her name was Shary Bobbins! Also, that doesn’t look like Michael Rooker at all!

[@shaid1111]

Feed the birds is my seriously favorite Mary Poppins song, it is gorgeous!

[@CalebSchmitz13]

Loved after credits. Also, I need Joe's shirt like now.

[@smoothestones1]

Are you guys aware that in the original movie, during the bird lady song, Mary is superimposed over the cathedral giving her a light-up halo. It was only for a few seconds and was edited out when the video came out. It might still be in the vhs version.

[@Laf92]

That was a great honest trailer

[@SerenityBane]

Pretty sure “Feed the Birds” is considered one of the best Disney songs. Maybe one just needs to grow up a little to appreciate it.

[@ltlbuddha]

Apparently Disney himself was obsessed with it and would have the Sherman brothers (its writers) come to his office and play it for him. It is a solid song, probably the only one from Marry Poppins that stands on its own.

[@tjtaylor9375]

That’s a sick shirt Joe Starr.

[@DUDE16914]

Great Honest trailer!

[@ArthurB2023]

feed the birds is one of my all time faveourite songs...................................

[@darunia5632]

Love your guys' impressions of Internet MRA commenters haha

[@kstepko]

I’m glad that Joe read out those song lyrics, because I missed both “Duck Tales” references, but was sure I heard a “d-bag” in there somewhere ...

[@mojo782]

Andrew the dog belongs to a neighbor who's name I forget but is established in the first scene when Burt is a one man band. I totally agree that you guys missed all the magic that is Mary Poppins but enjoy you just the same

[@genevieve5411]

Mrs. Lark! To be fair, I don’t think she is ever named in the movie. I know it from the book and from the stage musical.

[@deelzebub1213]

Joe, love the Redwall tee.

[@Westobale]

Feed the Birds was Walt Disneys favorite song. Not sure what that means but...

[@limitedexperience492]

Among other things, it means he's a better judge of the quality of his work. It's easily the best song and visual storytelling of the entire soundtrack, and his entire movie musical oeuvre, only surpassed by a couple of the classical-music covers in Fantasia.

[@swanpride]

The song is also the heart of the movie - and Walt knew this. It's easily the Sherman's brothers best work.

[@Luv2Dnce4]

Doesn’t Mary Poppins say the point of it before she sings? Something like, “Some people can’t see what’s right in front of their noses.” Mr. Banks walks past the “little old bird woman” every day, but doesn’t notice her. He walks past his children every day but doesn’t listen to or help them. It doesn’t make him a bad person, he’s just out of touch with those things that will truly fulfill him emotionally and spiritually.

[@swanpride]

Yep.

[@SteveCarras]

Mine,too, at least of the film.

[@Anon-kf1mh]

Love Joe’s Shirt.

[@NavajoIndianaJones]

Best way to end the commentaries video, haha!

[@LancasterAJ]

Mary Poppins returns totally has a post credit scene tying it into the paddington verse

[@maxman1602]

"I don't know much about the English, but I've watched Downton Abbey" Jon Bailey should say that in a video sometime.

[@thetux459]

The nanny gig is just a cover for Mary Poppins turning Mr. Banks into a weapon for the assassination of his boss.

[@vincentjosephpanes8678]

Oh hello, Screen Junkies!

[@princeapoopoo5787]

On one hand I want to say that this was the harshest trailer you've made in a while. But on the other hand I laughed so hard I had to pause the video despite loving Mary Poppins.

[@jamesmitchell9511]

It's almost like the message was no matter what was "most" important in their lives wasn't important in comparison to their children once they made the decision to have them

[@tiffanybabb7911]

omg joe's redwall shirt!

[@djji15dj]

I love this movie!!!

[@90855jkj]

I haven’t laughed at honest trailer/ commentary like that for a very long time

[@drmattconrad77]

Mary Poppins teaching Thanos to not torture and murder his kids is the twist in End Game

[@Kytori95]

It was great, the title was one of the best!

[@mak3yasmiil3]

I was literally just doing Lyft and pulled over to take a nap in my car when you read the line he's a Lyft driver who takes a nap in his car

[@felicitousfeline9956]

You'd understand where this movie is coming from much better if you read the book! It's so funny to hear your take on the early Disney live action movies which I grew up with! People really enjoyed them. No weirder than stuff since or current.

