The Wizard of Oz - Caravan Of Garbage

[@conorkirbymacguill]

Kudos to laurence for the sinister spacey cut at 8:45

[@primate924]

I cackled

[@lottji]

@@primate924 like a wicked witch, one might say

[@PileOfStones]

It made me flinch and say, "Jesus..."

[@claytonandres1194]

It’s weird they didn’t even add that sinister music, looking at Kevin Spacey nowadays just does that!

[@mase6978]

What a whimsical movie, hope nothing bad happened behind the scenes!

[@jesse_reznor]

LOOK INTO IT!

[@SMITHOMATIC]

Everything went fine 😊

[@Terrible0x0Trivium]

LOOK OUT OF IT!

[@ted_cruzumaki]

How tf did you post this yesterday?

[@joshoshea3194]

​@@ted_cruzumakiwitch craft & voodoo at the same time during a full moon probably.

[@DrThrustbone]

The discussion is always gold, but gotta give the editor props, the Kevin Spacey cameo when Maso mentions an “evil character played by evil person” was diamond level.

[@rig-zag]

Fun fact: If you sync up Pink Floyd's Dark side of the Moon when this review starts playing... nothing special happens but you can listen to them both at the same time.

[@RetroBacon1]

Big if true

[@natey3455]

It hasn't been disproven yet

[@multiversehq]

Blue harvest happens

[@GorgonFreemint]

I think they did that in Star Trek Acid Party

[@Geekaylee]

Rodney! Rodney!

[@SirAsdf]

I don’t think there's a more whimsical movie that had a more decidedly unwhimsical production.

[@grahamwade5932]

I don't like it at all for that exact reason. Hard to ignore the misery

[@NottherealLucifer]

​@@grahamwade5932I mean, plenty of people can separate the bad parts of a production with the quality of the end product. If you just ignore the piece of media then the people all went through hell for nothing.

[@ThreadBomb]

Movie sets, like most workplaces, aren't very fun places to be. On-screen is where the magic happens.

[@isohora]

Avatar 2009 comes pretty close, but misses out due to it being absolutely shallow instead of whimsical

[@stephenderry9488]

When life gives you asbestos, make whimsey.

[@prestonlong3451]

My favorite scene is when the wizard reveals Dorothy and her friends already had everything they needed inside them: asbestos, the 1930s wonder material

[@Dr170]

'bestos is for plebs, it's all about them microplastics these days, with a 0.000000000000013% chance of developing superpowers instead of organ decrepitude

[@MaskedMan66]

The snow was gypsum.

[@paulwilson2677]

When it got a 3D imax release in 2013 I booked a seat and got a warning with the email about the lack of colour at the start

[@ryanb4940]

Was rewatching WandaVision with my mom and said “I doubt many gen z kids are watching this at all… they HATE black and white and will not give it the time of day despite how damn good it is”

[@biffbobfred]

😃

[@HopUpOutDaBed]

yeah but people in the 1930's or whatever probably didn't check their email, so back then they would have been storming out

[@ellishannah1662]

@@HopUpOutDaBed Luckily I checked my email just as I got up to walk out.

[@JakeFromYoutube]

Fun Fact: One of the only times Margaret Hamilton reprised the role of the Wicked Witch of the West was on an episode of Sesame Street 40 years later. Absolute legend.

[@SorceressHeart]

That's pretty cool!

[@JakeFromYoutube]

​@@SorceressHeartright? The other 2 times was ons on Mr. Roger's Neighborhood but she didn't have the green make up so I think she more of just a regular witch and the other time was on the Paul Lynde Halloween special. What's interesting is they were all in a span of a year.

[@tonypine3434]

No one cares ​@@JakeFromKZbin

[@ellaisplotting]

​@@tonypine3434I do, and therefore your comment is as superfluous as its intention 😊

[@JakeFromYoutube]

​@@ellaisplotting who was even talking to him😂 like what 😂

[@Strivez]

Fun fact: outside of the USA the movie was called “The Wizard Of Gram”, on account of the rest of the world using the metric system

[@WhiskerDooz]

Womp womp

[@gunnerbriscoe3315]

“Oz” refers to the wizard’s name not the imperial measurement “ounces”

[@celtic69]

@@gunnerbriscoe3315 that’s simply a lie, i remember going to see The Wizard of Gram in the cinema, they even got a Russian man to dub over the word oz each time with “gram mr falcon”

[@chrisretzlaff2895]

That's about as funny as a screen door on a battleship

[@carleycarleyb]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Globalastral5]

Not doing “The Wiz”? It’s a pretty remarkable and mind-f movie considering budget, cast, and the time it was filmed

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Steve Rogers understands this reference

[@ProtoMarcus]

I undestood *_that_* reference _(Nice meta-reference!)_

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

🤣🤣🤣

[@replynotificationsdisabled]

The one with crabs @ Bubbles Shed and Breakfast?

