Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for September 03, 2021

She had to. the other guy was rusty.

I guess we’re not in Kansas anymore.

Dorothy and the Scarecrow were to fall in love. A concluding scene back in Kansas after Dorothy’s return was removed before final script approval and never filmed. If it had, we would look at Dorothy’s relationship with the bumbling Scarecrow quite differently. In the end scene, Hunk (the Kansan version of the Scarecrow) is about to leave for agricultural college and asks Dorothy to write to him. This scene apperently was meant to imply that a romance would develop between the two. This is said to explain Dorothy’s preference for the Scarecrow over her other two companions in Oz. Traces of this plot idea can still be noticed throughout the film however, particularly when Dorothy is about to leave Oz and tells the Scarecrow, “I think I’ll miss you most of all.”

Then there was that terrible incident with Tip in the second book.

LOLOL

Oh my gosh!! Dorothy! ROTF Look at Toto’s eyes.

Ahhh-OOOOH-gah!

Scarecrow: “My eyes are up here.”

Don’t look Toto.

She’s ready for a roll in the hay!

This is one straw man she’ll be eager to knock down.

I guess she wanted to monkey around??

From 1997. Draw a new cartoon and leave Dorothy alone.

That should jumpstart his heart….sparks may fly so beware….

Senator Dorothy resigned today after accusations of improper touching surfaced from her past.

Dorothy didn’t like the Munchkins because they always had their nose in her business.

I had been thinking the other day about things I miss since my wife died in March, and grabbing her butt was one of them. Since she had never said it bothered her I never stopped doing it even after 34 years of marriage and a few “extra” pounds on both of our parts. Okay we were both fat, but we still loved each other. Since she died I am on the grief diet and have lost over 40 pounds.

Is that what that is!

I do believe that Dorothy became Mother Goose.

Yep, he stood out from the rest of the field.

to paraphrase Fat Albert “Hay, Hay Hay”!

Dot, you little floozy! What would Auntie Em say?

That would give Ray Bolger another cue to dance.

That’s not my brain!

Given a look at Oz, I don’t think there were many guys who, “played on our team”…so-to-speak…

that ain’t no straw she’s graspin’ at…

That’s why Dorothy, as she was getting ready to leave Oz in the balloon, thought she’d miss him most of all. Actually, that line was originally related to a plot element (later scrapped) in which Dorothy and the farmhand Hunk (the Scarecrow’s human counterpart) were beginning a relationship and were planning to leave the farm together.