Well, she mostly refers to the ‘car’ in the first person, making the innuendo pretty transparent, if you actually pay attention to the lyrics.
But most people won’t pay that much attention, and kids won’t get it even if they do, so it’s pretty much the perfect under-the-radar gag.
I’ll admit it: I saw the movie with my kid, and never twigged that there was a gag - until my buddy filled me in later. :smack:
Lizard stripper: (linky) apparently in a cartoon “cross county detours”
I seem to vaguely remember there were more like this.
What about Mickey, then?
It’s worth pointing out that, despite that fact that I saw them a zillion times in the 1960s on kids’ shows, the 1940s cartoons weren’t made for kids – they were intended for adults, mainly.
That said, after the Hays code everything was effectively G-rated, so the cite is arguably legitimate. Neverheless, keep the adult-centric nature of cartoons in the 1930s and 1940s. It’ll help explain why Betty Boop’s Snow White has Cab Calloway singing “St. James Infirmary Blues”, a song about someone lamenting the death of a lover by venereal disease. Or why Betty goes virtually topless as a hula dancer in two cartoons.
I see your “finger prints” and raise you a “money shot” (at 3:39). http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45s5m_mgm-cartoon-uncle-tom-s-cabana-1947_shortfilms
What about him? Mickey is not a duck.
Nicely done.
Once again, though, I’ll point out that Tex Avery’s Uncle Tom’s Cabana wasn’t really a kids’ cartoon (and his oeuvre is saturated with such not-really-subliminal sexual imagery). But Animaniacs, made for kids’ daytime TV, definitely is intended for kids. So I’d give Advantage to DigitalC.
By the way, I don’t think “Money shot”, in the sense of an ejaculation scene from a porno film, was used in 12947 when Uncle Tom’s Cabana came out. Google N-gram viewer lists no such uses prior to 1979. I have a suspicion that the original use of “money shot” referring to films meant simply the scene people really went to see, and was applied to a literal climax only later. But I admit to having no evidence to back that up. In any event, the Avery gag works as slapstick even in the absence of the term.
Is there a moment I should cut to in that cartoon or is the full thing dirty?
It’s none of it dirty. The shot he refers to has the drawer of the cash register that “Simon Legreedy” stuffed into his pants springing open (a la erection) when “Little Eva” sexily shows up on stage. (Hence his reference to a “money shot”). It’s not much different from a lot of erection-suggesting stuff I n other Tex Avery cartoons (although they usually involve a lecherous wolf, and some incarnation of Red Riding Hood).
More obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbg0ycJGAa0
Guess they forgot about Daisy.
One moment I noticed from Tex Avery too also involves the Wolfe and Red (and I mentioned this one in another thread). In Wild And Woolfy (1945) the wolf kidnaps Red to a cabin in the desert and ties her to a chair, (the implication that a rape is coming if the deputies do not arrive on time also pings in the radar now) but then he hears the Sheriff’s posse getting closer.
Wolf- “Oh oh, the posse!!!”
[The wolf covers Red with a blanket, turns around to leave but then stops, lifts the front of the blanket showing the legs of red and while his eyes move all over the direction of her crotch and chest, he says:]
“I’ll see you later!”
Here are some swearing Clangers
(And in response to Jonathan Ross’s query: Doctor Who - The Sea Devils - The Master Watches Clangers - YouTube)
And the term isn’t used in the cartoon. **rowrrbazzle **just made a great wordplay joke.
what the holy hell is that?
Yes, but he seemed to be suggesting that the image was inspired by the term “money shot”. Or, at least, someone might get the impression that the two are connected. I think it unlikely that they are.
There’s a question of whether or not the missing paint was deliberate. Not even Snopes can say for sure.
They still make references to “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask” (replacing “sex” with something else) but I don’t even know if it’s supposed to be a dirty callout anymore. Sometimes the characters act embarrassed or make an aside glance, but more often than not it seems to go by unremarked. I feel like the original reference might be lost nowadays and it’s just seen as a semi-humorous way to write a tip book/article just because that’s what a bunch of other people did.
Erection visualizations and metaphors are commonplace. Sometimes it’s defensible, like if an entire character is standing tall and proud, or then they get depressed and go limp like someone let the air out of their tires, but sometimes it’s way too blatant. Probably the most famous is Buzz Lightyear’s wingboner.
Rocko’s Modern Life is the dirtiest Y-rated show I’ve ever seen.
Quick compilation
Berry picking
Heffer, a male bovine, is milked
In the episode Closet Clown Ed Bighead has a secret, shameful obsession with clowns and it’s played like he’s bicurious or a crossdresser. That subtext went way over my head as a kid.
I remember that joke being used only once in the movie. See the “It Must Be June” rehearsal, when each chorus boy has a girl sitting on his lap, at 17:57 for the Region 1 DVD:
Both IMDb and the DVD itself have 42 Street as Not Rated, and it’s full of wild situations and lines. For example, on stage during a cattle call as Dick Powell walks by with Ruby Keeler:
Someone is welcome to explain why 42nd Street is Not Rated, but Casablanca 9 years later is rated PG.