The Wiz (1978)
This incredibly dated Wizard of Oz adaptation is ridiculously funny and weird!
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TB Tabby commented
Diana Ross muscled her way into playing Dorothy despite clearly being too old for the part, so the whole story got rewritten around her. The fact that it was rewritten by the guy who would go on to give us Batman with nipples didn't help matters.
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Jennifer commented
I'm watching it on HBO right now (okay, it's bad but the score's still pretty good). What gets me is that the original stage play was way more faithful to the original book (even more so than the 1939 movie, for that matter). It began and ended in Kansas and Dorothy was a young teen/tween. So where did this business of making Dorothy from New York and turning her into an adult kindergarten teacher come from?
Anyway, since you guys poked fun at it in the Star Wars Holiday Special riff it makes sense that you should do this one.