God Bless You, Phoebe Dinsmore
- Time for another quick look at Variety headlines. We get a pair: "Hollywood Learns to talk" and "Big Bonanza for Diction Coaches."
- Then we're inside the office of diction coach Phoebe Dinsmore. She's working with Lina. God bless you, Ms. Dinsmore.
- Things are not going well. Lina struggles with her one practice line, "And I can't stand him."
- Dinsmore tries to get Lina to employ warm, round tones. Lina tries, but still sounds like an armadillo stubbing its toe.
- Cut away to Don: He's also working with a diction coach, and he's killing it.
- Cosmo shows up just as the nerdy coach is giving Don some tongue twisters. Cosmo pulls faces behind the stuffy coach's back as he speaks.
- Then Cosmo and Don take the coach's last tongue twister—"Moses supposes his toeses are roses…"—and turn it into a rollicking, silly song and dance number called, what else, "Moses Supposes." We don't think they're taking Don's vocal education very seriously.
- "Moses Supposes" is the second of the two, and only two, original songs in Singin' in the Rain.
- The number culminates in Don and Cosmo covering the diction coach in assorted furniture, knickknacks, and garbage from his office.
- Just to be clear: Shmoop does not advocate the practice of tossing garbage on your teacher, no matter how fun it looks.