Commentary…

M: Hey, that’s Mary Poppins!

J: Austria? You mean Australia?

M: What’s her name? R: Maria.

J: Those old ladies are slow. M: And bored!

J: They always wear those clothes?  R: Yes.  J: I’ll bet they get mildewy!

J: So those ladies aren’t married? R: No. N: Yeah, they are–they married to Jesus, they even have rings.

J: Can men be nuns? Do they have a place like that for men? R: Monks in a monastery are similar–lots of praying and singing.

M: Ah, ha.  The kids are all playing tricks on her.

M: So…that is Mary Poppins, right mom?

J: I’ll bet she likes to sing too. Yep.

J: Pfff. The first rule in that house is discipline!  That means punishment. That is no fun!

M: What’s her name again? R: Maria.

M: He sings too.

J: Ooh she’s leaving! She is leaving, right mom?

J: Mom, can you pause it? I have to go to the bathroom and I don’t want to miss any parts.

J: I was just a sparkle in your eye when you got married, just like she got a sparkle in her eye!

J: I wonder where the mailman guy is. Oh wait that’s not the girl who wants to marry the mailman. Oh, now he’ll probably just go ask her to get married.

[Kissing on-screen] J: Ewwe ew ew ewww!

J: I don’t like the Sound of Music, there’s too much kissing and loving and singing.

J: Oh, she’s getting married to the mailman! (R: No, it’s Maria’s wedding.) Well, she should be…that girl should marry the mailman.

M: So the whole entire people are singing except for the bad guys? Cause the bad guys are going to take the dad? (R: Right.)

M: Those are the bad guys, right? When are the bad guys going to take away the dad?

M: They’re not coming out! They have the light on back there but no one is coming out. They’re gone! Uh oh. …  Is that jail? (R: No it’s where the nuns live.) Uh oh! They are going to get them!

J: Is Ralph one of the bad guys? R: Rolfe. Yes.

R: They have to walk to the next country to get away from the bad guys. M: They have to walk the whole way? They have to go over every mountain? That’s tiring!

M: Is it over? Are we going to watch it again?

R: Did you guys like it?  (They nod.) What did you think? J: Good!

R: What was your favorite part? M: When the bad guys were trying to take the dad away!  J: That was my favorite part, too. The part where the bad guys were after the family. R: When they were looking around with the flashlights?  M: Yeah and Ralph was not really a bad guy. R: Rolfe.  J: Yeah he was. Ralph was a bad guy, he was wearing that suit. M: Ralph wasn’t a bad guy, he was the mailman! (She laughs.)  R: Rolfe. M: Was Ralph a bad guy? R: Rolfe. Yes.