That line about many gay people wanting nothing more than to go home has made me unbearably sad

God, I love the "some people do go both ways" joke.

Anyone else get a minor chest-seize when he said that last line about being who you are and then also being able to go home?

"She gets to be who she really is and she gets to go home". Yep, I'm crying.

Rantasmo, this is probably your most interesting video. I never saw the potential gay elements in the characters in the film. What grabbed me as a young gay man in the seventies was the song. I used to sing it to myself all of the time, as it perfectly captured my desire to live in a world where I could belong. When I became an adult I was more than surprised that so many gays before me and after me had latched onto this film

This video is probably the funniest of yours that I've seen. The Bears joke, the "of course people do go both ways", I love it

Ooooh so that's where the joke from Little Britain comes from...I should probably explain. Little Britain is a sketch comedy show made by Matt Lucas and David Williams. One of the recurring characters is a gay man called Daveed, who acts insanely stereotypically gay, while he does his best to convince gay people that they are not gay, because he mostly wants the attention of people discriminating against him and being "the only gay in the village" as he puts it. Nobody does discriminate against him, in fact it seems like most people around him are actually either gay or bi-sexual, which he completely denies. In one of the episodes a bartender he often speaks to, who is a lesbian, introduces him to another gay man, who Daveed argues is not gay by asking him stereotypical questions, one of which is who played Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz". The punchline being everybody in the bar saying, "Judy Garland" and him saying, "Really"?

1:55 was absolutely hilarious! best moment of my day by far

And any friends of Dorothy are friends of mine! Love and Hugs

Can you do one on the Great Gatsby please?

Fun fact In Wicked (not the musical, the much more adult book it was based on) The Wicked Witch of the West has a bastard son named Liir He is roughly 14 when the Witch dies. In the books sequel, Son of a Witch, we find out that Liir is bisexual. Not only does he have a male lover, who he is very much in love w, but latter on, he has a wife. He's one of my favorite characters of all time I'm one of my favorite series of all time (the Wicked series is less Disney musical more Gorge R R Martin) and the handling of his sexuality is done phenomenally. Though it is somewhat ironic considering that, in the first book, he is LITERALLY a friend of Dorothy's.

I always knew there was something gay about this movie. After all, it's one of my favourites.

Seeing as Dorothy is gay in a certain show you know what you gotta do...

Love your channel. I'm a straight guy...yet am mistaken as gay constantly. I simply love gay culture and all my male friends are gay. I'm not in the closet at all. If I was gay...I'd embrace it entirely. I just like teh girls quite a bit. Maybe I'm quote-unquote _queer_ to a certain extent? Anyway...with that self-indulgent qualifying rant out of the way, just wanted to say I randomly stumbled across your channel today and have thoroughly enjoyed your perspective. Definitely got a new fan/subscriber in me. : )

I love how you use TvTropes in your videos!

Wicked is still my fav lesbian-eyeopener. Love how the LGBT community resonates with a lot of the Oz stuff :)

I howled at " Im just a Dandy-lion" lol

It's been forever since I've watched this movie and I had NO recollection of the subtext ...and pretty blatant-text... you showed here. Great stuff, Rantasmo.

And all this time I thought it was because the entire movie was over-the-top camp! Even the Cowardly Lion escaped me...

Do Alice in wonderland needs more gay

Aww.. that ending was beautiful

Okay so I originally put this as a reply but I'm gonna put in my two sense about the 1985 film Return to Oz, to me Return to Oz can be interpreted as a gay male going under conversion therapy, Dorothy is still a minor so still has to be in Kansas, and when she gets back home and won't shut up about oz (being gay) and is taken to therapy to fix her (electro shock therapy is still used by conversion therapy today) and oz is now a surreal waste land, and the nome king having the ruby slippers could suggest many anti gay pepole are in the closet, would anyone like to add to my theory? I have more ideas I'll comment later

Hm, I always wondered about the gay obsession for Judy Garland. Thanks for the insight, Rantasmo.

I think there may be another aspect to Dorothy waking up at home. She is surrounded by a loving family, including her three companions from the yellow brick road. They are in fact the farm hands, but she now has an insight into who they are in way she never knew before.

Huh...and I thought this movie's "It's was all a dream" Trope ending was a bad thing... This was wonderful as always, Rantasmo. :D

Wicked could be an allegory for much. The green skin can represent many differences people have. "Defying Gravity" could be about coming out. I for example post lyrices of the song on Twitter with the Hactag ActuallyAutistic as part of Autisim AcceptanceMonth.

As far as the movie goes, you should see Cracked's OPCD episode on the Wizard of Oz

the second Dorothy is also acceptable BIG O...ITS SHOWTIME!

In the blue ray documentary they say that the reason why the lion gets a second song was because they cut his first one short with the other characters taking over. I think they did it this way so the origin songs didnt feel so repetitive. Rule of 3. On the third song they change it up and since they didnt want one character to have less attention they added his later song for him to sing alone.

I always hated the fact that she went back home in the end. That might be because my biggest fantasy as a child was going to a whole other world to escape to. Preferably Narnia or Oz. Which is why I've started reading the books, because she goes back. And stays! I always said, "Fuck going back. If I ever landed in Oz or Narnia, I'd NEVER go back."

What does it all boil down to ? A clam in the face & or a boloney sandwich ? ais ther another menu or is this restauraunt. painting rocks with the melted candy ?

They have Dorothy and Oz in Supernatural, I think in only one episode though. Anyway, in that episode, lesbian hacker Charlie follows Dorothy to Oz and I can't remember if it's confirmed or just heavily implied that they are going to be a thing, but something like that.

Rantasmo have you ever read the oz books by l frank baum?

Yo I forgot about Dorothy from The Big O.

So thats why wizard of oz quotes get street preachers going real good. Did that gay flag come from wizard of oz?

Dorthy Parker?

What about Return to Oz then?

I like turtles.

I saw this movie before I knew what the LGBT community was and so I never connected the two but now that I've seen it it's really kind of obvious I feel like if this video were a conversation between me and Rantasmo would have gone something like this: me:What? Where? R: okay look at it standing from here get really close and squint your eyes, me:oooooooohhhhhh, now I get it!!!!!! you learn something new everyday!!!!!!!

by flagrantly gay do you mean that my lesbian mother moved to tucson because she liked that skit on saturday night live ?

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