The Tapioca

[ramblergarage]

I cant believe Jimmy plays the dad of Veruka Salt. That movie was only 5 years later he didnt age that much to look 50 years old in 5 years!

[schlettstadt]

I remember seeing this scene on TV 30 years ago. Song always stuck in my head ever since. Thanks got posting!

[7b7Ben]

OMG! That's why Ryan Stiles found Tapioca hilarious on Whose Line!! He must have seen this movie because of Carol Channing!!

[evilmonkeyactress]

how did everyone learn a made up dance in the matter of seconds? I wish we could do that in real life

[metalheadinpink]

this is my favourite part of the movie - spent my childhood dancing the tapioca in front of the telly :P x x x

[MarlenaKeller]

I wouldh've married Jimmy anway bc he is so funny and cute :) <3 i so wanna be millie if we do this as our musical.. :)

[Sledge101]

I love this film!! Have been a fan since I was about 12 ('82) and never get tired of it. This is pretty much my favourite scene.

[DefyGravity464]

...Slapioca. xD

[tlyoung88]

Does the deleted Mary Tyler solo still exist or is it forever lost?

[tombraideress]

Love the Dance!! That Mrs Meers!!! I wanna chuck something at her head!!! lol

[Mavrilon]

James Fox is a wonderful actor,singer and dancer. Thanks for sharing the video.

[robertsquixote101]

I was born 47 years too late!

[robertsquixote101]

I was born 47 years too late!

[emmadilemmasings]

Julie Andrews is a freaking genius.

Smiley, smiley smiley smiley, smiley, OH THAT'S TOO HARD.

[actorjdwilliams]

One people is still not thoroughly modern

[quoththeraven929]

Why don't people have fun dances like this anymore? I'd love to do something like this :D

[padfootnprongs49]

i love this movie so much! they just don't make movies like this any more. :'(

[elphabastwin]

Can someone please tell me WHY they didn't put this in the Broadway show???

[ernstwhere]

Thank you, no.

What a masterpiece of camp. Never bested.

[aplantage]

Well, Mr Fox is slightly out of sync in places, but it's a very fast and difficult number. Furthermore, he performs it in character, which is quite amazing, all the more since he's not mainly a dancer. He said that Joe Layton was partly inspired by his "gangling gait", so in a way he even really did help make up the dance. So hats off!

[thesleepydancer]

like this if you have ever tried to learn the tapioca

[missenthusiastic]

we are going to do this musical at school, and if this dance isn't it i'm going to cry. i just adore this part <3

[stingfan1000]

Message to 'japanese dawn' : You go and do the 'tapioca' if you want to...and wish you lived in 1922!! Enjoy!!! - you've got plenty of time to worry about the world's problems later...(Ignore the (old?) grumps - on here).... 'tap..tap..tap..tapioca....' (:

[stingfan1000]

Message to 'Charlie Oakley': Lighten up for god's sake... the person you're hectoring is just a kid (as they've told you) - enjoying a movie and a dance routine. What's the big deal? Did my kids need to understand the political and social fallout of the First WW to enjoy this movie, their childhood and look at life with wonder? No. Did it hold them back? No. One's a doctor, the other a lieutenant in the military... BTW: I have no interest in 'your response' - I'm too busy enjoying life!

[puppiesrockish]

ding- fo so funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[puppiesrockish]

oh puke

[bananamanfan007]

"I was just passing the hotel going nowhere killing time when I heard your snappy music."

[elphabastwin]

One of the few videos with 0 dislikes :) This dance number is pure genius!

[BlueMiscellany]

@elphabastwin There's one person who tried to do the Tapioca and failed :(

[cmelodicminor]

Opening song to TMM has the lyric: "They say, it's criminal, what women'll do..." one of my fave musical lyrics. The Tapioca BTW, is also a very cool dance number. If memory serves, Andre Previn did the orchestration.

Thanks for posting.

[hiqoguard]

This scene must have been exhausting what with all the retakes they do for films. One of my favorite dance scenes!! I love the way people just break out dancing in musicals, lol

[brnb38]

That's the most fantastic musical number in motion picture history. Without a doubt.

[CoolKatKitty88]

Such a great movie :)

I am determined to learn this dance.

[japanesedawn]

love this scene!!! so hilarious :) & i wish i lived in 1922 and used their slang haha "slap slap slap slap slapioka!" so funny!!

[UncleCharlieOakley]

@japanesedawn Yeah, it would have swell. Just three years earlier, many Americans had lost their fathers, brothers and sons in World War I. Others returned home from the war having lost limbs, psychologically disoriented and scarred for life. The Roaring Twenties were marked by gangsters terrorizing the streets, Americans desperate to lose their worries and grief in booze and drugs, child labor and more. Movies were an escape from how tough life was for so many people. Read your history.

[japanesedawn]

@UncleCharlieOakley :( sorry...i didnt mean it that way, but sry im still a kid i dont know like any history, i was just saying id love to be in this movie is all... :(

[UncleCharlieOakley]

@japanesedawn Any time you want to "know like any history" get off YouTube and wrap your mind around like, reading a book sometime.

Yes, the movie is a lot of fun.

[Phantomlover1302]

jimmy's on crack! lol

[turnerc12]

Jimmy is so cute !!!

love james fox very cute

[paelie]

love the yellow in this scene.

happiness!!

