Richards Favorite Videos

From Disney’s Babes in Toyland (1961): Barnaby sceme’s with his newly hired henchman on how to marry that fine piece Mary so he can snag her inheritance she unknowingly will receive upon marriage.

We enjoy committing mayhem for a monetary gain
and we specialize in crimes which are completely inhumane.
Now we’re on our way steal some sheep and drown the boy at sea.
And then directly we’ll collect a very handsome fee and we won’t be happy till we get it.
In some lagoon a body soon will splash.
We’re eager to proceed, to do this evil deed, just as long as we are paid in cash.

I loved this sequence and probably disturbed my family at how much.

A wonderful token villain song of greedy, capitalism, and general plundering of natures recourses in disregard for anyone or anything but your own self gain. Its meant as a precautionary “look how bad they are” tale, but I of course love it for the bad reasons. The song also serves as a “just in case you forgot” moment that the entire movie is propaganda to remind us that Natives = good and noble, Whites = bad and greedy.

Edward Nygma returns home on his first day of crazy. Having recently extracted his bosses brain waves with his new invention and then getting away with murdering him, Nygma creates his first riddle and drops it off at Wayne manner.

Cat R. Waul has a delicious little mouse fall into his palm but knows he shouldn’t eat it, both displaying and explaining cognitive dissonance, which is a psychological term describing the uncomfortable tension that may result from having two conflicting thoughts at the same time, or from engaging in behavior that conflicts with one’s beliefs.

In simple terms, it can be the filtering of information that conflicts with what one already believes, in an effort to ignore that information and reinforce one’s beliefs. In detailed terms, it is the perception of incompatibility between two cognitions, where “cognition” is defined as any element of knowledge, including attitude, emotion, belief, or behavior. The theory of cognitive dissonance states that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the mind to acquire or invent new thoughts or beliefs, or to modify existing beliefs, so as to reduce the amount of dissonance (conflict) between cognitions. Experiments have attempted to quantify this hypothetical drive. Some of these have examined how beliefs often change to match behavior when beliefs and behavior are in conflict.

I watched this many times back in the day. The only thing I always thought was over the top though was Two Face’s “bad side” meal. Chard heart of black boar? A side of raw donkey meat? Sterno ingrain alcohol straight up baby?… wtf? No one eats that. I don’t care how psychotic.