What is a dinkle?
Joey plays Dr.Freud. Suddenly he rises and does a little dance and sing:
Joey:
All you want is a dinkle
What you envy's a schwang
A thing through which you can tinkle
To play with or simply let hang
Why is this dinkle-song funny?
Joey is playing Freud in this show. Sigmund Freud was a founder of psychoanalysis. Freud is also quite famous for inventing the theory of penis envy. The idea is that some women's problems take root in their deep dark desire for a penis of their own. Now this theory isn't all that popular. But this penis envy theory could be a fun reference nevertheless!
Dingle and schwang in the song is a slang for penis. Tinkle is a cute children's word for peeing. It is either that or Joey's imitation of German accent what turns Dingle into Dinkle.
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By the way the slang words explanation I have found here http://slangcity.com/ask_ac_archive/friends.htm:
ReplyDeletedinkle (dingle), schwang You can actually find these in some slang dictionaries - especially dingle (I think it sounds like dinkle because Joey is trying to speak with a German accent). However, just the context is enough to figure them out. Joey is playing Sigmund Freud in a musical. He sings to a female patient.
Freud's famous theory was penis envy - the idea that most women's problems were because they wanted a penis. So dingle and schwang mean penis. Tinkle is a cute children's word for pee (urinate in the standard dictionary).
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And there is the other one fun detail for trivia-nerds like myself http://dannypittstoller.blogspot.com/2007/09/lollipops-connection.html:
ReplyDeleteThe Lollipops Connection
Whenever I first saw the sixth episode of Friends — this is the one where Joey performs in a musical and, dressed as Freud, does a silly, irreverent song-and-dance number spoofing the concept of penis envy — I always felt like they'd somehow lifted that joke from Love, Torment & Lollipops, the musical my dad wrote back in the early 90's. After all, there's a scene in Lollipops where a bearded psychoanalyst does a silly, irreverent song-and-dance number spoofing the concept of the Oedipus complex.
But this was just a feeling I had; it never rose to the level of an actual suspicion. After all, it seems extremely far-fetched: a hit sitcom on NBC is stealing jokes from an unknown musical that was produced at a community theatre in Great Neck? Isn't it much, much more reasonable to assume that two different writers independently came up with similar ideas?
However, I've been thinking about it and it's not quite as far-fetched as it might sound. I'm not saying the joke was actually stolen. But I think it's very possible that, after Lollipops, the joke was in the air — and somehow made its way from there to the Friends writers' room.
1) For what it's worth, prior to the 90's, I certainly never came across the idea of a musical analyst singing a cartoonish, absurd version of a Freudian theory. When Love, Torment & Lollipops was in development, from 1990 to 1993, it certainly felt like a fresh joke. I know of no evidence that this joke existed in the culture before my dad wrote his song in 1990.
...2) During the development process, many diverse people (including some theatre professionals) were invited to readings of the script. Likewise, agents and managers and producers from New York were invited to the Great Neck production in 1993. Of course, none of these theatre professionals expressed any interest, and the show never made it beyond Great Neck — probably because the script wasn't good enough — but that doesn't mean nobody saw it.
ReplyDelete3) If we are trying to demonstrate that a Friends writer was influenced by the joke in Lollipops, we don't need to show that a Friends writer actually saw the play. The Friends writer may very well have been removed by two or three degrees of separation. All that needed to happen was for somebody to tell somebody, "Oh my goodness, I saw this ridiculous play where this Freudian analyst guy started singing to his patients about their bizarre sexual obsessions..." One person tells the next person, and so on, and eventually one of the Friends writers hears about it.
4) Although I don't actually know, I'd be shocked if somebody in the writers' room at Friends didn't have a Great Neck connection. Great Neck is not just some obscure suburb in the middle of America; it's the hometown of many prominent people in the entertainment industry. Moreover, three of the main characters on Friends hail from an affluent Long Island suburb which seems (to me) to be based on Great Neck.
5) Love, Torment & Lollipops premiered in May 1993. Episode Six of Friends (the episode title is "The One With The Butt") aired seventeen months later, in October 1994. The chronology itself suggests, at the very least, that the joke was "in the air" at that time.
All circumstantial evidence, to be sure, and not good enough to hold up in court. Nevertheless, I think it's reasonable for me to suspect, based on these 5 points, that the Friends episode was in some way mimicking, spoofing, or otherwise imitating the scene in Lollipops.
I'd be very curious to know if there are any instances of the "singing psychoanalyst" joke from before 1990.
There was also a Seinfeld episode where Kramer decides to create "levels" in his apartment by building a bunch of wooden steps and covering them with carpet. I think that one was somehow influenced by the Levels youth center, also in Great Neck.
According to http://www.tv.com/friends/the-one-with-the-butt/episode/350/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary
ReplyDeleteThe ode to penis envy that Joey sings in Freud! is sung to the tune of I'm Just Wild About Harry by Eubie Blake, an American jazz and rag pianist.
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ReplyDeleteЯ даже не задумывался над этой песенкой, думая, что это белиберда с немецким акцентом Джо. Огромное спасибо;)
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