Smoking a Joint & Watching *THE WIZARD OF OZ* (First Time Watching - Movie Reaction)

[@TheMikeLawz]

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[@melenatorr]

You might change your mind about Billie Burke (the Witch of the North) not being all the beautiful if you consider that she was born in 1884. This movie was 1939. Billie Burke was 55 years old here. I say she's doing pretty well! Burke was married to Florenz Ziegfeld, who was the producer of the famous Ziegfeld Follies. She stopped her own show business career when she married him, but the stock market crash of 1929 ruined his finances and she became the bread winner. Her unique, champagne-bubbly voice was perfect for playing eccentric air headed wives or spinsters, though she occasionally played a more serious role. She was, in actuality, an intelligent woman who knew how to use her assets.

[@JamesHightower18]

I’ve watched this movie hundreds of times but I do not remember the scarecrow carrying a fucking gun 💀

[@taylorholliday6434]

bro i literally played a munchkin in the play when i did theater and i didnt even know 😭

[@SpidermanandhisAmazingFriends]

The Scarecrow was gonna catch a body 😅

[@ChrisCollins068]

How? I saw the gun the first time I watched the movie

[@JamesHightower18]

@@SpidermanandhisAmazingFriends fr 😭

[@TheMikeLawz]

Home boy was strapped

[@AlexDelarge1990]

Not even 3 minutes in... "Bro that bike riding posture is immaculate."😅 Most underrated reaction channel everytime lol

[@rainbowpegacornstudios]

The song Over The Rainbow is one of the most iconic numbers in a musical and my personal favorite in this movie. Delicious movie trivia: >The "oil" that they used to lube up Tin Man's joints was actually watered-down chocolate syrup. >The horse pulling the carriage in The Emerald City kept licking off the gelatin powder that turned its coat purple, red and yellow. Sweet movie trivia: >Jack Haley, the actor who played the Tin Man was the replacement for Buddy Ebsen, who suffered an allergic reaction to the makeup. The voice Jack used for Tin Man was reportedly one he'd use when reading good night stories to his daughter, his real voice was gruffer and deeper. Sad movie trivia: >In the scene where Dorothy, Scarecrow and Tin Man meet The Cowardly Lion, you can see Judy bury half of her face in Toto's fur. This is because she found it difficult to keep a straight face when Bert Lahr started blubbering as the Lion, and the producers would get mad and slap her because of it. >In the poppy field scene when Glinda makes it snow to negate the Wicked Witch's sleeping spell, the "snow" is actually asbestos flakes. >The pyrotechnics used for the Wicked Witch of the West's entries and exits inflicted 2nd degree burns on Margaret Hamilton's face and a 3rd degree burn on her right hand. She understandably refused to not only do any more stunts involving pyrotechnics, but she missed 6 weeks of filming due to hospitalization.

[@lunacouer]

Wait...isn't gelatin made out of horses? So they used his comrades to make horse paint, and then he ate them? 👀

[@libertyresearch-iu4fy]

The real sad part is that Epsen was originally the scarecrow, but they replaced him there too.

[@rainbowpegacornstudios]

@@lunacouer No...its key ingredient is collagen, which is a protein found in animal bones, skin and tendons. Sadly, cows, pigs and fish are used for it.

[@lunacouer]

@@rainbowpegacornstudios Back in their day, horses were used to make it too.

[@HauntFreak13]

I can’t believe Somewhere Over The Rainbow was almost cut from the film! Can you imagine not having that gorgeous song?

[@toodlescae]

Back then they didn't know asbestos was toxic. The silver paint was mostly only an issue for the actor who was originally going to play Scarecrow, Buddy Ebsen, because he was highly allergic to it. The burns that Margaret got while playing the witch were from when she disappeared in flames in Munchkinland because the trap door she was supposed to drop through didn't open fast enough.

