As I stated, the stills do not do the comparison justice. It is not just walking through fog, it is how the riders approach the camera, slowly materializing with their clan flags on their backs. It is a scene that makes you exclaim, “I have seen this before!”
I just finished watching the ***Columbo *** episode “Forgotten Lady” for the umpteenth time and realized something: At least three of the actors were 1966 Batman alumni! There was the butler, Maurice Evans (aka “The Puzzler”); Linda Scott, the maid (aka “Moth”), and Francine York, the policewoman (aka “Miss Limpit”).
I just had to be told that the ticket lottery for $10 tickets to Hamilton on Broadway is #Ham4Ham not because they’re hamming it up for Hamilton but because a $10 bill is (for now) a Hamilton. So it’s a Hamilton for a ticket, see?
(This might be obscure if your social media hasn’t been taken over by Hamilton fans. Mine has been, so I see Ham4Ham constantly. Not complaining though.)
A few months ago I got an annual pass to Disney World and I’ve been to the Haunted Mansion several times, and just now did I realize that it was a deliberate, not haphazard journey, through the various places in the mansion, and that the ghosts mainly appear after the séance (although to be fair I’m not sure if the séance was always there, so I may have ignored that part.)
I just watched Blade Runner again and realized that most of the dialogue between Deckard and Bryant doesn’t make sense. If Deckard is such a great blade runner that he needs to be pulled out of retirement, shouldn’t he already know all about Nexus-6 replicants and their 4 year life span and not have to have Bryant explain it to him?
For that matter, why would Tyrell or anyone at Tyrell Corporation need Decker to explain how a Voight-Kampff test works? He designed the damn things. It would be like explaining to Steve Jobs how an iPod works.
It’s a week to Halloween, so obviously it’s time to watch Hocus Pocus and pick up missed jokes.
When Winifred Sanderson tell the bus driver that they want children, and he says it may take a couple of tries, that’s a sex joke.
I’m 27 and I’ve watched Hocus Pocus almost every autumn I can remember and I just figured out it’s a sex joke.
The music video for “Shimmer” from Fuel. It finally dawned on me that flickering lighting was done to make the video… Wait for it… Wait for it… Shimmer. :smack:
I’ve read this six times now and I still don’t understand. How could a ride be anything but deliberate? Also, the seance has always been there. Creepy ass green haired lady.
I guess I’m overstating the case because it seemed to me to be going from a hallway/foyer/drawing room like atmosphere toward the more intimate dining room/bedroom locations, as opposed to just going to random rooms in the mansion. But looking back at it I’m wrong: it still seems pretty random. But I still didn’t notice the part about the séance.
I think what he’s saying is the ride isn’t just going through rooms in whatever sequence they occur, but the sequence follows a story. Been too long for me, so I can’t judge that.
As many times as I’ve ridden it (I could probably recite all the doom buggy narrator’s dialogue) *I *couldn’t tell you what, if any, story it’s supposed to follow. Would be interesting if anyone here knows.
Watching the movie Antman a few months ago I wondered why he would name his flying ant “Antony.” It took me a little while to finally say “ANTony” in my head.
The story is fleshed out (heh) a little at Euro Disney. One of the plots is about a woman who didn’t want to be a bride, so killed herself…but was still the Bride of Death.
Disneyland (Anaheim) has only the woman in a bridal dress with a ghostly red heartbeat.
Not anymore. She’s got an axe now.
For the longest time I thought the Steve Miller lyric in Fly Like an Eagle was “shoot the children.” Then I heard it again a few years ago and understood that he said “shoo the children” - as in, tell the children to go away.
Just today I heard it on the radio again and realized he said “shoe the children” - which is pretty damn obvious since the next line is “with no shoes on their feet.” I have no excuse.
Morbo, no excuse at all.
I looked up the ride on wikipedia. It doesn’t really explain a story for the sequence, it just describes a tour by the “Ghost Host” through the mansion. Also, the seance is not at the beginning. You enter the Foyer, go down the hallway, get in the DoomBuggies, go past the conservatory, through a corridore, and then get to the seance room.
Okay, I am more sure of this than I am about the story in Haunted Mansion.
It’s a Small World. You know that washed out, mostly-white room at the end with the roller coaster and balloons:
They’re DEAD. Those kids with wings? Angels. The room is a concept of heaven where all the kids of all races and languages will play together in the afterlife.
I think I had always known that it was sort of heavenly, but I never put two and two together that if this is heaven, they’re a bunch of dead kids!
Although it’s been a long time since I was on the ride, I don’t remember this. Also, Small World was originally built by Disney for the UNICEF pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. I would think that an international organization like UNICEF whose goal is to improve the lives of children while they’re on Earth would find the at-least-implicit message that peace, love, and understanding among people of different races, nations, religions, and languages is possible only after they’re dead somewhat off-putting.
This room? Other view? Another view.Another.
I don’t see any angels. There are some dancing ladies with big feathers.
Here is a map someone made. It labels them “French CanCan Dancers”.
The line “I’d like to meet his tailor” in Zevon’s Werewolves of London. It’s not because he’s a sharp dressed man. :smack: