Why did Mr. Ed only talk to Wilbur and no one else. Did Wilbur have special powers like a horse

[debm55]

whisperer? Was there something wrong with Wilbur-did he just imagine it because he had had no one else to talk to?? What is your theory on why Wilbur and Mr. Ed could talk to each other?? Thank you.

[Ocelot II]

1. It was a TV show for kids?

[debm55]

2. When I was a kid, I never had a horse talk to me, did you??????

[Ocelot II]

3. Kids' shows are often fantasies.

It's fun to imagine a talking animal. If a horse could talk, what would it say? There's a whole series of mystery novels involving talking cats, and they're silly but kind of fun.

[debm55]

6. But if so, some kids might think an animal could really talk and be shocked when they can't.

[Ocelot II]

8. Some kids think Santa Claus is real. I don't see the problem.

I wasn't shocked when I learned Santa Claus wasn't real or that my imaginary friend was imaginary.

[debm55]

12. I was thinking of why Mr. Ed only talked to Wil-Bur and no one else.

[Effete Snob]

18. Lol....

I always love "How are we supposed to explain this to THE CHILDREN?"

You know, those people who have to explain to their children what all the products in the drugstore do?

All they have to do is ask their mother....



Or that nice man who lives next door...



I admit, though, that as I grew older, I realized that keeping Barbara Eden in a bottle in my mod living room wasn't going to work out as a life plan.



They weren't even married!

But, seriously, was there a pilot for My Mother the Car that explained it? Because I never questioned the premise of the show. I mean, okay, that's the title, let's get on with it.

[debm55]

25. That was one show I never watched--My Mother the Car. Did Tony ever go in Jeannie"s bottle? Who was

the Unfavorite Martian?

[Effete Snob]

30. Some nights, he'd hit the bottle pretty hard

Of course, sometimes Ward Cleaver was pretty rough on the Beaver too...

He'd pick up some movies from Colonel Hogan, and she'd let him come in the bottle...

[debm55]

33. Another question. Why did Beaver and Wally have to share a bedroom? That house had a least 4 bedroom

so there was room for each to have his own room????

[Effete Snob]

39. Hogan's Heroes was shot on the same lot

...and they were hiding refugees in the other bedroom.

[wcmagumba]

4. Just another episode from a different holographic multiverse...anything's possible...nt

[rsdsharp]

5. Only Wilbur was mean enough to put the thread over Ed's gums.

Carol was too nice to do that, so Ed couldn’t “talk” to her.

[debm55]

9. So why didn't he talk to Carol instead of Wil-Bur?

[rsdsharp]

14. The way they made Ed "talk" was to put a thread over his gums.

He moved his mouth trying to dislodge it. I faceitiously said that only Wilbur was mean enough to do that. No thread, no “talk.”

[debm55]

26. rsdsharp, Mr. Ed pronounced it Wil---Bur.

[Mr.Bill]

40. I heard they got him to move his mouth by feeding him peanut butter. n/t

[rsdsharp]

41. That's what they told people. But after a while, Ed didn't need the thread.

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[Sneederbunk]

7. Francis the Talking Mule was popular in the movies.

This was an attempt to duplicate success in tv. By the time of Mr. Ed, their were no mules in the Army.

[debm55]

10. So they uesd a Palamino Horse? Why didn't he talk to everyone instead of just Wil-Bur?

[Sneederbunk]

11. Only Wilbur fed him.

[debm55]

13. ohhhhhh

[50 Shades Of Blue]

15. What a good question, LOL!

But I never questioned it, maybe because I grew up on Walt Disney animated movies and other cartoons, comic books, and fairy tales... talking animals were part of my world as a kid, and also as a kid I was used to arbitrary situations, so it never occurred to me to wonder why Ed only talked to Wilbur. I was more puzzled by how they got Mr. Ed's mouth to move that way.

[debm55]

29. That's true also. He moved his mouth like he had a carmel inside.

[usonian]

16. Mister Ed was a "stable" genius.

He knew Wilbur was a good foil.

[wcmagumba]

22. Just his back end, as "stable geniuses" go these days anyway...nt

[debm55]

24. Didn't tRump say he was a stable genius?

[wcmagumba]

28. Yup, my reference is to this...should have mentioned that...

[Meadowoak]

17. Mr. Ed used to talk to people on the phone.

[debm55]

20. Oh yes, you are right. But the person on the other other end didn't know he was talking to a horse.

How do you know you are/aren't talking to a horse when you answer your phone?????

[Meadowoak]

23. Sometimes he'd even make prank calls.

[debm55]

34. Or scam calls.

[debm55]

35. You mean like "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?" "Well, let him out"

[Meadowoak]

42. Yep

[Midnight Writer]

19. My question is why did Samantha marry Darren? Talk about fantasy.

[debm55]

21. I liked the first Darrin better. JMO

[Effete Snob]

27. Sargent York?

[debm55]

31. Dick York.

[Effete Snob]

32. Dick Sargent

They merged into Sargent York.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

38. Ditto! Didn't like second one at all.

[Metaphorical]

36. Edit the sound track

I remember seeing Star Wars one time where the music track had become damaged enough to be mostly inaudible. I realized at that point just how truly bad George Lucas' dialog truly was.

Take out the laugh track and Mr. Ed's dialog, and the series becomes considerably darker.

[Harker]

37. It's possible that Wilbur was mentally ill...

and that Ed spoke to no one.

[Yavin4]

43. This. Exactly this.

If either a horse or God speaks to just one person and no one else...then that person is suffering from a mental illness.

[Harker]

44. Maybe it ought to have been presented without a laugh track. n/t

[Effete Snob]

45. Like Jimmy Stewart in Harvey

[debm55]

50. Right

[Skittles]

46. you are mistaken, Mr. Ed talked to CLINT EASTWOOD!

[Harker]

47. And Clint talked to the trees.

[debm55]

48. and chairs.

[Harker]

49. Right!

I forgot about that.

[Effete Snob]

51. Lol