[@RobotDecoy2]

Wicked reference

[@jakek1735]

I have a theory that Wizard of Oz might be the most commonly referenced/quoted movie of all time. I have absolutely no way of objectively determining if this is true, but I believe it. 1) It's much older than the vast majority of other movies that get referenced a lot, 2) Ever since it became popular it's remained consistently well-known throughout the world in a way that very few other movies have over such a long period of time, and 3) It has a TON of lines that people quote, some of which you might not even remember originated from it, like I had a moment once years ago where I re-watched the movie for the first time in forever and was like "oh wow I don't think I realized the phrase "come out come out wherever you are!" was from this". I know there are movies that get quoted to endless degree in certain circles of people, like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but I don't think movies like that get quoted by your average everyday people on a regular basis nearly as much as Wizard of Oz. It's so deeply baked into our cultural subconscious, it's kind of fascinating.

[@SullyMan399]

You should do the Wiz as well! Absolutely bonkers movie.

[@SuprousOxide]

Whatever those growing puppet things in the subway were... so creepy

[@jlmurph2]

​@SuprousOxide The pillars and trash cans coming alive trying to eat them lol

[@OscarZoroaster]

No....

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

I remember seeing that in the theater. I was 10 & I recall it making me feel kinda weird🤣

[@amityislandchum]

Imma be honest... I don't think these 2 white Australian guys are equipped to cover The Wiz.

[@JadenSmithEyes]

Please cover 'The Wiz' as well. Motown adjacent should count

[@biffbobfred]

Ease on down ease on down the Watchlist

[@TheRealDPooly]

I'm just a mean ole lion 🎷🦁

[@Dr170]

But it's shit

[@antoniobarry1486]

The Lion, The Wicked Witch, and the leaded paint on the Tin Man coating his lungs full of lead are my three favorite characters in fiction.

[@TheNotoriousMrDee]

Yeah he should forgo the heart and ask for new lungs

[@Luke101]

it wasn't lead paint it was aluminum dust

[@danjordan2625]

​Shhhh you should know you can't intrude on someone's false internet joke with the appropriate facts. That's illegal according to internetional law​@@Luke101

[@Flint-Dibble-the-Don]

Also the Ahh bess toes.

[@HiperPivociarz]

It's also my favorite C.S. Lewis novel.

[@MatthewMcCleskey]

The zoom at 8:43 took me out - every episode of has the most subtle and hilarious editing often matching the discussion in really creative ways. HUGE props to the editors! (Laurence specifically on this one)

[@viscera_atrocity]

They missed one fun fact: during production, the asbestos they were using for snow got contaminated by silver dye they were using for the lumberjack, resulting in blue discoloration. As the result, the crew had to harvest uncontominated asbestos from the pile, leading to the working title 'Blue Harvest', which coincidentally would be the working title of the first Star Wars movie.

[@pm.meowth4850]

Bladerunner, Bladerunner 2049, Total recall and Fifth element all need the caravan of garbage treatment

[@BobJTMarts]

Yes yes yes yes and total instinct would be sick

[@KindaNerdyy]

I wouldn’t worry they are gonna do every movie probably

[@BeatAces]

Sorry best we can do is Blade, Nine, and Elemental

[@Manakuuchiha]

I forgot total recall had a remake

[@johnjuiceshipper4963]

The Fifth Element episode needs a 5 minute section specifically to mention how much of an actual pedophile Luc Besson is.

[@_NoDrinkTheBleach]

14:42 That's the wildest pronunciation of Buddy Ebsen I've ever heard.

