This isn’t one of those every-time-I-watch-Citizen-Kane-I-see-something-new threads, but more like :smack: “How could I have missed that Seinfeld has a Superman statue?”
Ever had one of those realizations after you’ve seen a movie or TV show or listened to a song over and over again, that something perfectly obvious was happening that you simply hadn’t noticed?
While watching a rerun of a rerun of Frasier I suddenly became aware that, whenever Frasier’s voice was on the radio in his condo, Eddie the dog sat facing the speakers with his head cocked like Nipper from the old RCA Victor ads.
It occured to me recently why most seasons of Reno 911 end with the writers basically writing themselves into a corner with all the characters dying or something. The first episode of the next season ALWAYS reveals the previous ending to be a dream.
What do you call “it was all just a dream” resolutions?
A Cop Out! :smack: :smack: Oy that’s such a lame pun that it cracks me up every time.
Growing up, Jerry Spinelli’s Maniac Magee was one of my favorite books- I read it at least once a year. I have a very screwed up immediate and extended family, so I identified strongly with Jeffrey. I thought the book was about kids who were neglected by their parents and had to raise themselves.
It wasn’t until I was twenty-three that I realized that racism was the main theme of the book.
Sort of a forest-for-the-trees thing, I think.
Also, it took me a loooooooong time to notice the subtle twist at the end of Crichton’s Sphere.
In the Parrot Sketch, when John Cleese is yelling at Polly to try and wake him up, he lifts the birdcage up to mouth level, and opens the door of the birdcage to yell at the parrot.
I tend to think that the Pythons gift was more in their writing than their performing, but that little gesture helps sell the sketch in a subtle way.
On the episode of Seinfeld where he does the voice for his girlfriend’s stomach (making it say “Helloooo!”), when she gives him an ultimatum to stop doing the voice or give her up and he’s sitting on the bench soul-searching, Lionel Richie’s “Hello” is playing. I must’ve seen that episode dozens of times before the song’s relevance hit me.
I don’t know for a fact where the inspiration came from, but I do remember reading a piece (over 30 years ago) that claimed the inspiration was some quote about the Future and the Pat, and in between being The Doors.
He kept it pretty well hidden with clipboards and other props. I’ve been looking ever since I heard of it but to no avail. The image linked to may make it look worse than it is, however.
A co-worker pointed out something about last week’s episode of The Sopranos that I had missed (and I’m usually pretty hip to this kind of thing):
Sil keeps being shown with the “Cleaver” poster over/behind his head, as foreshadowing.
I won’t count that specifically, because I haven’t seen that episode 100 times, but here’s what did hit me last week: the title of Christopher’s film, Cleaver, ties in nicely with the father-son relationship Tony keeps talking about with him, and Tony’s having seen his own father use a cleaver in the pork store that time.
Pepper Mill caught this one, while we were watching The Wizard of Oz for the zillionth time with MilliCal (and had grown up watching it all our lives).
As the Wizard gives one of the trio his award (the Tin Man or the Cowardly Lion – I don’t recall which) a Flash Bulb goes off, as if a cameraman for a newspaper is recording the event for posterity. It’s obvious once it’s pointed out, and is clearly deliberate, but I never caught it before.
This surely won’t startle anybody, and it may have occurred to me before the 100th viewing (which hasn’t happened yet) and I may have even read it before I figured it out myself. In any case, James Dean’s three major movie roles (Cal Trask, Jim Stark, and Jett Rink) all had 8-letter names, and the first two last names are anagrams.
