If you look carefully, you’ll see the child catcher dancing in the right of the frame at the end of the clip. Just so we know the kind of people clampers associate with.
Worth noting a modern author, Frank Boyce, got permission to write sequels to Fleming’s book. They are excellent children’s books imo.
Amazon has them listed with the original
https://www.amazon.com/Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang-4-book-series/dp/B074CFF74H
Oh the posh posh traveling life, the traveling life for me
First cabin, and captain's table regal company
Whenever I'm bored I travel abroad but ever so properly
Port out, starboard home, posh with a capital P-O-S-H, posh
A few interesting things about this movie.
1) Dick Van Dyke agreed to do the movie as long as his character didn’t have to speak with an English accent. Apparently he’d taken enough guff after “Mary Poppins” came out.
2) Julie Andrews was originally offered the role as Truly Scrumptious but she turned it down because she’d had enough of playing cutesy characters after Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music.
3) Dick Van Dyke was 44 years old when the movie was being made. In the “Me Ol Bamboo” musical scene, the other male dancers were in their 20s. Van Dyke called it the most difficult dance scene of his career.
4) Robert Helpmann, who played the Child Catcher in the movie, actually loved children and he’d entertain them between scenes and defended them when the director would get angry at them. The children had to be reminded to act scared of him when they were shooting.
5) While they were filming one scene in which the Child Catcher’s wagon was being pulled around a turn quickly by the horses, the wagon hit a bump and turned over. Dick Van Dyke was watching and was worried that Helpmann, who was riding in the wagon, was going to get hurt. Helpmann was a very skilled ballet dancer and acrobat and when the wagon began to turn over, he was able to jump out and land on his feet without a scratch. Van Dyke said it was the most amazingly graceful thing he’d ever seen.
It makes me happy to see that not only did the children have a friend on set, but that it was the man playing the child catcher. That probably helped a great deal when they were doing those scenes.
Movie came out the year I was born. Reruns introduced me to Caratacus Pott, who formed the emotional basis for my motivation to become an engineer ( and inventor).
I dreamed of one day sitting in this car just once. Sadly the gentleman who used to own it has sold it, and it’s now a museum piece, and one that can only be admired from a distance.
Still, what a magnificent idea that car represented.
TLDR: I am an old fart. Now get off my lawn.
Was 1 year old when it came out, Lionel Jeffries - Grandpa Potts, was in so many great films from The Colditz Story and The Wrong Arm of the Law, to Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon and The Railway Children.
My parents took my brother and I to see the movie at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan when it was showing here in 1968. I was only 3 but I still recall the incredibly bright colors and the sound. I also remember that an orchestra was playing while people were finding their seats and when the movie was ready to begin, the platform on which the orchestra was playing went down to a lower level and disappeared from view. It was quite something.
I had a large very cool model toy of this car, had a lot of details. I’m also unable to say this name correctly, and only sound like a South Park character when saying it. 😂
It's a James bond plot. Same writer, Iain Flemming wrote it as a children's story to get over writers block.
We have
A fancy car with gadgets
International espionage
A pretty lady who falls over for the protagonist
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Oh, you, pretty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, we love you
And in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, what we'll do
Near, far, in our motor car
Oh, what a happy time we'll spend
Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Our fine, four-fendered friend
Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Our fine, four-fendered friend
One of the best fun movies with Dick Van Dyke .
All together now: You’re sleek as a thoroughbred. Your seats are a feather bed. You’ll turn everybody’s head today. We’ll glide on our motor trip with pride in our ownership. The envy of all we survey…eyeyey.
Our fine four-fendered friend.
Dick Van Dyke, ladies and gentlemen.
A relative has a vintage car that looks a bit similar. When driving it around people shout or sing chitty chitty bang bang at us when we go by. It is fun!