[@JGuraan]

I read your comment AS he said it and just about choked on my drink

[@Dr170]

Rey Bludger Buddy Eebsbee Bluert Lahrvest

[@Luke101]

To this day, this film still has some of the best costumes and set design of all time. The painted backgrounds are gorgeous, The twister scene is genuinely terrifying. The characters are all so memorable. Just a masterpiece of cinema, which is incredible considering all the behind the scenes issues. A must see movie for all generations

[@evandickinson6393]

Color movie projectors! Before this movie, there was only black and white light! LMAO

[@DanWhiteT]

I'm glad someone else laughed at that, hah.

[@creopictures]

Yeah. For a second I was agreeing with Mason, then I was like "Hold up. The color is on the film. The projector just needs to put light through it, same as black and white film."

[@hunketi]

Mason is an idiot.

[@punman5392]

I think there were special projectors needed for early color films as they required separate film strips for the red, green, and blue. But I’m not certain.

[@synonym1196]

Well, my mom saw the movie on her non-color TV growing up, so she didn't realize the movie was in color until years later. So that kind of thing did happen for at least some people!

[@LiamDalley-jd1kc]

The Wizard of Oz is a masterpiece. It’s one of those rare movies that everyone can enjoy; Kids, Teens and Adults it’s that special

[@no_nameyouknow]

Considering it's age and the fact that it is still watched and loved by kids to this day it's truly one of a kind.

[@joeodonnell921]

Think it might be the most referenced film of all time, rarely see anything that doesn't have a quote or reference to this film.

[@Teamo86]

The OG western Isekai

[@jedisalamander2457]

Book wise, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland came first by 35 years!

[@jofbaut1203]

Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy (1314) is technically an isekai too.

[@GoddoDoggo]

If we're counting hell/the underworld as "another world," then The Descent of Inana to the Underworld was written around 1500 BCE, but idk if ancient Sumeria counts as "western" or "eastern."

[@claytonandres1194]

That’s how MGM originally marketed the movie. “The West’s first Isekai film, in wonderful techniCOLOUR!”

[@JJA8020]

I'm pretty sure a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was eralier

[@DMolofsky]

Emerald City was actually an NBC show. SyFy channel's was called Tin Man, and it's exactly what you think a SyFy miniseries based on The Wizard of Oz would be. But Alan Cumming and Neal McDonough are in it!

[@MaskedMan66]

_Emerald City_ was *GARBAGE.*

[@swimteamizzle1114]

I love the commitment to editing in relevant clips of the tenth Doctor, it’s consistently charming.

[@li-limandragon9287]

I always love the bit where Scarecrow has a gun for no reason.

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

Timestamp?

[@ThreadBomb]

@@Mecharnie_Dobbs Sounds like a reference to the Futurama parody to me.

[@viviennemorgan7217]

i always wondered why scarecrow has a gun for some reason.

[@Fyrmer]

When the gang are heading out to try to get the Witch's broomstick, they bring weapons. The Lion has a net and Witch Repellent Spray, Tin Man has a wrench, and Scarecrow has a revolver.

[@finsternis1986]

Scarecrow is from the brick-ass streets...

[@PunkoRegarto]

Covering anything to avoid The Fifth Element, I see. 😏😅

[@hada__02]

Not SEO friendly enough, clearly

[@garyoak9649]

When did they say they were going to?

[@2723cadd]

After this one, it’s personal.

[@michaelfiori6700]

​@@garyoak9649they told my mom last night bud.

[@biffbobfred]

Multipass!!

[@Liberatorx13]

My dad turned 65 this year and he remembers buying his first TV with color properties. They were so excited to watch the Wizard of Oz and color but as many of you know the beginning part is in black and white still, they were pissed off, but my dad described when he first saw Dorothy wake up and Oz and seeing color TV for the first time, his breath was taking away

[@Yan-tz9pn]

Colour*

[@solvseus]

@@Yan-tz9pn *Aluminium

[@CarRobots]

You sure showed him​@@Yan-tz9pn

[@Liberatorx13]

@@Yan-tz9pn I’m in the states mate, that’s how we spell it

[@Yan-tz9pn]

@@Liberatorx13 I’m aware, I’m facetiously trying to fix American vernacular 😉 one u at a time.

[@Cyklopz007]

Yes! An upload from my two favourite "Ozzies"!

