Welcome to Subterranean Cinema .

The perfect place to watch classic movies originating from your local PBS station right here in Fort Wayne.

I'm your host, Kris Hensler.

And tonight's movie is Little Shop of Horrors from 1960.

Also tonight, I am joined once again by Owen.

Owen.

Owen, thanks again for coming back to the basement hideaway.

So why don't you remind people what it is that you're doing when you're not hanging out down here in the basement?

Yeah, sure thing, Kris.

First off, I just want to say thank you for having me.

I'm a production assistant here at the station, so.

Which basically means I help out in all facets of production, going out on shoots, scheduling, shoots.

Usually I'm behind cameras for things just like this.

I also manage all of our YouTube channels, so each one of our live shows has a YouTube channel and our main channel for PBS Fort Wayne actually has all of the past Subterranean Cinema episodes on them.

So check them out sometime.

Absolutely.

Thanks a lot.

And just in case you're new to Subterranean Cinema , it's our own version of classic movie night.

And of course, we're now into October, the season of Halloween.

And I found some great titles for the coming weeks.

But this is one of Owen's favorite movies, right?

Well, Kris, I'm actually more of a fan of the 1983 version of this film starring Rick Moranis.

You see, I'm not as old as you, really?

Obviously.

And this was the version of the film that I grew up with.

But as I spent a lot of my free time collecting old horror VHS tapes, I stumbled across this 1960 version of the film, and I've been kind of enthralled with it ever since.

Nevertheless, the story shared between the two versions of the film of a man eating talking plant was always something weird and macabre that I still very much enjoy to this day.

You do seem to like that kind of stuff.

So, and as mentioned by Owen, this particular version of Little Shop of Horrors was released in 1960 and directed by Roger Corman.

Gravis Mushniks rundown Flower Shop doesn't seem to get a whole lot of business.

So when his assistant Seymour, follows up an arrangement for a dentist, Mutchnick fires him, hoping to change his mind.

Seymour grows a plant from seeds that he got from a Japanese gardener over on Central Avenue.

When Mr. Mutchnick sees the plant for the first time, he is quite unimpressed and gives Seymour one week to revive the plant.

This is when things start to get interesting.

So, Owen, what else do we know about this thing?

Well, this is actually one of the last movies directed by the king of B-movies himself, Roger Corman, before he stepped more into a permanent producing role.

Corman is touted for his vast career producing cheap and efficient movies while making a decent profit off of them.

Even in this film, all the interiors of the movie were shot in only two days on a budget of $28,000.

Not only did Corman make over 200 films in his career, while never losing money, but he also discovered and mentored rising Hollywood directors and actors.

He produced Dementia 13 , which was Francis Ford Coppola's first feature length film.

He cast Robert De Niro in the 1970 film Bloody Mama and produced one of Martin Scorsese's first ever films, Boxcar Berth .

Even in this movie, there's a scene at the dentist office that features one of Hollywood's biggest stars and his first ever motion picture performance.

If you haven't seen this film before, keep an eye out for that.

All right.

So let's get out the popcorn, pour some drinks and settle in for a night at the movies with Roger Corman's Little Shop of Horrors , starring Jonathan Haze and Jackie Joseph.

You're watching Subterranean Cinema only on PBS Fort Wayne.

(dramatic music) (projector whirring) (dramatic music) >> Joe: My name is Sergeant Joe Fink, working the 24-hour shift out of homicide and this is my workshop, the part of town that everybody knows about, but that nobody wants to see.

Where the tragedies are deeper, the ecstasy's wilder, and the crime rate consistently higher than anywhere else, Skid Row, my beat.

(dramatic jazz music) The most terrifying period in the history of my beat began in a little run down floral shop called Mushnick's.

>> Ah good morning, Mrs. Shiva, how's things today?

>> Oh, the same as usual, Mr. Mushnick.

My sister's nephew Stanley died in Little Rock, Arkansas.

>> Oh, what happened?

>> He got blown up, who knows how.

>> That's nice, but you would like maybe as usual some flowers for the funeral.

♪ Should all acquaintance be forgot ♪ ♪ And never brought to mind >> I thought possibly, because I always give to you all my funeral business and maybe you should possibly give to me a little cut rate.

>> Look at me, Mrs. Shiva.

What am I, a philanthropist?

I sell, on Skid Row, nothing but cheap carnations, and I should give you a cut rate, I can't even afford water for the flowers.

To my throat, I would be giving a cut.

♪ I dreamed I dwelt in marble halls ♪ ♪ With vessels >> Shut up from the back!

Excuse me, Mrs. Shiva, but that Seymour- >> He's a nice boy.

>> Why don't you let him sing?

>> What, sing?

Look, here, I got a new customer, brand new, in the yellow vest, I should like to clean out boy, but I can't even afford case him out right away.

(phone rings) Flowers as fresh as the springtime Mushnick's, hello?

Oh, hello, Dr. Farb.

What can I do for you today?

>> Listen, Mushnick, I haven't got much time.

Send me over two gladiolas and a fern.

>> Excellent, that's two dozen glads, one potted fern.

>> No, no, no, Mushnick, two gladiolas and one fern.

(drill whirring) (man screams) >> You want, I should put two gladiolas in the pot with the fern.

>> No, one fern, one piece all together, three pieces.

I need it for my waiting room.

(patient mumbling) What?

>> A filling came out.

>> Good, I'll drill a bigger hole.

>> You mean you want two crumby gladiolas and one crumby fern, what kind of a decoration is that?

>> That's my flower budget for the week, Mushnick.

Who can be a dentist on Skid Row?

>> Fine, excellent, I'll send Seymour right away.

Who am I to argue with science?

>> Hmm.

Make it snappy.

Now you are going to get it, (chuckles) oh, you are going to get it.

Look.

(drill whirring) (man screaming) >> Seymour Krelborn!

Now, Mrs. Shiva, we were talking from the funeral flowers, what the little- (Seymour crashing) Oh!

You little!

>> Did you call me, Mr. Mushnick?

>> No, I was calling John D. Rockefeller, for to make a loan on my Rolls-Royce.

>> Sorry I said it.

>> Now look, Seymour, you take two gladiolas, you cut them nice and even, you'll take one fern, you'll wrap them in a package, and you'll take them to Dr. Farb, right?

Now, go already!

Now, what can I do for you sir?

>> My name is Burson Fouch.

>> Excellent, I am Gravis Mushnick.

>> Oh, that's a good one.

>> Now, who's gonna get my roses?

>> I'll take care of you, Mrs. Shiva.

Come right over here.

>> You would like maybe some orchids for a nice girl?

>> No, I think I'd like a couple of dozen carnations.

>> Carnations.

>> That's why you can't clown around these days, or somebody shouldn't drop dead.

>> You've had more than your share of bad luck, Mrs. Shiva.

>> Bad luck she calls it.

You should have so many people kicked off, you would have somebody fall on top of you too.

>> Burson: What about the carnations?

