Inside, the bartender repeatedly dings the cash register and makes the joke, "Look at me, I'm giving out wings!" You gotta admit, it's not a bad burn. Martini's bar, to find that it has been replaced with "Nick's." But it's fun now! There's live music! A chummy bartender with a Trans-Atlantic accent! Bailey is short with the bartender, Clarence tries to order a "Flaming rum punch," then mentions his spiel about angels getting wings when bells are heard, and the two of them end up face-first in the snow outside. RKO Radio PicturesĪnd then he goes to his old buddy Mr. Bailey, drunk off his ass, accosts a passerby, and insists the town is called "Bedford Falls." The guy responds, "Don't you think I know where I live?" He's not in the wrong. When Jimmy Stewart's All-American loan banker first drifts through the multiverse and lands in the alternate dimension of Pottersville, everybody’s really mean to him. Pottersville looks fun as hell! At least, more fun than sleepy Bedford Falls, where the coolest thing you can do is throw rocks at a condemned house or sled into an icy pond and suffer lifelong hearing loss.Īdmit it, Clarence–Bedford Falls is better off without George Bailey. Potter, the immoral real estate mogul who stakes claim to the place, is obviously is a very shitty old coot, so it's sad to see him in power, but you just can’t deny the irony of the situation. Can you imagine? Jazz music! Not in my Christian street!īut over 60 years after the film was released back in 1946, Pottersville doesn't look quite so bad anymore.
Without George Bailey, Bedford Falls becomes "Pottersville," a hive of sin and villainy, where sex workers roam the streets freely and the film's orchestral soundtrack is replaced with jazz music. The picturesque storefronts on the town's main road turn into a drag of "jitterbug" bars and billiards halls, there's flashing lights everywhere, and we even see advertisements for strip clubs.
When George Bailey contemplates suicide and recedes into the Twilight Zone in It's A Wonderful Life, the old-fashioned American values of Bedford Falls go dark.
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