[@MattMcIrvin]

I would say the Witch of the South is not so much missing as composited into the character of Glinda. In the book, Glinda is the Witch of the South, fairly similar to the movie character, but we don't meet her until the last act when they journey to her realm in the far South. The Good Witch of the North who Dorothy meets at the beginning is a different character, a kindly old lady. So there isn't the odd feature of Glinda seemingly withholding critical information from Dorothy--it makes more sense. All things considered, "The Wizard of Oz" is actually way more faithful to its source material than a lot of film adaptations are, and certainly more faithful than the previous Oz adaptations. But they condensed the story quite a bit, particularly in the second half. Dorothy melting the Witch of the West happens at the midpoint of the book and there's a lot of traveling after. Interesting fact--as far as I can tell, the original stage version of "The Wiz" (not the Sidney Lumet/Joel Schumacher movie) might be the most structurally faithful adaptation of Baum's book out there.

[@ThreadBomb]

As far as "faithful adaptations" go, it should be remembered that Frank Baum himself directed several adaptations of his books. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz

[@MattMcIrvin]

@@ThreadBomb Yes, and they're *nothing* like the books, so he clearly was fine with interpreting his own material pretty freely. The main thing the movie adds is the "dream" frame concept, which the book really doesn't mention at all--it might have been borrowed from "Alice in Wonderland". The transition from monochrome to color, amazingly, IS in the book, which describes Kansas as this kind of preternaturally gray place. But there's nothing about Dorothy dreaming; her house really got blown to Oz. (also, can I just say: that tornado effect is AMAZING, one of the best special effects ever put on film if you ask me.)

[@MaskedMan66]

@@MattMcIrvin Not Alice exclusively; lots of movies had used that sort of format, including the 1925 version of "Wizard."

[@MaskedMan66]

@@MattMcIrvin You obviously haven't seen his movies.

[@christianmanka3884]

0:18 I am very unironically excited for this lineup for Caravan of Garbage

[@zan917]

I truly think Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch is the best movie villain of all time. Really looking forward to Return to Oz. What a goddam nightmare.

[@tdlpedro2009]

Fun fact: all four witches appear in The Wiz. Addaperle is the witch of the north, Evilline is the witch of the west, Glinda is the witch of the south, and Dorothy kills the witch of the east.

[@MaskedMan66]

Addaperle is called Miss One in the movie version.🙂

[@mrfoofoo69]

We need Tank girl and Spawn (and other 90s superhero flicks) to get the COG treatment

[@medalion1390]

Add Barbed Wire to that list

[@MaskedMan66]

@@medalion1390 You mean Barb Wire.

[@medalion1390]

@@MaskedMan66 Yes

[@killbotone6210]

This entire movie was just a set up for the ending of Zardoz.

[@claytonandres1194]

Now I’m upset they’re not covering Zardoz in this series

[@MaskedMan66]

No, that would be the book.

[@magenlin]

Fun fact: They had to color this movie by hand but due to the lack of movie ink back then they had to grow their own pigment plants leading to the working title "Blue Harvest"

[@Yan-tz9pn]

Colour* bum brain.

[@HiperPivociarz]

Having a quick time this time, are we?

[@jamstonjulian6947]

Try harder please

[@najtrows]

I don't know about the other commenters but you got me. First one in a while that actually fooled me.

[@Yan-tz9pn]

@@najtrows your own fault. Any comment that says ‘fun fact’ is always a terrible attempt at this bad joke. It’s extra bad points if the fact has anything to do with colour, extra extra badness if the spell colour like their cholesterol is higher than their IQ.

[@arnold20139]

Fun fact: MGM owns the rights to the Wicked Witch's iconic Green color. That's why in any other adaptation each Wicked Witch has a different shade of Green.

[@MaskedMan66]

I doubt that highly. Anyway, she's not even green in the book. And she only has one eye.

[@larrydube1302]

I never knew that was the witch of the East in the tornado. I always assumed it was witch of the west in sepia color.

[@MattMcIrvin]

I always figured that moment represented the transition of people Dorothy knew into their dream equivalents--Almira Gulch transforming into the Witch of the West.

[@MaskedMan66]

So what do you think Dorothy was singing about when she sang, "Just then, the Witch, to satisfy an itch, went flying on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch?"

[@MaskedMan66]

@@MattMcIrvin No, that was the WWE. Look and you'll see that she'd got the ruby slippers on.

[@versebuchanan512]

I just think it's crazy that they were in the middle of filming this right when color first started existing, and they got the EXACT MOMENT on film. It's so weird to think that the whole world used to just be in grey scale...

