{"id":4416,"date":"2011-09-25T09:59:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T14:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2019-11-25T20:16:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T01:16:44","slug":"soap-sissies-movie-matinee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/25\/soap-sissies-movie-matinee\/","title":{"rendered":"Soap is for Sissies &#8211; Movie Matinee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Wash, wash, wash! They just want me to be a sissy!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_4423\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/soapy.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4423\" data-attachment-id=\"4423\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/25\/soap-sissies-movie-matinee\/soapy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/soapy.jpg?fit=640%2C456&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,456\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"soapy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Night He Came Home!&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/soapy.jpg?fit=640%2C456&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4423\" title=\"soapy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/soapy.jpg?resize=640%2C456&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/soapy.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/soapy.jpg?resize=300%2C213&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Night He Came Home!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all heard that cleanliness is next to Godliness, but it&#8217;s also next to homosexuality in Billy&#8217;s mind. So instead of washing up, he plays cowboy all by himself and basks in his own filth. That is until he is visited in his bedroom by the spectral image of a man dressed as a cake of soap who sort of sounds like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clifton_Webb\"><strong>Clifton Webb<\/strong>.<\/a> He opens up Billy&#8217;s world to <em><strong>soap.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dirty-cowboy.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4422\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/25\/soap-sissies-movie-matinee\/dirty-cowboy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dirty-cowboy.jpg?fit=640%2C476&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,476\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"dirty-cowboy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dirty-cowboy.jpg?fit=640%2C476&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4422\" title=\"dirty-cowboy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dirty-cowboy.jpg?resize=640%2C476&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dirty-cowboy.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dirty-cowboy.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/duderanch.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4420\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/25\/soap-sissies-movie-matinee\/duderanch\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/duderanch.jpg?fit=640%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,482\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"duderanch\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/duderanch.jpg?fit=640%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4420\" title=\"duderanch\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/duderanch.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/duderanch.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/duderanch.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/duderanch.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Soapy the Germ Fighter<\/strong><\/em> assures Billy that it&#8217;s not <em>sissy<\/em> to be clean and tells him all about germs and the danger they pose to health and public safety. He assures Billy that once the boys at the dude ranch get all hot and sweaty, the first thing they do is wash up and make themselves presentable. Nobody loves a smelly cowboy!<br \/>\nSoapy also champions city and county employees known as health inspectors. He assures us that they are also on the lookout for the tiny enemies of mankind rather than shaking down restaurants for payoffs and sleeping in the county&#8217;s van.<\/p>\n<p>So if you want to see the origins of Billy&#8217;s obsessive compulsive disorder, watch <em><strong>Soapy The Germ Fighter<\/strong><\/em> embedded below!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/soapy_the_germ_fighter\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wash, wash, wash! They just want me to be a sissy! We&#8217;ve all heard that cleanliness is next to Godliness, but it&#8217;s also next to homosexuality in Billy&#8217;s mind. So instead of washing up, he plays cowboy all by himself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/25\/soap-sissies-movie-matinee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[368,401],"tags":[811,813,113,721,817,815,818,819,816,812,814,336],"class_list":["post-4416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-matinee","category-mrs-crankipants","tag-811","tag-camp","tag-cowboy","tag-dirt","tag-dude-ranch","tag-educational","tag-filth","tag-germs","tag-sissy","tag-soapy-the-germ-fighter","tag-social-engineering","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-19e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2944,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/05\/29\/this-sunday-matinee-is-brought-to-you-by-vanquish-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":4416,"position":0},"title":"This Sunday Matinee is Brought to You by Vanquish","author":"Mrs. Crankipants","date":"May 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This week we switch from movies to television and we switch presenters from Joe to Mrs. Crankipants, so take it away Mrs C! 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