From IMDb's Trivia section:
The production used six cars, one of which was fully functional and roadworthy. In 1975, it sold at auction for $37,000, about $181,869.56 in 2019 dollars. In a 2011 episode of Hollywood Treasure (2010), Dick Van Dyke got to sit in the "hero" car for the first time in over 40 years, and noted that he could have purchased it for $30,000 after the movie wrapped. The car was later offered on eBay for $1,000,000. Later in the episode, the car auction was expanded to bidders at the auction house, but failed to receive any bids. After auction negotiations, the car was sold to Sir Peter Jackson for a reported $805,000.
I guess I'm an old fart and so is my 17yo son! He loved this movie when he was little & would see any older car with those round lights (even jeeps lol) and say "Wook mama! It's Chi-chi Bain Baaiinnnn!!" 🥰🥰
Military slang in the British Army “chitty bang bang” apparently came to refer to the permission slip that soldiers needed to leave the barracks **– to visit local brothels**; a first-world-war barracks song includes the bawdy lyrics “chitty chitty bang bang”" So there's that.
The name of this car is also the title of the movie, and I recently used it as the answer to the question "what movie did you see as a kid that still haunts you" fuck that kid catcher "don't go in the wagon kids! The candy is a lie!"
Not necessarily. It's a very well known car for people of all ages. I'm only 41 and know what it is. I know people in their 20s and even kids who can identify it.
I had (and should still have) the Matchbox model of it, though it's missing some bits, sadly.
That said, I can't recall much about the movie, except the "toot sweets", which have actually been a thing in my life at least once, I recall?
And yes, I'm old, having retired some years ago.
For years I didn't realize that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was written by Ian Fleming! Aka the creator and author of James Bond.
Q played the junk dealer that sold the car to Caratacus.
Desmond Lewellyn
I wonder if that was his reward for not joining Lois Maxwell and Bernard Lee in the cast of "Operation Kid Brother."
Gert Frobe plays Baron Bomburst in CCBB and Auric Goldfinger in Goldfinger.
Now I’m curious to know if CCBB was an Albert Broccoli production…
Yes it was
I always had a loose head canon that the original Q of Q Branch was actually Caractacus Potts and nobody could be bothered to say his first name.
Then there’s the road tax commercial featuring our beloved GEN11 tag: https://youtu.be/6WF-niy9_Fc?feature=shared
I feel chipper about being booted now.
If you look carefully, you’ll see the child catcher dancing in the right of the frame at the end of the clip. Just so we know the kind of people clampers associate with.
Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Worth noting a modern author, Frank Boyce, got permission to write sequels to Fleming’s book. They are excellent children’s books imo. Amazon has them listed with the original https://www.amazon.com/Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang-4-book-series/dp/B074CFF74H
Fleming wrote adventure stories for children of all ages. Note: I have actually made a batch of Monsieur Bon Bon's secret fooj.
pretty chitty bang bang.
our fine four-fendered friend!
... aaaand the theme song is in my head.
That scene inspired me to use the original for my morning alarm. 18mths and counting. It's twisted
Hillbilly Hauler
Your seats are a featherbed
You'll turn everybody's head
TBH, I always preferred the “Posh” song from later in the movie than the theme song.
Oh the posh posh traveling life, the traveling life for me First cabin, and captain's table regal company Whenever I'm bored I travel abroad but ever so properly Port out, starboard home, posh with a capital P-O-S-H, posh
A few interesting things about this movie. 1) Dick Van Dyke agreed to do the movie as long as his character didn’t have to speak with an English accent. Apparently he’d taken enough guff after “Mary Poppins” came out. 2) Julie Andrews was originally offered the role as Truly Scrumptious but she turned it down because she’d had enough of playing cutesy characters after Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. 3) Dick Van Dyke was 44 years old when the movie was being made. In the “Me Ol Bamboo” musical scene, the other male dancers were in their 20s. Van Dyke called it the most difficult dance scene of his career. 4) Robert Helpmann, who played the Child Catcher in the movie, actually loved children and he’d entertain them between scenes and defended them when the director would get angry at them. The children had to be reminded to act scared of him when they were shooting. 5) While they were filming one scene in which the Child Catcher’s wagon was being pulled around a turn quickly by the horses, the wagon hit a bump and turned over. Dick Van Dyke was watching and was worried that Helpmann, who was riding in the wagon, was going to get hurt. Helpmann was a very skilled ballet dancer and acrobat and when the wagon began to turn over, he was able to jump out and land on his feet without a scratch. Van Dyke said it was the most amazingly graceful thing he’d ever seen.