[@tskmaster3837]

"Margaret Hamilton plays the Wicked Witch and old woman." She was 37 at the time. I guess even her agent told her, in a nice way, "you're ugly, honey".

[@adamseidel9780]

Well I guess to be fair the witches are the only mid-aged women in the movie. Theres Dorothy, a kid, and auntie ‘em, an explicitly old lady. So a witch IS the only character she was a fit to play.

[@MaskedMan66]

Miss Hamilton had no illusions about her looks.

[@d.b.scoville]

The munchkin land song is my favorite part because it goes on to long. It’s such a needlessly in depth introduction to munchkin society. I don’t know if it was intended to be a joke but I find it very funny.

[@ThreadBomb]

It was probably inspired by the style of stage musicals at the time.

[@Dr170]

It is the ultimate indictment of the inherent fallacy of constant plot advancement

[@AmphibiousGentleman]

I love when the coroner comes out to present the Witch's fancy death certificate. It's so over the top. I love the Lollipop Guild too. Oh, and who could forget the hilariously pessimistic: "Then, this is a day of independence for all the Munchkins and their descendants!" "If any!"

[@SuprousOxide]

Glinda dropped Dorothy's house on the Witch of the East, and then put the slippers on Dorothy because she knew Dorothy would have to kill the Witch of the West. Using Dorothy as a pawn to kill both her rivals. Presumably she had already found someone to murder the Witch of the South for her previously

[@viviennemorgan7217]

that's possibly a good theory though.

[@jaustill237]

She didn't need to kill the WotS, they were lovers.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@viviennemorgan7217 It's B.S.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@jaustill237 Scram, perv.

[@MaskedMan66]

The house was dropped by a cyclone. The slippers jumped on to Dorothy's feet themselves. The Wizard wanted the WWW dead, not Glinda. The Good Witch of the South was her friend.

[@gigantisaurusrex6647]

Laurence has done such an awesome job at editing these videos so that they feel familiar to Ben's but with his own style and references. I love every time I get to see Red Dead Redemption 2 and hear James and Maso talk at the same time.

[@clint2425]

Please look at The Wiz with Michael Jackson and Diana Ross as well

[@ShirDeutch]

A few years ago I read the first book, and it's freaking DARK and BRUTAL. The Tin Man's backstory is that his axe was cursed so every time he used it, he chopped off a body part and replaced it with a prosthetic, until there was nothing human left of him. The language is also quite harsh and there's very little whimsy. The Wizard sends Dorothy and co. with an explicit order to murder the witch, and there are battle scenes where they just mow down their enemies. Also, the famous ending scene where it is revealed everything was a dream ("you were there and you were there etc.) - not in the book. In the book it's all real, supposedly. That was actually the reason I wanted to read the book in the first place, because it's such a children's fantasy trope (kind of an annoying one IMO) that I wanted to find where it came from. As far as I know it is the first movie to do it, but the origin is probably the Alice in Wonderland book.

[@LegendsP137]

Yep! In later books Dorothy Uncle Henry, and Aunt Em all eventually make Oz there permanent home.

[@suicidesamuraiz]

"Friends if Dorothy," is such a deep cut that I don't think most modern lgbtq+ people even know what it refers to. It's crazy how much the US government spent to "crack that code..." I'm actually surprised to here it from Australia, but I guess it makes sense, due the the Navy needing a port to dock in, if you know what I mean.... ;)

[@macuna1995]

I love the fact that this was the best opportunity for Mason to reference it. Really awesome.

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

Fun Fact: here in Western North Carolina, there's an annual event held every September on Beech Mountain in Banner Elk called "Land of Oz" where the peak of the mountain is designed as a theme park to emulate the events & locations of this film!!! Closed and reopened several times across decades since it's inception in 1970, it's still going on, complete with museum featuring props and costumes from the film. The address is, not surprisingly, 1 Yellow Brick Road. Once when I was up there with my family back in my mid-teens, we actually waited in line to meet the last surviving Munchkin of the film, Jerry Maren, who played the member of the Lollipop Guild! He passed away in 2018.

[@krod91100]

Fun fact: The Lions's original name in the book was "RODNEEEEYYY!"

[@millsfinancialgroup]

The cowardly lion seems more like the person who would be screaming out Rodneeeeeeeeeee

[@thepissedoffyetrationalrev2261]

Rodney was also in charge of acquiring the blue screen for the film, which led to his role in the film being listed, not as “the cowardly lion” but as “the blue harvester”

[@emiliepryor51]

🤣💀

[@MaskedMan66]

Nope.