[@narkybark]

"I was supposed to be halfway there, and I'm dealing with this"

[@clivechiam]

The irony considering all she needed to do to go home was click her fuckin heels

[@rumbledumpthumpershaker6735]

The hanging dwarf is a myth. But the rest is true. That's not even the original Tin Man. The paint took Buddy Ebsen out. But he survived and eventually stared in The Beverly Hillbillies. The dwarves were brought in from all over the country and most had never seen another dwarf before. They went buck wild. The movie Under the Rainbow (1981) is based on their debauchery which was legendary in Hollywood for many years.

[@johnnehrich9601]

Yes, the myth of the dead munchkin came about because of the low resolution of the movie on the early tvs. It is actually one of the exotic birds that got frightened when the three of them started toward the backdrop. But anyone who knows how they actually made movies back then knew this was noise. This was always a closed set and the actors who played the munchkins were nowhere around at that time. And those are "real" trees in the background, just flats which wouldn't support any weight. Finally, the body would have discovered long before the movie was released and they would have refilmed it.

[@libertyresearch-iu4fy]

I remember seeing somebody with something that looked like one of those clapper things they use to mark the film and start scenes.

[@theunintelligentlydesigned4931]

The dwarf debauchery was highly exaggerated. They may have gotten excited but they didn't do all the stuff the legends say they did.

[@johnnehrich9601]

@@theunintelligentlydesigned4931 I think much of that myth came from a Tonight Show appearance, back when it was hosted by Jack Parr, by an intoxicated Judy Garland, shortly before her death.

[@theunintelligentlydesigned4931]

@@johnnehrich9601 I believe you are right.

[@TheMikeLawz-Too]

heard this is where the party is at

[@RavenG.est95]

🎉

[@TheMGJTRUTH]

multiverse mike

[@jasmineg_63]

You heard correctly

[@TheMikeLawz-Too]

@@jasmineg_63 👁

[@jrasicmark1]

Wow, it's wild to me you guessed that the Scarecrow's name might be Leroy. Somehow, I doubt you thought of it because of the reason I'm thinking of. In the early 80s, they made a TV series based on the movie, Fame, about New York's High School of Performing Arts. Both this movie and Fame are created and owned by MGM, so it was a natural that an episode of Fame would spoof this movie. A student named Doris (she was Doris Finsecker in the movie, but they changed her name to Schwartz in the series) wanted to play Dorothy in a stage version of the Wizard of Oz they were doing at the school but doesn't quite make it because of her schoolwork. She somehow gets knocked out and she dreams this movie but with everyone in the school taking the other roles. Bruno (who was in both the movie and series by the same actor) was the Tin Man, but the scarecrow was Leroy (a character from the movie who carried on to the series played by the same actor, and in both the movie and series, he was challenged academically, and he worried he wasn't smart enough to keep up). They did exactly the same songs, except they modernized the beat for all of them). They even filmed the first part of the episode in black and white. A friend's father was actually convinced it was the actual movie instead of an episode of Fame (even though the sets, makeup, costumes, and actors were clearly different to anyone paying attention).

[@samanthabrennanIreland]

“I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog too”!! 😂😂

[@TheMikeLawz]

SHE AINT TOUCHING MY DAWG

[@samanthabrennanIreland]

@@TheMikeLawz she’s a different level of Evil !! 😂😂

[@conservativecatholic9030]

@@TheMikeLawzthe messed up part is that now that Dorothy woke up, the lady with the bike (the witch) still has an order to put Dorothy’s dog to sleep. That is literally why she ran away in the first place.

[@florairvine-hallxo]

“She ain’t that beautiful” was a violation 💀

[@reneew8181]

Fun fact I learned from a class in college: this movie was basically a box office bomb when it first released in 1939. (I'm pretty sure mass audiences were tired of musicals by that point, among other reasons). Fast forward to the 1950s, televisions were just becoming widely accessible, and newly established TV networks were looking for old movies that they could buy the rights to air for cheap. The Wizard of Oz was one of the least known, so it was cheap and got bought up by multiple networks. It started airing all the time on TV in that decade, and only then became a beloved classic as more and more generations saw it. So even though it came out in '39, it took almost 20 years for most people to even see or hear of it, and now it's so ingrained in pop culture. I just thought that was interesting.