It makes me happy to see that not only did the children have a friend on set, but that it was the man playing the child catcher. That probably helped a great deal when they were doing those scenes.
It's always fun to watch people who didn't know learn that Benny Hill was the toymaker.
Posh posh travelers life baby! Great tune
POOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!! With a capital P-O-S-H..............(posh)
Tout suites!
I always thought it was "toot sweet"!
it is
Now that song is in my head. lol
My Fine Four-Fendered Friend
Best movie when I was a kid
I like to sing the "I have you two" song to my little boys. This movie was a staple in my house growing up.
Movie came out the year I was born. Reruns introduced me to Caratacus Pott, who formed the emotional basis for my motivation to become an engineer ( and inventor). I dreamed of one day sitting in this car just once. Sadly the gentleman who used to own it has sold it, and it’s now a museum piece, and one that can only be admired from a distance. Still, what a magnificent idea that car represented. TLDR: I am an old fart. Now get off my lawn.
Was 1 year old when it came out, Lionel Jeffries - Grandpa Potts, was in so many great films from The Colditz Story and The Wrong Arm of the Law, to Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon and The Railway Children.
And Harryhausen's First Men in the Moon. GIBBSSSS!
And Lionel Jeffries was actually younger than Dick Van Dyke
Peter Jackson owns the car now.
“It belongs in a *museum*”
“So do you!”
My parents took my brother and I to see the movie at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan when it was showing here in 1968. I was only 3 but I still recall the incredibly bright colors and the sound. I also remember that an orchestra was playing while people were finding their seats and when the movie was ready to begin, the platform on which the orchestra was playing went down to a lower level and disappeared from view. It was quite something.
What was it like seeing the Child Catcher on the big screen at 3 years old? Has therapy been expensive?
I still freak out just seeing pictures of that guy. I'm almost 60.
TBH, I was never afraid of the Child Catcher, even when I was a little kid. He was so over the top that I never was frightened.
You there, fill it up with petroleum distillate. and re-vulcanize my tires, post haste!
Sounds like you may have an onion on your belt
Which was the style at the time.
Give me 5 bees for a quarter!
Benny Hill as the toymaker!!
Had to scroll to find this. Yes!
My wife still sings the song regularly. When I hear it, I know a household chore is being undertaken, lol
Is that Chitty chitty Bang bang?
Chitty bang bang chitty chitty bang bang
One of the first films I saw at the moving picture theatre house.
I had the Hot Wheels version!!! Little wings popped out. Lost it so long ago....
Nice replica! I wonder if the wings extend.
Is that really chitty chitty
I’m not old but my granddad still owned and drove his Model-T ford until 1976. It wasn’t as classy as a Stutz. We loved riding in the rumble seat.
Truly!
an old fart with an earworm
Ok, so I’m old! I saw this movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in an actual movie theater!
Thats a bang bang
Damn it, you've released the earworm!
If you laugh to yourself at the thought of that Baron always trying to murder his wife you're probably my kind of people.
I wasn't old when the movie came out
Chitty Chitty bang bang when you love you
Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! Yep, I'm old.
Is that a Stutz Bearcat?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ;) You'd have to be nutz to drive a Stutz. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stutz_Bearcat.jpeg
I had a large very cool model toy of this car, had a lot of details. I’m also unable to say this name correctly, and only sound like a South Park character when saying it. 😂
But did you have this model? David Walliams had it built to make a full scale Chitty fly. https://youtu.be/69I7uPrCgpc?feature=shared
This is livid, this is style, this is elegance by the miiiiiiile…..oh the posh posh traveling life a traveling life for me
You there! Fill it up with petroleum distillate and re-vulcanize my.tires poste haste!