>> You said you wanted some roses.

>> Yes, for Stanley.

>> Burson: My carnations.

(Gravis mumbles) >> You should see what that Seymour is.

(mumbles) Oh, here are your carnations.

Wait, I'll wrap them for you.

>> Oh, that's all right, I'll eat them here.

(whimsical music) >> Why not.

Of course, what else.

They are all right?

>> Well, I've had better.

>> Well, this is a small shock.

>> Oh, that's okay.

You know, those big places, they're full of pretty flowers, expensive flowers, when you raise them for looks and smell, you're about to lose some food value.

I like to eat at these little out of the way places.

>> Such a thing, eating flowers?

>> Look, don't knock it until you try it, huh?

>> Look what happened.

>> This is what I was trying to tell you before.

Look on him everybody, look at the quality of his work.

I ask you, when I fire him, where is he gonna get such another good job?

>> You mean I'm fired?

>> No, I'm electing you president from the United States, yes, you are fired!

>> Gravis, you can't do that.

>> Who?

Who can't?

>> I didn't mean it.

>> You didn't mean it, you never mean it, you didn't mean it the time you put up the bouquet with the get well card in the funeral parlor and sent the black lilies to the old lady in the hospital, you didn't mean it, but this time, I, Gravis Mushnick, mean it!

>> He means it.

>> But, gee, Mr. Mushnick, don't I always try to do what's right?

And I'm crazy about flowers.

I like flowers almost as much as Audrey does.

>> Excellent, you're fired.

>> Why don't you give him a chance to resurrect himself.

>> I give him a chance to quit.

>> I ain't gonna quit.

>> You're a brave boy, you're fired.

>> But that ain't fair, Mr. Mushnick.

You know what I'm doing, I'm working on a special surprise plant just for you.

I'm growing a plant like you ain't never seen before.

>> Excellent, I can't even sell the plants I got in my shop.

Out, you!

>> Now wait a minute, if he's got a new kind of plant, you oughta look at it.

>> I don't look on flowers, mister yellow vest, I got ancestors in the flower business for 200 years, but I got one shop on Skid Row, one stinking shop.

I don't even like flowers!

>> No, you don't understand what I mean.

Look, I've eaten in flower shops all over the world, and I've noticed that the places that have the most weird and unusual plants do the best business.

>> See.

>> See.

>> Shiva: See.

>> What is this, a tango?

All right, explain me more.

>> Well, I remember one place that had a whole wall covered with poison ivy and people came from miles around to look at that wall, and they stayed to buy.

>> The owner got rich?

>> No, he scratched himself to death in an insane asylum.

>> Oh!

That was my cousin Harry.

>> All right, all right.

You go home, and you get this fancy-smancy plant, and you bring it back here and if mister yellow vest Fouch says it's a draw, you still got a job.

If he don't, out you go to (indistinct), right?

>> Don't worry, you'll like it, you'll see.

(whimsical music) (Seymour crashing) >> Disc Jockey: This is radio KSIK.

You've been listening to music for old invalids.

Our selection is entitled "Sick Room Serenade."

(Seymour crashes) >> Winifred: Seymour is that you?

>> Yeah, Ma.

>> Winifred: Come in here and look at my tongue.

>> But, Ma, I already seen your tongue.

>> Have you no sympathy for your poor mother?

The laughing at her and mocking her illness, and she's got one foot in the grave.

>> Aw, I didn't mean it.

>> Oh, you never mean it.

Oh, come on, look at my tongue.

>> A tongue's a tongue, Ma, they all look the same to me.

>> Oh.

Did you stop at Dr. Mallards and get the results of my tests?

>> Yeah, he said there's nothing wrong with you.

>> Oh, not Dr. Mallard, he's one doctor I felt would tell the truth.

>> He said you should be playing fullback for the Rams.

>> He wants me dead.

I'll bet he's assistant coroner.

>> Ma, I gotta go.

>> And you know, my goiter's coming back I can feel it every morning after breakfast.

>> Yeah, that's when you take those great big- (crashes) (screams) >> What's you got, a little surprise for me?

>> Open it up and see.

>> All right.

(gasps) (laughs) Dr. Slurpsetter's famous tonic.

Oh, wait here.

To be taken internally or externally for pain and neuritis, neuralgia, headache.

If hit by a truck, call your physician.

Alcoholic content, 98%.

(laughs) Oh, Seymour, you never know what this is gonna do for me.

Oh, I can feel that surge of warm health going through me already.

(hiccups) >> Look, Ma, I gotta get my plant and hurry back to the shop.

>> You mean that lousy weed out in the kitchen?

>> Yeah, if Mr. Mushnick doesn't like it, he's gonna fire me.

>> Apparently, my hearing has gone out on me.

I get the distinct impression that your job security depends on what Mushnick thinks of that thing.

>> Gee, it looks worse than it did this morning when I went to work.

I wish I knew what to do with it.

>> Well if you ask me, I'd pitch it out in the trash.

I don't like my house cluttered up with rotten vegetables.

>> Look, Ma, I gotta hurry, can I bring you anything?

>> Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, bring me the evening news, they're running a self diagnosis contest, the winner gets to go to the Mayo Clinic.

(laughs) >> Bye, Ma.

>> Bye, son, I'll see you at the rosy edge of dawn.

♪ Drink to me old friend way up there nice ♪ ♪ And I will (whimsical music) >> Hey, put this on my bill.

(bell ringing) >> Well, here it is everybody.

What do you think of?

>> Well, it sure is different.

>> It looks delicious, but don't you think it's kinda stale?

>> Well, it hasn't been feeling too well.

>> You call that a fancy plant?

It looks like it never spent a healthy day in it's entire life.

>> I don't care, I like it anyway.

>> You, you like even skunk cabbage.

>> Yeah.

What kind of a plant is this, Seymour?

>> Well, I'm not sure.

I got the seeds from a Japanese gardener over on Central Avenue.

He found them in with an order he got from a plantation next to a cranberry farm.

>> Fine, fine, you don't even know what it is, this plant you're growing.

>> Well, well, I gave it a name.

>> What name?

>> Oh, gee- >> What?

You gave it a dirty name?

You can't even mention it?

>> Well, I named it Audrey, Junior.

>> Aw, you named it after me?

Oh, really?

That's the most exciting thing anyone's ever done to me.

>> You poor kid.

>> I don't think it's so much I should keep on spending $10 a week on your salary.

>> Audrey: But, Gravis, he named it after me.

>> I know, and if they keep it, they'll name it Mushnick's folly, because I'll be in jail for non-payment of taxes.

>> Are you crazy?

>> Who, who?

>> You, you, that's probably the only plant of it's kind in the world.

Don't you realize if Seymour could nurse that thing back to health, you'll have people coming here from all over?

>> You think so, you Fouch?

>> I know so, you Mushnick.

Now, that's all I'm saying on the subject.

Besides, I've got to get home, my wife's making gardenias for dinner.

