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Yeah, he's like Willy Wonka with a different kind of hat.

Is that the Moana song he's singing at the end?

Not sure what else it could be, so I'd put money on "yes".

Could also be from Hamilton, but I don't know if the words "how far I'll go" are in any of those songs.

It's from Moana.

Also, new comic! Vomiting Emoji.

edited 20th Mar '17 8:04:30 AM by optimusjamie

Eww. x_x

Hehe. Well, if emoji are now an officially recognized linguistic element, we cannot restrict the available ones out of queasiness.

That song from Moana was nominated for an Oscar and performed in the gala by the actor who sings it in the movie: Auli'i Carvalho from Hawaii, who made her acting debut with this film (she's 16).

Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote that song, and if he had won the Oscar for it, he would've broken a number of records (by being the youngest to receive quite an impressive collection of nominations for his works). So far, he's won an Emmy Award, three Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and - probably uniquely among people who get awards primarily for musicals - a Pulitzer Prize. That's an incredible number of prestigious awards, and he came close to adding an Oscar to it from his first Oscar nomination.

(I haven't seen Moana and I liked (but didn't love) La La Land, and I like the song from Moana better than anything in La La Land.)

Well at least the "vomiting Statue of Liberty" one is a nice reference to Repossessed.

I hadn't realized that it was Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote that song. That pretty much confirms that it's the one Randall intended.

I was actually treated to a little girl's performance of that song on the subway this morning. She had headphones on and I don't think she realized she was singing out loud. Regardless, it was adorable.

Despite how utterly tired of Frozen I was a couple of years ago, hearing little girls sing it still brings a smile to my face. They work for Disney, I'm sure of it.

I work at Girl Scout camp every summer. So I'm surrounded by little girls day in and day out during the summer. I will never forget the harrowing Summer of Frozen. They never stopped -eye twitch-

Similarly, my sister worked as a dance teacher in the little kid classes at her dance school and they had to ban anyone in the entire school from performing to any Frozen song, because everyone else would get jealous and riot.

edited 21st Mar '17 5:44:28 PM by Cailleach

Thankfully, I never had the Summer of Frozen, but I did have the Summer of Gore, so named because the Juniors decided to make every song end in death.

#1814: Color Pattern: For your daily dose of awful puns.

Nah, thats a wonderful pun. Funny and slightly painful at the same time.

My daughter's first full phrase was literally "Let It Go". One of the first names my 2-year-old was able to say was "Kristof". I have 3 daughters. Frozen has been on and off in our household since it came out - thankfully very recently it finally started to recede. They still get ridiculously excited every time they see one of the ubiquitous anythings with Olaf, Elsa or Anna on it.

They didn't catch the Moana bug? Lucky you then.

I just watched Moana, and it's not half as good as Frozen. So hopefully it won't create as much a wave. It's difficult to predict little girls' taste, though.

Wait. Frozen was good? I always thought Frozen was meh (among Disney movies, I mean. In general Disney movies tend to stand out among the crowd)

Kindred spirit!

To each their own. Personally, I thought Moana was a significantly better movie than Frozen in pretty much every way.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Frozen. I enjoyed it a lot. I just didn't think it compared to many of Disney's other films. But that's like saying finding a twenty dollar bill in your pocket is less exciting than finding a fifty.

It was still fantastic, I just don't get why this one gets so blown up. I don't remember crowds of people singing I'll Make a Man Out of You randomly...

Frozen is a lot more relatable than some are. Not many people have joined the army so their father didn't have to, but plenty of people have a sibling they don't always get along with, or sometimes wish they could just do what they want without having to fit in with society.

Plus, the whole thing about familial love being just as valid as romantic love is a great message.

Though truthfully, the best movie recently put into the Disney Animated Canon is Zootopia, anyway. Granted, it only has "Try Everything" as far as songs go (and frankly I can't say as I care for the song), but the rest of the film is so excellent that I let that slide.

Almost There has to be one of my favorite musical numbers in a long long time.

The Food Porn, the Awesome Music, the theme of having a dream and busting your ass to get it...

And apparently inspired by real life events, given that Tiana was based on an actual waitress the crew met while visiting Louisiana for inspiration.