Movie and TV references to Enemas

Fox News had a guest on yesterday, promoting juice diet and purging the system of toxins. They talked about the stuff people eat and drink that they shouldn't. One of the closing remarks was that "the only good thing about coffee is a coffee enema." The news commentators didn't have any comments.

Here are a few that you might research ....

Road to Wellville

Car Wash

Paris Trout

The Right Stuff

Midnite Cowboy The person was a male (Jon Voight)...he got the enema from his kinky Grandma Sally Buck as punishment for being caught fucking his girlfriend.

Born on 4th of July

The Devils

Johnny Got His Gun

"One"- Metallica's video-where nurse was doing something with colon tube

THE DROWNING POOL, where there is a douche bag and hose hanging on the shower curtain.

"The Devils" Vanessa Redgrave She gets a public enema?

A PRIVATE FUNCTION (or is it A PRIVATE AFFAIR? higgonson syringe.

In Nine Months, Robin Williams talks about giving the mother to be an enema. The pregnant lady yells "An enema?" Then Williams says "Episiotomy, enema, I get them mixed up"

Doctor Zhiavago

Rachel Rachel.

Tommy Tommy

One Flew Over The Cukokoos Nest

Sybil

Eating Raoul

"8 MM "

Miss Congeniality II

"Ilsa--She Wolf of the SS"

Little Rascals car in "Freewheeling" has a large enema bag and tubing prominantly displayed on the side.

Dick VanDyke movie (don't remember the title in which a full enema bag is hanging over his bed in a hospital and later it shows it empty and him frantic.

Devil in Miss Jones with the huge hose insertion and fill up at the end.

Flubber..Fred MacMurray has an enema bag among other gizmos around his waist when he flies.(I think?)

Tommy...Uncle has a bag swung over his back as he's going up some stairs.

Joann Wodward movie where her mom finds a bag in a bag in the closet "Lilith Charles"

The Ken Russell film mentioned here was "The Devils" and it was Sister Jeanne (Vanessa Redgrave) who receives a holy water enema to "purge her" of a demon who, it has been deemed, has lodged in her bowels.

Enema torture scene in "Soldier of Orange" about a WWII resistance fighter who was captured by the Gestapo.

Grace Metallious said it in Peyton Place when the little boy (Alfred) was running home and thinking that he might look

flushed when he got there - and that this would mean his mother would give him an enema that night before bed - and that he didn't really mind, because the enema was such a deliciously bittersweet experience

In the Kindergarten Kid the bad guys mom takes him in to a drug store and buys a combination syringe "for your enema". When he protests she points out that he was rarely sick as a child due, no doubt , to regular enemas!

In LA Story, Steve Martin's girlfriend extolls the benefits of colonic irrigations and gets him to take one.

In this years Gun Shy our reluctant hero is given a barium enema by the self styled "enema queen"

In the 50's comedy "Please Don't Eat The Daisies", the opening shot has Doris Day's boys using a fountain syringe to fill up paper bags with water that they drop on the heads of unsuspecting people passing by their apartments window.

Denny

Didn't you know that Doris Day was a big proponent of enemas?....she was!...

There were also interesting scenes in Midnight Cowboy, the dutch film, Soldier

of Orange, the Road to Wellville, Enemas were also given in The Right Stuff.

Mae West took two enemas a day for all her adult life. Yes, Doris Day was a big promoter of enemas. Demi Moore said, on an afternoon talk show, that she took enemas while filming that movie about her being a stripper.

And in David Spoto's book on Marilyn Monroe, he said she also took regular enemas for weight control. Apparently many actresses took regular enemas for that reason during the 50s and 60s. And I've heard, but don't know for sure,

that Michael Jackson is into enemas. Actually, who knows who is and who isn't actually into enemas. I'm into them big time, but would never announce it to the world. Debbie B.

Just thinking of the movie Batman where Jack Nicholson is trying to take over

Gotham City and he announces......."What this town needs is an....... ENEMA"

Another funny scene is in "The Right Stuff" where the astronauts in training are

given barium enemas and then made to take an elevator to the next floor while

holding their emptied enema bags with double balloon rectal catheter in place (you know what

place I am referring to, right?

