This week’s “House” had Hugh Laurie on a plane–obviously a tribute to the episode of “Friends” where he was Phoebe’s seatmate.
The Marx Brothers’ A Night In Casablanca played off both the film Casablanca and their own A Night at the Opera.
Not a show, but in the same spirit- Fats Domino/Chubby Checker
Well, if we start including porno titles this thread could get quite long.
Now that’s a stone fact!
Heh… I remember reading the TWoP boards for Arrested Development. GOB became a waiter in one episode, and the board members were convinced it was an insult to another Fox show, Kitchen Confidential.
Because they both involved restaurants.
My Mom and I were discussing the movie The American President, and she asked me why they’d given Annette Bening’s character the seemingly ridiculous first name of Sydney Ellen, which was used in full at every opportunity. She was very impressed when I pointed out that the movie is a Cinderella story, and Sydney Ellen is just a modern version of Cinderella.
To continue the Hugh Laurie theme, the third season of Blackadder, set in Regency England (Hugh is the Prince Regent), had episode titles that were all take-offs on Austen’s “Sense and Sensibilty”: Nob and Nobility, Sense and Senility, Amy and Amiability…
I don’t think House is that much like Sherlock Holmes.
Holmes co-operated with the authorities (Scotland Yard); House is permanently stroppy
Holmes gathered evidence and proceeded methodically; House makes leaps :smack:
Holmes worked with just one assistant; House has a team.
Now Detective Goren (from Law + Order: Criminal Intent) is certainly based on Holmes. 
I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen any reference to Connections Between House and Holmes and other such lists posted in this thread, and, of course, the counterpart Differences between Holmes and House, but they do suggest more than a coincidental connection.
Enough so that in one of Groucho’s books he tells about an attempt by Warner Brothers, the studio that released Casablanca, to force a title change, as Warner Brothers had prior rights to the name.
Groucho said that he responded by offering to sue Warner Brothers, as they had been the Marx Brothers prior to the studios founding, and had prior rights to the word “Brothers”. I don’t know how much of this part is true, Groucho never let the truth stand in the way of a good story.
I think it was opium, not coke that Holmes was using.
“For me,” said Sherlock Holmes, “there still remains the cocaine-bottle.” And he stretched his long white hand up for it.
—A.C. Doyle, The Sign of Four.
I haven’t seen Hogan’s Heroes in years but just recently the name of one of the German characters popped into my head. I tranlated it into English for no reason and was surprised to realize:
Grupenfuhrer Frietag = Sergeant Friday
Cool, huh?
Doh!
Is it just me or does anyone else think the remake of The Omen is better than the original
I really enjoy the 6 episodes of the PJ’s that Eddie Murphy produced
PJ means" Projects" which is similar to House and Home
'cept the social worker won’t always give you toilet paper.
I can see your point on some levels, but I have a thing about remakes in general, and especially those that (like Psycho) do nothing to modify the original except to recast it. The only character in the new one to get an appreciable redo is the Julia Stiles version. I liked her version better then Lee Remick’s. But Liev Schreiber doesn’t come close to having the moral struggle that Gregory Peck did. And I think the minor roles in the original were well enough done that the newer versions didn’t help – especially Postlethwaite. It was hard to keep from thinking about Rosemary’s Baby fused with Woody Allen movies’ characters whenever Mia Farrow tried to look menacing.
I’d give the newer version at least one star less than the original, but then the question comes down to how highly I’d rate the original: maybe 3 stars, 3 1/2?
Zeldar The remakes of Psycho, The Wicker Man and countless others have been utterly abysmal.
The Omen, IMO, makes a far better job of it. Incidentally, is Lee Remick still alive?
No quarrel on the oldies you mentioned although I have yet to endure the new Wicker Man having just reseen the original within the past year or two with less than joy. It doesn’t wear as well as I had remembered and I can only imagine how poorly Nick Cage could handle the task. Edward Woodward was about all in the old one that did hold up over the years (well, maybe Chris Lee, too.)
Sadly, Lee Remick died of cancer in 1991. My favorite roles of hers included The Long Hot Summer and Days of Wine and Roses, although Anatomy of a Murder was one of those oldies that did hold up well when I saw it again within the past year or so.