[@keithabney4665]

audiences were not tired of musicals in 1939, The Wizard of Oz had the unfortunate timing of being released the same year as Gone With the Wind which consumed the public, the box office and every award you could think of.

[@IvorPresents]

Legeand does not diminish the child like wonder and horror evoked in this magical production. Everyone involved gave it their best. An entertainment in a time of the great American depression.

[@johnnehrich9601]

Love this movie. First saw it when my parents took me to the first rerelease of it in 1955 - terrified of tornados for years afterwards). Literally the first book I ever read with the third book in the series, Ozma of Oz.

[@Rayray-kj9cc]

My mom thought it was funny that I used to cry when the mean witch and monkeys would come on! I was like 5 in 1976 LOL

[@Bricriu20]

20:14 The witch would absolutely cook up a fentanyl bomb if she knew what that was!

[@TomWard-s7t]

Frank Morgan plays five roles in the film - Professor Marvel, the wizard, the "bust my buttons" gatekeeper, the "horse of a different color" carriage driver and the guard.

[@dizzynikki5912]

My Absolute Favorite reaction to Wizard of Oz.. Your reactions are always Gold...

[@tracyepaul7872]

When this movie was made, Judy Garland was 16. In order to make her seem like she was 12, they put a corset on her and tightened it up so that she was flat chested. They also put uppers in her food so she could work longer. Because they did this, she got hooked on them.

[@dmixdup]

Glinda: "She ain't that beautiful." 🤣😂🤣

[@DJR641]

Wicked witch: Now i have you dor..............wait..........why do you have a beard?!

[@rumbledumpthumpershaker6735]

You need to watch Return to Oz 1985. It's based on The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) and Ozma of Oz (1907), two other books in the series. Totally different vibe. The Scissor Sisters even used it as a basis for a song about the meth epidemic back in the day. The song is also named Return to Oz.

[@johnnehrich9601]

Yes, Return to Oz by Disney is as close to the original books as they could make it. Love that movie too. The second Disney movie with James Franco, I thought was awful, mainly because France, who is supposed to be the Wizard when young, does not come across as the bumbling humbug as he is in the real story.

[@rumbledumpthumpershaker6735]

@@johnnehrich9601 I think I watched part of the new one years ago and didn't finish it.

[@RonnieStewartJr]

I’ll never understand how there are people in this world who have never seen The Wizard of Oz, but I’m not upset because we get videos like this lol

[@pica6888]

Supposedly if you start Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon after the lion roars for the third time it’s syncs up with the Wizard of Oz.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

I love that there's a Munchkin Coroner, presumably spending his time doing autopsies on dead Munchkins looking for cause of death, that sort of thing

[@ajayblake8740]

The Return to Oz is even crazier

[@tuckerplum8085]

"Well! Bust my buttons!!" (I will do NO such thing.) LOL

[@jaernihiltheus7817]

The "she wouldn't believe me" bit was less bs in the book. In the book Glynda the good witch of the south (the one she met in munchkinland) and the good witch of the north (who told her she could always go back) were two separate characters, so it wasn't a lie but rather two people with different information. Also in the book it wasn't a dream, and Dorothy returns in a LOT of sequels.

[@willrobinson4976]

Love the sunglasses, you should do more with them on.

[@PhilipWeisman-dl4ik]

Somewhere Over The Rainbow was written for this film, and won the Academy Award for Best Song.

[@farrellmcnulty909]

30:30 - I was hoping you'd include my favorite scene in the whole movie, and you did. Thank you. this was brilliant.

[@3rdand105]

This is one of the best reaction videos to this movie that I've seen, and I've seen a lot of them. Keep up the excellent work!

[@HuntingViolets]

The Scarecrow was always the one who came up with the plans. The Tin Man was always the emotional one. The Lion did the brave thing in spite of being afraid (this is more obvious in the book).

