I meant that “Goober” was a (likely) spoof of “Gibbler,” not the other way around.
Or it could be a reference to the Andy Griffith Show character. Why did they call him Goober anyway?
“Goober” is Southern slang for “peanut.” How common it is as a nickname, I’m not sure. Was that supposed to be the character’s real name? His cousin was Gomer, so it’s not out of the question that the same family could name someone Goober.
Believe it or not Gomer is actually a Biblical name so it’s not totally beyond the realms of belief that somebody might name their kid that.
I always assumed that “Goober” was a nickname, possibly chosen because his cousin was named “Gomer” (a real name, as pointed out).
It should be noted that Goober replaced Gomer when the latter went off to his own TV series as a Marine. TV people like to keep names similar, so the audience (who they assume is of low intelligence) won’t be confused. In much the same way, Festus (Ken Curtis) essentially replaced Chester (Dennis Weaver) on Gunsmoke
Heh. When my dad joined the Washington State Patrol in … 1969(?), he was promptly nicknamed “Gomer”, as he had just left the USMC.
I knew Gomer was a real name. Still wacky to name your kid that. If you want to go biblical, why not John or Mark? But Gomer? If he’d had a sister, I wonder if her name would have been Bathsheba.
Rip is a typical Dutch name of the period.
I kept hearing a song on the radio about getting drunk and I thought one of the lyrics was “I don’t care if you wear a condom” and as the singer is male I was like wow progressive but dangerous.
The actual lyric is “I don’t care if I ever come down” :smack:
In my defense the singers accent is thick as molasses.
People’s bestowing Biblical names on their kids can at times get very outlandish, in both fact and fiction – sometimes with unintended humour. I remember reading a thriller set in South Africa, where one of the black characters is a fellow called Shishak Twala (“Shack” to his friends). He explains his odd name thus: “My dad was a bible-puncher, and he gave all us kids names from the scriptures. When I came along, though, he got a bit mixed-up, and called me after King Shishak, who’s a bad guy in the Old Testament.”
Huh. I never knew that, but from that angle Perfect Day makes more sense… and takes quite a darker meaning.
Another cute tidbit from that sequence : in the part where the Crimebusters are shown celebrating Sally Jupiter’s retirement & pregnancy, the table and guests are set in an obvious parallel of Da Vinci’s Last Supper… with The Comedia as Judas Iscariot.
Which works on two levels : he betrayed Sally/Jesus’ trust on a personal level, *and *he sold out the masks to go and work for the Romans/the government
An episode of Cold Case that revolved around a murder in a circus used music from the Doors’ album Strange Days. The one with this cover.
Judge Smails clerk in Caddyshack was named Chuck Schick.
I just realized that Point Break was directed by Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow. For some reason I always assumed it was directed by Tony Scott.
The Comedian didn’t sell out anybody to go work for the government in Viet Nam. It was an option and he took it. Dr. Manhattan was there, too.
Was that when the laws were enacted to make being a costumed vigilante illegal? I don’t think the Comedian had anything to do with that. He just took the paycheck available, the one that let him do what he wanted. He didn’t turn anybody in or anything.
Short Version
When I first watched the film Mad Max I concluded, after initially suffering losses, Max fights the bad guys and, after killing them all, “wins" at the end of the film. Later I realised the film is more of the Greek Tragedy as it shows Max progressively losing everything.
Long Version
At the start of the film, Max has a wife and child. Max starts the film with a close friend, the Goose. Max is initially a respected Main Force Patrol (Police) officer who, within the admittedly lax legislature, upholds the law and protects the collapsing community.
After his family and friends are murdered, after he has failed to protect his local community, after law abiding society appears to have totally collapsed, after his local MFP appears to have been disbanded (although by then he has already resigned) he does once more don his MFP leather uniform. He does climb into the V8 Pursuit Special and he does hunt down and kill the bad guys. Arguably, under the previously mentioned ‘loose’ standards of justice, quasi-legally albeit now as a civilian vigilante.
However - SPOILER ALERT - when he captures Johnny the Boy, the final surviving bad guy, and basically tortures him to death Max has become nothing more than a cold blooded, sadistic murderer. He’s no better than, he’s no different to the feral scum he once devoted himself to fighting. That isn’t winning, that’s when he has lost everything he once held dear or was once important to him.
Viewed that way it makes the follow up film, Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior), a tale of redemption as he carries out an act of sacrifice for others. (Even though the sacrifice is partly a deception - he’s been duped as to the contents of the tanker he volunteers to drive.)
The third film, Beyond the Thunderdome, is best left forgotten.
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I either never paid attention to, or forgot that the most well known groundhog checking its shadow was named Punxsutawney Phil. After hearing its name today, I finally got the Conan O’Brien skits.
It took me ages to realize that KITT stood for Knight Industries Two Thousand. Admittedly, I was only about eight at the time.