That reminds me. I never did drugs and was very ignorant about, well, frankly a lot of things when I was younger. And so I didn’t get Dimebag Darrell’s name for a long time.
Edit: Oops, I’m referring to the posts by Leo Bloom and RTFirefly.
Hmm…You never the know the side of beef with your name in it. A scant five years ago, cows were the third most most deadly animal in the United States.
The report from the CDC, which could stand some good press now.
Nytimes on it.
For what it’s worth, “lyres” is used all three times in the score. Obsolete musical instruments for the win!
Until about five minutes ago, I never realized these two songs were one and the same, they sound so freakin’ different:
**D'oh!** :smack:Also, I was watching some back episodes of Boardwalk Empire tonight, and I finally got the meaning of the opening titles: All of that shit comes washing up on shore and over Nucky’s feet, but it drains away leaving Nucky unscathed, just like water off a duck’s back. The symbolism: Nucky is a born survivor!
I can’t wait for the final episodes of Mad Men to find out if I’m right about Don’s world falling apart around him before he throws himself out a window, just like in the opening titles.
I would have never recognized Carolyn Jones if her name hadn’t been in the credits.
I didn’t realize that Yvonne Craig had played the green skinned Orion dancing girl in Star Trek until somebody pointed it out.
On Once Upon A Time if you take the “r” out of Storybrooke you get Storybooke.
Whoops! Looks like I spoke too soon… :smack: 
I listened to The Stones’ Paint It Black for years before finally really contemplating the lyrics and realizing it’s a song about the death of a lover.
I enjoyed the music of Lou Reed and David Bowie for years before realizing that anything and everything is about heroin.
In “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”, at one point Schroeder plays WWI songs and Snoopy listens and reacts. When he plays “Pack Up Your Troubles”, where the words “smile, smile, smile” would be sung, Snoopy gives a toothy grin for each “smile”. Dramatic Snoopy - YouTube
And (as a commenter on YouTube pointed out), during “A Long Way To Tipperary”, Snoopy bats his eyes on “the sweetest girl I know” and waves his paw good-bye on “goodbye, Piccadilly/farewell, Leicester Square.”
I just realized (with about 45 seconds of re-watching), that the film Ella Enchanted is pretty much a retelling of Cinderella. I told this to my daughter (we saw the movie together when she was 3) and her reply was “No it’s not, it… oooohhhhh… her name is even ‘Ella’!”
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I’ve recently gotten into “Supernatural” over the last two or three months. One of the enemies they faced was the Leviathan. They’re very difficult to kill, but Borax slows them down. They mention it frequently. They say the word, they show boxes and spray bottles with the word on it. It finally just occurred to me it’s product placement.:smack:
Borax is a generic term, not a brand name, so I don’t understand how it could be a product placement:
Well then, I withdraw my previous statement.
When I read the lyrics to Elton John’s Nikita, I realized it was about a guy sentenced to the GULAG for being homosexual. (Yes, this was a crime in the Soviet Union.)
Huh. The music video implies quite a different story.
One for UK parents:
Ben and Holly is a show about a an elf (Ben) and a fairy (Holly) who live in the Little Kingdom. Elves and fairies live alongside each other, but there are clear differences. Elves, for example, always respond to praise along these lines:
Holly: Thanks for climbing up that nettle to get my wand back, Ben
Ben: No problem. Elves are good at climbing nettles - and I’m an elf! produces brass instrument from nowhere plays loud PARP
This basic dialogue repeats in every show, any time an elf is told they are good at something.
After watching these shows for I don’t know how long, it finally dawned on me - the elves are blowing their own trumpets.
It’s a show aimed at 5 year olds, for gods’ sake.
Well, it could have been product placement. I haven’t watched the show, but did the boxes look like this?
I always thought it looked like a bugle. Know idea what that symbolizes.
It symbolizes that it was easy to make, and yet suggested alien technology.
I only recently learned that "Stephen Whitfield*, who wrote The Making of Star Trek (AFAIK the first “making of…” book about a TV aeries, and which came out during the original run of the show) was really Stephen Edward Poe. The reason he got all that info was that he worked with AMT plastics, the ones who built the model of the Enterpprise I built as a kjid. AMT had a deal with Roddenberry that not only gave him access, but also got AMT involved in making models. Apparently the destroyed Constellation was an AMT model, burned with a torch and with the Enterprise serial numbers re-arranged. I gather that they also produced the Planet Destroyer. Maybe Stephen Poe like Bugels snacks a lot.