…which really confused (and ultimately disappointed) me when I was a kid and all those teaser billboards went up for Forest Gump.
Gump Happens, indeed. That’s not a Gump!
There’s a very weird story centered around just the Wogglebug.
He’s living in NY City for some reason. I don’t remember all of the details but as I recall, he falls in love with a bright multicolored dress he sees in a store window. He saves up his money to buy it but a woman purchases it just as he arrives at the store.
He then begins to pursue (stalk actually) her romantically. As the story progresses various women come into possession of the dress and wear it and he romantically stalks each of them.
As I recall the dress eventually ends up cut up into pieces which somehow end up in the possession of some “arabs” in an “arab country” and Wogglebug nearly ends up beheaded in his pursuit of it.
He ends up wearing a piece of it as a tie. He then somehow ends up in a country with talking monkeys.
As I recall the story was quite racist in parts.
Yeah. In the second Oz book, the boy
Was originally a little girl who was transformed by a witch. Glinda insists that “he” has to undergo a reverse-magic-sex-change to become the girl he is supposed to be.
Where are you getting all this from? I vaguely recall reading a story where the Wizard explains that the throne was vacant when he arrived and he took the name “OZ” for some totally contrived reason.
The stuff about King Pastoria was invented by Ruth Plumly Thompson, who took over the Oz franchise after Baum’s death. I do not consider it canon.
Wait, is this an original Baum story or by another author? Any recollection of the title (or title of the anthology in which it appears)?
The Wogglebug had a series of comic strip adventures. This may have been from one of them.
I can imagine your reaction to the dungeon scene in Pulp Fiction.
Got it!
It’s in The Woggle-Bug Book by Baum (riding the crest of and cashing in on Woggle-Bug Mania.)
I’d probably appreciate this more if I’d ever seen Pulp Fiction. I know, I know, but somehow I never saw it, despite working at a video store for nearly all of the 1990’s… :smack:
I read it in a Kindle book titled “The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection, All 15 Books, Including The Wonderful wizard of Oz”.
That particular story is titled “The Woggle-Bug Book By L. Frank Baum”.
Yes, that’s it.