Nope, Joel Schumacher wrote that line for Car Wash in 1976, and Antonio Fargas delivered it with pride and a snap! Believe me, if you were young and just coming out in those days, that line made you stand up and cheer.
When I moved to LA in 1981, I regularly visited the carwash where they shot the film, at 6th and Rampart. I was sad when they later tore it down and built a Pescado Mojado. I think there should at least be a plaque.
I love Rent, but the beauty of Larson’s work is not in its originality.
Tip-R is ambiguous as to whether that means Tip-reality or Tip-rebecca or Tip-reproduction. Tip-A is ambiguous as to whether it means Tip-alternative, Tip-alpha, or Tip-awesome.
The second Oz book, The Marvelous Land of Oz, is the story of a young boy named Tip escaping from a witch called Mombi.
SPOILER ALERT!
READ
NO
FURTHER
UNLESS
YOU
KNOW.
At the end of the book it’s revealed that Tip is actually Ozma, the true ruler of Oz, enchanted into Tip by Mombi. So she’s disenchanted and takes over.
It wasn’t a spoiler much in 1904 either. It was made into a stage musical called “the woggle-bug” (which was a flop) in which Tip, very obviously played by curvy woman in her 20s, in the very first act talks about a dream in which he had a wonderful dream the he was a girl and princess of Oz, which is kind of weird dream for an adolescent boy would call “wonderful”.
Ozma was actually a cheap gimick. The wizard of Oz (1900) was a surprise hit and was made into a stage musical in 1902 which was *huge* success. The stage musical bore very little resemblence to the book nor to movie made 37 years later. It was such a hit the in drove demand for a book sequel which Baum really only used a a vehicle for his next stage musical. A big hit with The Wizard of Oz were a leggy busy dancing girls dresses as palace guards of the Emerald City, so The Land of Oz had General Jinjur’s Girl Army of Revolt had the leggy busy girls written right in. Another hit was dancing girls (can’t go wrong with dancing girls) dressed as deadly poppies which were subdued by a live on stage snowstorm (something not in the book but actually used later in the MGM movie) so the Land of Oz had magic illusion sunflowers and an illusion of fire written into. So… in those days it was traditional for plays to have adolescent boy protagonists to be played by pretty female ingenue (think Peter Pan and Mary Martin). After performing in character it was traditional for the starlet to take a final carton call out of customers in a stage evening gown and take bows and smile to the audience.
So Baum had this idea (which probably would have been considered weird at the time had Freudian psychology been the trend it would be two decades later) to actually write the curtain call into the play. There’d be a boy protagonist throughout the play and then in the last act it would be revealed that the boy is magically transformed to a girl and the actress doest he last scene in the curtain call evening gown where her character is no a very pretty girl.
The play was a flop. But the Ozma character was born.
Yeah, this has been the first time I’ve seen Unity smile in a way that doesn’t make her look like she’s smiling because she’s about to hit me in the face. It’s just an expression of pure bliss.
Sometimes all it takes is a simple comment to bring great joy to others. This is one of those times…
And much joy was had by all. Tip out”Tips” Alt-Tip
Seeing other people discover Tip for the first time doesn’t ever get old for those two.
To quote Lindy from Car Wash, “I’m more man than you’ll ever be, and more woman than you’ll ever get!”
That’s a quote from something? I always thought it was from Rent.
I remember it from Car Wash (1976), but it looks like Rent (2005) borrowed it.
Not that it makes a difference, but does anyone know whether the line dates back to 1994 Rent? Play’s been around longer than the movie. 🙂
Nope, Joel Schumacher wrote that line for Car Wash in 1976, and Antonio Fargas delivered it with pride and a snap! Believe me, if you were young and just coming out in those days, that line made you stand up and cheer.
When I moved to LA in 1981, I regularly visited the carwash where they shot the film, at 6th and Rampart. I was sad when they later tore it down and built a Pescado Mojado. I think there should at least be a plaque.
I love Rent, but the beauty of Larson’s work is not in its originality.
this is really the kind of joke that only works because the comic is 8 years old
It’s like Unity’s and Sweethearts smiles are saying, “Welcome to our world!”
:>))
Shame Tip doesn’t have the legs for it, least so far as I can tell…
You mean Tip-R, right?
We haven’t yet seen proof that this world’s Tip has biological legs.
