I got nothin’.
However, if you would like to listen to the show’s theme song, go to:
http://www.critic.nohomers.net/Special_Extras.html
Along the lines of the Gibson/Glover bit in Maverick, in Coming to America, Eddie Murphy gives a bag full of money to two bums, Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy, who played the Duke brothers Murphy bankrupts in Trading Places.
The Doris Day Show had an episode where the character (secretary Doris Martin) gets entered into a Doris-Day look-alike contest by her kids, to whom she complains, “I don’t look anything like Doris Day!”
While Rocky is training for the first fight in Rocky III, a ditzy blonde comes up and asks Rocky if she can have a kiss. Rocky awkwardly consents, braving Adrian’s jealous glare. The ditzy blonde was played by Stallone’s real-life wife.
I didn’t see this one, but had it described to me:
In an episode of Newhart (the one where he’s an innkeeper), Bob at some point visits a shrink. He waits outside the office until the door opens, and out walks the actor who played Mr. Carlin (Jack Riley), the surly real-estate tycoon patient on The Bob Newhart Show. He glares at Bob and snarls something like, “What’s your problem?” Inside the office, the shrink apologizes for his surly patient, explaining that “some quack in Chicago really messed him up”. (This became even funnier after the series’ final episode).
On a recent episode of Veronica Mars, the opening scene of the show has Veronica talking about another student and saying, “we used to be friends … a long time ago.” The scene then cuts to the opening credits and the theme song which begins with the same lines.
In the Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, which was the first film to feature an actor as Bond who was not Sean Connery, there are several near-broken-fourth wall references. He breaks the wall with his comment at the end of the pre-credits teaser sequence (after the lovely Diana Rigg runs off from his rescue) by holding her lost shoe (Prince Charming reference), turning to the camera and saying, “This never happened to the other fella’”.
As he is being taken by Draco’s henchmen to meet Draco, the broompusher hums a few bars of the theme to Goldfinger. Later, Miss Moneypenny says to him as he enters the anteroom, “Still the same old James.” And when he desides to resign from Her Majesty’s Service (MI-5) and is going through his desk, cleaning out old gadgets and trophies, bits of music for the relevent films play. Blofeld also makes reference to Bond looking different, but not enough to be disguised.
In Diamonds Are Forever, the succeeding film (in which Connery returned to the role for the last time), M says something like, “We do function in your absence, Commander Bond.” ::snark::
When Roger Moore took over the role, however, there was no note made of the change whatsoever. However, in For Your Eyes Only, the precredits title sequence is a clever in-joke that makes reference to Eon Productions losing legal rights to the use of Blofeld and SPECTRE. I’m not going to describe it here, but the backstory makes it funny as hell. “I’ll buy you a delicatessan…in stainless steeeeeeeeeellllllll…”
Stranger
There’s an episode of Monk, where he and his nurse Sharona travel on a plane. As they’re passing through the first class, there’s Tim Dally, who was in Wings with Monk’s star Tony Shalhoub. The following conversation between Monk and Sharona ensues:
And when they pass him, Tim Dally looks at Monk, stares at him thoughtfully for a second and then shakes his head in a it-can’t-be-true manner.
On one Buffy episode, Tara takes a monster figurine and says, “Grr, aargh” as she makes it “walk.” That’s a reference to the logo for Buffy’s production company, Mutant Enemy.
Bette Midler’s sitcom has a reference to how stupid it was when a TV show changes the actor who played a regular (like the two Darrens in “Bewitched”). This came in the first episode after they changed the actor who played her husband.
Rosanne did something similar about the changes in the actress playing Becky.
In Mary, a variety show starring Mary Tyler Moore, they had Dick Van Dyck as a guest. That led to a “behind the scenes” bit where they are discussing what to do, with someone coming up with the idea of doing a parody of “The Dick Van Dyck” show. One of the actors says, “Yes. Mary looks a lot like the gal who played Laura.”
Later, at the end of the show, Mary meet Van Dyck (the plot involved him being delayed). She compliments him and says, “you know, I auditioned for your show. But Rose Marie got the part.”
At the end of What’s Up, Doc?, Ryan O’Neal’s character appologizes to Barbara Streisand’s character. Barbara replies “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” and bats her eyelashes, an obvious reference to the famous line from Love Story with Ryan O’Neal and Ali McGraw.
Lots of 'em in the Airplane movies. Kareem’s hilarious speech about dragging Walton and Lanier up and down the court was an obvious “breaking the 4th wall” moment, but there were more subtle “bending” ones, like when William Shatner’s character in Airplane 2 looks through the periscope and sees the Enterprise flying by. Or when Peter Graves gets gassed by ROC, the onboard computer, and they play the Mission: Impossible theme.
I vaguely recall a a quick gag in The Simpsons where Bart (or Lisa) was counting all of his fingers – all eight of them.
On Sanford and Son, Fred enteres a Redd Foxx look alike contest. Everyone tells him he looks nothing like Redd Foxx.
On Mork and Mindy, Mindy realizes that Mork looks just like Robin Williams. “Robin” means something filthy in Orkan.
You forgot Ryan O’Neal’s response; “That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard.”
There’s a science-fiction novel called The Lotus Caves by John Christopher, in which, at one point, the two main characters make some philosophical musings…like, what if the world was just someone else’s dream, or a novel, or something.
(It comes across quite a bit better than it sounds.)
In Top Secret, Val Kilmer reiterates the plot and the girl says, “I know, this all sounds like some bad movie” at which point, they both turn and look in the camera.
You’re forgetting “Never Say Never Again.”
Ed McBain mentions “The Birds” in several of his 87 Precient mysteries. The screenplay to that movie was written by Evan Hunter, who uses McBain as an alter ego.
In McBain’s book “Tricks,” a couple is having an argument over whether “Streets of Gold” the horrible movie they just saw was based on a book or was just a movie. Again, Hunter wrote a novel called “Streets of Gold,” but the movie “Streets of Gold” was not based on it.
I can not believe that I forgot the fact that James Bond is a real person.
I will liet you puzzle that out for a second, while I check on some other threads. Then I will post why.
I’m sorry, what? I’ve never heard of that movie.
Never. Heard. Of. It. Don’t know anything about it. Whatever it is, I’m sure it didn’t happen. Connery would never milk the role strictly for more money in a boring, stolidly paced film with low production values and a crappy, unmemorable score.
While we’re at it, it’s a shame that Moore only made a couple of Bond films (The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only), and Dalton only made one (The Living Daylights.) And while I think Brosnan did a very good job with the role, I’m glad he stopped at three films and didn’t make a Bond film featuring Madonna in any way, shape, or form.
In other news, David Niven refuses to play James Bond, Casino Royale to go unmade.
Stranger.
Casino Royale has already been made!
Twice!
Both with Jimmy Bond!
The more familiar Jimmy Bond (Woody Allen) is the nephew of James Bond (David Niven), was inthe 1967 take on the idea, a comedy, and the first filmed take on James bond was "CBS TV first adapted it for an episode of Climax! in 1954, starring Barry Nelson as CIA agent Jimmy Bond. " I believe he actually asked for his martini to be stired, in the 1954 version.
Both the original 1954 Casino, and the 1967 are available on the same DVD.
There are quite a few moments like this in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back.
Do tell.