>> Goodnight, you Fouch.

>> Goodnight, and I'll see you tomorrow.

Crazy about kosher flowers.

(bell ringing) >> He's a nice man.

>> Maybe he knows what he's talking about.

Maybe he's not so stupid.

I'll tell you what I'll do.

I'll keep you and this dumbbell junior for a week, if you can nurse it back to health, you both can stay, if you can't, you're both fired.

>> Oh, gee, thank you, Mr. Mushnick.

(melancholy music) >> Don't feel sad, Seymour.

>> Don't waste your pity on me Audrey, I'm not worth it.

>> Who says you're not?

>> Everybody.

>> Yeah, I know, but I think you're a fine figurative of a man, and I know that Audrey Junior will be the sweetest thing in the whole wide world.

>> Well, I don't know, I've given it every kind of fancy fertilizer and atomic plant food and distilled mineral water you can buy, but it just gets sicker and sicker.

>> Don't worry, you're gonna be another Luther Glendale.

>> Pasadena.

>> Burbank.

Goodnight, Seymour.

>> Goodnight, Audrey.

What's the matter little plant?

Haven't I done everything I could for you?

Where did I goof?

You're the first little plant I ever tried to grow and if you die, I don't know what I'll do.

Please don't die.

I'll get you some water, okay?

(dramatic music) Oh, gee, you opened up just like you do every night at sunset.

I wish I knew how to make you grow.

Here, let me move this out of your way, so you can breathe.

>> Ow, ow, ow, ow!

Ooh!

(dramatic music) Hey, what happened?

How come you woke up?

Blood?

You like blood?

(plant snapping) Oh, you must be kidding.

Well, we'll see.

You don't know what I'm doing for you.

Ow!

Oh, who would have thought it?

Well, I guess there's just no accounting for people's tastes.

>> Seymour!

>> My boy.

>> You're the most magnanimous person in the whole world.

>> Look on him, Audrey, isn't he beautiful?

Isn't he delicious?

Isn't he got the $2 raise.

>> What happened to your fingers?

>> Bee stings.

So how come I'm all of sudden so wonderful?

>> Five bees?

One for each finger?

>> 10 bees.

Did you say I was getting a $2 raise?

>> Correct, my very excellent Seymour.

10 bees?

>> What did I do now?

>> Don't you know what you did, just look.

>> Oh boy, look at that.

(dramatic music) It grew, it's almost a foot long.

>> Isn't it empirical?

>> It grows like a cold sore from the lip.

Oh, hello, young pretty ladies.

What can Gravis Mushnick do for you?

>> Well, we saw your sign outside.

>> About the Audrey, Junior.

>> So we thought we'd come in and take a look.

>> Well, give a look.

>> That makes four people today who've come in just to look at it.

>> Auditurus!

>> Is that just too much.

>> Oh, what kind of plant is it?

>> It's an Audrey, Junior.

>> Where was it you got in trouble with 10 bees?

>> Well, is that all?

>> I mean, doesn't it have a scientific name?

>> Yes, of course, but who could denounce it?

You could like maybe to buy something?

>> Well, we don't have any money.

>> Except $2,000.

But that's just to spend on flowers.

So we don't have any of our own.

>> Isn't that a drag?

>> You got (stammers) $2,000, just for to spend on flowers?

>> That's right.

>> Who died, the chamber of commerce?

>> Well, we're from Cocamonda High School.

>> And we're building a float.

>> For the Rose Bowl Parade.

>> Which is made out of flowers.

>> Thousands of them.

>> And we're on the committee.

>> That picks the florist.

>> And then glues on the flowers.

>> Gee, that sure is a mad plant.

>> Oh yeah.

>> Seymour here invented it.

>> He did!

(girls hollering) >> Thousands of flowers?

Girls, girls, girls, girls, girls, please don't damage the horticulturist.

Tell me, how come you don't buy all these thousands of flowers from Gravis Mushnick?

My flowers got something the others don't.

>> What's that?

>> They're cheap.

>> Well, gee, if your shop is good enough to develop the Audrey Junior.

>> I guess it could get us everything we need.

>> Yeah, we'll talk it over with the rest of the committee.

>> Excellent.

>> Well, we gotta run now.

Bye, all.

>> Bye Seymour.

>> Bye.

>> Bye.

>> Bye.

Bye, girls.

(bell ringing) >> A son, a son, look Audrey, I got a son.

>> Ah, gee, Mr. Mushnick.

>> What, Mr. Mushnick, I don't want you should call me Mr. Mushnick anymore, I want you should call me Dad.

>> Okay, Dad.

>> Isn't that beautiful?

>> Seymour Krelborn, come over here, my son.

I want to talk on you about the future.

Look on this flytrap, look on it.

Soon we got no more Skid Row, we will be rich, us.

I am building for you a giant greenhouse in which you are making impossible flowers which in turn I am selling at ridiculous prices in my giant new flower saloon in Beverly Hills.

Do you see that big sign in the sky?

It is saying Gravis Mushnick, in French.

>> Isn't it exciting?

And we'll have an orchestra right by the cash register.

And Gravis will wave his arms and the orchestra will play (indistinct) spring songs.

And I'll come out in a gown wrapped by somebody expensive and say.

>> The carnations are $600 a dozen, (bell ringing) two dozen for 1,000.

>> It's a bargain.

>> Get 'em while they last!

>> Stop shouting!

My uncle Marshall's brother, Danko, just passed away trying to fly New Jersey.

Tell me how much are the carnations today?

>> The carnations are $600 a dozen.

>> And why are they letting him run around loose?

(Audrey laughs) >> Please, please, excuse my son, Mrs. Shiva.

Just point anything in the store and it is yours.

>> You mean anything?

>> That's right.

>> The cash register, maybe, huh?

>> Ah, wait a minute.

Here, here are several dozen carnations, on the house, courtesy of Gravis Mushnick, the bloom tycoon.

>> That's my dad.

>> Thanks, thanks very much.

Only tell me, why are you so happy?

Not only did my uncle Marshall's brother Danko die trying to fly New Jersey, you should also give some flowers to that poor dead plant there.

(dramatic music) Good morning, Mr. Mushnick.

Good morning.

>> Good morning, Mrs. Shiva.

>> Look what happened to my plant, Dad.

>> Who are you calling Dad, who, who?

>> Oh, no!

And it was so beautiful just a few seconds ago.

>> Excellent, just a few seconds ago, I gave away dozens of carnations free to Mrs. Shiva.

>> I didn't mean it.

>> You have perhaps an explanation?

>> No, but if you give me a minute, I'll think of one.

>> I can see it all now.

We are in the poor house, that big sign in the sky it is reading Seymour Krelborn rest in peace, in Arabic!

>> Oh, you've got to give him another chance!

>> You promised me a week, Mr. Mushnick.

I'll sit up all night with that plant, it'll be healthy in the morning, you'll see.

I promise, I promise.

