Daily Dialogue — January 11, 2015

Look out! Look out!
Pink elephants on parade
Here they come!
Hippety hoppety
They’re here and there
Pink elephants ev’rywhere
Look out! Look out!
They’re walking around the bed
On their head
Clippety cloppety
Arrayed in braid
Pink elephants on parade
What’ll I do? What’ll I do?
What an unusual view!
I could stand the sight of worms
And look at microscopic germs
But technicolor pachyderms
Is really much for me
I am not the type to faint
When things are odd or things
are quaint
But seeing things you know that ain’t
Can certainly give you an awful fright!
What a sight!
Chase ’em away!
Chase ’em away!
I’m afraid need your aid
Pink elephants on parade!
Pink elephants!
Pink elephants!

— Dumbo (1941), screen story by Joe Grant & Dick Huemer, story direction by Otto Englander, story development by Bill Peet & Aurelius Battaglia & Joe Rinaldi & Vernon Stallings & Webb Smith

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Hangover.

Trivia: Initially Walt Disney was uninterested in making this movie. To get him interested, story men Joe Grant and Dick Huemer wrote up the film as installments which they left on Walt’s desk every morning. Finally, he ran into the story department saying, “This is great! What happens next?”

Dialogue On Dialogue: The mother of all cinematic hangovers as Dumbo and Timothy C. Mouse witness post-binge parade of hallucinated pink elephants.