Podcasting Day: Todd McFarlane's The Twisted Land of Oz with Merritt K 🌭
Added 2023-04-12 12:00:03 +0000 UTC
In your wettest moment, whose name would you call if you were aroused beyond containment on Satan’s pelvis? Hi, I’m Todd McFarlane. And this week on the podcast, Brockway, Seanbaby, and Merritt K are talking about the time I asked myself that very question. In 2003, I wrote a dark retelling of Wizard of Oz, but no– far more evil than you’re thinking. I took out the plot and added one boner. Then I broke it up into parts and spread it across the packaging of grotesque action figures. But less grotesque than you’re thinking. More like stupid. Listen here, or any place the nightcast pods.
I worry I wasn’t making myself clear when I said this was stupid. I’m saying I took Dorothy’s shirt off, made everything all shitty, and again, told the story of her doing nothing on toys for extremely single adult men. And Seanbaby and Merritt had no idea Brockway was going to do it. Brockway just told them to prepare for me, Todd “The Toddfather” McFarlane, and then surprised them with my Wizard of Oz fan fiction. Seriously, though; what if Dorothy was 18, so she is legal, okay, and she’s a virgin, right, but so hot. And she just needs it. She’s also a freak, right, but not a weird one. Like, she wears a corset and doesn’t mind dating older, nerdy men. Mmm. Now picture the regular Wizard of Oz and you’re daring to step into the world of Todd McFarlane’s Oz.
Laugh in hysterical horror at my twisted version of Dorothy’s dog, Toto. Spoilers if you haven’t bought the 17th toy yet, but suddenly everything in Oz turns into a dumb Spawn monster. Except for the supple, barely legal flesh of Dorothy who stays so, so desirable and desperately wants to give her tight flower to the first older nerd she meets. Mmm. I’m Todd McFarlane, and you’re welcome.
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Comments
24:15 Sean said, "Burn whatever you're holding." That doesn't just hold true for Todd McFarlane! I was holding a grilled cheese sandwich that had just set off my smoke alarm. And next to me, my cat was chewing on a jury summons I got in the mail. I guess if you're listening to this episode then that's just good advice.
Fugue Stated
2025-02-28 18:13:53 +0000 UTCWhat would you do if people kept making grimdark adult versions of the same public domain children's fiction? Would you look for something obscure, or just do Oz or Wonderland like everyone else? Hi, I'm Todd McFarlane.
Scribbler Johnny
2023-06-08 14:25:53 +0000 UTCWhen I first heard the description of the cowardly lion and that he was holding his own entrails, I thought, “Cuz he’s gutless?!” Then I groaned and rolled my eyes, thinking this was some terrible pun. But I was wrong. A terrible pun would have been more clever than what we got. A terrible pun would have been SOMETHING. This was nothing plus horny minus anything remotely sexy plus a fundamental misunderstanding of both bondage and women, and it equals zero. Seanbaby summed it up perfectly with, “This is nothing.”
toasty god
2023-05-24 22:34:20 +0000 UTCI am so happy I now know about this. Tempted to collect the figures.
Eon
2023-04-21 14:58:00 +0000 UTCI was very glad that Merritt was here for this one. I appreciate the hell out of Brockway and Sean, but some topics just demand a woman's perspective. Like, they can't even function without one.
Devin Eagles
2023-04-14 21:19:04 +0000 UTCI feel like I now have a pretty solid idea of what my personalized hell will be
Nick
2023-04-14 17:20:23 +0000 UTCAnd if I recall, his name before his axe was cursed really was something like Nick Chopper; not every name from Baum was a winner. Also, the slippers in the original were silver; the technicolor production went with ruby to show off the colours they could achieve. Francis Gumm (stage mame Judy Garland) was from my home state of MN and was treated awfully by her older male costars (surprise!). Stay tuned for more Oz facts; I'm just realizing I have an unsettling amount of very specific trivia dangerously close to the surface of my brain.
LabialTreehug
2023-04-13 18:31:10 +0000 UTCBaum implies that everything in Oz is alive (and probly sentient) so once enough of of Nick Chopper was tin both the Tinman and Nick were living, and had the same memories. The Tinman later found Nick's head and argued over who was the real one.
