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Friday, December 16, 2022
THE HIPPIE MAN
THE MUSIC MAN (1962)
dir: Morton DaCosta
The Music Man was a famous Broadway musical made into a movie about Harold Hill (Robert Preston), a conman who sells the idea of a marching band to a small town with the intention of taking everyone's money and leaving, but has a change of heart when he falls in love. Probably the most Well-known number in the movie is 'Ya Got Trouble', about Hill giving his pitch, convincing them they need the marching band to prevent children from giving in to the temptation of pool.
THE HIPPIE MAN
MAD #122, October 1968
w: Connie Del Vento
a: George Woodbridge
But I fooled you. This isn't really about The Music Man. This is about how in the sixties, comedy made fun of hippies, usually about how they were dirty and smelled bad, and how you couldn't tell the boys from the girls. This was the cover of MAD a few issues earlier.
And a few issues before that Don Martin did this comic based on the hoax that you could get high from smoking the innards of banana peels. I don't know if they believed it or not.
To some at MAD, hippies continued to exist well into the 70s, like here in The Lighter Side of Gardening from #178, October 1975.
Cracked did it too, like in this article in #73, November 1968.
Sick was probably the most notorious of all. They even excerpted a hippie joke book.
Media was basically obsessed with the hippie phenomenon.
Look how Frank Zappa was used for reference, and probably John Lennon.
Even cartoons made fun of them, like in Woody's Magic Touch, where Woody Woodpecker is hired to find the king's son, who has been turned into a dragon, and make him human again. But once in human form, he's a hippie, singing lyrics like “I have long hair” and “I don't work”. So the king has Woody change him back.
I could go on. Before the hippie era it was beatniks and after that it was punks. I could do a whole blog about youth lifestyles comedians get wrong or don't understand.
But back to The Music Man, the episode of The Simpsons entitled “Marge and the Monorail” is a parody of the musical.
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