[WikeddTung]

@paelie me 2. and i want every dress in this scene

[shapeepster]

My favorite movie because it's so much fun and eveyone's so talented and the roarin' twenties is my favorite era!

[Hoenemeyergirl]

1:39...to me looks like Taylor Swift!

[xstephaniexlovex]

love this movie!

[raiseyourfreakflag09]

omg i cant believe dorothy is played by mary tyler moore!!! wat a gr8 cast!

[TheWhiteBandana]

I love how the people around them are dancing before the tapioca hahah, silly!

[Fiordiligi2]

@TheWhiteBandana  You're right! I hadn't really noticed them before. Especially the couple with the depressed girl when they're deciding on the name.... Terrif!

[chittycbbang]

3:58 The best part of the whole movie!

>Whould you get a dance Mrs Meers?

>Thank you! NO!

[EratosDaughter]

We were serving tapioca pudding at work the other day (I work in a retirement home) and I couldn't help but sing this the entire time! It was difficult to not start dancing as well! XD

[winkarox14]

we r watching this in history!

[spartenette]

My little bro, AJ, sings this ALL the time! He does the dance amazingly!!! He's sooo cute! haha. I am auditioning for dorothy and he learned the song along with "Ah sweet mystery of life" !!!! :P

[joshualeepalmer]

LOL, I love this movie..

[TheCharles98]

dorothy's dance partner is my second cousin. he was the choreographer (dance instructor) for everyone

[BlueMiscellany]

woah!

[scarredbanner]

Alas, somewhat like the ancestors of the Wall to Wall but even better. It's really awesome: the synchronization is to die for. Julie is so talented! :)

[schuyler10]

This song and dance are the JAM!

[famouse99]

NOW THIS IS DANCING!!! Not this new age rump shaken dance/'s (if you'd even call them dancing).

[engamhc]

This is my favourite song from the movie, lol

[producersfan]

"He's fresh as paint."

LOL. I can't believe that Jimmy went on to play Mr. Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

[RussinTirnaNog]

In the Johnny Depp version or the origonal?

[Litebulb777]

Johnny Depp version

[barcharger]

WHAT?! That was James Fox?

[BilltheUnamused]

"ohh, he's just full of applesauce."

[PeepRoasters]

@producersfan HE WAS MR. SALT?!

[izzythe25th]

@producersfan OMGsh, I did not realize that was him!! Wow! He looks so young here!

[kittyfat44]

Which charlie and the chocolate factory? The modern or old version?

[AngelAteem]

@kittyfat44 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, not Willy Wonka and Chocolate Factory. So, the newer one.

[Dancingking1980]

@kittyfat44 the modern version he is the dad of veruka salt

[handelfan610]

i've seen the musical...but never the movie...and i wish this song was in the show....and julie andrews is gettin it!

[ngc6440]

"Cup of punch?" I love it :-)

[candiigirl234]

how come mrs. meers didnt have an accent?

[OohGoshYoureRight]

Dear candii.,

She does have and accent maybe rather, your ears have an accent.

.

Maybe you mean that she speaks with an accent to the tart shop workers.

Oh, ding foo !

[lordofwrath88]

"Delish!"

[futuristfood]

beatrice lily is it.

[PG4398]

We're doing this play this year, and we added the tapioca.

[afootfan]

I love trying to do this dance!!! One of my FAVORITE musicals!!!

[dankitti]

Great movie. I dunno anyone else, but I would actually like to see a sauerkraut dance, by jingo. But that's just me.

[cornflaked]

I love this! If I'm having a bad day, it always cheers me up.

[OohGoshYoureRight]

Dear cornflake

Youre absolutely right -there is nothing like a story about the white slave trade, still going on to this day; to snap one out of an un-cheery disposition.

cheers!

[cornflaked]

but...but... Through snappy dressing and hip 20's tunes the slaves in this movie were freed! I'm sure that the same method would work in today's society. Let's give it a try, you first!

[crowkiller13]

you don't have to be mean about it. It's supposed to be a feel-good movie.

[newonpluto]

seriously, thanks Sorrisotta87 for posting this clip. love the movie, and work at an office job - i watch this clip about once a month at my desk, just to put a smile on my face. Terriff!

[Mr1920s]

This is 'Terriff'

!!RAAAZZBERRIES!!

[OMGTouche]

I aboslutely LOVE this movie omggggg

[greatestof50]

He's as fresh as paint!

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

Ah, Jimmy is such a hottie. <3

[OohGoshYoureRight]

HorrorFrogPrincess (1 year ago)

Dear HorrorF.,

Jimmy is still alive !

Cheers.

from,

del-boy.

[freshsummertomatoes]

Really a good movie. Mary Tyler Moore was so pretty. Thanks for sharing.

[musicalfan93]

love this scene this video made me want to see TMM!!

[pcfrank]

By jingo, isn't this a most wonderfully terrif movie?

[USCol]

What a rediculously silly dance.

[adhoodo]

in a marvelously wonderful way of course:)

[USCol]

Of course. How could this movie be taken any other way?

[PittyGiardini]

fabuulosa slapiioca !

HUAHSUAHSUA³³³

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[DefyGravity464]

Slapioca.....xDDD.

[SalvoPlissken]

GreeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaT

[Paulmanorbier]

By Jingo that's Terrif'

[Jimotheee]

Jimmy Smith? He looks nothing like a Casanova... or a pimp...

[deni0mar7]

I love this scene

Thanks for sharing!