(melancholy music) >> Audrey Junior: Feed me.

Feed me.

Feed me!

(chair thuds) (dramatic music) >> Who said that, you said that, you said that.

>> Audrey Junior: Mm.

Feed me.

>> You said that.

You can talk.

I got a talking plant.

Say it again.

>> Feed me.

>> Oh boy, I never been to college, and I ain't been around much, but I'da been willing to bet there ain't no such thing as a talking plant.

But I'll take your word for it.

Gee, Junior, I'd like to feed you, but I used up all my fingers.

>> Audrey Junior: Feed me!

>> Oh.

Look at me, I'm all cut to pieces.

But maybe I can find another drop here someplace.

(dramatic music) That's the best I can do.

>> Audrey Junior: More, more!

>> But I'm already anemic.

>> Audrey Junior: Feed me more!

>> Gee, Junior, I'd be happy to give you anything I got, but I gotta keep a little blood for myself or I'll be in worse shape than Ma.

(Audrey Junior groans) I'm sorry, Junior.

Oh, I'll go for a walk, maybe I'll think of something.

(dramatic music) (rock thuds) (man groans) Oh!

(bucket thuds) (train whistle blaring) Oh!

(nervous whimpering) (man screams) Oh, my.

Oh!

>> Girl: Daddy, there's somebody out there!

>> Audrey Junior: Feed me, feed me.

>> Look, chow hound, don't bother me, I got problems of my own.

>> Audrey Junior: Feed me!

>> I'm sorry, pal, I'm fresh out of blood, talk to somebody else.

>> Audrey Junior: I'm hungry.

>> I don't care what you are, can't you see I'm knocked out, I just killed a man.

I'm a murderer.

You think it's fun to be a murderer?

You think it's fun to hall around a sack full of- >> Audrey Junior: Food.

>> Oh, no, Junior, what kind of guy do you think I am?

>> Audrey Junior: I'm starved.

>> Well, maybe just a snack.

(Audrey Junior chuckles) >> Audrey Junior: That looks great.

(Audrey laughing) >> Now that is what I call a salad.

What do you call that salad?

>> Fafariant.

>> Well, before the next course, I think I'll have a nice cigar, all right.

You would like maybe a cigar?

(both laughing) Oh, you don't smoke cigars.

What am I thinking about, where at the matches?

Oh, boy, you know what I found?

>> What?

>> I'm looking for the matches, and I found I left the money in the other suit.

>> Here's your mock chicken legs.

>> You don't have any money?

>> So what else is new?

>> All right, all right, I made a mistake, after all, a man is entitled.

>> Go on, this is your story, I'll wait for the punch.

>> Don't get smart with me, girlie.

I'll have you know, that in my shop, in the cash register, I'm having the total day's receipts which is summing up to more than $9.

You'll bring the rest of the food, then I'll go to the shop and get the money!

>> You're playing my favorite song.

Now look here, buster, one of you is gonna go down right now and get the loot, while the other one stays here, until the first one gets back, if you get what I mean.

>> Oh, fine, in this fancy-smancy restaurant, you are holding hostages, right!

>> Right!

>> Excellent.

You eat up, Audrey, I'll be back in a flash with the cash.

>> Bye, Gravis.

(dramatic music) ♪ Tis the season to be jolly fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la ♪ ♪ Tis the season to be jolly fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la ♪ ♪ Tis the season to be jolly fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la ♪ >> You're flush now, right?

>> Bring me whiskey, rum, wine, gin, bourbon- >> What?

Scotch, rye, tequila, saki, Manischewitz.

>> Did you bring the money?

>> Don't bug me with the money, I've got to get drunk now!

>> What's with him?

>> I don't know.

>> Look, here, take it, bring me anything, bring everything, creme de menthe, everything you've got.

>> Okay!

>> Gravis, what happened?

>> Gravis: Don't ask.

>> You look like you've seen a ghost.

>> Ghosts I could handle, don't ask.

>> Why don't you tell me, maybe I could help you.

>> Help, you couldn't.

>> Try and eat something, it'll calm your aggravation.

(groans) >> In my own shop, Audrey you wouldn't believe it.

>> I wished you'd break out and tell me.

>> All right, I'll tell you, tomorrow, right after I am telling the police.

(dramatic music) >> Joe: But Mushnick didn't come to the police.

If he had, that might have been the finish of the unhappy story.

It was not.

(bell ringing) >> Hi, Gravis, $85 worth of business already, and we've barely opened.

>> What'd I tell you?

You wouldn't be interested in selling a half interest to this place huh?

>> Mr. Mushnick.

>> We talked to the committee.

>> And they said we could use your flowers.

>> On the float.

>> And guess what?

>> We're going to feature Audrey Junior.

>> Right on top.

>> Oy.

>> Can't you just picture it?

>> I can picture it.

>> Oh, won't the people just eat it up.

>> Eat up the people.

>> And we're gonna have the big part of it opened so she can sit in it.

>> Who?

>> The Queen.

>> With her crown and scepter.

>> She'll be so cute.

>> Oh, you could just eat her up.

>> Eat up the girls.

>> Oh, there's Seymour.

(girls hollering) Seymour!

>> Oh, oh, oh, oh, no, I've got a toothache, leave me alone.

>> You, come with me.

(Seymour yells) >> My god, I got a toothache, it hurts, oh, let go of my jaw!

(yells) Oh, my god, oh!

(cash register dings) >> Now, Seymour, talk on me.

>> I got a toothache, what do you wanna talk about?

>> That plant, is that a nice subject for to talk?

>> The plant, the plant is great, it's four times bigger than it was yesterday.

>> I saw, I saw, how come the plant is now so big?

>> Well, I don't know, (cash register dings) but look at all them people out there.

We only been open a half hour, and we already done $70 worth of business.

>> $85.

Now look, Seymour.

You gave this plant a fancy name, Audrey Junior, but I want to know right now, what do just people call it?

>> Well, it's cross between a butterwort and Venus flytrap.

>> Venus flytrap and what are the habits of this Venus flytrap?

>> Well, the book says it eats insects, it eats them three times in it's life and then it's full grown.

>> Excellent!

And how many times is this one eat?

>> Well, once or twice.

>> You don't remember?

>> Well, this is kind of an unusual type flytrap.

>> That is a possibility.

>> It may never eat again.

I don't see how it could get any bigger.

>> Then you think it don't need anymore flies.

(register dinging) >> Yeah.

Oh, my tooth is just killing me.

>> All right, excellent, you run along to the dentist.

I'll take care of things here.

>> Thanks boss.

>> Gravis, we've got to order more flowers, tons of them.

(cash register dings) >> I'm making lots of money.

(dramatic music) (man screams) >> Man: Please don't hurt, oh please don't hurt me anymore!

(screaming continues) >> Farb: That'll teach you to keep your bill up to date, you deadbeat.

(man screaming) >> Go ahead and run, you sniffling dog, go ahead and run, I'm glad I hurt you, I'm glad, I'm glad.

