What did Billie Joe throw off the Tallahatchee Bridge with the narrator of the song?

A used condom.

His MAGA hat.

Haven’t you seen the movie? He gets fucked by his male boss one drunken night at the town fair.

If I hadn't seen the movie, r3, then why do you think I would have listed "A ragdoll (like in the Robby Benson movie based on the song)" as one of the options?

Try to read the original post through next time.

Celine Dion, hopefully.

Billie Joe's dildo.

^ It's hinted at throughout the song with so many words and phrases that rhyme with dildo:

Billie Joe

Tupelo

Carroll County Picture Show

a gun

Boo Radley

Guido

Mike Pence

Meghan Markle. Unfortunately, she could swim.

The remains of a drifter left over from their thrill-kill spree.

I think it was just a dry run for his jump.

His underwear stained with another guy's cum.

Marlo Thomas.

R14, interesting guess, but the song says someone was with him when he threw something off, so I'm thinking not.

Well whatever he threw off, he jumped off today (June 3) according to the song.

The movie premiered June 3, 1976. I remember seeing it in the movie theater when it played the second-run theater in my neighborhood. Seeing Robby Benson on screen, made this 12 year old realize he was gay. Something in my underwear got hard as a rock and would go down until the credits rolled.

Copious amounts of pot, silly!

Jeff Thomas

In the movie it was a rag doll.

Common sense.

Robby Benson's career.

Weird film, though it did make money. Have no idea why they chose a gay plot. There must have been a lot of pearl-clutching when locals saw the fonal cut:

"Made for $1.1 million, the film grossed $27 million at the box office, plus earnings in excess of $2.65 million in the foreign market, $4.75 million from television, and $2.5 million from video. However, reviews were mostly negative.

Gentry's song recounts the day when Billie Joe McAllister committed suicide by jumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge on Choctaw Ridge, Mississippi. When Gentry discussed the screenplay with Raucher, she explained she did not know why the real person who inspired the character of Billie Joe had killed himself. Raucher thus had a free hand to pick a reason. His novelization of the story, published the year of the film's release as a movie tie-in, used the same rationale for the suicide.

The June 12, 1975 issue of The Hollywood Reporter announced the completion of a $3.5 million deal between Max Baer, Jr. and Warner Bros. Pictures for a film based on Bobbie Gentry's hit song, “Ode To Billie Joe.” Baer offered Gentry and her publisher a large percentage of the film's receipts, and paid Herman Raucher $250,000 and a share of the profits to write the screenplay. Raucher was chosen because he had written the hit film Summer of '42. Baer had intended to cast unknown actors in the lead roles of “Bobbie Lee Hartley” and “Billy Joe McAllister,” eventually picking Glynnis O'Connor and Robby Benson, who had previously starred together in the teen film Jeremy."

Oh brother I’m glad I didn’t see the movie. I’m so sick of the plot device ‘gay commits suicide because he is gay’.

But I always thought the family had no idea the daughter was involved with Billie Jo and that is why they were so unconcerned. It would not be cruelty if they didn’t know.

But did they know?

I wanted Robby Benson to kiss me under the bleachers.

Yes, in the movie & the Raucher novel, Bobbie Lee's favorite rag doll, Benjamin gets accidentally tossed in the river. Benjamin is sort of an imaginary friend/confidant to Bobbie Lee. R26, in the novel, it's hinted that the parents knew, & the James (the brother definitely knew that Bobbie Lee had a beau without her parent's permission.

I think an aborted or miscarried fetus ended up in the river.

He threw chitlins, fried green tomatoes, sweet potato pie Crisco, some bootlegger moonshine, a Confederate flag, a mint julep, an Ernest Tubb record, a cotton bale, a half-ate possum and a mason jar of sweet tea of the blah blah bridge.

*off the

Directed by Jethro Clampett

R29 “a half ate possum”

Hahahaa!

R26 I think he threw himself off the bridge because he was raped by his boss not because he’s gay per se

R31 And he’s still alive !

Agree that the Tragic Gay Hookup storyline is beyond tedious.

OMG! How stupid of me. It was Jethro BODINE.

R36

I still can't hit the 'words and wisdome' button and get it to work for me. I don't know why this is but I so agree with you.

R34 Right. Yeah. I read that was it but still an overdone plot.

Oh dear. I spelled 'wisdom' 'wisdome'.

Is the movie streaming anywhere these days ? How about 'Jeremy' ?

She threw Crissy Metz snack purse off the Tallahachee Bridge. Thus causing a tsunami which drowned 34 people.

The tsunami was caused 30 seconds later when, Ms Metz did her swan dive to try and retrieve it.

[quote]The narrator's baby (but why did no one know she was pregnant?)

And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

And drop them into the bloody water off the Tallahatchie Bridge

R40 and worse you typed "I so agree"

Right. Yeah. R39

R45 Incorrect?