[@yoga_bear.]

Do an honest trailer for a goofy movie.

[@kdragon4046]

Goofy movie! And then sing After Today. Please!

[@robertbendle3086]

Absolutely! And eye to eye!

[@suiauthon]

"Feed the Birds" is such a beautiful song though! Loved the trailer anyway, but when you said you'd ticked off some tuppence fans, you were correct!

[@alexishorowitz6061]

Mrs. Banks’s name is Winnifred. They said a couple times in the movie

[@jasongeorgis3483]

Next honest trailer is Venom

[@HeavyC31190]

Jason Georgis thank you!

[@Katt1721]

Good job with the parody songs, I thought all of them were on-point. Didn't they make Mrs. Banks a suffragette because they didn't think it was believable that the children would need a full-time nanny with a mother who wasn't working or doing anything else with her time? To be fair, I think I only remember this from Saving Mr. Banks, but it seems likely. Also Feed the Birds is a classic, how dare you.

[@DazzaS83]

In middle class Victorian and Edwards families, the mother's job was maintaining the household and the children w oiuld ether be in boarding school or have a in house teacher who looked after them

[@telectronix1368]

She is a suffragette in the original story, so they carried it over in to the film.

[@eloramaxwell7020]

Get out! Life I lead and Sister Suffragette are both great songs.

[@kstepko]

Elora Maxwell Yes! It establishes their character!

[@swanpride]

Frankly, it is mostly in the movie because due to a misunderstanding the actress thought she would be playing Mary Poppins. When Walt Disney realized what was going on, he told her, that she should really listen to the great song the Sherman Brothers had written for her character. The Sherman Brother took the hint, and rewrote a song which was originally planned for Mary Poppins in record time. It's still a great scene, though. Otherwise the actress would have been wasted.

[@kstepko]

swanpride This movie has so much interesting history!

[@swanpride]

It really does. Which is why a more historical movie about its making would have been interesting, too. Saving Mr. Banks left so much out and added so much at the same time. (btw, Walt Disney just handed Travers off to his stuff, he had already enough experience with her at this point that he didn't want to deal with her).

[@shaid1111]

And Feed the Birds is THE best song in the movie.

[@SomePersonSomewhere]

This video was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

[@johnsmith-dw2cv]

JOE THAT IS AN EPIC SHIRT WHERE DID YOU GET IT.

[@pennavedc]

Joe, where did you get that dope as hell Redwall shirt?

[@HistoryMuses]

Honestly, I like the stage musical version better. It has a darker tone, but the characters have more of an arc and the parents are way more sympathetic/fleshed out. The mother is a former stage actress who's in over her head, the father is distant and focused on work because of an abusive childhood, and the kids act out a lot at first because of how distant their father is and how their mom is trying to follow what their dad wants/the socially prescribed path for raising a family.

[@sansfi]

We... are... V.... ...working on the honest trailer right now.

[@DFTBA221B]

Shouts to Joe for the Redwall shirt.

[@IndyFilmProductions]

Walt Disney wasn't the hero of Saving Mr Banks and PL Travers was a pretty fleshed out character. That part of the trailer was really off. It wasn't a perfect representation of what happened, but it also wasn't a character assassination of PL Travers either.

[@privateinvestigatorrick7406]

Please do an Honest Trailer for Camp Camp.

[@DSzaks]

..Damn, this really opened my eyes. Why do people consider this to be a classic again?

[@limitedexperience492]

It's considered a classic because most of the analysis here is factually incorrect, often betraying a lack of paying attention to what's happening on screen. For the first three facts they get entirely wrong: Mrs. Banks is repeatedly addressed by her first name, offering the suffragette banner for the kite obviously has the opposite intent of what they claim, and her husband agreeing to make that the tail and to fly it in public also obviously has the opposite intent of what they claim. They try to come across as Woke Superiors sneering at something flawed and beneath them, and instead come across as people who shouldn't be analyzing any movies more subtle than blockbuster fare

[@gemmaerickson1123]

HUUUUUUUUUGE fan of the Redwall shirt!!!!!!

[@paulinaaa175]

The mother's name is Winifred, by the way (I think they mention it in the movie)

[@trinity6302]

Nice occlumency reference, Spencer

[@surfin392]

I GOT IT! All those "we are's" at the end is the clue........ They're doing We Are Marshall...