Oh, Seymour, Seymour, you gotta bad tooth, huh?

>> No, I thought this was the men's room.

>> Seymour, come back here, you bad dog you, get in there.

So you are the young man who ruined my gladiolas, huh?

Sit down, come on.

>> Guess what?

My tooth stopped hurting.

>> My tooth stopped hurting.

Yes, I know.

Let's see, shut up and open up, uh-huh.

(Seymour screams) Does that hurt?

>> Yeah.

>> Good, you haven't felt anything yet.

>> It's this tooth over here.

>> Seymour, who is the dentist here, you or me?

I'll find that tooth.

Mm-hm, ah-ha.

Look at that stalagmite.

But don't worry, it's gonna be an easy one, Seymour, I won't even use Novocaine.

>> Ow, you broke the mirror in the mouth.

>> Well, don't tell me about it stupid, just swallow it.

(Seymour coughs) (mirror clinks) All right, yes, let's see now, Seymour, say I'll have this one and this one and that one and I have to have this one, Seymour.

>> It's only one tooth.

>> Seymour, who is the dentist here, you or me, are you practicing dentistry without a license?

No.

All right, ah-ha.

Let's see.

Oh, Seymour, (Seymour screaming) Seymour, don't be.

(tooth pops) Look at that.

Will you look at that, Seymour, I didn't know you were an elf.

(tooth clinks) You know, I can't afford assistant, so I get this ready instant mix.

Doesn't last very long, but it tastes good.

Mm.

All right, Seymour.

>> Oh, stay away from me.

>> Seymour.

>> Oh?

>> You're trying to kill me.

>> A duel, ah-ha.

(men grunting) (dramatic music) (Farb groaning) >> Is this Doctor Farb's office?

>> Uh, just a minute.

>> Oh, (chuckles) yes, I see it is.

>> Seymour: You can come in now.

(man chuckles) >> My name is Wilbur Force.

>> Wilbur Force what?

>> Just Wilbur Force.

My first name is Wilbur, my last name is Force.

(chuckles) I don't have a middle name.

>> Well, do you have an appointment maybe?

>> No, but you were very highly recommended to me by one of your patients, a Mrs. S. Shiva, I do a lot of undertaking for her relatives.

(chuckles) >> Well, as you could see I have a customer now, and I'm all booked up for the rest of the day, so you'll have to come back tomorrow.

>> Oh, I couldn't do that.

I have three or four abscesses, a touch of pyria, nine or 10 cavities, I lost my pivot tooth, and I'm in terrible pain.

(chuckles) >> Well, I can't help you today.

>> Oh, that's all right.

(chuckles) I'll just wait outside.

(chuckles) "The patient came to me with a large hole in his abdomen, (chuckles) caused by a fire poker used on him by his wife.

(chuckles) He almost bled to death and gangrene had set in.

I didn't give him much of a chance.

There were other complications, (chuckles) the man had cancer, tuberculosis, leprosy, and a touch of the grip.

(chuckles) I decided to operate."

(chuckles) >> My patient just left, you can come in now.

>> Oh, goody.

(chuckles) I didn't see the other man leave.

>> Well, he went out the back door.

>> You know most people don't like to go to the dentist, but I rather enjoy it myself, don't you?

(chuckles) I mean, there's such, there's a real feeling of growth, of, of, (chuckles) progress when that old drill goes in.

I mean, I'd almost rather go to the dentist than anywhere, wouldn't you?

(chuckles) >> Yeah.

>> Now, no Novocaine, it dulls the senses.

(chuckles) >> This is gonna hurt you more than it is me.

>> Oh, goody, goody, here it comes.

(drill whirring) (Wilbur screaming) Oh, my God, don't stop now!

>> Well, I made a lot of holes, and now I gotta fill it up with this here silver stuff.

>> Well, aren't you gonna pull any?

>> Well.

>> Oh, go on.

>> Well, it's your mouth.

(whimsical music) (Wilbur screaming) (tooth pops) (Seymour crashing) >> Wilbur: Well, Dr. Farb, it's been quite an afternoon.

I can truly say I've never enjoyed myself so much.

I'll recommend you to all my friends.

>> Thank you, bye.

>> Bye now.

(dramatic music) >> Audrey Junior: Feed me.

>> Ah, take it easy, Dracula, what do you think I'm carrying here, my dirty laundry?

>> Audrey Junior: Food!

>> I'm coming, I'm coming already.

This should be enough for anybody.

>> Audrey Junior: Mm!

Good!

>> Well, goodbye, Dr. Farb.

You may have been a crumby dentist, but you were a nice fellow.

I never meant to kill anybody in my whole life, now I've killed two in the last two days.

Well, but you asked for it, coming after me with that knife and all.

Bon voyage, Dr. Farb.

Want anything else?

(Aubrey Junior belches) Well, see you in the morning.

(jazz music) (knocking) >> Come in.

>> It's me, Joe.

>> Come on in, Frank.

How's the wife, Frank?

>> Not bad, Joe.

>> Glad to hear it.

The kids?

>> Lost one yesterday.

>> Lost one, eh?

How'd that happen?

>> Playing with matches.

>> Well those are the breaks.

>> Yeah, I guess so.

>> Got a strange one here, railroad people say they lost one of their best detectives the other night.

>> Oh yeah?

>> Down by the yards.

His wife's in refrigerator cars.

>> Refrigerator cars?

>> Ice thieves.

>> Oh yeah, what happened?

>> Don't know, vanished, blood on tracks.

>> Clues?

>> None.

>> Anything else?

>> Dentist, Farb.

>> Dead?

>> Missing.

>> Clues?

>> Blood in office.

>> Where?

>> Skid Row.

>> Ideas?

>> None.

>> Check it out?

>> Yeah.

(dramatic music) >> Joe: Now we were on the case, Officer Frank Stoolie and me.

My name is Fink, Sergeant Joe Fink.

I'm a fink.

>> Morning, Mr. Mushnick.

Oh boy, look at that.

>> Hi, everybody.

Oh, my gosh.

>> Ain't it something?

>> It's, it's monstrositense.

>> Yeah.

>> And to think that you did it.

>> Gee, Audrey, you don't have to kiss me.

>> Don't you like me to kiss you?

>> Yeah, but you don't like to kiss me.

>> Why shouldn't I?

>> Nobody else ever did.

>> Well I do like to.

>> You do, you really do, you like to kiss me?

>> Sure, I do.

>> Would you like to kiss me again?

>> Okay.

>> That plant?

>> Oh boy, you kiss good, Audrey.

>> Oh, I guess I just have a good kisser.

>> (stammers) How did- >> Would you like to go out on a date with me some night?

>> Ven- >> Oh sure I would, Seymour, anytime.

>> Tonight?

>> Okay.

>> Oh boy.

>> (stammers) About that plant?

>> We got the list.

>> Of flowers, for the float.

>> For the Rose Parade.

