You Must Remember This Podcast Returns October 22nd!

[ellie_andrews]

Here's the trailer for the new season of @RememberThisPod! Subscribe for new episodes every Tuesday starting October 22: https://t.co/b37IrrcRna
- YouMust RememberThis (@RememberThisPod) October 16, 2019

** The Old Hollywood podcast returns with a series on the history of controversial Disney film Song of the South.

** Song of the South, released

Comments

[sandstorm]

I never listened to this before...I like how it sounds like a news broadcast (Sorta like Parcasts' NATURAL DISASTERS). I'll listen to this episode!

[tippythepoodle]

I can’t get into this podcast.
I love classic film but the voice of the woman who does the podcast sounds like she’s reading in English class.
She’s so monotone.

[chungkingxpress]

I liked the Manson episodes, but the impressions were embarrassing.

[mayjailer]

her impressions are so bad... idk who's telling her they sound good

[maggielizabeth]

I really want her to stop them. In her Marilyn eps, I was so mad about her impression of Marilyn. It honestly sounded like she was mocking her?

[saintclaire87]

The last Manson episode was chilling. I remember watching Zip a Dee Doo Dah in school. It used to be on like the Merry Melodies VHS or something.

[marthasback]

omg I had this VHS

[erika92]

yeah, i remember loving the song so much when i was a little kid. it's messed up disney wont acknowledge the history of it, or make any sort of apology for it.

[bttrsondaughter]

I’m excited the show’s back and that she found another topic she really wanted to do. This is a really interesting topic, and she teased that this series was gonna touch on stuff that happened in 1989 which makes me think that she’s gonna cover the opening of Splash Mountain and the beginning of Disney’s Eisner era

[roisin_farrell]

I don't know how people talk about Song of the South but never touch on Splash Mountain. The thing is so fascinating. I'm old enough that I remember when Splash Mountain opened and was always so confused they based the ride on a movie Disney tries to pretend that doesn't exist.

[mayjailer]

that is really interesting. it never occurred to me, and i've ridden the thing so many times. i just assumed the characters appeared in other cartoons that weren't as steeped in controversy (which in hindsight is impossible given the nature of them but this was my preteen logic).

[bttrsondaughter]

If you were to poll Disneyland guests I bet more of them would know that Splash Mountain has reused animatronics than know it was based on Song of the South lol. Most of them probably think it’s an original ride. I’m more impressed that they managed to make Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah one of the most iconic Disney songs ever while attempting to bury the movie it came from.

I really like this Defunctland video about it. A lot of the episode is dedicated to another ride, but the beginning and end of it focus on the film and Splash Mountain:

[la_petite_singe]

I feel like such a weird sexist for saying it, but the deliberATE...SLOW...way...that she TALKS...drives me completely insane. It's like someone told her she has an annoying regional American accent [as I do] and she's trying really hard to erase it. I have to listen at 1.5x speed. But she's always interesting!

[patty_hewes]

mte, I wish she would go back to the style of her early eps

[annpaulveal]

The way she pronounces the letter t as a d really grinds my gears. Forgodden, UGH.

[technomat]

It's so bad because she's doing pseudo-profound delivery with her regional, non-standard pronunciation (like the d instead of t) which just draws attention to the "for-god-den".

Hopefully she's reading these comments and gets a clue (or takes a speech course).