How about Engulf+Devour, the evil conglomerate trying to take over Big Pictures Studio in Mel Brooks’ Silent Movie?
The “fun” note is that a few years later, Gulf+Western did actually take over Paramount Studios.
How about Engulf+Devour, the evil conglomerate trying to take over Big Pictures Studio in Mel Brooks’ Silent Movie?
The “fun” note is that a few years later, Gulf+Western did actually take over Paramount Studios.
In L.A. Story, there are a few references to a very trendy restaurant whose name sounds like “lay-dee-oh”. When some characters finally go there, we see the sign is “L’idiot”.
Patrick Stewart plays the very snooty French maître d’, and he’s awesome.
Pelotaunt from SNL last night.
There’s a real one in Taiwan.
Not a fake place name, but I used to live near a French fancy restaurant named Chez Léon. One of my waggish friends insisted on calling it “Cheesy Leon’s”.
Chez Guevara.
I have looked up and down, and even searched. It seems no one has mentioned Soylent Green.
Now, I realize that you can buy crackers called “Soylent Green,” made from soy and green lentils as they are in the book, not people, as they are in the movie, but they are an ostentation, a term coined by snopes for an Urban Legend deliberately made to come true, and began production many years after the movie came out. I understand they are pricey, but a fairly decent cracker for dips, high in both fiber and protein, and compared to potato or corn chips, low in carbohydrate.
There is also another product which is called soylent green, and is a protein drink that claims to be a food adults can live on solely, with nothing else (except possibly water). It came out in 2013, and is also a deliberate ostentation.
Well, since chez translates more less as the place of something like Chez Pierre could be seen at Pete’s Joint.
More SNL: Puppy Uppers and Doggie Downers.
“Ethereal Cereal” from the movie “Putney Swope”.
No shit!
Even more memorable to my teenage self was Lucky Airlines
May I commend you for your assiduous Bachelor Chow archival work.
Are fake pets stretching it, like Rex the robot dog in Sleeper?
“I’m Rex…woof, woof…”
James Bond’s favourite vintage:
“…I approve…”
To add to the Carlin posts…For a rich library in any respectable, oak-panelled den…
fine titles, like:
“How To Give King a Really Hard Time”
“A Complete List of All Things That are Still Pending”
“Chances are Your Sister’s Full of Shit”