#was the clam costume random or??😭

[theemporium]

this may be sooooo niche but my guilty pleasure is watching the masked singer and I was just imagining hockey!steve immediately recognizing all the clues that reader is one of the performers bc he notices all these little facts about them but everyone is like “dude chill” but he’s like!!!! guys no seriously she loves rabbits and bleu cheese.. she’s clearly in the clam outfit..

babe this might be the most random crossover ever😭😭😭like he would know but I cackled

[doll-elvis]

Hi, I have a question and I thought that asking you might qork because you're really good at this but did Elvis ever said anything about crossdressing for Girl Happy? If it made him uncomfortable or if he found it funny or anything?

hello, thank you so much for the ask ꨄ︎ !!

tbh the first time I watched “girl happy” and saw that scene my immediate thought was~ how did y’all convince Elvis to wear that ?

and then my second thought was what would be Elvis’ drag name because he was rocking that dress a little too good

(please share your drag name idea for Elvis if you have one lmaoo)

as for your question I unfortunately couldn’t find anything specific like a comment by Elvis about having to wear a dress for the scene but knowing that he was prideful, especially about his image, I would imagine he likely wasn’t too thrilled about it although probably never voiced any opposition about it either

by that time in his film career he had made so many of the same kinds of pictures, requiring him to do so many humiliating things, that I think he became almost desensitized to the material. He knew he had no choice in what would be asked of him and so he just did the best with what he got

MARTY LACKER: “Elvis was ruined by the Colonel and by Hal Wallis, they didn’t let him develop… About ‘64 or ‘65, Elvis started saying ‘Colonel, I’m tired of doing the same old damn movies’. The turning point was “Girl Happy”, when the script was so lame and the songs, like ‘Do the Clam’ were so obnoxious. When he had to film the scene where he sings ‘Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce’, he went around the whole day ranting”

(excerpt from “Elvis and the Memphis Mafia” by Alanna Nash)

but honestly when thinking of all the things that he had to do for the sake of “comedy” in his films (like the god forsaken yoga scene in easy come, easy go) having to wear a silly little dress seems far more preferable 😭

from what I have read it actually seems like he was far more bothered by having to wear a blond wig in “kissin’ cousins”

(excerpt from “Elvis” by Jerry Hopkins)

idk something that I’ve always admired about Elvis was how he was able to persevere despite everything that was thrown at him, especially during his film career; he was unhappy with the movies he was making, unhappy with the songs he had to sing, unhappy with the costumes, and yet he always showed up to set on time, he always took studying his lines seriously, and he was always willing to do 40 takes or more of those songs just to get them perfect

look at him picking up his script for “double trouble” so that he could start studying it 😭

I will forever be frustrated about how the Colonel completely sabotaged Elvis and his love for acting… we truly got something great in “King Creole” and not only was the film great but Elvis was proud of it and that is what I love about it most of all

and on a random side note please enjoy some photos of Billy Smith, Elvis’ cousin, donning a woman’s blouse and some fake breasts when he acted as Anne Helm’s body double for “follow that dream” bc he also makes a pretty woman 💀

[cncity]

jobs some camp lazlo characters have as adults in my head

long post so I'll put a read more...

boyse

lazlo: camp counselor / scoutmaster in training! and also he volunteers a lot at places and is an activist

clam: nothing specifically, he kind of just fucks around, I feel like he'd like being a stunt performer. also because of that one episode I hc if he did get a degree he'd be a therapist. I think he'd genuinely be good at it

raj: a DJ of course

freddy/harold: I feel like he would switch between jobs a lot so I don't know abt anything in particular but I think he'd slay being a costume designer or a professional cosplayer

dave and ping pong: news journalists

edward: not sure but i feel like he'd be unhappy stuck in an office job or something like...a "good" job. while doing stuff he actually enjoys on the side, maybe a podcast guy, he would definitely attempt to be an influencer. he doesn't know what he wants besides being popular

samson: i wanna say like a cleaning job for the funny. but a mailman/delivery guy i suppose...he already has experience

no idea for chip and skip but probably some random dirty manual labor job idfk...that sounds so mean but genuinely that's the best fit i think.

wilbert in a fake ass bitch job maybe because he's a fake ass bitch

and uhhh idc abt the other boys sorry. no idea abt the lemmings they are kind of just there for gags. i think about the minor background girls more 😭

girlse

patsy: also works at camp like Lazlo because of her dad (doesnt really want to), but also a karate instructor for girls (or any MMA I forgot which one she knew, I think she lied abt that but ik it's still a apart of her character. I can just see her working with kids in some way so that'd be fitting.)

nina: SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR I'm so dead set on this

gretchen: pro wrestler maybe....

amber: accountant

suzie: gymnast

toodie: event planner

almondine: actress :)) I can see her as a librarian too but Call Me Almondine cements the actress idea

honey: fashion sales rep or waitress. it's like really fucking funny to me if you know how I see her character. dumb blonde girl trying to sell people stuff. she means so much to me

no idea for Terrifield and Rachel they're so cute i need to think abt their character more (or what'd it be, considering they are literally just background characters with no personality at all, not even anything to pick at like the others 😭). maybe Rachel as a receptionist or interior designer bc I can just see that.