>> I can't talk to you now, girls, talk on Audrey.

>> We got the list.

>> For the float.

>> Okay, let's take a look at it.

>> Okay.

>> Hi, what's cooking?

>> Look at my plant.

>> My, what a large one.

>> Yeah.

(police siren blaring) >> Hello, Mrs. Shiva, what's new?

>> Oh, I got terrible news.

My nephew Frankie just lost his little boy.

>> Oh, that's too bad.

How'd it happen?

>> He was playing with matches.

>> Would you like to buy maybe some flowers?

>> About 50 cents worth.

>> Well, I'll get them for you.

Look at my plant.

>> I'm looking.

>> Is your name Gravis Mushnick?

>> (stammers) Mushnick, Gravis, that's my name.

>> Just wanna ask you a few questions.

>> Questions ask me- >> Just wanna ask you a few questions.

>> I didn't do it.

>> Do what?

>> Whatever.

>> Ever see this man?

>> Man, see, picture.

>> Why are you so nervous?

>> You got a guilty conscious?

>> No, why should I?

>> Ever see this man?

>> Man, see, the picture, Dr. Farb.

>> So you know him?

>> My dentist, he maybe did something?

>> Disappeared.

>> Blood in his office.

>> Frank: The other man too.

>> Blood on the railroad tracks.

>> Frank: And a few spare parts.

>> (stammers) Dr. Farb is murdered?

>> Is he?

>> Who knows?

Not me.

>> What do you think?

>> He doesn't know anything.

>> Okay, Mushnick, if you hear anything about these men, call our office.

>> Yeah, sure I'll be glad to cooperate with the police.

>> Hello, Aunt Siddie.

>> Oh, isn't it terrible what happened to your boy Frankie?

>> Those are the breaks.

>> All right, Seymour, now you tell me, you've got plant is finished all grown up.

>> He's finished all growing up.

>> You wouldn't kid your father?

>> My father came home?

>> Me, idiot, it's a finger of speech!

Now, look, I can't stand anymore that plant, it's growing me out of house and home.

>> Well, it ain't gonna grow anymore, I promise.

>> How can you be so sure?

>> It ate three times already.

>> Who, I mean, what did it eat this time?

>> Well, about a million Japanese beetles.

>> So it don't eat no more?

>> It's full.

>> Gravis.

There's a lady from some kind of a (indistinct) outside, I think it's important.

>> Excellent.

By the by, I understand you want take Audrey out on a date tonight, that's very good with me, because I am staying to keep an eye on that mashugana plant.

>> Where are we gonna go tonight, Seymour?

>> Oh, I just remembered, I don't have any money.

>> Oh, that's okay.

We could take a walk along the ocean or something.

>> I got a great idea, we can eat dinner at my house.

My mom's a great cook.

>> Well, that's swell.

>> Oh boy, I'll call her later and tell her.

>> Okay.

>> Oh, that's remarkable.

>> You like?

>> (chuckles) I neither like nor dislike anything, my goodness.

I happen to represent the Society of Silent Flower Observers of Southern California.

>> How about that.

>> Tell me, who created this magnificent bloom?

>> I did, me.

>> (chuckles) And what might your name be?

>> Seymour Krelborn with a K. >> Krelborn?

>> Krelborn.

>> Raised it in a coffee can.

>> This?

(chuckles) Well, tell me, Mr. Krelborn, is this a freak or can more be raised from the seeds?

>> We should live so long.

>> Well, I don't think there gonna be anymore Miss, uh?

>> Feuchtwanger, Mrs. Hortense Feuchtwanger.

>> I think this is gonna be the only one, Mrs. Feuchtwinger.

>> Feuchtwanger.

>> Feuchtwanger?

>> Well, it's probably indigestible anyway.

>> (chuckles) At any rate, I have the honor to tell you, Seymour Krelborn, that you have been selected to receive the annual trophy of the Society of Silent Flower Observers of Southern California.

>> A trophy, me?

>> Such is justice.

>> But tell me, when do you suppose those large buds will open?

>> Well, according to what the book says about the plants that I crossed, they should open day after tomorrow at sunset.

>> Ah, very well, then I shall return at that time to present the trophy.

Good day.

(bell ringing) Remarkable.

>> Oh boy, I'm gonna get a trophy!

>> Oh, Seymour, I'm so proud of you.

>> Oh, a real trophy.

>> For Audrey Junior.

>> We can put it on the float.

>> In the Rose Parade.

>> Oh boy.

>> Oh, don't look at me, I'm a terrible sight, I'm a complete sea hag.

>> She always says that.

>> Well, it's true, I haven't been feeling very well lately.

>> Audrey, this is my ma, Winifred Krelborn, Ma this is Audrey Fulquard, she's my girl.

>> Hi, Audrey, are you hungry?

>> I sure am, I could eat a hearse.

>> Oh, (chuckles) well, sit right down, and I'll go get the first course.

>> Sit here, Audrey.

You want me to take your sweater?

>> Oh.

Yes.

(Audrey chuckles) >> Never mind that, (chuckles) well now, try this.

>> (coughs) It tastes like cough syrup.

>> Dr. Flem's cough syrup, a toast.

>> To Audrey Junior.

>> No, to Audrey Senior.

(glass clinks) Oh.

(chuckles) (bell ringing) (dramatic music) >> You, you gluten you, tonight I keep an eye on you, I don't let nobody get near you.

>> Here comes the soup.

Now don't touch it till I get the little flavoring.

(chuckles) >> Gee, Audrey, you sure look good by candlelight.

>> Do I really, Seymour?

>> Yeah.

>> Here you are.

Now try it.

>> Sure smells different.

>> It's different.

>> Some kind of oil, isn't it?

>> Cod liver oil, wonderful for the colon.

>> And that's sulfur powder on the top.

(dramatic music) (Aubrey Junior creaking) >> Audrey Junior: Feed me.

Feed me!

I'm hungry!

>> Open, it is.

>> Feed me!

>> I didn't hear it.

>> Audrey Junior: Feed me!

>> I heard it.

>> Audrey Junior: I want food.

>> A talking plant, we got.

>> Audrey Junior: I'm hungry.

>> No.

Hungry?

And other fine kettles and fish.

Who would you like to have tonight?

>> Audrey Junior: You look fat enough.

>> We not only got a talking plant, we got one that makes with smart cracks.

Well, you listen to me, you botanical bum, food you wouldn't get, not from Gravis Mushnick.

>> I'm starved.

>> Excellent.

You would un-populate the whole Skid Row.

Well, you can forget about it.

You wouldn't get fed from Gravis Mushnick tonight.

Good night.

>> Audrey Junior: You'll get yours.

(ominous music) >> I kinda like this chow mien.

>> If it tastes a little bitter, it's because it's made of Chinese herbs and it's flavored with achromycin, Epsom salts.

>> There ain't another cook in the whole world like my Ma.

>> That's what your old man said, before the louse ran out on me.

