Episode 83 - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

The 1968 musical based on an Ian Fleming novel, "Chitty Chitty
Bang Bang," tells the story of a criminally negligent single dad
who falsely impersonates a carnival worker in order to scam money
to buy a jalopy old race car, and then tells a story about how
the car is supernaturally alive in some way that presumably is
related to the previous owners of the car dying horribly in a
fiery crash whilst driving it. The story also weaves in a weird
subplot about a pirate who turns out to be a Baron who is
obsessed with trying to murder his wife. And an even weirder
subplot about an evil molesty child catcher who specializes in
literally sniffing out his victims.


Dick Van Dyke plays Caractacus Potts, an absent-minded professor
and widower who fritters away his time and money tinkering with
inventions that are utter nonsense. He doesn't seem to have the
sense to realize that his two children need him to be a
responsible adult rather than a buffoon who barely ekes out a
pathetic living by doing a song and dance routine whenever he's
in a pinch.


Sally Ann Howes plays Truly Scrumptious, the sole heir to Lord
Scrumptious's massive candy empire. With the way that she
instantly falls in love with Caractacus Potts after he
demonstrates himself to be quite the bumbling misogynist, her
name should instead be Truly Desperate.


Join us as we take out the 'ol bam-boo and bludgeon this film to
death with it.


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