[@hydrakn]

6:56 - this bit was amazing, I sorta want to see the Wizard of Oz entirely voice acted by James and Maso now

[@jmace2424]

Margaret Hamilton reprised the role on the Lost Episode of Sesame Street.

[@MaskedMan66]

And in many other productions.

[@mikeyfox2299]

Tin Man (2007) was gritty re-imagined Sci-fi original sequel mini series with all the characters from Wizard of Oz. Funny you joked about it, but it was 100% a thing. Zooey Deschanel is Dorothy and Alan Cumming is the scarecrow.

[@patrickmike2524]

Glinda low key insulting Dorothy. All witches are old and ugly -Dorothy Only bad witches are ugly, so are you a good witch or a bad witch - Glinda

[@MaskedMan66]

Glinda knew full well that Dorothy was a human child; she was asking on behalf of the Munchkins, who hadn't the least idea.

[@lanceash]

I had several cousins who were roughly 8-10 years older than I. One night, at a family gathering at my grandparents' house (this would have been about 1976?), all they could talk about was "The Wizard of Oz is coming on TV tonight!" Imagine: no cable, no VCR's, no internet, nothing, and I've never seen (or even heard of) The Wizard of Oz. We crowd around a tiny TV. The movie starts; my cousins assure me that it's only black and white right now; later it'll be in color. The main thing I remember about the movie from that broadcast was the flying monkeys. Scared the hell out of 6-year-old me.

[@LegendLeaguer]

5:58 Funny you say this. in the yugioh trading card game, there's an archtype (Kozmo) whose theme is built around mashing up Star Wars and the Wizard of Oz. Kozmo Tin Can is a fusion of R2-D2 and the Tin Man, Kozmo Scaredy Lion is the Cowardly Lion and Chewbacca, and Kozmo Farmgirl is Dorthy and Luke Skywalker

[@SaulGMV]

Omg that’s right

[@MaskedMan66]

No others?

[@LegendLeaguer]

@@MaskedMan66 there's a bunch others, I just didn't want to list them all.

[@TechySpeaking]

6:33 That's the Wicked Witch of the West in the window, not the East. We see the old lady transform into that character, the WWotW.

[@MaskedMan66]

No, that was the WWE; remember how Dorothy sang, "Just then, the Witch, to satisfy an itch, went flying on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch." Also, Miss Gulch wasn't old.

[@thelicensednerd1626]

Hey james! Hey mason! In the Japanese anime series gundam wing the earth bound military Organisation based in space is called... OZ

[@dufort]

Here's a crazy fact: The copper in the Witch's Makeup made the green too yellow at first so they had to make a special blue dye from Violets to offset it. Because of how much they had to produce between takes because of accidents, it led to the working title for this being, "Blue Harvest" which would later become the working title of the original Star Wars

[@zachryder3150]

I'm thankful this series can carry on forever. It is the only way.

[@WatchOffWorld]

Laurence adding an edit everytime James takes a big breath is my favorite running joke

[@BikeStuffPDX]

11:04 It's really nice to see that in 1939 grifting con men who ruled whole countries were a thing. So glad this isn't true anymore.

[@jblitz1556]

maso doing the Ben Mendelsohn "g'day boys" made my day

[@PoffinFresh]

Maybe someday a streaming service will make an awful series from all 14 Oz books.

[@solvseus]

SyFy tried. It sucked.

[@AmphibiousGentleman]

More than 14, if we add the continuation of the series by Ruth Plumly Thompson. The first 8 of those are in the public domain now.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@AmphibiousGentleman There are forty in all.

[@MaskedMan66]

Forty.

[@perrytheplatypus5047]

my great grandfather was a prop/set decorator on this movie! apparently dorothy’s dress wasn’t made in time for filming to begin. because of what was going on globally in 1938-1939, sky-colored dye for clothing was especially hard to come by, as most places that produced specially colored clothing were busy making camouflage colored clothes for the army. so my great grandfather also has a background in painting, and did it as a hobby. the producers of the movie found out about this, so they asked him to use some of his sky colored paint on a plain white dress that Judy Garland would wear. this was so they could see how the color looked on camera, since they didn’t know how it would mix with the sepia-toned world of Kansas. but the paint didn’t have enough time to dry before filming that day, and it got everywhere on the crops and hay bales Dorothy interacts with during “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” this actually led to the movie’s working title being Blue Harvest, a reference to the blue paint that covered all of the crops💙💙

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

Using the phrase "Sky colored" gave it away.

