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Little things from the real world that seem out of place in fantastical musicals?
Just curious if anyone else has noticed these or other examples. In the Wizard of Oz the scarecrow sings the lyric “I could be another Lincoln if I only had a brain.” In Seussical JoJo the Who sings whether a river runs “under State Highway two hundred and three.”
They’re small details but they both made me kind of tilt my head and go huh? Why would the scarecrow in the land of Oz know about Abraham Lincoln? And in Whoville everything seems whimsical and rhymy, somehow state highway 203 seems like something that wouldn’t exist so matter of factly.
Any other examples?? Just thought these were amusing.
u/bachintheforest — 4 hours ago