The episode were Wilbur whipped Mr.Ed - Mister Ed (1961) Discussion

[–] frank_lea 17 years ago

I've seen every episode and I never saw Wilbur whip him.

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[–] grazatt 17 years ago

At the end of one episode, where Ed was up to some Hijinx. Mr.Ed says to Wilbur "Why did you have to punish me?" and Wilbur says "You deserved it, you caused trouble for a lot of people." The Ed turns around and you see he has a pillow tied to his butt and he says "But, now I won't be able to sit down for a week". If that did not mean that Wilbur whipped him then what did it mean?

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[–] ch6499 17 years ago

Are you kidding me with this ish? I mean, what psycodelic (sp) drugs were these writers and producers on, back in the 60's? But yea unfortuntely I do remember tat episode.

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[–] grazatt 17 years ago

So I am right Wilbur did whip Mr.Ed. So back to my original question why would Mr.Ed let himself get whipped and wasn't it kind of creepy that they put that in an episode in the first place?

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[–] frank_lea 17 years ago

I forgot about that. But that didn't necessarily mean he whipped him, maybe he just spanked him.

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[–] grazatt 17 years ago

but still why would Ed submit to that?

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[–] frank_lea 17 years ago

Maybe because Wilbur was his master who fed him and took care of him.

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[–] grazatt 17 years ago

But that is cruel, why would Wilbur do that?

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[–] frank_lea 17 years ago

Because Ed was a bad boy.

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[–] jethroxvi 17 years ago

He did let punish him just for fun of showing a pillow fixed to his butt!

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[–] duke4172-1 13 years ago

Does anyone remember which episode this is in?

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[–] duke4172-1 13 years ago

Me Ed should have called the SPCA!

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[–] coxm-1 17 years ago

Mr. Ed was into that there kinky stuff.

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[–] beehoneybumble 15 years ago

There's an episode on the Volume 2 DVD set where Mr. Ed brings Wilbur a hairbrush to use on him -for spanking, not for brushing.

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[–] TwittingOnTrender 12 years ago

Times have changed since then - it was commonplace to see a boy put a book down his pants prior to being whupped, and we all laughed at it. By extension, a comedy, offscreen whupping of a talking horse would just have been seen as a lark. I can remember women being put across men's knees for a spanking too. It wasn't seen as violence, just slapstick.

As to why would Ed stand for it, well, if you accept that he's a horse who can talk, then you have to accept that he sees his role as subservient to Wilbur, a sort of Father/Son relationship.

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