Most villains are played by people who are nice in real life. :-) One of the nicest people I've ever met was Jacqueline Pearce, who played a murderous megalomaniac named Servalan in a sci-fi series called "Blake's 7."

And don't forget Carroll O'Conner from All in the Family. He was Archie Bunker and he always talking with his messed up English. In real life he had a masters degree in English. Go Figure.

Charles Moskowitz That's what we call acting! :-)

MaskedMan66 Ya Really. I have to send a message to the one who put this video up. They forgot the most famous scene when Dorothy threw water on Scarecrow and some of hit The Witch and she melted.

+MaskedMan66 At the theatre company I take classes at my director is a super nice woman and she's played the wicked witch, Miss Hannigan, the evil queen from Snow White (they wrote their own musical of it), Carabosse (they also wrote a Sleeping Beauty musical, Mrs. Lovett, and the witch from Into the Woods, they're doing The Little Mermaid soon and I think she'll be Ursula

She's had tons of accolades.

Yes she does. She gets plenty of credit.

SO agree. The Oscars should give her a special posthumous honor - long overdue. And, for that matter, they should do the same for the other really great character actor in the movie, Frank Morgan, who played 5 roles in the film.

@@broddybounce Start something like that, then people will be demanding such awards for thousands of dead people in all areas of entertainment who aren't around to appreciate them.

Yeah!

Yeah I bet but what about the 1940’s ❤

Omg that’s awesome

@@user-md7zi6fg9y What about 'em?

@@skysautter8240 yeah it sure is aww

@@user-md7zi6fg9y ikr

You mean a wicked witch. There are also good ones. ;-)

A small detail I watch for in the movie, when Dorothy dreams Ms. Gulch turns into the flying witch in her window, right at the moment when the witch laughs, she tilts her head back, which makes her so bad-assed! Look for it, and it will make you grin big time!

Margret Hamilton in real life, was the nicest, sweetest angel of a lady you could ever meet.

@@mobydick3895 Unless it frightens the life out of you!

@@dapperdonny4051 It's a funny thing, but most actors and actresses who play villains are very nice people in real life.

Yes Margaret played such a iconic villain, and I love that foreshadowing as well where Dorothy calls her a wicked witch.

The movie is brilliance from conception to every reverberating recess of the theatrical cosmos.

@@elib12 Is there an echo in here?

Oh if she was like that towards my kitty I'd call her much worse...like that word that rhymes with bunt!!

It was the same with Carrie Fisher in the first _Star Wars_ movie when she had to act like she hated Peter Cushing; she loved him dearly.

Judy was actually snubbed by all the adults on set during filming. Margaret was her only friend.

@@FaytLinegod Wrong. I mean, come on, *why* would she have been snubbed?? Seriously. Here's the truth: Judy charmed everyone, especially her three co-stars, not to mention director Victor Fleming and producer Mervyn LeRoy, who was Judy's biggest fan and fought to star her in the film when studio heads still thought she wasn't ready to play the lead in a movie. Judy had previously worked with Billie Burke, Jack Haley, and Buddy Ebsen, so she was already friends with them. It didn't take any time at all for her to make friends with Bolger, Lahr, Morgan, and Miss Hamilton. She was whipsmart and able to memorize lines very quickly, and having grown up in vaudeville, she was easily able to relate to people older than she was. She was quickly accepted into Lahr, Haley, and Bolger's circle, and even became both victim and instigator of the practical jokes that particular team loved to pull on each other.

Judy Garland shouldn’t be scared of Margaret Hamilton because of her Character she played…but without the makeup she had to play the character Miss Gultch

I just read an article on this. Judy Garland wasn't allowed to eat anything other than chicken soup or black coffee because they wanted to keep her looking young. To suppress her appetite she was forced to smoke UP TO 80 CIGARETTES A DAY AT 16 YEARS OLD. That's just awful. Margaret Hamilton plays the villain in the movie but in real life she was the total opposite. Truth is stranger than fiction.

Damned straight. She was THE best thing in that movie.

A Supporting Actress Oscar depends on screen time, and Miss Hamilton didn't have enough to qualify.

@@MaskedMan66: Oscars are bullshit anyway, and qualifying time to receive an Oscar or not, she was still the best thing in that movie.