[@jrasicmark1]

Isis wasn't always a terrorist group. Isis was an ancient Egyptian goddess (and the Osiris Professor Marvel mentioned was the husband and brother of Isis). The goddess was also adapted into a live action Saturday morning super-heroine TV series. The series shared a block with a live action series about the DC Comics superhero, Captain Marvel (who gains his powers when he speaks the magic word, Shazam, which happens to also be the name they now call the hero). Because of that connection, DC adapted Isis into her own short-lived comics series. Because the original ancient Egyptian version of Isis is in the public domain, modern versions of the heroine still pop up in comics occasionally.

[@LunaRip420]

The old lady who took her dog the worlds first Karen.. Lmao😂

[@beatyz2]

39:58 notice the subtle Hangover quoten 😂

[@Rayray-kj9cc]

3 amazing movies came out in 1939, Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and Grapes of Wrath!!

[@farrellmcnulty909]

30:38 - It's never occurred to me until this very minute, but when the witch cackles at Dorothy, who or what is she looking at when she turns to face the camera?

[@farrellmcnulty909]

38:35 - Why couldn't the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion have held the balloon DOWN while waiting for Dorothy to return? I guess they really didn't have the heart, brains or BALLS to do so.

[@PhilipWeisman-dl4ik]

In the first preview edit, a pan down shows the ruby slippers are still on Dorothy's feet. The story of the hanging suicide is an urban myth. It is merely a large bird spreading its wings.

[@paulsuchy6210]

At least you were impressed with the art direction and special effects.

[@williamjones6031]

1. If you start playing side one of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd when the MGM lion roars the third time it syncs up with what's happening in the movie until shortly after the color kicks in. 2. Buddy Ebsen was supposed to play the tin man, but he was allergic to the dust they used on his face, so since he was under a lifetime contract with MGM they offered him "The Beverly Hillbillies" and the rest is history. 3. Sadly, Judy Garland died in 1969 from barbiturate overdose.😇 4. GOOF: The Nebraska State Fair has always been in Lincoln, not Omaha. (Nebraskan here) 5. In 1979 they made "The Wiz" featuring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson among others. 6. If you want to know about the hanging body the story is in IMDB trivia. It's reliable. 7. Speaking of Pink Floyd and this movie before the times, but how much acid was used to come up with this?

[@flibber123]

"Cooking up a Fentanyl bomb" haha, you nailed that one. They nod off because of the poppies. Then the good witch snaps them out of it with a stimulant- snow..

[@qmanparry9336]

The amount of left hooks that would have been unloaded by me if I was teleported here is crazy

[@amyy2451]

Haven’t seen this in years but man that lion still gives me the creeps

[@binkytube]

The thumbnail for this: DEAD.

[@MusicalMiranda82]

Lmao you should watch The Wiz... talk about a fever dream but it's so good haha.

[@JohnSmith-fm3pn]

1939 and they have her nod off in a poppy field and only some white powder can get her up again The 80s Return to oz is wild aswell

[@Cisfordelta]

This vid reminded me that apparently you can sync this movie to dark side of the moon.

[@k_salter]

May be my favorite quote: "Kansas ain't that great."

[@musicalmistress101]

Thx for this reaction, I've watched it twice bc of how funny the commentary is!

[@Muunbeau]

When the witch left in flames, shes actually got burns on her body. This movie was a nightmare to make

[@markgettemeyer1145]

I believe they used a nylon stocking to create the cyclone.

[@Raven5150]

The tornado was made from a pair of panty hose on a turn table

[@shaneencalade4988]

😂 I have laughed my ass off with your commentary 😂

[@justinrolfe5396]

As someone from Kansas…I always found it hard to believe that she wanted to go back to Kansas 🤔

[@emmetstone1660]

That woman was the original Karen 😂

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

Dorothy: ive never heard of a beautiful witch before. Mike: she aiint that beautiful. Me: lmao.😂

[@JenniferSmallwood-b1b]

They used to show this on basic TV at holiday season when I was a kid. Now young men are shocked by Munchkins.

