Where do these shoes with mouths come from?
April 30, 2013 10:23 AM Subscribe
Is this from a movie or something? I've encountered it online but can't track down its origin. It's an animated gif of a man's shoes, and they have mouths with teeth opening and closing and tongues flapping. You can see it here.
Readalong -- a show from my childhood -- had a talking shoe, so the origin of a shoe with a mouth dates back to at least the mid '70s.
posted by Lescha at 10:39 AM on April 30, 2013
posted by Lescha at 10:39 AM on April 30, 2013
Beetlejuice was my first thought too! But no one seems to identify it as from Beetlejuice. Maybe something else from Tim Burton or the special effects people who worked on that movie? I'm no special effects scholar and I know it's just a gif but something about the way those tongues move seems very 80s to me.
posted by mskyle at 10:43 AM on April 30, 2013
posted by mskyle at 10:43 AM on April 30, 2013
Response by poster: Other threads had people commenting that it looks like it's from Beetlejuice but googling "beetlejuice shoes with mouths" and variations on that didn't turn up anything definitive.
Other phrases I found in comments are "M'dogs are barking" and "Ignore my shoes, they lie" which sound like they are referencing something which might be the source of the image or might just be something else that reminded them of it.
posted by RobotHero at 10:43 AM on April 30, 2013
Other phrases I found in comments are "M'dogs are barking" and "Ignore my shoes, they lie" which sound like they are referencing something which might be the source of the image or might just be something else that reminded them of it.
posted by RobotHero at 10:43 AM on April 30, 2013
At about 2 minutes and 17 seconds into this (NSFW) clip from Sylvain Chomet's "Belleville Rendevous" we see Fred Astaire getting eaten by his dancing shoes. All the other references in the clip are to real life people from that era - so maybe Chomet is lifting the shoes from there too.
posted by rongorongo at 10:49 AM on April 30, 2013
posted by rongorongo at 10:49 AM on April 30, 2013
Also I highly recommend Jan Svankmajer's feature film Otesánek/Little Otik, if you like his style of creepy stop-motion animation.
posted by burnmp3s at 10:54 AM on April 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by burnmp3s at 10:54 AM on April 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
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posted by These Birds of a Feather at 10:33 AM on April 30, 2013