# Why is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang so long **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2011, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070 "2011-05-16T05:41:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/41 "2011-05-19T15:14:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > …CCBB was so long it actually included an intermission with music, which appears on the VHS tape as well (dunno about the DVD). … Yup, it’s on my DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/42 "2011-05-19T15:17:20Z")
Cinemas used to have intervals. So CCBB was shown in two hour-and-a-bit sections. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/43 "2011-05-19T15:26:31Z")
It’s on my DVD,a nd it doesn’t match up. When the intermission begins, they are just about to hit a cliff, and when you return they’ve backed up a good 300 yards and turned left. . . ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/44 "2011-05-19T15:31:38Z")
> [@Runestar](#): > > There is no Chitty Chitty Bang Bang movie. There is only the most excellent children’s book by Ian Fleming. No one would possibly consider taking a story with secret caves, gangsters, and explosions and turning it into a sappy childrens’ musical. That reminds me: I need to go into the [What’s Your Favorite Word You Rarely Get To Use?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=607811&highlight=favorite) thread and post **gelignite**. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/45 "2011-05-19T16:25:34Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > I love Mary Poppins, and I love the first half of chitty chitty bang bang. I have never seen the Sound of Music, but I think i might like it. gotta see it some day… I’d avoided SoM a long time, thinking it was going to be intolerably twee, but my sister dragged me to a showing one day. It was wonderful. Great songs, appealing heroine, nuns, Nazis, wow. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/46 "2011-05-19T18:16:41Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > It’s on my DVD,a nd it doesn’t match up. When the intermission begins, they are just about to hit a cliff, and when you return they’ve backed up a good 300 yards and turned left. . . My VHS tape is like that, too. I thought that was just a very brief recap before the action resumes. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/47 "2011-05-19T18:49:26Z")
It was like that in the theatrical release too I bet, a “re-cap”. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/48 "2011-05-19T19:03:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > My VHS tape is like that, too. I thought that was just a very brief recap before the action resumes. > [@BMalion](#): > > It was like that in the theatrical release too I bet, a “re-cap”. Including a recap in case people were late in getting back would make sense. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/49 "2011-05-19T20:17:32Z")
Yeah, but they never get that close to the cliff again. There wouldn’t have been room for them to pull up in time. . . ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/50 "2011-05-19T20:31:39Z")
I saw the thread title in the Cafe Society for a couple days now. I just had to click to find out why someone thought the car was too long. :smack: > **[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)](https://www.imdb.com/media/rm315852032/tt0062803)** > > Dick Van Dyke, Adrian Hall, Sally Ann Howes, and Heather Ripley in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/51 "2011-05-19T20:36:47Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > I saw the thread title in the Cafe Society for a couple days now. I just had to click to find out why someone thought the car was too long. :smack: > > [Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm315852032/tt0062803) That would actually be a reasonable question. I want to know why I don’t have one. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/52 "2011-05-20T01:25:09Z")
I had a little Matchbox car version. It was pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/53 "2011-05-20T06:36:29Z")
Too long? Let’s see… Two kids, who were about my age, ask their father to buy them a car. Surprise–he does! And he manages to make it a magical car; one that can fly and act as a boat. And the heroes go the where kids are oppressed, and teach the evil emperor a thing or two. Too long? Heck, when I was eight years old, this movie wasn’t long enough! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/54 "2011-05-20T16:05:13Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I had a little Matchbox car version. It was pretty cool. I would be prepared to spend ridiculous amounts of money for one of those. 😉 ETA: Never mind, found one! [Amazon.com: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 14" Electro Plated Car Replica : Arts, Crafts & Sewing](http://www.amazon.com/Chitty-Bang-Electro-Plated-Replica/dp/B000R176KO/ref=dp_cp_ob_t_title_0) ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/55 "2011-05-24T11:44:46Z")
Man, you can find _everything_ on Amazon! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070/56 "2011-05-24T11:58:56Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I would be prepared to spend ridiculous amounts of money for one of those. 😉 > > ETA: Never mind, found one! [Amazon.com: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 14" Electro Plated Car Replica : Arts, Crafts & Sewing](http://www.amazon.com/Chitty-Bang-Electro-Plated-Replica/dp/B000R176KO/ref=dp_cp_ob_t_title_0) [Ebay](http://cgi.ebay.com/Small-Matchbox-Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang-Model-Toy-Car-/190533840847?pt=UK_ToysGames_DiecastVehicles_DiecastVehicles_JN&hash=item2c5cb3afcf)has one right now for a very low starting bid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-long/582070.md?page=2)