# A Poll: Favorite Wizard of Oz Character? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347 "2006-07-28T00:44:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/21 "2006-07-28T05:56:50Z")
The Wicked Witch of the West rocks. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/22 "2006-07-28T13:26:22Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/23 "2006-07-28T13:44:10Z")
No offense Czar, but couldn’t you have said “Off to see Cafe Society”? 😛 Thematic moderating, it’s all the rage. 😛 I am pretty surprised so far at the results. I didn’t specify characters because I know how it is to like the 3rd munchkin on the left of the sunflower type of thingy. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/24 "2006-07-28T13:58:41Z")
Scarecrow. His is the best of the three “If I Only Had…” songs (Tin Man’s is too whiney and sentimental schlock, and while Lion’s has potential, it’s half the length of the others before it transitions into the mission statement for the group). I also liked Bolger’s loose-limbed vaudevillian physical mannerisms. [Krusty] _And when it’s time to do the dishes, where’s Ray Bolger? I’ll tell ya! Ray Bolger is looking out for Ray Bolger!_ [/Krusty] ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/25 "2006-07-28T14:01:26Z")
I like The Tin Man. Favorite part of the whole show is where he does his little dance, thumps his chest like a drum, then toots steam out of his funnel cap. My second fave is the Munchkin Coroner. “She’s not only merely dead, she’s really most sincerely dead.” ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/26 "2006-07-28T14:04:54Z")
If we’re talking about the books, I tend to favor the Sawhorse whenever he appears. Tiktok comes in at a close second. If we’re talking about the movie… I dunno. The Witch, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/27 "2006-07-28T14:23:36Z")
The only truly memorable character in the whole thing is Miss Gultch / The Wicked Witch of The West. I’ll bet everyone here remembers her first lines and last lines. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/28 "2006-07-28T14:24:51Z")
Forgot to add: she’s the only character with her own theme song. (Everyone here remembers that, too.) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/29 "2006-07-28T15:29:38Z")
[QUOTE=Clockwork And Candy] I can’t believe that Dorothy wanted to go back and live in poverty on her family’s pig farm instead of staying in the fantastical world of Oz, either. WTF? [/QUOTE] In later books, Dorothy does move to Oz to live there. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/30 "2006-07-28T15:53:52Z")
Movie I struggle between the Tin Man and Scarecrow, it is a close call for me because the gentleness of the Tin Man is very touching, but the Scarecrow is such a dependable individual who takes charge in a nice way. Books: Really like Tick-tock a LOT. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/31 "2006-07-28T16:01:16Z")
Princess Ozma/Tip. > [@](#): > > “You are not a girl just now” said she, gently, “because Mombi transformed you into a boy. But you were born a girl, and also a Princess; so you must resume your proper form, that you may become Queen of the Emerald City.” ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/32 "2006-07-28T16:03:02Z")
Flying monkey #7. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/33 "2006-07-28T16:11:21Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] Princess Ozma/Tip. [/QUOTE] You know, **Eve** , as many times as I’ve read the Oz books, the resonance of Tip/Ozma to transsexuals had never occurred to me. Thank you for pointing it out…it adds a new layer of meaning to the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/34 "2006-07-28T16:16:30Z")
The Glass Cat. And the Woozy. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/35 "2006-07-28T17:16:11Z")
Purely for his name… **The First and Foremost of the Phanfasms** For the movie, I gotta agree with the Scarecrow. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/36 "2006-07-28T17:44:41Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] I’ve always been a friend of Dorothy. [/QUOTE] Yesterday at the fabric store, I mentioned that I was getting something for my halloween costume. The clerk asked what that costume was. “I’ll be dressed as Dorothy. Attached to me with PVC pipes will be jointed mannequins dressed as the Scarecrow, Tinman, and Cowardly Lion. . . . Some how I don’t think I’ll be picking up any chicks this halloween.” Back To The OP I’ve actually been meaning to re-read the first book. I remember it being much more fun and inventive than the film. Re Ray Bolger That line was said by Homer, not Krusty. Re Alice In Wonderland OTTOMH, Professor Doodlebug, Tick Tock, or the Gump would all be more at home in Wonderland than Glinda. The Gump is IIRC a moosehead attached to a sofa who flies by beating his palm fronds against the air. Right at home with hookah smoking caterpillars and cards who play polo with flamingoes (or was it dodoes?) ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/37 "2006-07-28T18:00:50Z")
Scarecrow, since I was old enough to notice that he really was the brains of the outfit. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/38 "2006-07-28T18:41:51Z")
Tin Man in the book. Scarecrow in the movie. Jack Pumpkinhead in the movie Return to Oz. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/39 "2006-07-28T18:42:45Z")
[QUOTE=DocCathode] Re Alice In Wonderland OTTOMH, Professor Doodlebug, Tick Tock, or the Gump would all be more at home in Wonderland than Glinda. The Gump is IIRC a moosehead attached to a sofa who flies by beating his palm fronds against the air. Right at home with hookah smoking caterpillars and cards who play polo with flamingoes (or was it dodoes?) [/QUOTE] Nah. H. M. Wogglebug, T.E., Tiktok (or Tik-Tok) and the Gump always seemed much less menacing to me than the characters in Alice. As a kiddo, the only slightly frightening Oz characters (very slight, mind you) I thought, were the Phanfasms. (And maybe the Whimsies. I can’t recall.) ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347/40 "2006-07-28T21:25:19Z")
[QUOTE=DocCathode] Re Ray Bolger That line was said by Homer, not Krusty. [/QUOTE] Of course it was. My defense is, umm, both are voiced by Castelanetta. Yeah, that’s it. Not that I just stupidly said one instead of the other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-favorite-wizard-of-oz-character/366347.md?page=3)