@@jaelge They are now, but they weren't then, and rules was rules. Judy was the best thing in that movie, as Miss Hamilton often said.

Amazing every word in that sentence was wrong… Judy garland was the only was that deserved any type of award for this movie how they treated her!!!

Everyone in the movie was perfectly cast. ..but yeah, the witch is especially the best wicked witch of all time.

Hannah Welsh everything about this role, especially the creepy laugh, is iconic!

She scared me as a little kid. I remember ready that her acting was so good they had to cut off several scenes because of how scary she was.

I'll get you my pretty and your little dog too

I dunno!!!! Check out this video below and go to 30:43 !!!! She definitely could have given this one a run for her money 😂 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtBdidabr5mVp30.html

Her and Maleficent (not the Jolie version)

me too. very important work of filmography. I have met many women over the years who reminded me of her and they always turned out to have the same personality as her and were trying to hurt people. Problem is the ones in real life were really hurting kids and women.

Scary, and cruel too! So cruel that when she was destroyed, her own guards were happy she was dead!

@@thomasromano9321 There was dancing in the streets.

YES

Sha was actually a school teacher.

Judy was not going through a hard time; playing Dorothy Gale was a dream come true for her, and she got along with everybody; she had worked with Billie Burke, Buddy Ebsen, and Jack Haley already, and quickly made friends with Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, and all the rest. Making the movie was hard work, she would have liked to eat more at mealtimes, and her corset was uncomfortable, but that's about as "bad" as she had it.

@@MaskedMan66 I’m not saying she didn’t like making this movie, and yes she should have eaten more, but she was being harassed by munkins, the director slapped her for laughing, and plus the rest of the cast had worse injuries. Ray was suffocating in his rubber mask, Buddy was replaced because of the toxic makeup, Jack had to sleep right side up in his costume on his break, Margaret had third degree burns, and a munkin hung himself (yet that last one is still a conspiracy) and Burt wasn’t allowed to eat and his costume was 300 pounds and made of real lions skin

@@b.radleypro.369 No, she should not have eaten more, because she was in the habit of eating too much, and she knew that and wanted to trim down. Judy was not being harassed by anybody. Victor Fleming did not slap her for laughing, he slapped her because the laughing fit she was having (and she constantly got the giggles) had ruined several takes and the studio was fast approaching closing time. He hated having to do it, and she forgave him. Case closed. Nobody ever said that moviemaking was easy, and the cast were all well aware of that. Ray dealt with his make-up, because he loved being the Scarecrow, which was his lifelong ambition. Buddy's make-up was not toxic, it's that the aluminum powder got into the air and then into his lungs, where it kicked off a bronchial condition he had. Jack reclined on a leaning board (much as did Anthony Daniels when he played See-Threepio in the "Star Wars" movies), and that was a good thing, as it took the weight off of his feet and allowed him to relax. Yes, Miss Hamilton had third degree burns on her right hand, but she healed and got on with her job, which she loved. Nobody hanged himself (it's not a conspiracy, it's a stupid urban myth dreamed up by some yutz in the 1970's). Bert was allowed to eat, but tended to opt for milkshakes so he wouldn't damage his make-up. His costume was SEVENTY pounds and it's no big deal that it was made of lionskin, since people have been wearing animal skins, fur, and other bits since we've been wearing anything.

​@@b.radleypro.369 Don't forget that the director has Garland smoke up to 80 cigarettes a day to keep her from "getting fat". Behind the scenes this movie was not so much fun. But yes, Margaret Hamilton adored children and was indeed a very sweet woman.

Ironic that she was a beloved elementary schoolteacher.

Scared me too, especially the crystal ball scene. Her cackle was a nightmare.

Miss Hamilton actually took a lot of her cues from Martha Wentworth, who played the Wintergreen Witch in the 1937 radio series _The Cinnamon Bear._ That character was green, cackled a lot, and called the child heroes of the series "my pretties."

Yeah, I know.

She taught Jim Backus (Mr Howell on Gilligan's Island) when he was a child. Considering how old he was when on Gilligan's Island. She taught in the Cleveland Ohio School System back in the 1930's.

Rob Yohn that was William Windom who had her in Kindergarten- Commodore Decker from the Planet Eater from Star Trek original series.

@21st Century Renaissance Man Because they knew her as Miss Hamilton first and an actress second.