[@Nyctm91]

“As mayor of ugly town” 😂😂 you are so funny

[@donatord]

Several really laugh out loud moments like the Moscow Olympic team.

[@emilyvlogging6102]

The movie technically has a sequel. The book had many movie adaptations with this being the most popular, but there is another remake that was made as a continuation of the story called "Return to Oz". Since they're both based on the novel some details are different but the main points are pretty much the same.

[@ferenczliszt]

"he was there for D Day" - that hadn't even happened yet when this movie was made, lol

[@michiganjfrog366]

Heroin is made out of poppies which made them nod out...😴 The snow represents cocaine which perked them up😬

[@bleakautomaton4808]

Poppies...poppies will put her to sleep

[@shannonbrigante5764]

My most favorite movie of all time.. some fun facts.. -This is the first movie ever to have ‘color’ -The people who played the munchkins were BANANAS.. most of them had never seen someone who looked like them.. they were hammered all the time & there were std outbreaks.. it’s stuff of Hollywood legend.. - They fed Judy Garland, Dorothy, uppers all day so she could work insane hours & to keep her skinny, then drugged her so she could sleep.. Judy Garland ended up quite addicted for the majority of her life.. -Original tin-man had To be replaced because he got lead poisoning from the paint.. - The wicked witch got seriously burned during her entrance *or exit, I forget* to munchkin land - There is a deleted scene where the WW sends a ‘jitterbug’ ahead of the flying monkeys.. it bites them & they dance the jitter-bug until they fall down & the flying monkeys come & take them.. - If you some enough weed, or eat a bit of mushrooms, it is possible to sync the movie to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon album & have it COMPLETELY work..

[@deathwitheponine]

What does it say about me that I did this completely sober and enjoyed it? Lol

[@shannonbrigante5764]

@@deathwitheponine beats the hell out of me but let me know because.. yup.. same.

[@johnnehrich9601]

This was NOT the first to have color but certainly rare (and expensive) at the time. Gone With The Wind, released the same year, is in color. A technicolor camera splits the incoming light into its component colors - black, yellow, cyan, and magneta. Each beam is recorded on its own film and then the four are glued together. Technicolor cameras therefore needed 4x the light to get the same exposure as a b&w film. The studio had to borrow just about every arc light around, which is why the set was so blazing hot.

[@lucifersapphire8412]

Lmafo the hate, anger, and disdain 💀😂

[@tt8807]

You want a trip? Return to Oz f’d w/ my 6 yr old brain for life!

[@jmynnabors9610]

Rip Judy G❤

[@davidmenke7552]

My guy, this was my favorite movie as a kid and I absolutely loved the vibe you brought to this reaction!!!! It was perfect! Judy Garland would be proud!

[@Raven5150]

It's not a munchkin hanging it's crane flapping it's winngs and it was in this version you watched

[@SobiTheRobot]

I love that half of your reactions here are "What da fuck is THAT?"

[@queenjayneapproximately]

The field of flowers Dorothy falls asleep in is a field of poppies. Opium poppies.

[@HuntingViolets]

You should watch it with the sound off while listening to Pink Floyd's _Dark Side of the Moon._ It doesn't go all the way through the movie, but still.

[@libertyresearch-iu4fy]

I think you would appreciate more than most a mashup of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and this movie. The video here is known variously as 'The Dark Side of Oz', 'The Wizard of Pink', or 'The Dark Side of the Rainbow'. It is really kind of amazing, Roger Waters claims it was not intentional.

[@PandoraKyss]

Handsome, bearded Dorothy isn't real. She can't hurt you. Handsome, bearded Dorothy:

[@SOCCERNUT32]

" watch your mouth " ! me : subscribed ! OMG That took me out dude !!🤣😂

[@Digital_David]

Thanks for this video, Mike! Pretty sure this is my first visit to the channel. One note: Im pretty sure that the myth that a member of the production staff hung himself on the film of this movie has been denied or proven to be false by someone who worked on the film. Im not 100% sure, so I would suggest further research, if youre interested to know.

