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In the West End And Broadway Musical , everyone runs out of conversations, and Mary and the children go to Mrs. Corry's shop, where you can buy them. Jane and Michael pick out some letters and spell a few words. Bert and Mrs. Corry use the letters to make up some words (whose existence Jane doubts). Mary says that you could use some letters more than one time and creates the longest word of all in this song.
Critics' belief that the word itself has obscure origins has created some debate about when it was first used historically. According to Robert B. Sherman, co-writer of the song with his brother, Richard, the word was created mostly out of Double-talk .
Roots of the word have been defined, as Richard Lederer writes in his book '' Crazy English '' as follows: super- "above," cali- "beauty," fragillistic- "delicate," expeali- "to atone," and docious- "educable," with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educatability through delicate beauty." This explication of its connotations suits the fictional character of Mary Poppins, in that she presents herself as both superlatively beautiful and also supremely intelligent and capable of great achievements.
According to the film version of the song, "you can say it backwards, which is ". Julie Andrews , the star of ''Mary Poppins'', has said that her husband at the time, Tony Walton , devised this backwards version of the word. Strictly speaking, in that word, only each individual Root is reversed, rather than the order of each letter, with the exception of the part ''rupus'', which is somewhat reversed, misspelled, and mispronounced. In contrast, the musical play's version of the song presents a version of the word with all the letters reversed. In addition, they spelled and signed each letter of the famous Tongue Twister , sort of like " Do-Re-Mi " from '' The Sound Of Music ''.
Since this is a period piece, set in 1910, period sounding songs were wanted. ''Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'' is to the tune of the popular folk song "Boiled Beef and Carrots" (The Making of Mary Poppins, 2004)
In 1965, the song was the subject of an unsuccessful Lawsuit by two songwriters against the makers of the Walt Disney film. The plaintiffs alleged that it was a Copyright Infringement of a 1951 song of their own called ''Superpackafattyouciossmokethebowliyiloveitoschious''. The suit failed because affidavits were produced showing that "variants of the word were known to and used by them many years prior to 1949," and because no copyright was registered with them in Washington D.C.
- The headline "" was used by The Sun newspaper in 2000 following a famous upset in the Scottish Cup and was voted pun of the year for the year 2000 on The Big Breakfast .http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_div_1/2875957.stm
- The eclectic songwriter and performer Prince included a song called "" on '' The Black Album ''.
- The Television Series '' The Simpsons '' had an episode called "", which is a parody of the '' Mary Poppins '' movie. Mr. Burns is about to say it during the kite scene (Superduperfragicallyexpialido...) .
- Also in ''The Simpsons'', Professor Frink refers to as a field of science.
- In '' #8, Morpheus 's sister, Death , uses this phrase when she meets Morpheus in a park feeding the birds. She states that her brother's actions remind her of a quotation from the movie ''Mary Poppins'' ("''You do that pigeons too much, you know what you get? Fat Pigeons!''"), then she talks about how much she loves the movie and eventually ends up explaining to her brother the meaning of ''Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious'' ("''Fantabulous word, huh? It means y'know, great. Wonderful, ginchy, gnarly''.") She also uses the term in ''Captain Atom'' #42, when she takes Captain Atom to Purgatory during a Near-death Experience .
- The Red Hot Chili Peppers incorporated part of the term into their song "Right on Time" on their album, Californication .
- The song's melody is also frequently used with altered lyrics, for the purposes of political satire, by the Capitol Steps . Recent examples include ''SuperCaliforniaRecallFreakShowWasAtrocious'' (2003), ''SuperJealousFragileMissWithSexualNeurosis'' (1998), and ''SuperFranticUnproductiveNothingLegislation'' (1997).
- The Vandals made a cover featuring all the words of the song, but to a different tune, that appeared on the album '' Live Fast Diarrhea ''.
- Amateur Transplants , best known for the London Underground Song , parodied the song to refer to a fictitious drug, "Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin".