That's what I heard

@@robyohn8968 In real life, Hamilton was only about a dozen years older than Backus.

They were all stars, but Judy Garland carried it, as Miss Hamilton would be the first to tell you.

😄😄😄

Same. She said it with her chest.

That was the best year in Hollywood's history, so the competition was extremely tough. Hattie McDaniel was named the best supporting actress.

larry falter indeed the performance is so great . Often enough such performances became ignored by Juries. Agnes Moorehead is another example. The right people have them in their hearts and that counts in the end. I saw Wizard of Oz as child with fear, as adult until now over and over. It is magic. Wonderful Margaret Hamilton, Judy, Billie Burke, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, unforgetable moments

Hattie deserved the Oscar that year, but she should have at least been nominated.

I agree....she scared all the kids all over the world with her role as the wicked witch ... she was amazing .... The BEST villain up until today

larry falter she was amazing.

heaventree ofstars I

heaventree ofstars Hillary Clinton is better

Take a chill pill daddy- oo

she even better zelena from ouat but the original are always the best

What about Bette Midler in Hocus Pocus? I think she's #1, she's amazing!

Noooooo

You’re right!

You’re right oh okay 👍 that’s cool yes she was a absolute sweetheart

@@madisoncastle5138 she’s right!

OMG, lucky you! ^_^

Red88Rex okyes

absolutely agree: she is just *so* memorable in this!!

Oh yes. She literally defined the concept of a witch as we know it. The reason when you think of the term "witch," you think green skin, dark robes, and a pointy black hat and broomstick, it's all because of Margaret Hamilton's performance.

True that! Years later, when she did those Maxwell House coffee commercials, I was scared shitless to buy anything BUT Maxwell House!!

Revolution time line

Yes,I can't help but chuckle every time I see her look up,as Glinda says,"Be gone,before someone drops a house on you,as well," as if SHE,the wicked witch of the West,the quintessential villain,fears that she actually may not be as powerful as she believes herself to be,if Glinda warns her that,like her sister,she,too,could get crushed and killed by a house dropping out of the sky. Still,at least in the end,she does get what's coming to her,by getting drenched by a bucketful of water and thus meeting her well deserved untimely end.

I wish that the Good Witch could have been played by the same actress as the Wicked Witch in a dual role. What do you think?

TheJedi OfTheEast

+Andrew Colin Wilson Interesting idea, but it would have been more trouble than it was worth in 1939. Still, maybe that could have been a way of resolving the whole Gale Sondergaard thing. In "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz," Miss Piggy played all four witches: Glinda, Tattypoo, and the two Wicked Witches.

@@andrewcolinwilson1 No. The script has Dorothy call Glinda "a beautiful witch," and Miss Hamilton, despite her beautiful soul, did not have a '30s beauteous physiognomy.

“…….No!” 😂😂😂😂😂

Charley Grapewin really doesn't get enough accolades for his work on the film. The way Henry is totally unimpressed by Miss Gulch's imperiousness is hilarious.

Twelve minutes; the same screen time that Dave Prowse had as Darth Vader in the first _Star Wars_ movie!

Poor Toto? Poor Miss Gulch! That leg wound could have turned nasty. She may have ended up losing a leg. Shame on Dorothy for letting her dog do that. Toto could have attacked Aunt Em! 😂

@@andrewmurray5542 There's no way a bite from a tiny dog like that would have led to amputation. Toto would not have attacked Aunt Em. "Gentle with gentle people," remember?

😊 I'm glad that her dog was okay 😊 this movie is very interesting but it's very good 😊

​@@andrewmurray5542he's a cairn terrier not a rottweiler lol

How wonderful!

I wish I could have been there too

U were extremely lucky

Glenn Miller way cool

In case anymore did not know she also was a kindergarten teacher.

Her performance is oscar worthy, she should have won one. The best witch ever...

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I always wondered why she was so evil over the beautiful ruby slippers

If MTG had come along sooner and read for the part, she would have been deemed TOO wicked for the youngsters in the audience.

@@billboyle1588 Who?

I agree. She was the greatest witch in movie history.

the witch is elphaba and she fakes her death if you watch wicked the musical you will know

Hope Burchell plus the slippers are elpahbas the witches sisters who's dead now so she's cross

Hope Burchell Ever read the original wonderful wizard of oz, or the original wicked? She melts in both.

