I was watching this on TCM today. I really and truly laughed my ass off at that line (I see it's the first quote in 'memorable quotes' here). I'm amazed that got into the picture, especially in 1958.
shareIt was risque for 1958. Great line and delivery, even though I detested Rule's character.
shareOh, the double entendres and word play of the Hays Code era are great.
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
Yeah, some of the writers were good at getting past the censors. One of my favorites is when someone (Harpo Marx, I believe) waves Groucho Marx's underwear around (although I don't recall the film). And Groucho, sounding surprised, says, "I thought I felt a little flimsy down there."
share"Come here with that! I felt kind of flimsy."
And that was in '29, before the censors and the Hays Code!
You've got me?! Who's got you?!
Although the Production Code (the earliest version is sometimes referred to as the Hays Code) didn't come in until March of 1930, there was plenty of censorship before that at both the individual studio level and the local and state govt. levels, ever since the 1915 Supreme Court decision that said films were a commercial enterprise instead of art.
shareLaughed out loud at the "never learned to spell" line and also the reference to un-american activities. Such a funny phrase when spoken aloud.
shareI was pleasantly surprised by its inclusion, too!
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
It got in because like so many people on here, if they didn't catch the lines completely before it then they didn't understand the joke. Or so the censors thought.
Shep: That girl you know, Gillian Holroyd, she's one.
Merle: A witch? Shep, you just never learned to spell.
The scene is really very busy, she's painting and he's popping up and down like a jack-in-box. Maybe they just didn't think that most of the audience would be smart enough to get it?
Just watched this for the first time in a long while, last night. I don't remember hearing that quote in previous viewings of this film. But when I heard that line I too, laughed my a$$ off.
That quote has to go down as a 'Classic' for that time period.