That’s true–she could just be balancing on a unicycle or something. Very…Tip-precarious.
*high-fives self*
The one who’s birth name is “Dennis,” right?
This is why it’s easier to call her Ozma
I must confess, I’m still confused by the “Ozma” thing. What’s it got to do with the throne of Oz?
Apparently Ozma was in disguise as a boy called Tip for a long time.
Not “disguised”. She *was* a boy. One who didn’t know he was really a girl.
Tip-R is ambiguous as to whether that means Tip-reality or Tip-rebecca or Tip-reproduction. Tip-A is ambiguous as to whether it means Tip-alternative, Tip-alpha, or Tip-awesome.
Tip-R could also mean Al Gore’s wife.
Or possibly the famous Troubleshooter, Tip-R-GOR.
The second Oz book, The Marvelous Land of Oz, is the story of a young boy named Tip escaping from a witch called Mombi.
SPOILER ALERT!
READ
NO
FURTHER
UNLESS
YOU
KNOW.
At the end of the book it’s revealed that Tip is actually Ozma, the true ruler of Oz, enchanted into Tip by Mombi. So she’s disenchanted and takes over.
It’s the one they didn’t make a big MGM movie out of in the late thirties…well, one of the ones…
Not much of a surprize if you haven’t read the book. It’s practically the first Google result
Dude, it was written in 1904. You’re not gonna spoil anything everyone doesn’t already know.
Except for this guy. But then, I wasn’t even considering reading the books until THAT big reveal.
It wasn’t a spoiler much in 1904 either. It was made into a stage musical called “the woggle-bug” (which was a flop) in which Tip, very obviously played by curvy woman in her 20s, in the very first act talks about a dream in which he had a wonderful dream the he was a girl and princess of Oz, which is kind of weird dream for an adolescent boy would call “wonderful”.
Ozma was actually a cheap gimick. The wizard of Oz (1900) was a surprise hit and was made into a stage musical in 1902 which was *huge* success. The stage musical bore very little resemblence to the book nor to movie made 37 years later. It was such a hit the in drove demand for a book sequel which Baum really only used a a vehicle for his next stage musical. A big hit with The Wizard of Oz were a leggy busy dancing girls dresses as palace guards of the Emerald City, so The Land of Oz had General Jinjur’s Girl Army of Revolt had the leggy busy girls written right in. Another hit was dancing girls (can’t go wrong with dancing girls) dressed as deadly poppies which were subdued by a live on stage snowstorm (something not in the book but actually used later in the MGM movie) so the Land of Oz had magic illusion sunflowers and an illusion of fire written into. So… in those days it was traditional for plays to have adolescent boy protagonists to be played by pretty female ingenue (think Peter Pan and Mary Martin). After performing in character it was traditional for the starlet to take a final carton call out of customers in a stage evening gown and take bows and smile to the audience.
So Baum had this idea (which probably would have been considered weird at the time had Freudian psychology been the trend it would be two decades later) to actually write the curtain call into the play. There’d be a boy protagonist throughout the play and then in the last act it would be revealed that the boy is magically transformed to a girl and the actress doest he last scene in the curtain call evening gown where her character is no a very pretty girl.
The play was a flop. But the Ozma character was born.
Dang autocorrect! I always assumed “busty” was a perfectly acceptable word. “Busy chorus girls” I suppose makes some sort of sense but…
“Curtain call out of costume” not “carton call out of customers”
This is a terrible argument and you are being a bad person right now
Because the nesting is unclear this is meant as a response to “the true false profit”
I’m waiting to see if Alt!Sweetheart will be a Toy Poodle, a Doberman, or what.
Since we’ve already had Alt-UNITY, this could be very creative.
A cat!
One of the albatross-winged dogs designed to attacked Crufts that were rejected during the design phase by Dr. Bram in the main universe!
A fluffy cat!
Sergio must be the cynosure of this story arc, since we’re getting “Alt” characters for everyone else, unless I’m missing something.
Bit slow on the uptake, ain’t’cha Ozma?
This retelling of how Tip became Ozma is rather interesting.
The smiles from Unity and Sweetie are delightful 😀
They really do sell the strip, don’t they?
Yeah, this has been the first time I’ve seen Unity smile in a way that doesn’t make her look like she’s smiling because she’s about to hit me in the face. It’s just an expression of pure bliss.