Mabel King in "The Wiz" came darn close, though!

Yes she did. She deserves an Oscar

Yeah

People

Yeah she kept in touch with Judy Garland after the movie ended and they were good friends. Judy Garland said that Margaret Hamilton was more of a mother to her than her own (often drunk) mom. Margaret even attended Judy's high school graduation

@@theshillneckedlizard8364 I don't think she did, you know. But they did remain friends, as they did with the rest of the cast.

@@MaskedMan66 She did, Margaret Hamilton talked about it on the Merv Griffin show in the early sixties. Unfortunately no footage of the show survives today, but it sounds like the sort of thing Margaret Hamilton would have done, she loved children and saw in Judy a kid who needed help.

+Elena DI RUVO I know right lol

+Elena DI RUVO In the 30s yes, but right now I think this is one of Dorothy's awesome moments. I just wonder where the hell that attitude went when Glinda told her she could go home any time she wanted.

+Shanethefilmmaker What do you mean?

@Elena DI RUVO "Hilarious" means, very "funny."

@@Shanethefilmmaker At Munchkinland first whisk of ruby slippers to Dorothy's feet, Glinda manipulatively withheld from Dorothy the shoes' full operating instructions. But had Glinda told D that D could in three shoe taps be back in Kansas, movie over.

justess martin I wanted to be the witch too and I’m a guy!

Love this movie what a cast great soundtrack watch it every Christmas 😊❤

She wore a false nose and chin as the WWW.

I agree. Masterpiece.

agreed

+Kirk Barkley Most performers who play villains are real sweethearts in real life. :-) I've met Dave "Darth Vader" Prowse, Jacqueline "Servalan" Pearce, and Geoffrey Beevers, Anthony Ainley, and Eric Roberts, all of whom played the Master on "Doctor Who." Every one of those people were the nicest folks you could ever want to meet.

Kirk Barkley I met her on a NYC street in the 1970s. She lived in the Gramercy Park neighborhood. Absolutely delightful woman, hard to imagine she could portray such evil.

I had nightmares for years as child when the she appeared in the crystal ball just when Dorothy saw Auntie Em in it.

KIRK BARKLEY: In real life, Maggie had just given birth to a son when she did the Wizard of Oz.

That part scared me when I was little

Me too

@@purplecat3130 same

As a kid, I really only thought of the dream sequence as after the tornado picked up the house, but actually she only dreams the tornado picks up the house, and this is confusing slightly because the whole "pre-munchkinland" section of the film is made to look like there is no color, which then ends when munchkinland begins. But the dream begins before the house is picked up by the tornado. It is kind of a cinematic trick to make you think the house really was picked up by the tornado. Because at the end, you know, the house is where it always was. As a five year old I was just overwhelmed by the whole movie!

@@madisoncastle5138 yes me too

terrified me too, thirty years earlier.I'd run out of the room when she appeared in the crystal ball to mock Dorothy.

Try growing up as a kid during the 60's! This was broadcast annually, on one of the 3 networks we had back then, NBC, CBS, or ABC. It got the most showings on CBS and NBC, respectively. She and the tornado were the most formidable scenes in the movie. Used to give me nightmares, but I never missed it when it was broadcast, usually in early spring during the 1960's.

@@Rodin99 20 years earlier for me but the same...for the crystal ball scene and when she first appears in the munchkinland I had to hide around the corner. It was a legendary and horrifying performance by Hamilton.

@@deuceb8472 all the more reason she should have been nominated....and won! It was Billie Burke who I heard wasn't so terribly nice.

@@Rodin99 You heard wrong. Billie Burke was a kind and gracious lady. On her first day visiting the Munchkin City set, about fifty of the American performers gathered around her and asked for her autograph, which she was happy to do. Someone spoke on behalf of one little man who couldn't speak. To the man's delight, Miss Burke began to talk to him in sign language! Turned out she'd learned it in school so she and her friends could chat behind their books during boring classes. She and the man had a good conversation. 🙂

Better than Dodge?

@@devynthomas8988 Who?

@@MaskedMan66 You seen Locke & Key?

@@devynthomas8988 No, just the covers of the graphic novels.