[@perrytheplatypus5047]

@@Mecharnie_Dobbs i worked hard on this you ass

[@jmace2424]

Imagine if they had left the Jitterbug scene in the movie. “Fly My Pretties! Fly” … and now a charming musical number 🤣

[@MaskedMan66]

She didn't call the Monkeys "my pretties."

[@tom47799]

You've Got to do more of these early cinema films. The best episode I've watched in a long time

[@catlawyerwilldefendfortrea6038]

"Next week, the one that scared everyone as children" This week: actual horror reality of the past

[@joshuaellis3051]

This was legit my favorite episode of Caravan Of Garbage. So funny and the vibe was just great.

[@The_RedVIII]

This one is good, but man, I love Return to Oz. That's such a "wicked" one. Pun intended.

[@ruthielalastor2209]

Dude, you're right. That room with all the heads was something else.

[@nrsrymj]

Beware the wheelers!

[@Excellsion]

Return to Oz is so much better.

[@nrsrymj]

@@Excellsion hard agree

[@IsanoMonjoDOO]

At 1:01, these guys inspired my anime podcast, and the fact Nick Mason knows about isekai confirms to me he's a secret weeb.

[@kerbal666]

I would have argued it was an act of god rather than manslaughter. How am I responsible if I'm in a car and a tornado picks my car up and lands on a young family?

[@jaustill237]

Land of Magic. Laws based on the existence of magic. A 'tornado' is a scientific phenomenon that doesn't exist in Oz.

[@kerbal666]

@@jaustill237 What? Not even wind magic? One witch can bugger off in a bubble and one in a wall of flame but the wind is unknown to them?

[@jaustill237]

@@kerbal666 Right. But if it was wind majic, then there was a murderer.

[@kerbal666]

@@jaustill237 But in this case it's still like firing a gun at someone it bounces off them somehow and kills your sister but blame the person it bounced off

[@jaustill237]

@@kerbal666 In the book, they explain why everyone assumes that she is a powerful witch. Everyone in Oz wears the color of the place where they are from. Except the witches. The witches dress as witches and it turns out that her clothes (which she does wear in the film) are considered a witch outfit because of the pattern (everyone else wears solid colors). So, a witch gets killed and somehow it is by a house dropping on them, and the only thing anyone knows is that only a witch is powerful enough to kill another witch or drop houses on people and here is this girl dressed as a witch!

[@Ryan_Hecht]

Thanks Laurence for giving me the biggest laugh of this video: The Kevin Spacey edit

[@alexander0the0gray]

19:50 I’m pretty sure the time when this came out, there was no such thing as a “color projector” vs a “black-and-white projector”. Because everything was real film stock, it was just simply shining a light through the negatives of the film reel that was sent to the theaters. If you got black-and-white film, your projector showed a black-and-white image. If you got color film, your projector showed a color image. Correct me if I’m wrong, other KZbin commenters,

[@Yan-tz9pn]

Colour*

[@solvseus]

@@Yan-tz9pn This is an American movie, so it's pronounced "technicolor"

[@Yan-tz9pn]

@@solvseus color is not pronounced differently. It’s spelt differently. I didn’t correct Technicolor, I corrected color. Technicolor is a trademark company name. It’s still spelt wrong, but it can’t be helped. even in normal countries, Technicolor keeps its name. However, colour, is always pronounced the same and spelt correctly with a u

[@First-name.Last-name]

at the end of the day i can always count on funny picture of spongebob when james takes a loud breath. he never lets me down

[@adamf1980]

Im excited for the Return To Oz video

[@tappajavittu]

This video is a true gem for all Oz-heads out there but I still wish they could've had Gregg "Mr Movies" Turkington as a guest, because he is, as we all know, THE expert authority on everything the Wizard of Oz (1939) 102 minutes.

[@The22ndDoctor]

I'm surprised no mention was made of the Dark Side Of The Rainbow (synching Moon with Oz)

[@bhappyordie]

The editing in these videos is the best around

[@carleycarleyb]

I must have been a weird kid, I love Return to OZ

[@jaustill237]

Everybody loved Return to Oz. Its the parents that were against it. Something about every time they watched it their kid would end up in their bed later that night claiming 'nightmare'.

