A page for scribg HaveAGayOldTime: Mic. Tradnal: "Gay" or "gaily": The trope name self om the last le of The Fltston theme song.
Contents:
- OUTRAGE OVER THE FLTSTON “GAY OLD TIME”
- GAY OLD TIME
- A GAY, OLD TIME
- GAY OLD TIME ED MEANG
- “WE’LL HAVE A GAY OLD TIME!”
- THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
OUTRAGE OVER THE FLTSTON “GAY OLD TIME”
A page for scribg HaveAGayOldTime: Film. The tle song of 42nd Street refers to girls om "the fifti" and "the eighti" — as the streets of … * we have a gay old time *
In the 1953 Dean Mart-Jerry Lewis edy The Caddy, Jerry crash a party where he intifi himself song as "The Gay Contental".
A Southern Pacific Railroad 1937 documentary "Daylightg the Padr'" about s luxury passenger ler rolls around California, n be viewed here and has a part at 17:36 the vio where the announcer says, "Y, all this is San Francis, a gay metropolis of fashnable shops, fe hotels. In Dodsworth (1936), one European says "I'm makg love to you" to Fran; another v the Dodsworths to "a very gay rtrant". Disney's Fun and Fancy Free wh l like Jimy Cricket's "Life is a song - happy, gay" and the lyrics "What a very merry day/All the world is gay.
" Fun Balloon Land: The narrator durg the 1965 Philalphia Thanksgivg Day Para the word "gay" to mean happy, and apparently has no other synonyms for bee she about 7 tim the 35 mute segment. The Hays Co did object to the tle of the play was based on, The Gay Divorce, bee they said a divorce should never be happy.
GAY OLD TIME
* we have a gay old time *
Grand Hotel: The Baron tells Krgele that his creed is "a short life and a gay one", to which Krgele rponds: "A short life, Baron? In Charlie Chapl's Morn Tim (1936) Tramp's girliend wr on his sleeve the lyrics of a song he's supposed to sg and starts as "A pretty girl and a gay old man flirted on the boulevard. When the archaeologists fd that Imhotep went unwillgly to his ath and speculate he may have been executed for treason, one of them says "Maybe he got too gay wh the vtal virgs the temple.
A GAY, OLD TIME
Have a Gay Old Time leratureTradnal: Anne of Green Gabl: Anne and her iends form a story-wrg club. Anne ments that one girl "puts too … * we have a gay old time *
") In the Danish film Operatn Lovebirds, Fre lls the gun Schmidt giv him a "bøsse", a Danish term for gun that is today almost exclively ed s other meang, a gay man. " This one is pecially amg once you know that the e of the word "gay" to mean "homosexual" origated theatril slang well before migrated to the mastream vernacular.
When the tle character of Sabra learns how to make a souffle, the teacher tells her and the other stunts, "The souffle, mt be gay.
GAY OLD TIME ED MEANG
Midge's le Vertigo about "the gay old Bohemian days of gay old San Francis'' seems rather on-the-nose the days. ) Le om the movie versn of You Can't Take It Wh You (1938): "It's certaly gog to be gay around here when you leave, Grandpa?
Used The Nice Guys to unrsre Healy's view that kids know too much the days: a class of children watch a vio that scrib a towel as havg 'gay lors' and they all burst out lghg.
Your Highns vok this liberately after playg up a good b of Ho Yay between brothers Fab and Thao, when Fab asks his brother to "Stay here and be gay wh father and me! This week, public outcry reached afeng levels as the classic ABC animated s The Fltston was lambasted for s perceived tolerance and sensivy towards homosexuals and their liftyl. “For over a half century now, The Fltston theme song has valierly touted that when you’re wh them you will have a ‘gay old time, '” CNN anchor Anrson Cooper said on the air Tuday.
“WE’LL HAVE A GAY OLD TIME!”
“This sort of flip treatment of the homosexual liftyle, and that uld possibly apply to a fay the stone age, is offensive and outrageo. Wh the recent surge of suicis among gay teenagers, where might they turn for guidance and unrstandg, for sympathy and rmatn? We should all be strivg for more acceptance and sensivy, and stead The Fltston are sptg the llective homosexual face.
The flamboyant Snaggleps was cricized for beg “the worst sort of of gay pk mounta ln stereotype, ” while The Fltston sister show The Jetsons also me unr scty primarily for what was emed “a sad and disturbg portrayal of a 24th Century butch robot maid.
This is why we now ver the reports of gay suici every chance we get, stead of jt ignorg and buryg news reports of as we have for time immemorial.
THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
And I for one will not let this stance jt sli to that massive pile of gay tolerance that has been allowed to build Hollywood. Tagged as Anrson Cooper, Barney Rubble, Betty Rubble, CNN, Fred Fltstone, Gay Teens, Homosexuals, tolerance, Judy Jetson, Penelope Pstop, Snaggleps, suici, The Fltston, The Jetsons, Wilma Fltstone, Yabba Dabba Doo. Those of who grew up wh The Flston are perfectly aware of the archaic meang of "gay" bee of s e old rtoons like this one.
Sce the OP was about the e of "gay old", and sce this thread was posted the Spanish-English fom for translatns, I'll share how was translated one Spanish versn of the show: Tú te divertirás. When the 1960’s animated TV show “The Fltston” closed their famo tle song, the le was, “we’ll have a gay ol time.
If the martian Gazoo, om that show’s last few seasons were to reappear today to observe Ameri and pop culture, how “gay” would he thk Ameri has bee, spe of the actual reali the media largely ignor?