@@MaskedMan66 She's a bit cliched in the books but Netflix made her a legend.

I remember! :-)

@109240355386647976835 Ya me too. I keep saying I will get this on DVD and I never do. :/ Maybe for my birthday.

Charles Moskowitz Or Christmas, whichever comes first!

Now that you mention it I think I will buy myself a birthday present and buy this next month on my birthday. Thanks for the idea.

And not everyone had a color TV either which meant some people had to see the film in black and white. It actually seemed scarier in black and white. When we finally got a color TV everyone in the neighborhood came to our house to see the film in color since no one on our street had a color TV.

Yes it did Judy Garland Dorothy is my favorite character ❤️

Everybody's work made it perfect.

It's also hard to believe she wasn't the first choice for the role.

@@bobbyhoffman5967 That's because the producer had a different vision from the casting director. Mervyn Le Roy wanted a slinky, sexy witch like Snow White's stepmother. But the casting director wanted a "typical" fairy tale wicked witch.

@@MaskedMan66 Tell me something I don't already know. Gale Sondergaard looked too glamorous for the role.

@@bobbyhoffman5967 That would depend on who was making the film and what their interpretation was.

@@MaskedMan66 Victor Fleming was a genius. He was known as a fixer and saved so many films from certain death. It's hard to believe he fixed both The Wizard Of Oz and Gone With The Wind in the same year.

But I always thought: “ Just say it. She deserves it!!!”

@genearthur1960What a fabulous honor to meet Margaret Hamilton ❤

+FrozenxFairytale Except that she can't when she's there.

FrozenxFairytale rrrrr

I love the quote I’ll get my pretty and your little dog to ah hahaha and I’m melting melting

Yeah, thinking of the sorts of "Accidents" that she likely caused all over Oz before Dorothy came is pretty disturbing.

+Adamguy2003 Not all over Oz; the Good Witches defended the North and South. Her power was confined to the Winkie Country. But she certainly did enough damage there.

Dr. Lecter as a main character was also only 16 minutes on screen, and it was enough for an Academy award for the main character.

@@noldo3837 that stuff always amazes me. Like Alec Baldwin winning a 20/20 Film Award for his role in Glenngrarry Glenn Ross. A film he was only in one scene for 7m30s.

Beatrice Straight, an absolutely fantastic actress, won the Oscar for Network, in which she is onscreen for less than six minutes.

She had more scenes but they were cut after the test screening caused the smaller kids in the audience to be so scared that they wet the seats in theater

Twelve minutes, as a matter of fact, the same amount of time Dave Prowse was in the first _Star Wars_ movie as Darth Vader.

The copper was only toxic when it was on fire; otherwise people wouldn't wear copper jewelry. Anybody wearing make-up tends to eat carefully, or not at all; many just rely on liquid nourishment.

Yeah! Margaret thought she’s ashamed of herself, get it?

How do you know that ? The movie was made in 1939. Did you read it somewhere or something ? 😕

@@childhooddreamer6975 yes I read it online multiple times

@@childhooddreamer6975 It's a well-known fact that this movie's production was a terrible.

Lots of screen villains are played by people who are nice in real life. :-)

MaskedMan66 Amazing how talented they all are, right?

WishfulThinkingArt Yup! I've met Dave Prowse (Darth Vader of "Star Wars"), Jacqueline Pearce (Servalan of "Blake's 7"), and Anthony Ainley (the Master of "Doctor Who"), just to name a few, and they've all been very kind and welcoming.

Like Elphaba?

Amen to that. Margaret Hamilton is a terrific actress.

One of my all-time favourite movie quotes. Maggie would use this tag line on her son when he misbehaved.

Bam

One of the most ironic movie quotes of all time

@@loganlawrence8419 I think you mean iconic.

@@MaskedMan66 sorry. Typo

too

Yeah!

too

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Best wicked with. There are also good ones.

Ebsen wasn't allergic to anything; he had a bronchial condition that was aggravated by the aluminum powder in his make-up.

What? I thought there was lead in the paint and he DID die.

@@davi318 This movie was made in 1939, the actor that played the tin man died in 2003, so, no, he didn't die from the makeup.

@@davi318 Buddy Ebsen lived to be like 95 years old, dying peacefully in his bed.

