Doe-Me-Doe Duds

[boomkrakatoa]

"Is it...atomic?"

"Very atomic!"

[moviencartoons2]

So far, I think this could work for Gaston from "Beauty & the Beast."

[MagicLanternProds]

This is an amazing piece of film. The choreography in this scene alone is worth an Oscar for its intricacy. I would love to have been on set while it was being rehearsed. And as far as the song itself, how can you not love Dr. Suess? The lyrics are great!!

[ThaliatheTiger]

Gay or straight, it's a horrifying video. Aberrant and terrifying.

And so wonderful.

[strombolitic]

There's something about this song, it's so uplifting. Something in the melody, it's amazing! This song cures melancholy!

[ferretyluv]

It's "Do Mi Do", btw. As in "do re mi". Everyone needs to start linking to this video instead of the other guy's, because you can comment on this guy's video.

This is the gayest thing to ever come out of the 50s, other than Paul Lynde.

[ferretyluv]

What



[ddavda]

Now imagine Captain Hook singing this while Smee puts his coat on him.

[Shmeepazoid]

Now this guy knows how to dress

[wickedfeylady]

I just noticed that out of all the insane things he lists that he'd like to put on....the only one we actually see him wear is the lavender spats. I found that hilarious. Hans Conried= more stylin' than your bitch ass

[SwankyCub]

What a magnificent talent he was - and in what's perhaps the funkiest fantasmagorical movies of the 50's. To this day, I wish I had a beanie with a yellow hand on top!

[ferretyluv]

@SwankyCub You know what phantasmagoric means, right? It basically means "something you'd see in a fever dream". I'm serious. This video perfectly fits that definition.

[MickInTheMorning]

The posted description actually mis-states the character's name; it's actually "Terwilliger" (as in "Sideshow Bob Terwilliger") - it's the name of a prominent boulevard in Portland, and it's where both Dr. Suess and Matt Groening got the last name for their respective characters. Groening is a HUGE Suess fan, and although the tune in "See My Vest" is clearly lifted from the Disney number. "Be Our Guest", you can also see that the action is lifted almost directly from this scene!

[ferretyluv]

@MickInTheMorning No, it is "Terwilliker". "Terwiliger" is a corruption of it.

[MickInTheMorning]

This is the basis for "The Simpsons" version by Mr. Burns: "See My Vest"!

[puffin88]

@MickInTheMorning I had the same thought. Do you know for a fact that the Simpsons writers were inspired by this, or are you just saying that it seems likely?

[kanaloa0the0squidly]

0__0 AMAZING.

[smichelle65]

So *this* is where Prince gets his fashion sense!

[Sparkina]

@smichelle65 or where David Bowie gets his fashion sense

[Emceetem]

''O_O

[Helldiver450]

I am speechless and in shock.That's a VILLAIN? DISGRACEFUL!!! ONLY JAPANESE VILLAINS CAN BE GAY-IT'S A RULE!!!

[Homepie]

It was the 50's - you didn't have to be gay to be fabulous back then.

[tenterden16]

Camp as cats meat. First saw this film in 1955 at the Granada Saturday morning pictures club in Chichester UK. Kind of spookie in a fun sort of way and ahead of it's time. Nice musical numbers.

[itreeby]

best villain ever.

[minipoppun]

No wonder he wants to be dressed in the blossoms of a million pink trees, it'll help get rid of the smell if the liverworst and cheese he wants to wear starts to go bad

[dgbarton64]

Hans Conried is a true AMERICAN MASTER!

I hope PBS gets around to doing a bio on his life & career!!!

[victrolajake]

garders? dimond studs? undies with marble frills? purple nylons? gurdles? peek-a-boo blouse? bloomers? i think its safe to say he REALY enjoys having those men dress him

[Sparkina]

@victrolajake In historical times, gentlemen often wore socks with garters

[Jhensy2001]

"Too gay" - Richard Simmons

[Jcolinsol]

Yeah, this is what fascism is really all about.

[dgbarton64]

There is simply, niether now or ever been, a man as vocally talented as the Great Hans Conried. An American Treasure!

dgbarton64

[TsunogaiDanshaku]

I second that! A brilliant actor and a magnificent voice. And you just know he had a sense of humor to act in a movie like this.

[guruguruponchan27]

Why does he have to be gay just because he likes dressin' up? He's just plain stylish! And the lavender spats, amazing! I used to love singing along to this song, the lyrics are just so fun! This is one of my favorite old movies ^_^

[victrolajake]

i have to say just dressing up isnt that gay theres nothing wrong with being a dandy, but in the lyrics of this song he's singing about putting on silk panties with sequins , peek-a-boo blouses, bloomers, garders, nylons, and leapord skin booties

bootys with lepord-skin bows

[guruguruponchan27]

There's nothing gay about that either ^_^

[victrolajake]

ooook, sure, nothing wrong with a typical heterosextual putting on purple nylons and silk panties LOL

[ferretyluv]

@guruguruponchan27 Okay, fine, he's metrosexual.

[Peshkatari]

@guruguruponchan27 Exactly! It seems for the last 50-60 years that if you're a guy and you don't look or act like Stanley Kowalski, you get pegged as gay. What a crock. What the hell does actually having class, style, and manners have to do with sexuality?

