295: Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Myth Movie Night)

Spirits

Multitude

Myths, Folklore, Society & Culture, Alcohol, Legends, Learning, Urbanlegends, Mythology, Comedy, History, Education, Gods, Educational, Drunkhistory

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

It’s Eric’s birthday on the show, so we sit down to watch one of his childhood favorite films: Bedknobs and Broomsticks. And boy, it sure is a film! We talk WWII flavored magic adventures, con men, and an incredibly long dance number in this underloved Disney movie.

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of war, Nazis, fascism, death, misogyny, displacement, and child endangerment.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Well, a few months ago, I think, on an episode, I said a reference to this movie, Bed
0:26.8	Thousand Group 6, where Angela Lanzberry is a witch and she transforms a whole museum of armor
0:31.6	to fight the Nazis at a YouTube where like, what the hell are you talking about? I was like,
0:37.0	Myth Movie Night, let's do it. For your birthday, no less. Yeah, I'm so excited. I feel so old
0:43.9	on this day that is definitely my birthday we're recording on. Well, I mean, does it make you feel
0:50.6	less old knowing that this movie turned 50 last year? Wow. No. I mean, I watched this movie a lot
1:00.6	as a child. Like, I probably see this on the upwards of at least two dozen times. It was a classic
1:07.3	well-used VHS in our house. So I mean, I don't know. I don't know if it makes me feel older or younger.
1:13.6	Okay. Well, fair enough. I wanted to say, Eric, can you start by giving us our two-minute summary
1:19.6	of this movie? Yes. I will do my best to do it in two minutes. This movie goes through a variety of
1:27.1	locales, thieves, genres. So I will I will sub them all up as quickly as possible. And I mean,
1:34.2	there's barely a plot. It's for a bunch of set pieces. So I think I could do it. I think I'm ready
1:37.3	for it. Never done this before. You got this, Bed. So it is 1940. It's the Battle of Britain,
1:43.2	World War II. You've got three children. They're named Charlie, Carrie, and Paul. They are evacuated
1:50.0	from London. I believe during the Blitz seems about right. And they end up with a reluctant Miss
1:58.3	Ella Gatine price. And she is a witch secretly. They observe her being a witch. At first,
2:05.5	they're going to run away. Then they're like, oh, she's a witch. Maybe this will be a fun
2:09.2	vacation. So they decide to stay. She is a witch in training, though. She's like sending letters
2:16.0	and getting like bail order witch classes. Of course, fond in school. It's of course a lot of
2:21.5	school from witches in the North of England, I guess. And so she decides that she's going to
2:26.8	find the guy that can like train her into being a full witch. She makes a bed knob on a brew,
2:33.6	I don't know, a bed knob on a bed, not on a broomstick. That comes later. Actually, it already happened.
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