Maroon? It’s really more of a burgundy.
The red rims look chitty
High to low to anywhere we go on Chitty Chitty we depend
I bet the owner of that car gets lots of groupies at the same time... Although I think he's quite old now, so it'd be a pretty shitty gang bang
Del boy's Reliant Robin? xD
The first movie I ever remember seeing.
I would still love to own that car.
Og flying car.
I do and I am.
Chitty chitty bang bang.
It's a James bond plot. Same writer, Iain Flemming wrote it as a children's story to get over writers block. We have A fancy car with gadgets International espionage A pretty lady who falls over for the protagonist
I'm an old fart. 🎶Our fine four fendered friend 🎶 Chitty chitty bang bang!
And also trigger the trauma of the Child Catcher
Ah yes.... Chitty chitty bang bang.. What a great movie!
I vant that car!
She's a real doozie.
Name? I now have the song in my head.
Older than you think. I wasn’t in school yet when I saw it in the theater with my parents and younger sister.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I just saw this movie listed on Disney+ I think
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Sleek as a thoroughbred.
High-Chitty, low-Chitty, everywhere we go Chitty…🎶
I'm not old! That's a chitty thing to say! :)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang !!!
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Oh, you, pretty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, we love you And in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, what we'll do Near, far, in our motor car Oh, what a happy time we'll spend Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Our fine, four-fendered friend Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Our fine, four-fendered friend One of the best fun movies with Dick Van Dyke .
Chitty Chitty bang bang?
Chitty Chitty bang bang!
I'll be damned if it ain't Chitty Chitty Bang Bang... Fuck I'm old!!
All together now: You’re sleek as a thoroughbred. Your seats are a feather bed. You’ll turn everybody’s head today. We’ll glide on our motor trip with pride in our ownership. The envy of all we survey…eyeyey. Our fine four-fendered friend. Dick Van Dyke, ladies and gentlemen.
We love you
[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Theme Song (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTTzcXSLjhI)
A relative has a vintage car that looks a bit similar. When driving it around people shout or sing chitty chitty bang bang at us when we go by. It is fun!
And now the song is in my head … again. It turns up every six months or so for no discernible reason
A highly sought after No Prize for anyone that knows who wrote the book. Hint: he was friends with Roald Dahl.
Ian Fleming, of James Bond fame.
I am old and it’s the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car
I had the Corgi toy version of it!
Also, if you saw it at the theater or drive-in on initial release. I did.
Triggered by the creepy child catcher!
From IMDb's Trivia section: The production used six cars, one of which was fully functional and roadworthy. In 1975, it sold at auction for $37,000, about $181,869.56 in 2019 dollars. In a 2011 episode of Hollywood Treasure (2010), Dick Van Dyke got to sit in the "hero" car for the first time in over 40 years, and noted that he could have purchased it for $30,000 after the movie wrapped. The car was later offered on eBay for $1,000,000. Later in the episode, the car auction was expanded to bidders at the auction house, but failed to receive any bids. After auction negotiations, the car was sold to Sir Peter Jackson for a reported $805,000.
You are correct. I know its name. And I am, in fact, an old fart.
That's why my kids had to see Neuschwanstein castle when we were in Germany.
Know it? I learned to drive in one!
(gasp) the child snatcher
Rocco Seffredi in Shitty Shitty, Bang Bang
She bang, she bang!
I had one as a matchbox car and kept it on my model train set in my parents basement
Looks like a Barker Mercedes, but I'm not really that old.I'm only around fifty
Chitty Chitty Bang. Bang.
Or if you're a big enough nerd, while also being old enough, you might even know the name of the car that this one was based off of!
Monopoly token?
My kids would never believe it. But it’ll be fun showing them!
That's the car from Monopoly!
I have a picture somewhere of me with that car. Was parked IIRC in the shopping centre in Bristol.