Bill Culbertson
2023-04-13 14:30:59 +0000 UTCThis is worth the inevitable lawsuit. #redistributethefeet
Bim Talzer
2023-04-13 14:18:40 +0000 UTCThe thing I find fascinating about Todd McFarlane is that every individual issue I have with his work is forgivable. Plenty of artists I enjoy have that sort of narrow visual range. I don't think great writing is vital to an experience especially when we're talking comics. I find that safe edge tone sort of sad but I get that we all have different boundaries and I'm the judgemental dick in that equation. I don't want figurines on me desk and they're sort of a scam but people are free to spend their money how they want. Even the hardcore branding of himself is something that I roll my eyes at but can look past when others do it. Yet when you combine it into the whole Todd McFarlane package it hurts me so much deeper than it should.
Honk
2023-04-13 02:55:50 +0000 UTCMacFarlane was definitely the dude at renfaire that called our soda booth 'the trollop section'
LyraV
2023-04-13 02:54:08 +0000 UTCWhich is pretty rough considering 'get what you deserve' includes past lives that have no bearing on who you are today. So he had to be pretty much flawlessly good to not have any skeletons in that closet. 'We traced back your entire spiritual lineage and found nothing, but screw you anyway'.
Honk
2023-04-13 02:40:40 +0000 UTCSo in Todd's Oz, Dorothy picks up her shoes on the side of a road and in the original she loots them off a witch's corpse. I may not be a fancy twistologist, but Todd's version sounds less twisted to me.
Josh Addison
2023-04-13 00:44:28 +0000 UTCThis is the sequel to Ether.
Dennard Dayle
2023-04-13 00:07:49 +0000 UTCPossibly the scariest thing of all of this? McFarlane's Tin Woodsman seems to be less horrific than the original book one; a woodsman who kept accidentally chopping his own limbs off and getting them replaced with mechanical parts (somehow including his head and torso). I just realized, the last chapter is also self-contradictory. In Oz, everyone gets what they deserve, except Toto is explicitly turned in to a monster through no fault of his own.
Skink
2023-04-12 23:26:40 +0000 UTC"By the way, Shmidty in another life had been a liar, so he transformed into a creature with lips so big he couldn't tell any secretly incredibly fascinatig facts. It was so ironic and shocking, seriously guys."
Yeyo
2023-04-12 21:25:48 +0000 UTCIf I told you Steven Seagal helped write this, would that surprise you? What would you say? Hi, I'm Todd McFarlane, creator of Spawn.
Pee-Wee's Uncle
2023-04-12 20:10:10 +0000 UTCI vaguely remember seeing those toys in stores once upon a time, thinking they were kind of weird and dumb, and then I forgot about them for twenty years. Now I'll have to spend the rest of my life actively trying not to think about everything I just heard. This is not the first time this site has done this sort of thing to me; I don't know why the hell I'm paying for this
Mickey Lowman
2023-04-12 19:14:48 +0000 UTCThis really made me think about a lot of things. For instance “why is Brockway doing this to us?”
Lieutenant Rogers triumphant return mini-arc
2023-04-12 15:29:00 +0000 UTCI like to watch his Levi Jeans ad when I'm feeling too white.
Aaron Russell
2023-04-12 15:08:07 +0000 UTCTodd was 42 when he wrote this.
Horse Macho
2023-04-12 15:03:59 +0000 UTCThis bodes ill for the upcoming McFarlane Toys 1-900-HOTDOG line, mark my words.
Brendan McGinley
2023-04-12 14:30:35 +0000 UTCIf Liefeld tried to draw a woman in a corset, her midsection would collapse in on itself like a black hole.
Skebotron
2023-04-12 14:27:06 +0000 UTC'I wish there was an alternate start and middle.'
Skebotron
2023-04-12 14:22:50 +0000 UTCRob Liefeld: Guys! Hey! DoggZzone me too! Look at these hands and no feet!
Aaron Russell
2023-04-12 13:05:07 +0000 UTC
