SW in Live Action Television Compilation

[Schadenfreude]

There's an Alice in Wonderland-themed episode of The Talk in which everyone except Julie Chen does "Drink Me" and shrinks. I remember that Aisha Tyler says that she's glad that she's not the tallest one for a change. This was all that I could find on YouTube. Hopefully the shrinking part is in there somewhere.

[rscholar]

There's an Alice in Wonderland-themed episode of The Talk in which everyone except Julie Chen does "Drink Me" and shrinks. I remember that Aisha Tyler says that she's glad that she's not the tallest one for a change. This was all that I could find on YouTube. Hopefully the shrinking part is in there somewhere.

It is at the very end. Just need to mention Julie Chen is the Hatter and shrinks as well, it's Sara Gilbert as Alice who grows.

Fun fact: this is 1 of 4 times Aisha Tyler has been shrunk to some capacity, this being the 2nd time live action:

-The Soup (the "bullseye" clip)
-The Talk
-Archer (Lana in Fantastic Voyage style episode)
-Harley Quinn (Lena Luthor)

[Schadenfreude]

It's been over ten years since I watched it.

Did a longer version of "The Incredible Shrinking Soup" ever turn up? The person who posted the clip on Giantess City long ago also posted stills of Aisha Tyler opening a chest or trunk, revealing a green glow, which I assume is what shrunk her. But only stills. The clip starts with Aisha Tyler already tiny.

I wonder if Aisha Tyler keeps getting shrunk because she's so tall? (But I don't think that the Amazons Julie Newmar and Kristen Johnston have ever been shrunk.)

[blackbat]

It's been over ten years since I watched it.

Did a longer version of "The Incredible Shrinking Soup" ever turn up? The person who posted the clip on Giantess City long ago also posted stills of Aisha Tyler opening a chest or trunk, revealing a green glow, which I assume is what shrunk her. But only stills. The clip starts with Aisha Tyler already tiny.

I wonder if Aisha Tyler keeps getting shrunk because she's so tall? (But I don't think that the Amazons Julie Newmar and Kristen Johnston have ever been shrunk.)

I used to watch a lot of Whose Line Is It Anyway US, and I never noticed that Aisha was tall, although thinking about it the regular talent were not all short. For reference, she is 5ft 11 ½ or 181.6 cm tall.

[Schadenfreude]

That's taller than Lucy Lawless, who's five foot ten.

Paula Prentiss was pretty tall for someone who was born in the late 1930's. From Where the Boys Are:



I've also seen a commercial for The Talk with all of the women as giantesses, walking around a city.

[lefrenchie]

complètement off topic !

[ensmallen]

Another archive find, copy's not very good but article says the actress appears tiny in multiple skits like the one pictured, only found one SW bit involving the show host so far and I'm not even sure it's the same actress. Anyone with a lead? Schaden?
https://archive.org/details/sim_todays- ... 0/mode/2up

Edit: Found a better copy of the article on the archive:







Edit: Just stumbled on this, from the same time period so guess this uses the same camera trick described in the Mechanix article.

[Schadenfreude]

I had heard that Ernie Kovacs used special effects in his TV show, but I didn't know that there was any SW in it. I didn't even know if any episodes of his TV show survived. I had only seen him in the movie Bell, Book and Candle. (The sound effect that accompanies Jack Lemmon's character demonstrating his powers to Ernie Kovacs' character, which I call the "piano thump", would later be used in Filmation's Fantastic Voyage cartoon, when the shrinking device is activated.) Looks like I may be buying DVD's...

I wonder if Ernie Kovacs had a size fetish? He died young, in a car accident, I think driving a Corvair. The assistant coroner who performed the autopsy (and would later perform the autopsy of Marilyn Monroe) discovered a high blood alcohol level, and reported it in the coroner's report. Not long afterward, Ernie Kovacs' widow showed up at the morgue, furious. She wouldn't be able to collect the insurance money because her husband was intoxicated while driving.


I did know about Mary Tyler Moore as "Happy Hotpoint". Long ago, I watched an A & E Biography about Mary Tyler Moore that included a clip of her as "Happy Hotpoint', dancing around on a "giant" phone book. (And the video that you posted above is the first time that I've seen that clip since then.) Supposedly she also danced around on the stovetop of a Hotpoint range, but I've never seen that one. I think the commercials originally aired during The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, which was sponsored by Hotpoint.

This jogged my memory about another vintage commercial with SW content that I read about in the book Mighty Minutes: An Illustrated History of Television's Best Commercials, which I bought new in a mall bookstore in the spring of 1987. I'll post it in the "SW in commercials" thread.