You know, if you're gonna be married, you gotta be a good cook.

>> Well, maybe you could teach me.

>> You thinking of getting married?

>> Well, he hasn't asked me yet.

>> Who hasn't?

>> Seymour.

>> Seymour's too young to get married.

Look here, a boy's gotta go out and play around a little bit, go out on the make and have a ball.

>> Gee, Ma, I don't wanna have a ball, I wanna be with Audrey.

>> Oh, Seymour.

>> Now, look, Seymour, you promised you wouldn't get married until you bought me an iron lung.

>> But you've been breathing for years, Ma.

>> Well, it ain't easy.

It ain't easy, son.

(utensil rattling) (suspenseful music) (bell ringing) >> There's nobody here.

Black cats, 13th job, Friday the 13th is stupid superstitious.

(glass thuds) All right, you, come out of there.

>> Don't shoot, mister.

I'm old and sick, I wouldn't hurt even a fly.

>> Come out in the light, where I can see you.

>> Man, please don't shoot, please, please, I'm only Gravis Mushnick, you wouldn't want to kill me, where would you hide the body?

>> Don't worry, I'm not gonna shoot you, not unless you try something.

>> Try something, I never tried anything in my life.

I wouldn't try anything now, you want my money, take it.

You want I should go out and steal you some more, that's all right too, I'll do it.

>> Thank you very much.

(chuckles) I like your brand of hospitality.

(cash register dings) >> You'll excuse there isn't more, I'm only a poor florist.

>> Yeah, yeah.

You got about 30 bucks here.

Come on now, where's the rest of it?

I was in here this afternoon, I saw about 30,000 people in here, they must have spent some money, where is it?

>> There ain't no more money, they came in to look on the plant, it's a big attraction, Audrey Junior.

>> The plant.

Don't try to snow me, Jim.

30,000 squares didn't come in here just to look for a plant, I want it.

>> (stammers) I don't got no more money, honest.

Believe me.

>> Okay, let's try this.

One.

(gun cocks) Two, three, four- >> Now, I ain't got no more money, honest.

>> All right, try it the other way around.

Five, four, three, two- >> All right, all right, already.

>> Okay, big dad, where?

(ominous music) >> Check in the plant.

>> In the plant?

>> The big plant, Audrey Junior.

>> Inside the big leaf?

>> That's right, inside.

>> (laughs) How you get it open?

>> Just knock.

(dramatic music) (gun thuds) (Aubrey Junior creaking) >> In there?

>> In there, inside, in the bottom.

>> Wilbur: I don't see anything.

>> Way inside, right at the bottom.

(Wilbur screams) (gun fires) >> Oy, what I did.

(Aubrey Junior belches) I don't care, what you got a date with Audrey tonight, I am no more sitting up with that no-goodnik plant.

(cash register dings) >> But, gee, Mr. Mushnick, you don't have to sit up with it anymore, it's all grown up now.

>> Excellent, smarty guy, how do you know it don't be hungry no more?

>> Well, because- >> Tonight, you are staying.

Then tomorrow, they're coming, and they're going to give you a trophy and then after that, we are getting rid once and for all for that plant.

>> Getting rid of it, why?

>> Don't ask why, "Why?"

The end, into the garbage can, aloha.

Oy!

Yes, Mrs. Shiva.

>> Oh, Seymour, your wonderful plant.

>> Oh, that's all right, Audrey I'll grow other plants, even more wonderful ones.

>> I know you will.

Did you figure out what we're doing tonight?

>> Yeah, we're going to a place full of beautiful flowers.

>> We have to stay here?

>> Yeah.

>> Well, never mind, we'll have a picnic.

It'll be just like going to the country.

>> Oh boy.

>> Did you get the 3,000 pink azaleas for the arbor?

>> And the 9,000 yellow mums for the, for the border?

>> Yeah, yeah.

>> And the roses for the front and the back.

>> For wrapping round the back.

>> Winifred: What do you mean you're going to a picnic at night with that Fulquard girl?

>> Don't you like Audrey, Ma?

>> She's out after your money.

>> I don't have any money.

>> Oh, she's a smart one.

She'll latch onto you, until you get some, and then goodbye fortune.

>> But Audrey's an honest girl, Ma.

>> Yeah, never trust a woman who's too healthy.

>> But Audrey had a bad cold a couple of weeks ago.

>> Oh, a cold, a puny cold.

Why don't you get yourself a real female with something decent like mononucleosis or gall stones?

>> Well, maybe she could catch something like that.

>> The only thing she'll catch is you.

And she'll take you off to some shady cemetery and leave me to chiropractors and faith healers.

I know when I'm not wanted.

(Seymour groans) >> Ah, gee, Ma.

>> Don't feel sorry for me.

I'll just find a nice, wet alley somewhere and curl up and wait for the end.

>> Ah, please don't die till I get back, will ya, Ma.

I'll take care of you, I'll always take care of ya, I promise.

>> Yeah.

>> Goodbye.

(dramatic music) Gee, Audrey, I never tasted food like this before.

>> It's a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

>> Peanut butter and jelly, what does that cure?

>> Nothing, it's just a food.

>> Well, what good is it, if it doesn't clear pimples or shrink your sinus tissues or something?

>> You're just being silly, Seymour.

Seymour, what do you wanna be?

>> Well, I wanna grow things.

If I had a lot of money, I'd go to the south seas where they grow the most fabulous plants in the world.

>> That sounds exciting.

>> Yeah.

>> I'd like to go to the south seas too.

>> There's no reason why you couldn't go.

>> Would you take me with you, Seymour?

>> Oh, I couldn't very well go without you, Audrey.

>> Why not?

>> Oh, because, 'cause I'm in love with you, Audrey.

>> Oh, I'm in love with you too, Seymour.

>> Audrey Junior: Feed me.

>> What'd you say?

>> (stammers) I was just kidding.

>> Audrey Junior: I'm hungry!

>> Seymour.

>> I didn't mean it.

>> Well, why did you say it?

>> Audrey Junior: Oh, food.

>> You didn't even say that.

>> Oh yes, I did, I said it, I said it.

>> No, I'm looking right at you.

>> (stammers) Well, I'm a ventriloquist.

>> You're what?

>> A ventriloquist.

Feed me!

>> Seymour, do you feel all right?

>> Well, I don't know, I'm not sure.

>> Well, then stop all this nonsense and kiss me.

>> Audrey Junior: I'm dying from hunger!

>> All right, if you're so hungry, eat something, but forget about me.

>> Gee, I'm sorry, Audrey.

>> Audrey Junior: Give me to eat.

>> If you can't control yourself, I'm going home.

>> Audrey Junior: I need some chow!

>> Oh.

>> Audrey Junior: Food for an empty stomach.

>> Audrey, please wait, listen to me.

>> I've listened to all the nonsense I wanna hear, Seymour.

You're a nut.

You tell me that you love me, and then you act like a complete idiot.

