A Spoonful of Sugar

People are always, and then people confuse it with Mary Poppins.

They always say like, where's Spoonful of Sugar? And I'm like, different, different, different Julie Andrews musical.

Very big, very iconic, different Julie Andrews.

Yes.

And I wanted to honor that because I'm thinking nostalgic memories and whose childhood wasn't touched by Mary Poppins.

So I'm going with A Spoonful of Sugar.

robin feathering his nest has very little time to rest while gathering his bits of twine and twig though quite intent in his pursuit he has a merry tune to toot he knows a song will move the job along For a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, the medicine go down, the medicine go down.

Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down in a most delightful way.

I don't know if A Spoonful of Sugar is my particular favorite song.

Actually, I think when we did one of our old Disney podcasts, I put Let's Go Fly a Kite as my favorite, but it's one of the few songs on the movie that's not sung by Julie Andrews, and so that didn't feel right to pick one of those for tonight.

So it was between this and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, and I thought...

Number seven.

Which Disney character dished up the medicine Spoonful of Sugar?

Fam, was it Mary Poppins?

Well done.

[laughs]

A Spoonful of Sugar is also good though.

Poopy.

Da, da, da.

Yeah, Spoonful of Sugar is good.

Also, uh, Let's Go Fly a Kite was good too.

A spoon-

We agree to listen to one song and just tidy up while the music plays.

They currently love the film Mary Poppins, so it's usually A Spoonful of Sugar, the soundtrack to the scene where they tidy up the nursery.

Once the song starts playing, the kids start whizzing around, putting everything away.

By the time the song finishes, it already looks much better.

What have we got next, please, Willie?

Well, Katie has got in touch after listening to a recent episode where Jordan changed the lyrics to the Mary Poppins classic A Spoonful of Sugar.

She says, "Hi, guys.

I just listened to today's podcast on X-rated film puns and enjoyed William's disgust at Mary Poppitin.

Does he know there's already a gay parody song to the tune of Spoonful of Sugar? I feel like there needs to be a live reaction to this on the podcast."

Oh, yeah.

What? There's already a clip?

Number two, the animatronic Robin in the movie was the beginning of Disney Imagineering.

Number three, the song A Spoonful of Sugar was inspired by the writer's children explaining how they took the polio vaccine.

Or lastly, it took Walt Disney nearly 10 years to convince P.L. Travers to sell him the rights to the movie.

She needed the money.

We're talking about Mary Poppins, Kathy.

Which one of these isn't true? Number one, the animatronic Robin in the movie was the beginning of Disney Imagineering.

Number two, the song A Spoonful of Sugar was inspired by the writer's children explaining how they took the polio vaccine.

Or lastly, it took Walt Disney nearly 10 years to convince P.L. Travers to sell him the rights to the movie.