# "Classic" movies or TV shows with situations or premises basically impossible today **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2020, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-movies-or-tv-shows-with-situations-or-premises-basically-impossible-today/851922 "2020-04-16T13:18:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-movies-or-tv-shows-with-situations-or-premises-basically-impossible-today/851922/221 "2020-05-07T23:26:55Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > THANK YOU! That’s what always bugged me. Even though there’s no website, and maybe they always miss the current news, but on their trip, they tell everybody where they’re going. Even before that. The car salesman, front desk person, etc. > > So it appears NOBODY knew it was closed or everybody didn’t just feel like telling them. He told a bunch of people he was on his way to Wallyworld, but most people probably figured that he was planning on some other destination beforehand, so that the park would have reopened by the time he got there - he was driving after all and could have taken a detour to Mt Rushmore or a longer stop at the Grand Canyon. With a plane, the chance of someone saying “Gee, you lucked out going to NotAnaheim while WallyWorld is closed - flight prices are really low this week” P.S. I heard a story years ago, about an American submariner who went to Holy Loch Scotland in the mid-1990s - when the American base there had closed in 1992 (I have no idea how that could have happened). > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [Except that he only remembered “mmm mmm him”](http://www.albundy.net/marriedaniac/ate/script/0518t.html), he didn’t think it was a Beatles song, and it _wasn’t_ a Beatles song but [_Anna_ aka “Go to Him” by Arthur Alexander](https://marriedwithchildren.fandom.com/wiki/Anna_(Go_to_Him)). So–ironicly–you might have had trouble finding it based on what you remembered it to be. Thank you - I remember that episode, and thought I’d remember if it had been a Beatles song. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-movies-or-tv-shows-with-situations-or-premises-basically-impossible-today/851922/222 "2020-05-07T23:36:38Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Thank you - I remember that episode, and thought I’d remember if it had been a Beatles song. “[A personal favorite of John Lennon,[4] it became part of the Beatles’ early repertoire and was consequently recorded by them for their 1963 debut album, Please Please Me.[5]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_(Go_to_Him)#The_Beatles'_version)” ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-movies-or-tv-shows-with-situations-or-premises-basically-impossible-today/851922/223 "2020-05-07T23:46:58Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > “[A personal favorite of John Lennon,[4] it became part of the Beatles’ early repertoire and was consequently recorded by them for their 1963 debut album, Please Please Me.[5]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_(Go_to_Him)#The_Beatles'_version)” Was it the Beatles version on “Married With Children” (serious question - I’m just curious) ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-movies-or-tv-shows-with-situations-or-premises-basically-impossible-today/851922/224 "2020-05-07T23:47:37Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [Except that he only remembered “mmm mmm him”](http://www.albundy.net/marriedaniac/ate/script/0518t.html), he didn’t think it was a Beatles song, and it _wasn’t_ a Beatles song but [_Anna_ aka “Go to Him” by Arthur Alexander](https://marriedwithchildren.fandom.com/wiki/Anna_(Go_to_Him)). So–ironicly–you might have had trouble finding it based on what you remembered it to be. Okay, rather than try and pin this on the mandalorian effect (;)), I’ll just say that midway through the episode, going off the script you so kindly linked to, the song does play on the radio and the hilarity continues as he then tries to use those lyrics to find the song, assuming the refrain “go with him” must be the title. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-movies-or-tv-shows-with-situations-or-premises-basically-impossible-today/851922/225 "2020-05-07T23:53:37Z")
P.S. In the Honey I Shrunk the Kids tv series, the father (Wayne) is trying to remember a song he heard once on TV - he uses time travel to find it, leading to a Soviet takeover of the United States (because of course it does). ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-movies-or-tv-shows-with-situations-or-premises-basically-impossible-today/851922/226 "2020-05-07T23:56:26Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > “[A personal favorite of John Lennon,[4] it became part of the Beatles’ early repertoire and was consequently recorded by them for their 1963 debut album, Please Please Me.[5]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_(Go_to_Him)#The_Beatles'_version)” And in my opinion is John Lennon’s finest vocal performance. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-movies-or-tv-shows-with-situations-or-premises-basically-impossible-today/851922/227 "2020-05-08T03:20:45Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Was it the Beatles version on “Married With Children” [No](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZkidWQrMT0E). ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-movies-or-tv-shows-with-situations-or-premises-basically-impossible-today/851922/228 "2020-05-08T12:23:16Z")
> [@Joeu](#): > > I’ve got a clip I use in class a lot from Star Trek (TOS). Kirk is in sickbay, and Nurse Chapel asks Dr. McCoy what might be wrong with him. McCoy says, “I don’t know. But I intend to find out. I’ll be in the Medical Records Library.” And he leaves. There’s a computer terminal literally RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM on his desk in sick bay. But he still has to go somewhere (downstairs?) to the Medical Records Library which has to be a physical space with file drawers or something. Especially since other episodes _do_ show/describe the computer terminals being used for general information access (e.g. “Space Seed”, with Khan being given access to learn what he needs to know to [DEL]take over the ship[/DEL] catch up to the 23rd century). ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-movies-or-tv-shows-with-situations-or-premises-basically-impossible-today/851922/229 "2020-05-08T13:29:43Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Especially since other episodes _do_ show/describe the computer terminals being used for general information access (e.g. “Space Seed”, with Khan being given access to learn what he needs to know to [DEL]take over the ship[/DEL] catch up to the 23rd century). An early example of the Star Trek tradition for IFOS (Invader-Friendly Operating System). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-movies-or-tv-shows-with-situations-or-premises-basically-impossible-today/851922.md?page=11)