Homer Simpson feels your pain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqDP8SnPVA0
If you watch The Good Place, there’s usually lots of funny details in Michael’s holographic displays that you’ll miss if you don’t hit pause.
If a real-life newspaper or magazine appears in a movie, I like to do an internet search to see if I can identify the exact issue… like the porno mag scene in Bananas. That issue of Time is the July 6, 1970 issue right there.
I did that once with a screen-cap of the “actual size” page in the Buffy episode Fear Itself. I teased out a few words (resolution was a lot less than the shot on that web page) and tracked down the book that they used (with a different illustration added.) (A different episode included a large green hardback on the shelves of magic books that I recognized as an old Russian-English dictionary that I owned a copy of.)
I always read the credits. :smack:
PS Okay. You got me. I like to read the warrants and kidnap notes and other such stuff in documentaries. If it’s in a movie and they don’t give me time to read it, I dock the editor ten points.
Funny you should ask:
I was just binge watching some DVR’d "Leave it to Beaver’ episodes and found myself pausing to read quick shots of bulletin board lists, typewriting, and newspapers. I thought it interesting how much detail they put into it, considering that it was made at a time the intended audience would never have an opportunity to pause/rewind.
Apropos of this topic and too cool not to share…
NCIS fans (you know who you are), in a recent episode there were some quick shots of journal pages written in Hebrew. (Sorry if this is a spoiler). Someone on Reddit translated some snippets of what was on those pages. That’s what I call making great use of the *pause *button!
I work for a fire and safety equipment company as the lead fire alarm tech. I always notice the fire alarms in movies and TV. For example: We are dealers of the same brand of fire alarm equipment on the set of The Big Bang Theory. I also wondered why the fire extinguisher on the bridge of the Russian sub in The Hunt for Red October was an Amerex 2.5# ABC
Wes Anderson movies always repay pausing to read. There are always documents, newspapers, etc. that are flashed on the screen for second or two, but if you pause, you can read them in detail.
The Grand Budapest Hotel in particular has many of these. Long, detailed, hilarious newspaper articles - all written by Wes Anderson personally - briefly flashed on the screen, but perfectly readable if you pause to do so.
Yes, any western movie that happens to have Japanese writing in a scene. A recent case, the film “First Man” has scenes inside a quarantine area for the Apollo 11 astronauts after the moon trip. The room had a shelf of newspapers and magazines from around the world in various language. Obviously my eyes were drawn to the Japanese newspaper there. Beside the large type headline, I tried to read some of the smaller headlines of the other articles.
Yes, I think it’s next to impossible to read what Bart is writing on the chalkboard with out hitting the pause button.
I like to read the end screen on Big Bang Theory.
:dubious: There are plenty of jokes you would have to pause to read in The Simpsons, the chalkboard gag is not one of them. It’s onscreen long enough that I can’t remember ever not being able to read it.
This thread reminds me of years ago there was a late night all night show that showed Stooges, old movies, and had comedy bits during commercials. They had a joke call in contest once a week, and the rules scrolled by so fast that you couldn’t read them. So my roommate taped the bit, and we paused it so we could read them. One of the rules said something to the effect of “If you can read this, you have obviously broken copyright law by making an unauthorized recording.”
Buzzkill. :rolleyes:
Obligatory link to Chuck Lorre’s vanity cards. My pet peeve with these is they come right at the end, and if I record it with my DVR, it cuts out just as they get flashed up but not long enough to pause. I never remember to extend the recording time by a minute.