@@Celestiallv Jack Haley.

True, but that MGM had stars like growing-girl Judy keep the grueling acting grind by going to sleep with "downers" and awaking by "upper" drugs.

@@JudgeJulieLit At the time it seemed a viable option, since it worked. They just didn't take long-term effects into account.

@@MaskedMan66 What they did to her was horrible but what I have never understood is how other MGMers of the same generation -- Roddy McDowall, Mickey Rooney, Ann Miller, Cyd Charisse, Jane Powell, et alia -- do not appear to have ever had any kind of serious substance abuse problems (if any) if the studio were wholly to blame.

@@robsieger1886 "What they did to her" was no different to "what they did to" the others you mention and more. In those days, it was all about getting the project out, and most of them honestly believed that there was no real harm being done.

@@JudgeJulieLit Which others, besides Garland?

Nah, that would be Bert Lahr's rendition of "If I Were King of the Forest."

And then Uncle Henry just sits back like, "yep that's my badass wife."

That's a good way to tell off a nasty boss during your retirement party. Lol.

She owns half the county and she gets around on a bicycle?!

You know that Aunty Em wanted to call Almira a "bitch." Hehe

+James Duclos Ebenezer Scrooge could have bought half of London, but he only used one stick to heat his fireplace. It's called being stingy.

patricia steltenpohl She really wanted Mr. Mayer to give her the part of Glinda, The Good Witch!!!

+Randy Sills No, she didn't, and Mayer had nothing to do with the casting.

She may have “fit” the role, but in real life she was the sweetest lady.

And that's understated.

I'm sure He knows that. ;-)

Anne Marie D. Concur. Archetypal.

I’m trying to impersonate her.

Winged Monkeys.

Thing is, wouldn't the Winged Monkeys be more of an air force? Something to ponder....

Be cause of Greg Maguire and his veradmmt "Wicked," Glinda has gotten a lot of unearned abuse in recent decades.

Tbh, this is so much better than "Last Night's the Wiz!"

I haven't seen that show but it doesn't interest me.

She used to scare me too lol!! She was actually a kindergarten teacher and she loved kids!! Weird, right?? People said she was very nice.

She probably was nice and yes I find it pretty funny

+Ben Malloy What is "Last Night's the Wiz?"

Amber Heard?

@@debbiecurtis4021 ?

@@JC-ev9dy I complety agree with you as well

@@debbiecurtis4021 ?

Wicked witch, you mean. There are good witches also.

That was menacing

I think what's really funny about that line is that it just keeps going, even when it seems like she's done. I can just imagine her thinking she's done but the director just won't say cut so she keeps going. "Poppies...poppies!...POPPIES will put them to sleep...(director still doesn't say cut)...sleeeeeeep...(still going) Now they'll sleeeeeeep." (CUT!) "Finally."

Sleeeep. Now, they'll sleeeep...

@@BJDJMusic i love how she said that 🤣

@@Blokewood3 No, that's just how it was written in the script.

When I was a kid, I thought Auntie Em’s name was Granny Ann.

@@morganyakkofan9052 ??????????

@@MaskedMan66 Nevermind.

No full scenes, just a few lines of dialogue.

Judy Garland is still so beloved 50+ years later

Well, we still remember him as well.

When you are obsessed with ruby slippers

I can’t girl

Dear Margaret! She was a poet of theatrical intonation, in perfect concert with whole-body performance. I wonder the results if A.I. could accurately cast her in the role of "Martha" in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'. She hit the nail so squarely on the Oz role, she was subsequently and permanently typecast so we never got to see her full range.

There is a lost episode on Sesame Street about the Wicked Witch loosing her broom. The episode was deemed to scary for children and never shown.

Ever seen the late, great Billie Hayes as Witchiepoo?

Margaret Hamilton. She’s the best in her role. Such a nice person. ❤

This isn't "Wicked," nor is it connected to it.

Dorothy didn't care about the shoes, but she followed Glinda's instruction to keep them. Anyway, her motivation was to get home, not keep the shoes. As for the Witch, to her the shoes were but a means to an end, and that end was the conquest of Oz.

And you just ruined the joke.

T33NDR34M Good! Lame jokes deserve to be ruined.

How cute, Trying to be funny.

T33NDR34M Yes, and you didn't quite succeed.