# 'Feed Me, Seymour!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 8, 2002, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925 "2002-07-08T16:28:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tretiak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/1 "2002-07-08T16:28:00Z")
I just finsihed watching this movie (not the Roger Corman original, the Frank OZ version based on the off-broiadway play based on the Roger Corman original) I was reminded hoiw wonderful it is. The music is fanatastic, the choreographuy of the musical numbers is impressive, the look and style of the movie is unique and exciting. And the mean green mother from outer space is freaking cool (and bad)! So many great performances and cameos. ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/2 "2002-07-08T17:24:00Z")
Does anyone know if that was Jim Henson as a bum sitting outside the flower shop at the end of the “Some fun Now”? ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/3 "2002-07-08T19:46:17Z")
[Christopher Guest] “What an unusual plant! While I’m here, I’ll take $50 worth of roses. Can you break $100?” “Um, no.” “Then I guess I’ll just have to take twice as many!” [/Christopher Guest] [Bill Murray] “It’s your professionalism I admire.” [/Bill Murray] ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/4 "2002-07-09T02:37:05Z")
CANDY BAR!!! Suddenly Seymour is the most romantic song. However Mrs. Z would not have it for our first dance at our wedding. ---
**Author:** ![agentfroot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@agentfroot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agentfroot)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/5 "2002-07-09T03:20:27Z")
my friend made me a tape of the soundtrack once, later i saw the movie, and i was hooked. though one of the scenes nearly scarred me for life. when i was around 4 or 5, i saw part of LSOH on tv (where seymour goes to the dentist), and i got really freaked out by all the scary tools and stuff. it just terrified me up until i saw the full movie around 2 years ago, then i had a good laugh. damn roses… damn thorns… ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/6 "2002-07-09T03:33:19Z")
Downtown…where the cabs don’t stop… ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/7 "2002-07-09T04:35:34Z")
My favorite part is where Steve Martin twists the head off the doll! What a great flick. A musical comedy even a straight guy can love…Timmy ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/8 "2002-07-09T04:42:47Z")
“I thrill when I drill a bicuspid! And it’s swell, though they tell me I’m maladjusted…” Yeah. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/9 "2002-07-09T11:24:58Z")
My sisters and I used to watch this film over and over and over when we were kids. You know how kids tend to do that, get fixated on one movie? We always did that, but with films like The Three Amigos, Little Shop of Horrors, and Spaceballs… One of my little sisters thought that’s how dentists really acted! She freaked out the next time she had to go to the dentist (she was small enough that she didn’t remember the other times). There were a lot of tears during that visit to the dentist! I mean, after seeing all of those people screaming and running, who could blame the poor kid! You know, that movie has a lot of profanity and violence for little kids. Oh well! Too late now! ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/10 "2002-07-09T15:38:50Z")
Try listening to “Somewhere That’s Green” followed by “Part of Your World” (Little Mermaid, also Ashman and Menken). “In the Pine-Sol scented air, somewhere that’s green” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/11 "2002-07-09T16:31:30Z")
Ok, you all know they changed the ending right? They filmed it with the same ending the off b’way show. [lernt from DVD] In that ending the Plant wins. After Seymour pulls her out of the mouth she did a reprise of Somewhere that’s green and dies in the alley. Then Seymour goes in and dies fighting the plant. After testing the film the audience hated it. They realized that in a play the actors run back out and take a bow but they weren’t doing that in the film (obviously) so they decided to chang the end. [/lernt from DVD] ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/12 "2002-07-10T02:15:20Z")
good evening friends, we loved the movie, and watch is often we saw this performed in our local community theater year before last. it was a lot of fun there too. the theater ending came as a surprise. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2002, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/13 "2002-07-10T02:36:25Z")
> [@](#): > > In that ending the Plant wins. After Seymour pulls her out of the mouth she did a reprise of Somewhere that’s green and dies in the alley. Then Seymour goes in and dies fighting the plant. After Seymour gets swallowed, four blossoms appear, which aree heads of Seymour, Audrey, Mr. Mushnick, and the dentist, and they sing "Don’t Feed the Plants, a much, much better song than "Mean, Green Mother from Outer Space. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/14 "2002-07-10T03:01:37Z")
> [@](#): > > A musical comedy even a straight guy can love. That, **Tim** , is an excellent endorsement. Made me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/15 "2002-07-10T05:01:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > **…Ok, you all know they changed the ending right?..** Yes, the typical Hollywood Happy Ending™. I hate that. But you will note, in the Frank Oz movie version, there is a final, close-up shot of a small Audrey-2 type plant in the hedge-row, smiling and biding its time, waiting to take over the universe as per usual. The Un-Happy-Ending prevails, as God intended! And Eonwe, thanks for the compliment!..Timmy ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/16 "2002-07-12T04:24:22Z")
It’s “Feed me \*\*See-MAUOWWW[/b!” 😃 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/17 "2002-07-12T04:25:56Z")
Damn!:smack: Q ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/18 "2002-07-12T11:52:45Z")
Regarding the ending of the movie: They actually _filmed_ the original ending with the song “Don’t Feed the Plants”, with a huge special-effects scene showing plants running amok through the City (in one scene a plant breaks through a wall that has a poster for the Ray Harryhausen flick **Jason and the Argonauts** – a real tribute). It wasn’t until _after_ they put this together (and maybe showed it to some test audiences) that they decided it was too “downbeat” an ending, and changed it to Seymour electrocuting Audrey II. You can see stills of the deleted footage in back issues of **Cinefantastique** magazine. From the above comments, I gather that the actual footage isn’t on the DVD, which is disappointing. But then again, the DVD of **Young Frankenstein** doesn’t have the “Never with a Tux!” scene, either. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/19 "2002-07-12T14:35:21Z")
I like the movie ending better. It’s more in tune with the send up of sci-fi monster movies. They always think they have the monster beat but you see a baby or a pod or something that sets up a sequel. Keep watching the skies. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-me-seymour/117925/20 "2002-07-12T15:15:32Z")
And look for the fog.