# Blue Penis **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778 "2009-03-08T23:34:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/41 "2009-03-10T03:30:15Z")
I saw a screen shot of Billy Crudup’s suit that he was filmed in for the motion capture. I’m fairly sure that’s not his member. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/42 "2009-03-10T05:23:29Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > Most of the time it kind of retreats or pulls into the body. The only time it hangs out all long and languid and heavy like that is after sex…I doubt the original was that size. Well, not to brag (ok, TOTALLY to brag) mine doesn’t “retract” very often (just when cold,) and hangs almost that length…but a bit to the left (my left,) not straight down the middle. I have also been working very hard on getting it to shine bright blue. So far I’ve only got a half-assed teal going on down there. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/43 "2009-03-10T12:34:53Z")
Um… blue penis questions aside… WHY does this Dr. Manhattan guy walk around naked all the time? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/44 "2009-03-10T12:40:12Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Um… blue penis questions aside… WHY does this Dr. Manhattan guy walk around naked all the time? He is so powerful and above mere humans that he has transcended the need to observe our social mores. The nudity illustrates his indifference to us. Plus, he feels more…free. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/45 "2009-03-10T14:03:31Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > In the other Watchmen thread somebody said ‘I notice he is not circumcised. I was surprised by this considering his surname’. > > So is he cut or not? > [@Ruby](#): > > Ha! I couldn’t take my eyes off of it! Kind of hypnotic…swaying to and fro… > > The scenes I saw he was most certainly circumcised. I read the other thread too and wondered if we saw the same film. Sure there was big blue penis but what I wondered about was why the big blue marbles were more understated. Why not just have it all out there? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/46 "2009-03-10T14:10:03Z")
I quoted those posts in my previous post days ago and changed my mind about responding but since they got quoted and I missed my edit window, I think he was circumcised. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/47 "2009-03-10T14:54:09Z")
At least it wasn’t double-headed. Though one _could_ describe the color as ice blue. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/48 "2009-03-10T15:21:54Z")
My friend and I were joking about this when we saw it. Especially the two scenes where he’s gigantic; that tool has gotta be six feet long :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Arglefraster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@Arglefraster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arglefraster)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/49 "2009-03-10T17:24:53Z")
I was actually pretty impressed by the fact that the movie showed it without making a point out of showing it. I had heard before I saw the movie that there was going to be full frontal Dr. Manhattan, and I was expecting “Look at the penis!” camera work. You know, to illustrate just how daring they are. I was pleasantly surprised that it was just there, without making a big production out of it. ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/50 "2009-03-10T18:31:21Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > Loved it. Glad they didn’t saddle him with the pathetic little Ken doll bulge from the novel. He didn’t have a “Ken doll” bulge in the novel, it was just that he was a “grower” instead of a “shower” (vice versa in the movie). In the comic he looks like the statue of David. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/51 "2009-03-10T18:58:08Z")
So if you wrote a song for the movie called “Blue Penis” to the tune of “Moon River”, would it be eligible for an Oscar nom? ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/52 "2009-03-10T20:34:57Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > This is in keeping with the comic, if so. I think that the movie shows him only in the bikini and totally naked (other than when he’s in a normal suit). There’s no progression from full coverage in 1960 to leotard in 1964 to bikini in 1971. Is the thong at the White House in 1977 distinct from the earlier bikini? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/53 "2009-03-10T21:12:06Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > My friend and I were joking about this when we saw it. Especially the two scenes where he’s gigantic; that tool has gotta be six feet long :eek: Imagine seeing the movie in IMAX. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/54 "2009-03-10T21:15:24Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Imagine seeing the movie in IMAX. Funny you mention that. My friend asked me to see it in IMAX with him at an undesirable hour, so sure enough, I told him I would rather see Doc’s dong on a normal-sized screen. We’re seeing the 7:30 show now. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/55 "2009-03-11T03:58:55Z")
My brother called me up, and mentioned that he was planning to see _Watchmen_ with his girlfriend. "Oh, and you know that some people are calling it the “Big Blue Penis Movie ?” Him : “Although you know, it might be a bad idea for little boys to see it. They might get a feeling of inadequancy to see the size of a grown man’s penis, in comparison to theirs.” Me : "So if I watch it with a little boy, I shouldn’t say ‘Look how tiny that blue guy’s penis is !’ " ? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/56 "2009-03-11T10:58:19Z")
I saw themovie last night and while I liked the movie as a whole the blue wang became rather distracting. It got to the point that when they showed Dr. M full frontal, I wondered why they didn’t show him from the stomach up and when they showed him from the stomach up, I kept thinking that just a short distance South was the blue unit. ---
**Author:** ![Priam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Priam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Priam)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/57 "2009-03-11T12:49:20Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > So if you wrote a song for the movie called “Blue Penis” to the tune of “Moon River”, would it be eligible for an Oscar nom? I’ve got it linked to the tune “Dear Prudence”, but to each their own. _Blue Penis, won’t you come out to play Blue Penis, greet the brand new day The sun is up, the sky is blue It’s beautiful and so are you Blue Penis won’t you come out to play…_ ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/58 "2009-03-11T15:23:55Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Imagine seeing the movie in IMAX. I did see it IMAX and I did see IT in IMAX. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/59 "2009-03-11T15:39:46Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > So if you wrote a song for the movie called “Blue Penis” to the tune of “Moon River”, would it be eligible for an Oscar nom? - Blue Penis, wider than a mile\* … 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-penis/488778/60 "2009-03-11T17:58:12Z")
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