# Fly Me To The Moon: Is anyone as bothered by this as me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [July 6, 2024, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fly-me-to-the-moon-is-anyone-as-bothered-by-this-as-me/1003798 "2024-07-06T03:34:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fly-me-to-the-moon-is-anyone-as-bothered-by-this-as-me/1003798/61 "2024-07-11T16:24:49Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > She was _there_ to promote this film (_Fly Me to the Moon_). Jennings talked about it when introducing the category. I just mean, she didn’t _talk_ about the film she was promoting. I don’t really call that promotion. She “promoted” _Airplane II_, Wallace and Gromit, _Apollo 13_ and _The Right Stuff_ (despite the latter not really about a trip to the moon), Melies _A Trip to the Moon_, and finally, Baron Munchausen, which, as a film about a trip to the moon, is no less factual than _Fly Me to the Moon_ is. There were no questions about her movie. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fly-me-to-the-moon-is-anyone-as-bothered-by-this-as-me/1003798/62 "2024-07-11T17:11:13Z")
True enough–all she did was to read the questions. (But I think that’s the way it always goes when celebrities do a category-worth of questions on _Jeopardy!_–they don’t offer any other remarks. They just read the questions. The host (Trebek back in the day or Jennings now) will say something about the project the celeb is there to promote.) ---
**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:** [July 11, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fly-me-to-the-moon-is-anyone-as-bothered-by-this-as-me/1003798/63 "2024-07-11T17:40:32Z")
Also, wouldn’t it be kind of weird for her to ask a trivia question about a movie that — had it come out, at that point? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fly-me-to-the-moon-is-anyone-as-bothered-by-this-as-me/1003798/64 "2024-07-11T18:53:07Z")
Not really, It could be about the actors, or their roles, or the real people under a different name, or conspiracy theories, or the number of the launch pad. Though I was happy to see Wallace and Gromit!. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fly-me-to-the-moon-is-anyone-as-bothered-by-this-as-me/1003798/65 "2024-07-11T20:46:35Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > “Why, the very idea of Reincarnation is evil hogwash! Any religion that preaches that is a cult of the Devil! When Jesus comes back he’ll show you!” Do you understand that is not Reincarnation? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fly-me-to-the-moon-is-anyone-as-bothered-by-this-as-me/1003798/66 "2024-07-11T20:48:02Z")
Frankly, I think just an okay song. Nothing particularly _wrong_ with it; it just doesn’t grab me like _Violets For Your Furs_. But it doesn’t _bother_ me. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fly-me-to-the-moon-is-anyone-as-bothered-by-this-as-me/1003798/67 "2024-07-11T22:05:37Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > But it doesn’t _bother_ me. Are you kidding! Fly me to the moon Let me play among the stars And let me see what spring is like On Jupiter and Mars What scientific hogwash! The moon is no where near the stars, Jupiter or Mars. And I’ll tell you what it’s like. It’s cold as hell. And either methane and ammonia, or no air at all. Totally offensive to any scientific mind. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fly-me-to-the-moon-is-anyone-as-bothered-by-this-as-me/1003798/68 "2024-07-11T22:47:54Z")
And at the next break after Scarlett Johansson read her clues was a commercial for her movie. I wondered how they convinced her to do the show, but that answered my question. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fly-me-to-the-moon-is-anyone-as-bothered-by-this-as-me/1003798/69 "2024-07-12T01:26:47Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#): > > Jesus couldn’t take any bathroom breaks. If he can walk on water, I’m pretty sure he can hold it. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fly-me-to-the-moon-is-anyone-as-bothered-by-this-as-me/1003798/70 "2024-07-14T05:53:57Z")
> ‘What are the stars?’ said O’Brien indifferently. ‘They are bits of fire a few kilometres away. We could reach them if we wanted to. Or we could blot them out. The earth is the centre of the universe. The sun and the stars go round it.’ ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fly-me-to-the-moon-is-anyone-as-bothered-by-this-as-me/1003798/71 "2024-07-14T05:55:44Z")
> They’re fireflies. Fireflies that got stuck up on that big bluish-black thing. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fly-me-to-the-moon-is-anyone-as-bothered-by-this-as-me/1003798/72 "2024-07-14T07:34:00Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I’ve met a number of people who are moon landing deniers but aren’t flat earthers. In my experience most of them aren’t. Some say that Apollo XI just orbited the earth until it was time to come back. Deniers claim that the Van Allen belt is the reason going to the moon is impossible. Telling them that the course used to leave earth was designed to avoid the worst part of the belt does no good. BTW, there is new flat earth news. A rich guy has set up what he calls “The Final Experiment” where he pays for a flerfer and a sane person to go to Antarctica to record that the sun does not go down for a full day around the winter solstice (summer in Antarctica) which is impossible for any flat earth model. Stay tuned. The flat earthers who have not been invited or refuse to go are pooping their pants. A lot of them do it because of religious fundamentalism, but lots of them have monetized it, with plenty of idiots watching their channels. Prove them wrong, their gravy train goes away. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fly-me-to-the-moon-is-anyone-as-bothered-by-this-as-me/1003798.md?page=3)