Aug 16
Good Show Sir Comments: ♫ I’ve been through the desert on a WTF with no name. ♫
Published 1971
Thanks to Erika for sending this in.
Good Show Sir Comments: ♫ I’ve been through the desert on a WTF with no name. ♫
Published 1971
Thanks to Erika for sending this in.
August 16th, 2017 at 1:03 pm
I’d put this cover in the category of really really really bad hangover.
August 16th, 2017 at 1:32 pm
“When you’ve got a headache THIS bad…”
August 16th, 2017 at 1:34 pm
If this cover was french that cameldragon would have tits.
August 16th, 2017 at 1:37 pm
UNE MEDICÍN CONTRE BELLES CAMÉLES
August 16th, 2017 at 2:22 pm
The Medizin worked. My Melancholie has been replaced by Halluzinationen.
August 16th, 2017 at 2:28 pm
A horse designed by a committee of bored four-year-olds. They were going for more variety in the feet but it was time for their juice break and then afternoon lie down and after that they just sort of forgot about it..
August 16th, 2017 at 2:46 pm
Is there any part of this cover that ISN’T primary or secondary sexual organs?
August 16th, 2017 at 2:48 pm
Carry On Swallow That Camel.
August 16th, 2017 at 4:12 pm
But the Germans don’t have talking covers or a fool riding a lobster. Yay America.
Front
https://www.dpspbs.com/pictures/medium/000421_1.jpg
Back.
https://www.dpspbs.com/pictures/000421_2.jpg?v=1441254104
August 16th, 2017 at 5:46 pm
Once again, popular culture sets an unattainable standard for feminine beauty.
August 16th, 2017 at 7:03 pm
@Bibliomancer: Same here.
Clearly, the horse-camel hybridization experiments have been working a charm. They’ve been using Bactrian camels, for the largest possible number of humps.
I don’t know what the wheel-shaped crown thing does, though. Or what human-colonized planet this is happening on.
August 16th, 2017 at 9:20 pm
The Dali Llama
August 16th, 2017 at 9:26 pm
@Bibliomancer [RIMSHOT]
August 16th, 2017 at 10:54 pm
Judging from the layout design, what we have here are “Chameaux sans frontières.”
August 17th, 2017 at 4:32 pm
And yet again, @Bibliomancer nails it out of the park. Good show, sir, indeed.
August 18th, 2017 at 1:18 pm
Good show, Bibliomancer, good show.
Perfect!
😀
August 18th, 2017 at 9:46 pm
I uh… yeah. Can’t top B’mancer.
Good comment from GSS Admin, too; the laugh snapped my husband out of his stun at seeing the cover.
Our copy has this cover, thankfully.
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/a-medicine-for-melancholy/author/bradbury-ray/pics/
The rockets shooting skyward from Ray’s head are somewhat nonsensical but at least most of the cover is one solid color, without odd beasts and yoni/lingam symbols everywhere.
August 19th, 2017 at 12:52 am
I thought THX’s was funnier, but it may be a bit culturally-specific.
August 21st, 2017 at 5:06 am
Not to mention age-specific. I remember those movies but they don’t get much play any more.
B’s was bilingual.
August 21st, 2017 at 9:35 pm
@GSSxN: I don’t know about your remote part of the world but ITV last showed it in 2011. ‘Carry On Cleo’ was on in April, just before the Grand National.
August 21st, 2017 at 11:33 pm
@TW #20: “What are you doing with your thing?” could be a GSS comment for all occasions and covers.
August 22nd, 2017 at 12:49 am
@THX: Look behind you!
August 22nd, 2017 at 12:58 am
@THX: and ‘Blimus!’
(actually, it was on a week or so later and ‘…At Your Convenience’ was selected as an entree to Aintree.)
August 25th, 2017 at 2:47 am
Neither FB nor GSS You are my only medicine
August 26th, 2017 at 2:54 am
Salvador Dali’s A Medicine For Melancholy
PG | 323 min | Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Good Show Sir! | 16 August 1984
Your Rating: **********
Ratings: 9.0/10 from 9 users Metascore 90/100
Reviews: 27 user | 18 critic | 28 from meatcritic.com
So like there’s this naked gal and i don’t even know what shes doing she’s feeding alligators or some shit but there’s this camel and its RED….(more)
Director: Salvador Dali (credited) | Allan Carr (attributed)
Writers: Ray Bradbury (novel) | Salvador Dali, Walt Disney, H. R. Giger (adaptation)
Stars: Salvador Dali, Rob Lowe, Mae West (voice), Bea Arthur (voice) | See full cast and crew>>
Won Biomechanoid of the Year Award | See more awards & nominations>>
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Professional motorcycle racer Bud Clay heads from New Hampshire to California to race again. Along the way he meets various needy women who provide him with the cure to his own loneliness…
Cast
Cast overview, first billed only:
Salvador Dali…………………..Himself
Rob Lowe……….Himself
Bea Arthur……………Camel
Mae West.……..Nude Woman
James Earl Jones…………Fool
Keiko Masuda………..Griffin
Lobby Lobertson……..Lobster (uncredited)
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Storyline
A boy is growing up. A stranger comes to town. Everyone who frowns goes to hell. Then everyone who smiles goes to heaven. (Note: this is the plot of literally everything Bradbury wrote, ever.)