Michael Jacksons mother took the kids quite often to a colonic parlor Janet

Jackson takes black coffee enemas for depression Elvis Presley in latter life

took an enema before every performance so he wouldn't have an accident

johnny wiesmuller was into enemas

In The End Burt Reynolds was getting a barium enema

In Canadian Bacon Rhea Pearlman had an enema hose wrapped around her The movie

was The doctor with William Hurt One of my favorite movies He was a real

bastard. His wife was real upset that they gave the wrong patient the enema

Check out Fran Dresher's book- Cancer Schmancer-about mid book or around page 89 or higher-this tv star tells about getting her first ever enema on a bed in a hospitalon her knees-she refers to it as The Harris Flush-and she describes being given the enema in the presence of her boyfriend-i kid you not-she writes about this experience with humor when she was undergoing cancer treatment-it is a great read

"Cheaper By the Dozen

Not sure if this was mentioned, but just saw the comedy Wrongfully Accused with Leslie Nielsen, and about 35 minutes into the movie, he has a seductive scene with a lady, and mentions "an enema" as they both kiss and fall to the floor 😃.

While watching an old rerun of In Living Color, Jim Carrey was playing Fireman Bill and he was in the hospital for burns and injuries when he suddenly pulled up an enema bag with the word "NITRO" on it. He took the nozzle and jammed it at his ass and took the enema. (All of this was behind him where you could not see) He asked a passing nurse to pull his finger, and as she did, the camera panned to the outside of the building when suddenly one whole floor blows up! It was a great skit. Hope this wasn't mentioned before.

Not being used in its proper fashion, but in quantum leap they used an enema bat and tubing as an improvised iv bag.

Last night on HBO's *silicon valley* a young male lawyer was on the phone with a client and suddenly said, " sorry...gotta go, my enema guy is here", and you then see the back of a man carrying a small duffel bag. just a passing reference.

In "Practical Magic" Sandra B. Turns and runs into a jones can on the wall used as a planter

I was watching a pbs series entitled "Call the Midwife" last evening, I believe it was the second season, episode 8 which had quite a vivid enema reference. One of the midwives, herself was pregnant and going into labor when an enema to be given to her was discussed. One of the midwives held up a white enameled Jones can with a long length of red tubing and a large, black, curved douche nozzle. The nurse holding the can remarked that the enema was going to be High, Hot and Hellvalot. My wife was lying there beside me also watching. She didn't say anything, but I know she probably thought that was pushing some of my buttons, witch it certainly was. I wanted that syringe and enema in me.

I recall that scene from Car Wash. I saw that movie not long ago and thought how unusual to see the reference to enemas.

With the role Sandra B played in Gun Shy and the Practical Magic enema can scene.................... Is there something that we can infer ?

Calling the Midwife series is all about enemas, but the story line just dances around dropping tidbits in about every third episode.

But one is special, Where this girl is the heroine and saves the day, after a lot of very stressful calamity. She is from another world and did extra research to prove a serious, misdiagnosed malady of a dying war hero. This "in Charge" authority rewards her with an enema that she can't refuse. You have to be able to read between the lines and recognize the new midwife's expression. I rewound it and the wife popped up, "What are you doing!" I played it again and waited to see if she could see what they all knew without saying anything. When I told her, she said I was sick. I said, "Well that may be, but try and interpret the girl's expression for me." And I rewound it again.

They knew, enemas were both work and fun, otherwise the writers would not know how to have put such a complicated piece together with such a subtle punch line, as the British are famous for.

Enema brain, me

Keep in mind, "Car Wash" Was set in the 1950s, and made in the 1970s. In the 1950s women were encouraged to douche. Many public ladies rooms had one or more sinks designed so you could fill a douche bag under them. I believe the "Getting out the equipment" scene in Car Wash is actually more in reference to that!

I just noticed while doing a laugh-a-thon of 3rd Rock from the Sun, that in episode 21 of the second season, called Sensitive Dick, that professor Dick Solomon asks his assistant Nina if she´s already scheduled his high colonic. She gives him a typical withering look and retorts that she doesn´t schedule enemas ...

Not funny when told like this of course, but it´s all part of the episode´s theme which is ´sensitivity´ as a human being, which Dick Solomon, as usual takes to absurd, uncomprehending lengths.

What about "Call the midwife" ???

In which episodes (except for 1) can we find enema reference ???

See the CSI episode 23 season 2 "The hunger artist": a top model takes fleet enemas for weight loss.

