Why not? 
I know this makes me either really dumb or really unobservant, but it just occurred to me the other day that Bill & Ted’s time-traveling phone booth is an homage to Doctor Who.
Die Hard originally wasn’t a Christmas movie.
You mean, the original script was not set at Christmas? If that’s so, was the villain always named Gruber?
According to one of the trivia notes in the IMDb, in the novel that Die Hard was adapted from, the character equivalent to Hans Gruber was called Anton “Little Tony” Gruber. So, assuming what was said there and what was said here are correct, the novel wasn’t set at Christmas but did have a main character named Gruber. Someone might want to read the original novel (Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp) to check if these claims are accurate.
In the original Law & Order, all the children of the long-serving main characters are the opposite gender of that parent. Briscoe, Curtis, and McCoy have daughters, Van Buren has two sons.
It’s not an entirely unbroken record (Jamie Ross has a daughter), but it seems more than pure chance. On SVU I only recall Stabler mentioning and interacting with his daughters (although a L&O wiki says he also has sons).
I saw The Goonies on TV a few days ago. I had seen that movie at least fifty times in my life. It was a favorite of mine growing up. We even had it on VHS, so I’d watch it sometimes two or three times in a row as a kid.
Anyway, I’ve seen it so many times I can almost say it line for line…
…yet for the very first time on the viewing a few days ago, I only now got a joke that had been there all along:
The scene is when they first enter the restaurant and the Fratelli’s treat them like customers and get them all some water. Mikey–who needs a good reason to go check out the basement–uses the excuse he has to go to the bathroom.
Right after saying this, there is a cut to Mouth, who says “Hey, Mikey, gotta go to the bathroom?” while playing with two cups of water (he’s dumping one into the other and then back again) and it just hit me on last viewing that he’s doing that because it would be pure torture for anyone who really did need to take a piss. I always thought it was just his character doing a random thing with the water randomly, to pass time, as something to do while he gave that line. It never occurred to me that he was trying to torment his friend. Hilarious.
It might have been mentioned by someone else already, but Bohemian Rhapsody: it’s not “mother” who just killed a man.
Popped in the DVD for our traditional holiday viewing of “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.” For some reason, our DVD player seems to be stuck in the SUBTITLES ON setting. We have dialog rolling across the bottom of the screen that we can’t (not even my teenagers) figure out how to turn off.
There’s a scene where the two grandpas are snoring in front of the TV. The TV is turned to coverage of a parade, and the commentary is droning on softly in the background. I have never actually paid attention to what the announcers are saying, but with the scrolling dialog, it is suddenly obvious that their commentary is a running stream of juvenile dirty jokes…remarking how the Nutcracker’s nuts are blowing in the wind, banging together, bumping against the buildings, etc…
Earlier today, I was about to compare someone who was game for anything with Mikey from the Life cereal commercials. As I remembered it in my head, “he’ll eat anything”.
Then I thought, “That can’t be right. Why would Mikey’s brothers have been so incredulous that he liked Life cereal if the kid was a human garbage dump?” But I could have sworn that was the line.
So I looked it up online and, sure enough, it’s “He hates everything” – the diametric opposite of how I remembered it. But, funny thing is, if you Google the line “he’ll eat anything”, it’s all about people remembering Mikey from the Life cereal commercials. Either people (mis)quoting the line or a few columns where someone realizes that they remembered the line wrong. A zillion people all thinking that Mikey was the kid who “he’ll eat anything”.
I remember when I was a kid, “History of the World Part I” played on cable over and over. Must have seen it a dozen times. And in one scene Harvey Corman quips to his foppish companion “Don’t get saucy with me, Bearnaise!”. That line was delivered in such a way that it seemed strange, and it stuck in my brain for some reason. Anyway, fast forward 25 years and my 5 year old daughter is acting up and I jokingly scolded her “Don’t get saucy with me, Bearnaise!”, and I suddenly realized it was just a pun on Bearnaise sauce, which of course I had never heard of as a teenager.
It took 25 years to get that pun. Congratulations Mel Brooks.
Maybe we’ve just witnessed the birth of a new parallel universe?
It’s the same parallel universe in which there was an alternate ending to Big.
But a different one from the one where Berenstein is spelled with an “e”. We’re still apparently in the clone dimension
Wow…
That’s shocking.
Decades of thinking “He hates everything” was “He eats anything”
In my defense, in watching the commercial on YouTube, I think the “He hates everything” sort of sounds like “He eats everything” and my kid mind obviously heard that.
I know this was posted in September, but I couldn’t resist…
Somehow I still remember a secret agent challenge/response sequence from an issue of Dynamite back in the Age of Disco:
Challenge: “Eat my din”
Response: “Many diet”
Challenge: “And my tie”
Response: “It may end”
Both: “DYNAMITE!”
(note the letters in each phrase)
Both Mikey and Dynamite are fond childhood memories.
I was just shocked out of my childhood innocence by a meme on Facebook.
The little piggy who went to market wasn’t going shopping.
:eek: I never thought of it that way before either.
But then, why is one of them having roast beef?
In Dreamcatcher, Damian Lewis affects an absurd British accent when his body is taken over by an alien. I realize now that he’s English and that was probably his normal speaking voice.
To fatten him up for market tomorrow?