Winter of the Witch
September 27, 2008 by karen
My friend Meghan and all her dudes (her husband and two twin sons) stopped by this morning for a visit and we got to talking about how in grade school every year around Halloween time, our teachers would show us a movie about a kid and his mom who move from the city to the country and buy an old mansion, where they discover a witch already lives. Nothing interesting there. The kid befriends the witch—expected, right? But then, this is the weird part—the witch makes the kid pancakes. Magic TRIPPY pancakes. How do you know they’re trippy pancakes you ask? Fast forward to 14:35 and then 15:12 in this video to see for yourself.
Then the kid tells his mom how great the pancakes are and she eats them and she LOVES the trippy pancakes (who wouldn’t?). What’s the next best thing to do? Open a pancake parlor of course so that everyone can be happy! And they do and they live happily ever after with the witch. It’s really a great movie, but maybe you had to watch it in the early 80’s when you were 8 years old to truly appreciate it.
I loved this movie when I was kid, and spent a good number of years explaining it to various people (”and then they eat these pancakes and they get all happy!”) who didn’t understand, so I was thrilled to find it online after all these years of singing it’s praises and oddness. But what I love the most about this movie is that somehow our school teachers thought this was a reasonable movie to repeatedly show in school year after year.
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October 18th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
I was curious and did a little research and found out that you are not alone in your love of the trippy pancake witch…
http://www.scootutopia.com/2007/08/the_happy_pancake_witch_and_th.html
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:03 am
I watched this movie in grade school over 35 years ago. Whenever I tried to explain it to other people years later they thought I was crazy.I started to think I had imagined it.Until my sister found it online and told me.What a crazy movie to show in school with its’ drug related overtones.
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I want to THANK YOU!! so much, I have been trying for years to find this, I went to a Private Catholic School in the late 60’s and 70’s and watched this movie, and I thought it was just wonderful, and had a lasting impression on me and I always called it the happy pancake movie and could not remember or where to even look!! I am in my late 40’s now and just watched the whole thing, and still watch it, only if people want to think about drugs they can but it has nothing to do with drugs it is saying the pancakes bring out togetherness and a family happiness about them, so there is a little magic, perhaps it is the magic within all of us that needs to come out, and it could be spiritual not negative. So I say to the people that are small minded….EAT SOME PANCAKES!!!!
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I forgot one thing,,,,, where can I purchase this movie? Again Thank You….