[@Blackmjc]

Near me in Maryland there is a huge white pointy Mormon temple right infront of you when you're driving down a major highway here. On one of the overpasses someone spray painted Surrender Dorothy, because of the resemblance. You can look up pics online, if you want. Also, I'm pretty sure this is the first colorized movie. And the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow are the farm hands in the beginning of the film. If you listen to their banter in the beginning of the movie before the tornado, you can hear them mention things that end up happening when they're the creatures. The actual Wizard of Oz/the guy in green is the guy who read Dorothy's future in the crystal ball in the beginning as well. The witch is also the lady on the bike who tried to take Toto.

[@jeffmartin1026]

A two-color Technicolor system was developed in the early 1930s and used in several films, one being The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933). The colors produced were poor and the techniques wasn't used for long. The Wizard of Oz popularized the full color Technicolor filming technique.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

20:30 Poppies, the plant from which morphine, codeine, heroin, and oxycodone are derived

[@paulschuckman6604]

Gotta love asbestos snow.

[@johnraymondponce7783]

glad you enjoyed it!!

[@Blahwoof85]

It's a shame the stuff that happened behind the scenes cause this movie really is a classic

[@brt5273]

Thas the way to do it boi!🎉🥳🎉

[@LeslieEscobedo-sx7ee]

Wait.. How did I end up here... the dark side of movie reactions.. LOL! Never laughed so much... and this is a favorite childhood movie...

[@seattlecryptid]

Return to Oz next, now thet one stoned is a trip. 😂

[@TheKrensada]

I adore your commentary.

[@PhillipButler1962]

The 3 farmlands are the scarecrow the tin man and lion the wizard is the fortune teller the gate guard the doorman at the wizard house and the carriage driver.

[@MtnDua]

😂 I’d love to see you react to the first Never ending Story! I loved it and the Wizard of Oz so much growing up.

[@enicole1203]

So are we gonna talk about how the Wizard sent a little girl off to get murdered by a witch just to protect his secret, then just acted like none of that happened ?

[@eloymedina4328]

The MADtv skit of this is hilarious.. the ending

[@pommie5093]

Only thing missing from your watching experience is DSOTM being played along with.

[@fadalerabrasool3563]

the wicked witch of the west sures got the one liners😂😂😂

[@OBIWANCANOLI77]

Should've took shrooms and watched this, we used to drop acid and shrooms and watch this and willy wonka. You need to try it sometime.

[@TheMikeLawz]

I ain't trying to go THAT deep

[@KieroSi]

@@TheMikeLawz yo, should check out "MadTV - Wizard of Oz (Alternate Ending)" and "Return To Oz (1985)" ... and psychedelics for "The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)" "Legend (1985)" "Clash of The Titans (1981)" "Barbarella (1968)" ...

[@JohnGundy]

Lemme hit this bowl to watch the vid bro haha this movie is amazing though. Actress who plays Dorothy went through hell when filming this. A ton of the cast did actually. Sad cause they made such a great movie.

[@Crystal_Aquarius1989]

💜💙 I love this movie, so glad you watched this one.

[@RXone2one]

I recently watched the movie with the pink floyd album playing at key moments lining up 😂😂

[@Keedeeg]

It's been a hilarious time watching you react to this movie! When I was a kid, this movie aired once a year on network TV, and it was a family event for me and my siblings. I can only imagine what it would be like to watch it for the first time with the "firefighter." 😂 PS. I subscribed yesterday after watching your reaction to "The Exorcist". I saw that one in the theater when I was 8 years old. 😳 Watching your reactions to "GamofOf Thrones" now!! 😊

[@bleakautomaton4808]

Real fire effects that's for sure

[@JamesDimond-l7u]

Dark side of the Moon is synced up to this film