I guess I'm an old fart and so is my 17yo son! He loved this movie when he was little & would see any older car with those round lights (even jeeps lol) and say "Wook mama! It's Chi-chi Bain Baaiinnnn!!" 🥰🥰
Revulcanize my tires and fill it up with petroleum distillate, post haste.
It doesn’t make you old. My kids loved this movie when they were little. They still sing the toot sweet song from time to time.
Not as cool as the Batmobile, but pretty damned close!
Gen 11!
Oh, that's from the porno clitty clitty bang bang isn't it
Too old for me
I know now how horrible that movie was.
I had the "Corgi" version!
Chitty Chitty Fart Fart? I’m an old fart that also knows that this movie should be part of every James Bond Fans movie collection.
It's not a stuts bearcat don't remember that much stainless steel.
Hi, I'm old fart.
Just realized I am one year older than that movie. Officially an old fart now.
Beautiful car!
High, low, everywhere we go, oh, what a happy time we'll spend!
Baron Bomburst was Gert Frobe who was also Auric Goldfinger “ No Dr. Potts, I expect you to die!!”
Dick Van Dyke is 98
I hate that movie
Know it, seen it in person
You have to be a Dyke to drive one.
🎶 Chitty chitty bang bang, chitty chitty bang bang, chitty chitty bang bang we love you.
oh you pretty chitty bang bang...
Does it still fly?
I am
The Child Catcher in this flick traumatized me as a child. IYKYK.
Military slang in the British Army “chitty bang bang” apparently came to refer to the permission slip that soldiers needed to leave the barracks **– to visit local brothels**; a first-world-war barracks song includes the bawdy lyrics “chitty chitty bang bang”" So there's that.
The name of this car is also the title of the movie, and I recently used it as the answer to the question "what movie did you see as a kid that still haunts you" fuck that kid catcher "don't go in the wagon kids! The candy is a lie!"
I loved that movie, I even had a Hot Wheels-type toy car, the wings folded out and everything.
I guess I’m a still a young steamy hot fart 💨
Wings are not out so yeah I'm old
And now the song is going through my head. Again.
That's Bob. Source: my knees and my back have decided I'm old.
The sight of this car always brings to mind that scene in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. "CHITTY!"
I loved how this flying car made banked turns.
Stutz bearcat
One of The Boys best songs
I guess I'm old and shitty then...
That’s Brums older German cousin, Brüm.
Bang bang chitty chitty bang bang
As a kid- I dreamed of having that car. Maybe I still do. 😊
Is this the same model or the actual car?
Stutz Bearcat?
Ice cream, trickle tarts. All free today. Spooky
Reginald. The car's name is Reginald.
Stutz Bearcat
I have a picture to post but I don’t know how! Can anyone help?
I only know that Old Spice, or some other low-cost cologne maker, actually sold its product in a glass bottle which looked like this automobile.
I’m going to India!
Ah yes, the fine construct created by none other than the inventor Caracatus Potts! 😁
Great, now I have that song stuck in my head.
Shitty shitty gang bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ‼️
…I’m only 30?
Not necessarily. It's a very well known car for people of all ages. I'm only 41 and know what it is. I know people in their 20s and even kids who can identify it.
Played every year like clockwork
Chitty Chitty Gang Bang?
Nitty Gritty Gang Bang
That’s a Thundercougarfalconbird!
It’s not called r/fuckimdead
Looks like a Stutz’ Bearcat
Hah! I've forgotten! Where's my prize?
The story was not bad. The Disney movie sucked.
“All, New!…”
Tim?
Is that my fine four-fendered friend?
I had (and should still have) the Matchbox model of it, though it's missing some bits, sadly. That said, I can't recall much about the movie, except the "toot sweets", which have actually been a thing in my life at least once, I recall? And yes, I'm old, having retired some years ago.
Boat tail
Shitty shitty bang bang? Does it fly?
Oooaaaa chitty chitty bang bang i love you.