>> Please listen, Audrey, I'll be able to explain everything soon.

>> Well, why can't you explain now?

>> Because so many things are so important.

I wanna marry you, but I gotta take care of mom.

Well, that plant in there is gonna make it all come true.

Tomorrow, they're gonna give me a trophy, and I'll be famous.

I'll be a big botanist.

And then we can go to the south seas, just like we planned and all.

>> But that doesn't have anything to do with what went on in there.

When you're ready to come to your senses, Seymour, then I'll talk to you.

Goodnight, Seymour.

(dramatic music) (Aubrey Junior creaking) >> I'm getting pretty tired of you.

>> Audrey Junior: I need food.

>> I don't care what you need.

Look what you done to me.

You not only made a butcher out of me, but you drove my girl away.

>> Audrey Junior: Shut up and bring on the food!

>> Don't tell me to shut up, you shut up.

Who raised you from a bunch of little seed?

Who fed you all them high class fertilizers and sat up all night with you, when you were sick?

Nobody else would have done that for you.

Do you think anybody else would have brought you human beings to eat?

You're darn right they wouldn't.

Well, I've helped you, and you've helped me.

Now shut your trap and go to sleep.

I'm tired.

>> Audrey Junior: Krelborn, turn around.

(mysterious music) Close your eyes, you are asleep.

Open your eyes.

Now you will do as I say.

Do you follow me?

>> Yes, master.

>> Audrey Junior: You will go out and find me some food.

>> Yes master.

>> Audrey Junior: Now be gone and waste no time.

(whimsical music) (horn honks) >> Man: Idiot!

(signal dings) (banana peel sloshes) (Seymour groans) >> My name is Leonora Clyde, (whimsical music) how's the rain on the rhubarb?

>> Master is hungry.

(trashcan thuds) >> Well, hello there.

(trashcan thudding) >> I gotta find food for master.

Food, I gotta find for master.

For master, I gotta find food.

>> Maybe I can help.

>> Who are you?

>> My name is Leonora Clyde, I love you.

>> Master wants food.

>> Let the old goat wait.

The night is young and so are we.

>> Master doesn't eat goat.

>> Well, what kind of food does he like?

Ooh, (laughs).

That's more like it, kiss me.

What's a matter, don't you like me?

>> Too bony.

>> Too bony?

Nobody ever told me that before.

>> Beef is better than veal.

>> (scoffs) You're such a dodo.

What do call this, chopped liver?

Mm.

(Leonora laughs) >> Master would like more fat.

>> Speak for yourself, John.

>> My name is Seymour.

>> "My name is Seymour."

>> That's my name too.

>> (scoffs) Are you interested or you just wasting my time?

>> I never thought anybody would volunteer.

Do you volunteer?

>> Sure, I do.

>> All right, if you're sure you wanna volunteer.

>> All right, my place or yours?

>> I don't care.

>> Well, flip a coin.

>> I don't have a coin.

>> Flip anything, silly.

>> Well there's a rock.

(Seymour spits) Wet or dry?

>> Wet.

(rock thuds) (body thuds) (dramatic music) >> Joe: The search was narrowing, and we knew that soon, we would have the killer.

Not that we had anymore clues than before, but we had to tell the chief something.

I had that feeling in my bones that the mystery was drawing to it's climax, and I was determined to be on hand.

>> All right, out, out, out, nobody is in.

Today, we have a special occasion for Seymour Krelborn which has invented the big plant.

So I want everybody to please stay out of the way.

>> Girls: We want Seymour, we want Seymour, we want Seymour!

(girls screaming excitedly) >> The germs.

>> Let me in.

>> I tell you, this business is worse than being a conductor in a revoluting door.

I'll be glad when this day is finished.

>> What's the celebration?

>> They're presenting my son with a trophy.

>> Yeah, what'd he do, run away from home?

>> Please don't look at me that way, Audrey, I wanna talk to you.

>> I'm sorry, Seymour, I just don't understand you.

>> I'll explain everything after the ceremony.

>> You, police, what are you doing here?

>> Heard there was something going on here this evening.

>> Just thought we'd come by and keep an eye on things.

>> Look, we don't need no eyes kept on nothing.

Everything- >> Make way, the Society of Silent Flower Observers has arrived and sunset is almost upon us.

>> Welcome, lady and gentlemen, we are honored for to have you.

(Hortense chuckles) >> Still working on our disappearances.

>> We think they were murdered.

>> Hey, lookie here, young man, that's no way to talk at a time like this.

Let me see your tongue.

Uh-huh.

You know what you got?

>> Just the facts, ma'am.

>> Trench mouth.

(chuckles) I know, I had it back it ought-nine.

>> Better have that looked into, Frank.

>> Whatever you say, Joe.

>> Mr. Krelborn, (chuckles) the sun is going down now, and you do think those buds are going to open.

>> I hope so.

>> Because if they don't, Mr. Krelborn, we shall have to present the award at another time.

>> Oh, it's starting to open.

(dramatic music) (Aubrey Junior creaking) >> Oh, that's marvelous.

Oh, look the first bud is open.

(flowers boinging) >> Isn't that- >> It's the railroad cop.

Look at the rest.

(Hortense screaming) What do you think, Frank?

>> They're all there, Joe.

>> Yes, you're right.

Mr. Krelborn, how do you explain this?

>> I didn't mean it, I didn't mean it!

>> That's right, officer, he didn't mean to kill them.

>> Seymour!

>> Seymour, you promised you'd explain.

>> Looks like they're getting away Joe.

>> Guess you're right, let's catch 'em.

>> Right.

(whimsical music) >> Oh, now the float'll be perfect.

>> (chuckles) Yeah.

(suspenseful music) (women hollering) (gun fires) (gun firing) (gun fires) (gun fires) (train whistle blaring) (train signal dinging) >> You wouldn't find him here with the toilets, let's go back.

(dramatic music) >> You dirty rat plant, you messed up my whole life.

>> Audrey Junior: Feed me!

>> I'll feed you.

I'll feed you like you never been fed before.

(Aubrey Junior creaking) (ominous music) >> Better to give up, gentlemen, you wouldn't find him tonight.

>> Look, the door's open, Frank.

>> Come.

>> He was such a good boy.

(flower boings) Seymour.

(dramatic music) >> Seymour: I didn't mean it.

(dramatic music) Hey, it's Kris out, and we're still alive and hiding out down here in the basement.

We hope you enjoyed the Little Shop of Horrors just as much as we did.

So did it hold up the way that you remembered?

Oh, of course, Kris.

And if you want to watch it again or any of our Subterranean Cinema movies, you can find them on the PBS App for your smart TV, computer or device or on our PBS Fort Wayne YouTube channel.

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So, Kris, what's going to be the next horror movie?

Well, I'm going to tell you.

Next time around, we'll have Wasp Woman from 1959 starring Susan Cabot and Fred Eisley.

And make sure you tune in to find out who's in the guest chair next time.

Thanks for watching.

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