[Cheerful music is heard during the short's opening credits.]
[singing] Springtime for Hitler and Germany!
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[Cheerful music is heard during the short's opening credits.]
[singing] Springtime for Hitler and Germany!
[The short starts with a vision of heaven.]
Lucy, I'm dead!
[Wilbur gets tangled up in a TV antenna.]
Hey, now they'll get immaculate reception!
[Over a wide shot of the living room]
They live in a doll house!
You know, they should fire Grandma as their decorator.
[Jeff tries to rewrite his song.]
What would Liberace do? Nah, better not do that.
One of 32 short films about... this guy.
Let's see. What rhymes with "blue balls"?
Wait a minute! I work for Otis Elevators! I don't write music!
[A dissolve turns an empty ashtray into an overflowing one.]
Mickey Rourke came over to help.
No inspiration, darling?
I couldn't write "The Farmer in the Dell" today.
Why would you wanna write him?
[singing] I wish I had a castle in the sky...
[angrily] Yeah, well, wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one piles up first!
[singing] Away up high where bluebirds like to fly...
[singing] I wish I could have sex with Louis Nye...
[singing] A cozy, little castle with 100 rooms or more...
[singing] I wouldn't have to dress like Tipper Gore...
. . .
[singing] I wish my living room were all redone...
[singing] I think owning a newspaper would be fun...
[singing]: I wish the faucet wouldn't drip all day...
AIM HIGH, SISTER!
[A dissolve changes part of the kitchen to a different kitchen.]
Oh, I wish Hardware Hank hadn't done my kitchen!
[singing] I wish that refridgerator door would close and stay closed...
Oh, sure, everyone dump on the refridgerator.
Miss Betty Furdess and the new Westinghouse!
[singing] I wish I had a stove whose pilot was always lit...
[in a Australian accent] Well, don't look for it now. It's only available in the year 2000!
[The short's overly perky couple dance about the room with enormous smiles.]
Honey, I can't stop smiling, I'm in hell!
[As the couple prance around their home to a lush orchestral accompaniment.]
[unimpressed] Meanwhile soldiers are dying in the mud in North Korea...
[The bedroom is repeatedly dissolving to different ones.]
That's about as sexy as a garage.
. . .
One bed's for them, the other one's for little grandma.
. . .
Jeff and I were going to get the racing car beds, but we decided on these.
. . .
Well, sort of a Westerny-Ginghamy-Oriental-Danish-Modernesque-Prairie School sort of thing, huh?
Here's how far I've gotten: LA!
[Wilbur the fey angel sprinkles fairy dust on Jeff & Mary's house.]
Uh, honey, izzat a gay man on the Johnsons' roof?
Should we get a gay man for our roof, honey?
[Mary is trying to dial the phone, but keeps on getting busy signals. Mike and the Bots imitate the opening notes of a song.]
[singing] Money...
Wait a minute, do that again!
Yeah, okay. Now rustle your skirt, and flap your arms, and run the vaccuum.
Yeah! Yeah! Why not?
I'll call someone to write the song!
[The composer husband Jeff finally begins to find his tune.]
[singing along] Everybody was... kung fu fighting, yeah!
[An invisible Wilbur is playing the piano as the couple dances.]
Welcome to Shakey's!
[The camera zooms in on his glasses on the piano.]
[gasps] Elton John was here!
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