This one’s not a mystery. It’s just a reminder that being replaced by machines, especially computers, is not new at all. And not unrealistic at all.
What’s the hat got to do with it? The hat is the punch line; otherwise it’s just two thugs.
Mirages? I note in passing that styles in swimsuits haven’t changed all that much in 60 years. This song is just a handful of years earlier.
Comics I Don't Understand 
The swimsuits on the left look contemporary, but the elderly gentleman’s dream involves the beauties on the right, dressed as they would have been in his youth.
P.S. I don’t think that the thugs were trying to remind him that it is impolite to wear hats indoors; they are probably hoping to remove the hat for him after they get him outside.
Who knew the “poor little girl” in the song was actually a little girl!
I absolutely knew that song! But never the performer’s name, and never saw his astonishing weird appearance and performance mannerisms!
I have a sketchbook of mine somewhere with a three panel comic in it where a lab tech is looking through a microscope, sees a protozoa in a bikini, and gasps “Brian Hyland is back”. Didn’t register with any of the few folks I showed it to without explanation.
Poor Brian Hyland, everyone remembers his song but no one remembers him.
Scopitone has the bikini song in French, and it is not classier –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eivMiPq5ZLI
Neat! Though it bugs me that the woman sings “un, deux, trois” on beats 2, 3, and 4!
It bugs me that Christine Baranski stole her look.
@powers, better not think too much about the song “Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat”
Poor Brian. Lip-syncing is hard enough if you’ve done it often, but he’s having a hard time. He messes up at about 1:41. So he’s overacting to cover. Speaking of lip-syncing, in the movie The Sound of Music, I always wondered why the nun backs into the shadows when she sings Climb Every Mountain, until I learned that she’s lip-syncing to someone else’s singing and wasn’t very good at it.
@Powers: She couldn’t think of a rhyme for “quatre”.
I chuckled out loud at the commuter train one.
Grawlix (11): Yes, me too; that one was actually funny.
Computers didn’t exactly replace everyone’s job. They took on more work than any amount of humans could possibly do.
Example: In 1950 when you went to the grocery store, the cashier rang up your items but the cash register only had broad categories like Meat and Dairy. Once every few days the employees stayed late and counted inventory to find out whether they needed to stock up on more milk or ice cream. The accountants had the task of reconciling the inventory with the receipts.
Now with bar codes and continuous inventory systems, the computers automatically calculate how many gallons of milk to order. Your cash register receipt is itemized; instead of “DR” for Dairy it says “Hood 1% milk gallon”.
It doesn’t look to me like there are fewer employees in the story now than there were in the 1950’s.
Computers did the more tedious tasks.
Also, the computer systems needed technicians to keep them running.