[ctdsnark]

My brothers and I watched this when we were kids;midway through this scene,my college-age brother Pat said,"If he puts on a bra and panties,we're changing the channel."

The ensuing laughter filled the room for a good five minutes.

[stargatefansg1]

LoL Saul was watching this in Pineapple Express ;}

[ctdsnark]

Apparently,the answer to the question,"What if Hitler and Twyla Tharp were somehow genetically combined?".

[outnaway]

As to mad dictators being big ol' queens - think of Herman Goering. The man had a different ludicrous costume for every occasion, white jodhpurs, sipping champagne with his pinky finger out. Think of Idi Amin in his Gilbert and Sullivan little general's suit - the huge epulets, chest strewn with medals for killing his own people, or of Saddam Hussein's palaces. My God, I used to think that Saddam got his furniture from Liberace's estate sale.

[outnaway]

There's a bit more to this song than at first seems. Dr. Seuss is showing that the arch-villain, at the moment of his greatest triumph, is really just a big ol' queen. I wonder if he's on to something?

[jaikala]

Hands down, the gayest movie ever made. This thing makes "Brokeback Mountain" look like "Dirty Harry".

[thebandpro]

not as gay as you...

[jaikala]

YOU would know, sweetie!

[quigleybrown]

That is simply great!

[JonasClark]

Socks over his shoes? Those are spats. His are lavendar, traditionally they're white. Spats are considered obsolete and old-fashioned, but they are still classy. Unless they're purple.

[phantana88]

has anyone heard the michael feinstein rendition of this song? it's amazing, lol i love the "gorgeous bright blue bloomers with the monkey-feather cuffs"

[shipnerd]

Can you spot the straight guy in this video? Neither could I! :D

[PTSmash]

Not to mention, in the film Dr. T claims that after the opening of his institute that he is going to marry Bart's mother.

[TazziToz]

"cutey shiny booties with leaped skin bows" haha this song is rad

[WF1950]

what are those socks he wearing over his shoes?

[WynnFire]

I swear, I'm obsessed with this song. I think I've watched it at least 20 times (not counting watching the movie last night) in the past 24 hours xD

Thanks so much for uploading it on here! ^^

[Kapitannemo]

Makes me glad I have my very own pair of undulating undies with the marabou frills.

[JohnnyKapsberger]

When I emerge from my bathtub, powder my bits and approach my wardrobe, THIS is how I wish to prepare for my public integration.

[jukeboybob]

Most frightening movie ever!!! Freaked me out when I saw it as a kid.

[sakara18235]

hans conrad's best film...hollywood idiots never knew how to use him.

[bluesborn]

fjccommish,to go out of your way to make such an uninformed remarkably dim witted remark tells us all we need to know about why you couldn't sit through this classic wonderfully creative masterpiece as a child:you are an idiot.

[surlylicious]

he's not just gay, he's a screaming alcoholic

dress me in "pretzels, and in bock beer suds."

Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss) was a grandson of a German brewer, after all.

But what monster would dress up in the silk of a Hudson Bay rat?

[Nonamearisto]

It is also worth noting that the costume looks a bit like Kaiser Wilhelm's crazy outfit

[ravenhawk1326]

i love hans conreid as the bad guy! you know he had to work on this one.

[drterwilliker]

I love this movie.

...Obviously.

[verkaforever]

I love this! You wouldn't think that someone who orders people to have people disintegrated atom by atom could ever come across as lovable, but that's exactly what Dr. Trewilliker does in this scene.

[ponto]

Thanks so much for posting this! I'll have nightmares tonight, but it's worth it.

[NelsonWiddle]

Move over Ira...this chap is THE King of the iambics.

[verkaforever]

I'd love to see the Simpsons tribute to this film. Could someone upload it?

[RONJAN2]

this movie's been stuck in my brain 4evr and the simpsons trib was on tv 2nite

[erbland2006]

This is really good- I've never seen the whole movie, but I'm going to get the D.V.D.!

[neonmoon82]

I love this movie. Han's performance and Dr. Susse's writing were sheer genius.

[AnnaMcVann]

yeah! Hans Conried!! *Squeal* I love him!!! Dr. Suess was a genius! So was Walt Disney and oh god my Hans! *Giggles* I love this movie it was so good!!

[juilliardropout]

Technicolor Rules!

[ajt526]

I thought I had dreamt this movie as a kid! And now we know where Michael Jackson got his clothes-sense...

[Sparkina]

@ajt526 not to mention the always stylin' David Bowie

[juliajoplin]

OHHHHH, the lavender!

[pcg13]

This movie was both terrifying and awesome. Oh my gosh.

[steveasat2]

Yes, this is the gayest 2 minutes and 53 seconds ever committed to film, in both senses of the word. There are a lot of drag queens in the world, but Dr. T is the drag KING! I mean...undulating undies? Come on, who wouldn't want some of that action?

[snakelake]

Anyone remember the Mr Burns homage to this from the Simpsons?

[fuzzystrange]

ROFL LOLZZZ. Oh gawd, the gay. I love this movie.

[feloniousbutterfly]

I failed to realize how amazingly gay this was when I was a kid.

[GeishaShattori]

All I can say is... GOD BLESS DR. SUESS!!! ***shriek!*** BEST... SCENE... IN A MOVIE... EVER!!!

[Whoafishcandrown]

This is terrible. You made me really sad, Spencer. You failed me, you failed everyone you know.