They still do.

The flying monkeys are weird looking.

And I was always worried about Toto.

They're horrifying.

I've been scared of them since 1955. Don't let them get me!!!!

they're goddamn terrifying.

scared one of my younger sisters, too.

before I could watch that part of the movie and not have nightmares about those damn monkeys! My childhood friend Sandythought this so funny. I think she named her son Nikko just to get back at me.

In the days before VCRs and 37,000 cable channels, the networks used to play movies like this ONCE a year! It was always a big deal when it was going to be on. We got our first color set in 1969, before that, the only time I saw anything in color was at the movie theater.

once a year for the W of Oz. It was a 19" - larger than our usual tv, so my dad built a special table for it. That was great! I'll always love that movie.

And there was only one commercial break. I want to say that it was for Crest toothpaste but I also recall a Timex commercial. Maybe there were different sponsors, over the years. Anyway, the Wizard of Oz and the filmed version of Mary Martin in the stage production of Peter Pan were the biggest deals of the year on TV.

After Peter Pan, my sister and I would get the tubes of glitter from our mom's gift-wrapping cabinet. Then, we'd stand on our beds, throw handfuls of glitter into the air, and jump off the ends of our beds, hoping we could fly.

Love the Peter Pan story. It's amazing what a little glitter, or a cardboard box, or a ball of string can create when combined with the imagination of children.

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I was scared shitless. To this day, I don't know whether my throwing up was the flu...
or the way they flew.
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Funny aside: Back when Ted Turner was colorizing all the old B&W classics, I think
it was National Lampoon that announced that he was going to colorize the B&W parts
of "The Wizard of Oz".
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Some believed the hoax and were ready to storm Castle Turner with pitchforks and
torches.
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I used to watch H.R. Puff N Stuff and I was confused in that I thought the witch from Wizard of Oz was real and after the movie got a job as Witchie Poo on H.R. Puff N Stuff.

I understood the concept of "dying" in movies and TV shows but I guess I didn't understand that people weren't the characters. lol I thought it was nice they gave her a job after how mean she was in WoOz.