- Lyricist Spaff.com has written four parodies of this song, "Superpowers-Go-Ballistic-Execute- Bin-Laden ," "Federal Unclean Communica-ti-ons Kommission" (about the FCC ), "Esther Madge Veronica Louise Ciccone Ritchie" (about Madonna ), and "Supertelevangelistic Sex-and-Drugs Psychosis" (about Ted Haggard ). The latter two of these were recorded by parody artist Robert Lund.
- In 2006 , Orlando Brown reprised this song for DisneyMania, Vol. 4 . Its title is "Super Cali ( BoiOB Version)."
- In 1966 , Alvin And The Chipmunks were nominated for a Grammy Award for their version of the song, which also appeared in The Alvin Show as one of its musical segments.
- A famous comedy bit from '' The Benny Hill Show '' called "Continental Cabaret" featured Benny Hill , his sidekick Jackie Wright and the beautiful and scantily-clad Diana Darvey .http://www.mrskin.com/data/star/00/23/42/biopic2_4136.jpg Darvey called Hill and Wright "a pair of twits", then spelled out ''twits'' while emphasizing each letter with a finger-poke to Hill's chest and then pronounced the word again while rubbing Hill's chest. Hill then called Darvey, "supercalifragilisticexpealidocious." Darvey asked how that word is spelled and Wright, much to Hill's disappointment, immediately spelled it out before Hill could even raise his finger. http://www.runstop.de/bennysplace/set03b.html
- In Canadian law circles, the explanation for the term Equity's Darling is often sung to the same tune, with the words 'Bona fide purchaser for value without notice'.
- The television show House Of Mouse featured an episode where Goofy and Max sing a song called "Soup or Salad, Fries or Biscuits, Extra Olives, Donuts." It is sung to the same tune as "Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious!"
- The Pennsylvania production of and the original cast of Forbidden Hollywood parodied this song with "Stupidcarelessfictionalnonsensicalverboseness"
- The band Cobra Starship uses the word in their song " Hollaback Boy ."
- In the '' Fairly OddParents '' episode entitled "No Substitute For Crazy," Mrs. Sunshine uses a variation. Cosmo uses two later. There is also a babysitter named "Susie Califragilistic" (a pun of the song's name) in the episode "Remy Rides Again" whose personality parallels that of Mary Poppins.
- In late 2006, a Graffiti Artist spray-painted the word, in large-scale lettering, on the side of Toronto 's busy Don Valley Parkway as it approaches the Prince Edward Viaduct .
- Used in several wordplay style jokes, one of the most commonly known referring to a theoretical Dalai Lama as a "Super calloused fragile mystic hexed with halitosis"
- In 2007 , 13-year-old Morgan Pozgar became the first US "National Text Messaging champion" (an LG contest) by typing the word into her cellphone in a record time of 15 seconds
- The University Of Waterloo 's FASS annual music revue included a song called "BLCRA" to this tune. http://www.fass.uwaterloo.ca/1981/songs#11
- The famous French boy vocal group Les Poppys recorded their 1977 album "Les Poppys Chantent Walt Disney " (The Poppys sing Walt Disney) which included the French version of this song entitled Supercalifragilisticexpidelilicieux .
- OutKast 's first album is called Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik .
- On The Spongebob Squarepants Movie PC Game , Spongebob is in Goofy Goober's and Morty (a young Fish ) has Squidward 's card, and Spongebob forgot the name Morty called it, so he began saying the word.
- One line from the Das EFX song 'They want EFX' goes: Im the supercalifragilistic tic-tac pro
- In the June 17 , 2007 Family Circus comic, Billy refers to it as "Super-Cow-a-Fragile-List-Stick-Eggs-Pea-Alley-Dough-Shush
- On Ghostface Killah 's second album '' Supreme Clientele '' the track "Buck 50" contains him reciting Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious foward & backwards "Supercalifragalisticexpealidocious, Dociousaliexpifragalisticcalisuper"
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