Have a Gay Old Time/Film
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Examples of Have a Gay Old Time in Film include:
- The meaning of "gay" became an Overly Long Gag in A Very Brady Sequel.
- Gay Purr-ee is an animated film musical produced by United Productions of America and released by Warner Bros. in 1962. It's about cats in Paris. Nothing about homosexuals in a blender.
- While The Gay Divorcee has a twist ending, it had nothing to do with homosexuality.
- It should be noted that the Hays Code did object to the title...when it was called The Gay Divorce because a divorce should never be happy. The censors agreed to a compromise solution that it was possible for a divorcee to be happy. Boy, the Hays office sure managed to avoid pulling a boner with that one!
- From Disney Animated Canon's The Three Caballeros (try hard not to think about this one in conjunction with Donald Duck not wearing pants ... uh, oops): We're three caballeros, three gay caballeros. They say we are birds of a feather!"
- The Three Caballeros was a follow-up to Saludos Amigos, described on the poster as Walt Disney's "gayest musical Technicolor feature".
- Angels with Dirty Faces: "We tried to hook you? What a boner!"
- 'If anyone ever pulled a boner, you did."
- Giselle uses the "happy" definition of "gay" in Enchanted's "Happy Working Song." It's a PG-rated Disney movie, and so the discrepancy with the current meaning is never referenced explicitly. This is interesting, because at another point in the movie a joke is made about a character being Mistaken for Gay.
- This trope is invoked deliberately in this case. It's to show you that Giselle is old fashioned and innocent. Since the movie is an Affectionate Parody of the old Disney movies.
- Midge's line in Vertigo about "the gay old Bohemian days of gay old San Francisco seems rather on-the-nose these days.
- Another Hitchcock example can be found in North by Northwest, during the scene where Vandamm meets with Thornhill at the Mount Rushmore cafeteria:
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Vandamm: And now, what little drama are we here for today? I really don't for a moment believe that you've invited me to these gay surroundings to come to a business arrangement. |
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- In a deleted scene from Back to the Future (available on the DVD), Marty worries about hitting on his own mother:
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Marty: You know, this is the kind of thing that could screw me up permanently. What if I go back to the future and I end up bein'... gay? |
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- Doc also thinks that "hitting on" means actual hitting.
- Try watching High Society without knowing that up until the latter half of the twentieth century, 'making love' to someone could mean having an intimate conversation, such as flirtatious or seductive sweet talk, with no physical contact involved. You can't help but blush when Frank Sinatra sings You're Sensational to Grace Kelly, and uses the line, "Making love is quite an art". And again, after Sinatra and Kelly get drunk and leave the party early... during the dance scene by the pool, he sings, "Mind if I make love to you?"
- "Making violent love" once referred to nothing more "violent" than an overly emotional courtship, and was often used to describe a man ardently proposing marriage. Hence the scene in It's a Wonderful Life: "He's making violent love to me, mother!"
- The Marx Brothers:
- Horse Feathers—the handsome young man is playing his ukulele and singing a love song to the lovely young girl; she looks up and says "Are you making love to me?"
- A Day at the Races has Groucho telling the female lead that "For you, I'd make love to a crocodile." [1]
- The 1939 Fleischer cartoon Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp had Popeye utter this immortal line to Olive Oyl: "I don't know what to say... I've never made love in Technicolor before!" Definitely not something you could say in a cartoon in this day and age...
- The term also comes up a few times in the original E.C. Segar strips.
- In Singin in The Rain, Lina Lamont has trouble adjusting to sound films. She complains of having to speak toward a microphone hidden in the scenery. "Well, I can't make love to a bush!"
- The Player uses both meanings in the exchange between June and Griffin: "Are you making love to me?" "Yes. I guess I am. I want to make love to you."
- Parodied in the Time Travel romantic comedy Kate and Leopold regarding the Brooklyn Bridge:
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Leopold: [of the Brooklyn Bridge] Good Lord, it still stands. The world has changed all around it, but Roebling's erection still stands! Ha, ha! |
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- A modern time traveler's amusement at the speech in which the Bridge is repeatedly called "an erection" is what causes Leopold to notice him in the first place.
- It's quite hard not to laugh at Roebling proclaiming proudly, "Behold, rising before you, the greatest erection on the continent... the greatest erection of the age... the greatest erection on the planet!" It doesn't get much better when he continually refers to it as "My great erection!"
- In the film A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More's daughter says "And you're very gay."
- Ferris Buellers Day Off: Jeannie responds to an offer of drugs with "I'm straight."
- Straight is still sometimes used to mean drug-free, admittedly clean is a more common term.