In season 3 episode 4 of Orange is the New Black, while having a drink at a bar with one of the new prison administrators, Caputo says:

"I've got CO's up my ass like a lemon juice enema! Oh, like your mom never did it to you? Come on."

I was watching alone, but that line still made my eyes open wide and a smile spread across my face.

In one of the first episodes of Call the Midwife, the head midwife tells a pregnant woman, about to give birth, that she's going to shave her. The patient answers that she already shaved, she knows the procedure since she's already had several children. The midwife answers that perhaps she has already taken an enema. The woman says that she does not want one, that it's not dignified. Some female relative says something like that if she wanted dignity she should not be in this predicament.

So then we see a cheerful head midwife mixing hot water and soap and announcing hot high and the hellofalot.

Then we see the assistant nurse taking down some kind of bucket or potty covered by a cloth, some clueless male relative asks if it's the after-birth, she simply says "no". Most probably it was the expelled enema.

The actual giving is not shown but one can surmise the unpleasantness of the injection of that very soapy water, probably a rush to the potty while being helped by the midwifes... and most probably expulsion in front of the midwives.

Then later in the series, a midwife is pregnant. She wants to get out of the enema and asks her colleagues to pretend giving one to her, but they refuse and announce "hot high and the hellofalot". And there comes the soapy water.

Any other scenes in that series?

Cleanbean: "CO's"? Commanding officers?

On CSI Season 5 Episode 15 "King Baby" the title character is given LSD enemas by an "Nanny" so he can let go and be a baby.

http://www.csifiles.com/reviews/csi/king_baby.shtml

In the first season episode, the Pancake Batter, Sheldon is sick and in a conversation with Penny, Penny agrees to take care of him but she says, "no sponge baths and no enemas."

Cleanbean: "CO's"? Commanding officers?

Corrections Officers. The show is about a women's prison.

"Dr Zhivago" is a favorite movie, and I have watched it several times through the years. The scene when Julie Christie's (Lara's) stomach was pumped after a suicide attempt shows her lying face down with her bottom partly exposed and the doctor shaking a thermometer. It doesn't appear Julie (Lara) was given an enema. I think we are led to believe the doctor had just taken her rectal temperature.

The TV series M*A*S*H was always referring to enemas and I can recall Hawkeye recommending a High Colonic for a General.

In 'Silicon Valley' there is a short reference when one of the wacko trendy lawyers, Ron Laflamme, has to hang up the phone because 'my enema guy is here' ... and you catch a glimpse of him beginning to unbuckle his belt ...

"Dr Zhivago" is a favorite movie, and I have watched it several times through the years. The scene when Julie Christie's stomach was pumped after a suicide attempt shows her lying face down with her bottom partly exposed and the doctor shaking a thermometer. It doesn't appear Julie was given an enema. I think we are led to believe the doctor had just taken her rectal temperature.

Wow, I will have to re-watch the scene, or the whole movie again sometime soon. I saw it when still a young teenager and I remember the scene as something that sent a naughty shiver through me for some reason. Maybe this explains why.

I know boys aren't supposed to, but boy oh boy, did I ever have a crush on Julie Christie. She was something back then. Now too, but in a different way.

In one of the James Bond movies, (maybe Moonraker??) Sean Connery is told he will be getting a colonic as it had been a long time since he he had been active in the service.

Moonraker was a Roger Moore movie and was the one featuring space shuttles.

I believe the one you mean is 'Never Say Never Again'.

Going back a couple of decades, Vicki Lawrence had a daytime talk show. The episode I happened to see part of, had Carol Burnett and the cast members of her show there for the unavailing of full size wax figures of them all. Vicki said "They look like we all need an enema" to loud laughter from the audience and her guests.

Cleanbean: But... are lemon juice enemas that common as a treatment!?

Cleanbean: But... are lemon juice enemas that common as a treatment!?

Apparently Caputo thought they were, or so his mother must have told him as she was pressing on his back, nozzle in hand, bending him over the edge of the bathtub. "Just think," she would have told a 10 year old Joey Caputo, "Billy and Jenny down the street are probably getting their Wednesday evening clean out right now, just like you are. Now be a good boy Joey, don't put up such a fuss. You're getting this enema one way or another, you might as well learn to enjoy it."

A sign of great acting and writing is the viewer's desire to continue to envision and build on the backstory.