Written by gensokyobuster
Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis
Plot Keywords: In a Season of Calm Weather | The Dragon | A Medicine for Melancholy| The End of the Beginning | The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit | See all (32) >>
Taglines: Eine Sammlung der besten Fantasy-Stories von Ray Bradbury mit dem Bucheinband Zummandaffel. See more>>
Genres: Sci-Fi | Fantasy | Good Show Sir!
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG for having your children fail to understand the contents based on the book cover.
Parents Guide: 1,032 bittersweet instances of childhood innocence shattered | See all (3)>>
Details
Country: France | Spain | Switzerland | USA
Language: English | French | Spanish | Cheese architecture
Release Date: 16 August 1984
Also Known As: Medizin fur Melancholie See more>>
Filming Locations: Gunpoint See more>>
Box Office
Budget: St. Anthony gesticulating with a cross
Opening Weekend: Beasts of burden with ridiculously long appendages
Gross: A nude woman displaying her assets
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Company Credits
Production Co: The Walt Disney Company, Paramount Pictures, Men’s Facial Products See more>>
Technical Specs
Runtime: 323 min
Sound mix: Thunder
Color: Illustrated | Man
Aspect Ratio: Midnight | Long
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Did You Know?
Trivia
Rob Lowe refuses to acknowledge his participation in the movie and, when confronted with evidence, has become physically violent and salivated. See more>>
Goofs
Camels do not actually have webbed duck feet. Nor do dromedaries. See more>>
Quotes
Dali: Because what to do, ca va, we run sand, le sable, through the horse, el caballo, le cheval, and from la derriere through the other end.
Lowe: No, no, we can’t do that, we’ll get arrested.
Dali: Si. En bien. We take the camel, ou le chameau d’Arabie, and we put him in la garance…
Lowe: You mean rose madder?
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Crazy Credits
Yes. Oh, my dear heavens, yes. You don’t want to see more>>
Connections
In this movie, H. R. Giger invented the character of ‘Man reading a tome of eldritch lore and eating fistfulls of lead pencils’ that he later developed in the Species movies. See more>>
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User Reviews
best move ever
17 May 2009 | by mortalq
me and my friens was watchin all these old dvds my friends granma had in her house and like we was killin time and it was cool and then we slip on this one she had and the next thing i know im on the floor cryin like a lil baby and Sunny D is callin her mama sayin she wanna go back to school and learn movie theory and get a degree and Big Pullah is sayin he got a job at the bank to get us some fundin and i dont know but it changed my life man
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August 26th, 2017 at 6:16 am
Brilliant —The one and only DSWBT
August 27th, 2017 at 12:05 am
@DSWBT: Just goes to show how inaccurate IMDB is. Mae West was dead by then. And who played Bud, if Rob was playing himself? Everything else is so precise and accurate. This entry really needs another once-over. Hmph.
August 27th, 2017 at 1:23 am
Can’t Stop the GSS ex-noob:you don’t know what depravity Allan Carr can commit, do you? 😉
August 27th, 2017 at 10:51 pm
@DSWB Credits: Of course! That guy would do anything for a buck. They didn’t have CGI back then so I’m sure he just used old footage of Mae. Would have added to the surrealism. Or did old clips of her just voice some random naked woman? Still pretty surrealistic.
The blackmail value of this movie must be how he got Lowe to dance with Snow White. Must have taken Rob decades of therapy. No wonder he denies this.
Still don’t know who Bud was. Guy must have left the biz after this fiasco. Who’d want to be remembered for a 5 1/2 hour movie that made no sense, had a dead sexy woman intercut randomly into the footage (poor Mae thought “Myra Breckinridge” was her lowest moment), a Golden Girl as a camel…
Hey wait, I think I saw part of this in an all-night movie room at a con, where I was napping on the floor after the parties. Was Bud also Rob Lowe in heavy disguise, with a ridiculous accent?
I’m not sure… it blurs together with the time I came into the movie room after the parties part-way through “Andy Warhol’s Bad”. (true story)
The 80’s, man.
August 28th, 2017 at 12:22 am
@DSWBigT—pas mal, pas mal du tout . . . a tour de force, even by Bea Arthur’s standards. Two Humps Up! 😏
July 31st, 2018 at 12:12 am
Weirdest camel toes ever.