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-"'''Toot Sweets'''" is a song from ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film)|Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'', the 1968 [[musical film|musical]] [[motion picture]]. In the film it is sung by [[Dick Van Dyke]] and [[Sally Ann Howes]]. "Toot Sweets" is also featured prominently in the multi-award-winning [[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (musical)|stage musical of the same name]] which premiered in [[London]] at the [[London Palladium|Palladium]] in 2002 and on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in 2005 at the newly refurbished [[Foxwoods Theatre]] (then the Hilton Theatre). The song was written by [[Robert B. Sherman]] and [[Richard M. Sherman]] (also known as the [[Sherman Brothers]]).
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-The song title is a play on words, a humorous Anglicisation of the French expression "[[tout de suite]]", meaning "at once" or "right away". During [[World War I]] British soldiers serving in France, most of whom could not speak French, adopted the phrase as "toot sweet" to mean "hurry up" or "look smart".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/390125.html|title=The meaning and origin of the expression: Tout de suite|last=Martin|first=Gary|work=The Phrase Finder|publisher=Gary Martin|accessdate=23 August 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19971002 |title=Toot seet|last=Sanders|first=Jack|date=2 October 1992|work=The Mavens' word of the day|publisher= Random House LLC|accessdate=23 August 2013}}</ref>
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-In the context of the film and stage musical, "Toot Sweets" is about a piece of [[confectionery]] ("sweet" being a noun in British parlance that is a synonym for a piece of confectionery) invented by the main character, [[Caractacus Potts]], which has holes in it, making the sweet playable as an edible whistle that makes a "toot" sound when it is blown into. Unfortunately for Potts, the toot sweets act like dog whistles, calling all the local canines into the sweet factory, ruining the sanitary conditions of the factory and turning love interest [[Truly Scrumptious|Truly]]'s father against him.
-==Other meanings==
-In the late 1960s, [[Mattel]] sold a toy called "Toot Sweet". It was a device that molded [[Tootsie Rolls]] into whistles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.retroist.com/2010/03/10/mattels-tastitoy-tootsweet-candy-whistle-maker/|title=Mattel's Tastitoy Tootsweet Candy Whistle Maker|publisher=The Retroist|accessdate=7 March 2014}}</ref>
-"Tootsweet" was an artificial sweetener made from sewage sludge in a 1991 video game titled "The Adventures of Willy Beamish". The game was created by Dynamix and published by Sierra On-line.
-"Toot Sweet" is also the title of another song, also known as "It's Really Love", composed by [[Paul Anka]] in 1959. It became [[Johnny's Theme]] for [[The Tonight Show]].
-==External sources==
-* [[Sherman, Robert B.]] (1998). ''[[Walt's Time|Walt's Time: From Before to Beyond]]''. Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree Publishers.
-==References==
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-[[Category:1968 songs]]
 [[Category:Dick Van Dyke songs]]
-[[Category:Songs from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]
-[[Category:Songs written by the Sherman Brothers]]
-[[Category:Fictional food and drink]]