- Ghostbusters II: Dana Barrett and Peter Venkman are enjoying a date out together when the remainder of the Ghostbusters team bursts into the restaurant rambling about ectoplasm in the city's underground and covered in a viscous, sticky substance (although, thank God, it's purple rather than white...) Venkman's response? "Boys! Boys! You're scaring the straights!" In one country this was straight-up subtitled as (translated back to English) "you're scaring the heterosexuals".
- It's likely this was done to purposely invoke the double meaning. Venkman is comparing the Ghostbusters as if they were being Camp Gay in front of some straight-laced types.
- In the 1961 version of West Side Story, the song "I Feel Pretty" has the line "I feel pretty and witty and gay". (This line was never in the stage version, which used 'bright' to rhyme with 'tonight'. The movie version needed lyrics with a rhyme for 'today' because the song was moved to an earlier scene.)
- Naturally, the "today" version is used in Anger Management when the main character is forced to sing the song in public. His intonation makes it clear that he realizes the double meaning, and that it applies perfectly to how emasculated he feels.
- Same thing occurs in Analyze That. (complete with mocking: "I've been singing West Side Story songs for three fuckin' days, I'm half a fag already! ")
- Invoked deliberately for the 1981 comedy Zorro, The Gay Blade, in pretty much every line of dialogue throughout the movie.
- In Disney's Pinocchio, Honest John sings "Hi-diddley-day, an actor's life is gay!"
- This one is expecially amusing once you know that the use of the word "gay" to mean "homosexual" originated in theatrical slang well before it migrated to the mainstream vernacular
- In Blast from the Past, Dave Foley's character tells Brendan Fraser's he's gay. Having been in a bunker for thirty-five years, Brendan thinks he means happy.
- The title song of 42nd Street refers to girls from "the fifties" and "the eighties"—as in the streets of Manhattan. By remarkable coincidence the former's description as "innocent and sweet" and the latter being "sexy" and "indiscreet" matches up too perfectly with stereotypes of The Fifties and The Eighties; the Screen to Stage Adaptation ran on Broadway throughout the latter decade.
- In the musical Oliver! there is a song called "Who will buy" sporting the line "I'm so high, I swear I could fly." (He's just happy.)
- Classic Kung Fu movie Dirty Ho. Yeah.
- In the 1953 Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis comedy The Caddy, Jerry crashes a party where he identifies himself in song as "The Gay Continental".
- Auntie Mame: "Pipe down, boy. The old man's hung," (meaning "hung over").
- One Three Stooges short is called Boobs In Arms. No, they do not meet a woman with Gag Boobs.
- Invoked in the second Ice Age movie, when Manny is telling the kids a story about a young burro:
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Elk Boy: Burro is a demeaning name. Technically it's called a wild ass. |
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- The Beatles movie Yellow Submarine features a character named Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph.D.[2]
- In the 1959 film The Hanging Tree, a trio of amateur prospectors discover a huge deposit of gold beneath a tree stump, a sort of shallow mineral-rich trench or pit known as a...glory hole. Following which event we are treated to the scene of these people running back to town screaming "It's a glory hole!" over and over, and thousands of townsfolk swarming into the streets in a rapturous riot at the news.
- There was a night club called the Glory Hole in Indianapolis in the 1960s.
- Your Highness invokes this deliberately after playing up a good bit of Ho Yay between brothers Fabious and Thadeous, when Fabious asks his brother to "Stay here and be gay with father and me!"
- Isaac Hayes deliberately plays with this in this theme for Shaft, describing him as a "black private dick Who's a sex machine to all the chicks."
- Disney Animated Canon's Fun and Fancy Free with lines like Jiminy Cricket's "Life is a song - happy, gay" and the lyrics "What a very merry day/All the world is gay."
- Parodied in the 1980s western spoof Rustlers' Rhapsody in a scene where Big Bad Colonel Ticonderoga tells an underling to "throw a faggot on the fire." The underling gets up timidly, asking for clarification, to which Ticonderoga tells him to throw some wood on the fire, the original definition of the term. The underling is noticeably relieved.
- The Last Airbender: UK audiences were amused by the line "I always knew you were a bender." Here, "bender" means "Male homosexual."
- Nicely pointed out by Riff Trax: "Do you think she means 'bender' the way British people use it? Google it, folks!"
- Black Sabbath features Boris Karloff delivering the line "Can't I fondle my own grandson?"
- Bambi: Let's Sing A Gay Little Spring Song
- The lost Orson Welles film Too Much Johnson. Tell me you don't think of Biggus Dickus from reading the title.
- In Friendly Persuasion, a film set among Quakers in the 1860s, characters frequently tell each other how "pleasured" they are. Nowadays, the word "pleased" is used in that particular context. To be "pleasured" is something else altogether.
- In the 1931 version of The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Miriam (Dr Jekyll's fiance) says that she does not believe Dr Jekyll loves her seriously. He responds with "oh, I love you better than that. I love you gayly!"