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

Ngl i totally forgot Wicked was coming out this year. I thought they were doing it because Agatha All Along is about a band of misfits travelling down a mystical road, and The Penguin's name is "Oz".

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

19:49 I can't tell if they're joking.

[@Zorak9595]

Until I read this comment, it didn't even dawn on me that "color projectors" makes no sense.

[@FordFourD-aka-Ford4D]

I was about to comment the same lol. I think maybe Maso at least initially really thought you'd need different equipment. And for anyone wondering, no you wouldn't. It's the film print that makes a movie color or not. The projector just shines light through it (and in some cases decodes the audio track on the side of the print).

[@bigkmoviesandgames]

This movie is a damn classic. And its one of the few movies I think is just objectively and undeniably good.

[@foxyboiiyt3332]

1939 is only 85 years ago. Young cast members are still alive but nobody with significant and/or speaking roles

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

The munchkins in the background were children.

[@amberxrochellex]

You have to do The Wiz as well!!!

[@TechySpeaking]

It's always irked me when credits feel the need to indicate that an actor played two roles when narratively the two characters are technically one character. Like, the old lady is the Wicked Witch, they're not two separate characters. It'd be like saying Robert Downey Jr. played both Iron Man and Tony Stark in the movie.

[@Shoeboxjeddy]

Since later books make it extremely clear Oz is a real place you can go to and not just a dream or whatever, disagree.

[@matthewstarkie4254]

@@Shoeboxjeddy Even with the dream angle, I'd still say that Mrs. Gultch and the Witch are two separate characters, along with the farmhands/Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion. Though as a kid I always thought the Wizard and the fortune teller were the same guy, and I wondered how he had got to Oz first (and back too). Also, who the hell is Glinda? She has no real world analogue. (A school teacher we never see perhaps?)

[@ElRook]

Wait… Tony Stark is Iron Man?!?!

[@samwatson-tayler2805]

Looking forward to James and Mason opening next year with Nosferatu

[@JustJohnny]

SyFy had Tin Man with Zooey Deschanel as DG.

[@SteveODonnell]

The 3D conversion of this film is stunning. Probably one of the best. Recently picked it up to watch and was blown away by the 3D.

[@brianmulholland2467]

If you're going to do Wizard of Oz adjacent things, you HAVE to do 'The Wiz', the blacksploitation version with Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and Richard Pryor. It was AWFUL. But awful movie = fun criticism content.

[@MaryJaneHudson]

Maso’s Friend of Dorothy joke going over James’ head is hilarious 😂

[@jmace2424]

I love this movie so much.

[@20AQ02]

Maso explaining and listing Isekais has made my day

[@Rennies-World]

Okay, I'm going to add my vote to 5th Element.

[@THEAdmiralXizor]

I freaking DARE you guys to review The Wiz... 😁😍

[@HaussmannComics]

I'm not sure if Mason was joking or not when he mentioned Colored Movie Projectors

[@no_nameyouknow]

I think he just didn't think it through, like me. But yeah, now you mention it the film is in color the projector is the same projector you would use for black and white film.

[@luissopelana]

2:31 This reminded me of when Lars Von Trier's Dancer in the Dark came out in three slightly different versions because of the opening. One had a warning that the audience was about to have like five minutes of music with a black screen to calm down the audience, there was a version with no previous warning, and then there was the North American version, which just sadi "eff it" and put some abstract paintings instead of the black screen.

[@trevbot_exe]

Gday boys, abra kadabra boys to the REAL wizards of Oz

[@staylor0902]

This is the perfect opportunity to bring back Green Trivia.

[@mattgilbert7347]

Ah yes, the movie that ushered in World War 2, truly magical

[@skivers95]

I'd live to see you guys cover the chronicles of riddick series. Perfect for your insights.

[@langleymneely]

Buddy Eebseen is brilliant as Jeed Claimpeet in the Beevreley Heilbellies! Hablarious show! Lol

[@viviennemorgan7217]

i love buddy on the Beverley hillbellies and i wonder if he's alive or not.

[@langleymneely]

@@viviennemorgan7217 If he only had a brain, right? 😜

[@viviennemorgan7217]

@@langleymneely right?

[@Crocogator]

The snow in the flower field scene could also be gypsum salts. Not much better!