Just noticed this last night. The MPAA logo has a film reel in the center. :smack:
I just realized last night that the landlord on Bob’s Burgers, Mr. Fischoeder, is kind of a lame pun/word play… Fish Odor… duh.
Before I just thought it was a kind of odd name.
Well, in a very timely bit of news, I guess we know the true answer now. 
This is an old one but another thread spurred it to memory. There’s a Far Side comic with a couple of scientists staring at some goofy looking people behind a pane of glass. The caption is the lead scientist saying “Yes, they’re all fools, gentlemen. But the question remains: What kind of fools are they?”
In my defense, the first time I read that comic I was likely in the single digits and not entirely familiar with the phrase “What kind of fool would…?” That doesn’t explain the hundreds of other times I read the comic while re-reading my collection until one day, some 25+ years later, I’d be sitting in my car thinking of something unrelated and then audibly say “OOOOHHHHHhhhhh…”
That was a real event that I still vividly remember.
I always assumed that the caption was inspired by the 1962 song What Kind of Fool Am I?:
So, apparently, does Wikipedia.
What kind of fool would think that?! 
The annoying commercials for some blood thinner.
It was bad enough when the guy was worried about “my little buddy”, which is a phrase that just shouldn’t be used outside of *Gilligan’s Island *discussions, but the newer one has him worried about “this little girl”. Really? Some random little girl?
Wrong thread? Or is there something you’ve only just realized?
Weirder still…in a later incarnation of a Jonny Quest series, Hadji is given (along with a backstory as an Indian prince) a surname:
Hadji Singh.
A few things I noticed watching Guardians of the Galaxy for, like, the 7th time.
- John C. Reilly’s character says he had a family, and the GotG had saved them, as an explanation for why he arranged for Quill’s ship to be rebuilt. Initially I assumed he meant because they saved Xandar, and since they’re on Xandar, they saved them, and seeing them at the end was just meant to be a cute moment, but…
Paying more attention to the battle this time, I noticed that at one point, they were going to get squashed, and Rocket personally saved them from it.
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When Quill’s explaining his music to her, Gamora says she doesn’t dance. Then near the end, when he puts on Awesome Mix Vol 2…she starts swaying to the music. :smack:
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At the end we see the ship fly past Xandar’s sun…or, rather…suns - it has a triple sun, just like the Nova Corps’s insignia. (I blame that last one on seeing it on DVD, on a smaller TV…this is the first time I’ve seen it in HD.)
Here’s an old one, that I have watched probably dozens of times over the years, and just realized the last time I watched it, the other day. And I have tried, through judicious searching, to be sure that it hasn’t already been mentioned in this thread.
The original The Day The Earth Stood Still from 1951. What was Klaatu’s disguise name, when he was attempting to pass himself off as a regular human? Carpenter. And what happened to Klaatu? He was killed and resurrected. What was Klaatu’s message? Live in peace or die.
Coincidence? Or a purposeful, though inexact, parallel? You decide.
More specifically, his name is John Carpenter - i.e., J.C. Later he went on to direct movies and be the first winner of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
I’ve read about this before, and in my opinion it’s probably not a coincidence.
Google to the rescue. From 2006:
*The Day the Earth Stood Still: A Christian Allegory?
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"There have been many who have seen the 1951 science fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still as a Christian allegory. Indeed, apparently the screenwriter Edmund North wrote Christian elements into the film without discussing the matter with director Robert Wise or producer Julian Blaustein. “It was my private little joke,” explained North. “I had originally hoped that the Christ comparison would be subliminal.”
According to Wise, he never picked up on the Christ comparison until after the film had been released. I, for one, also didn’t pick up on the comparison until it was pointed out to me. So, perhaps we can say that North indeed achieved his objective at keeping the comparison subliminal."
Yes, me again. A much more thoughtul article:
http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/article.php?id=553&feature
(occurs just before image “figure 8”)
“This claim is understandable when one discovers that The Day the Earth Stood Still was deliberately crafted to make Klaatu an alien Messiah, and thus the dominant intertextual appeal of the film. In fact, its scriptwriter Edmund H. North “only discussed the biblical interpretation decades later after auteurist/archaeologist-critics had unearthed it” (Frumkes 34). Yet, it is somewhat ironic that its deliberately designed religious nature is not well-known amongst religious communities, even though the Klaatu-Christ parallel is very well known amongst secular SF fans; especially Klaatu’s hi-tech resurrection scene.”
Well, then, I don’t feel so bad that it took me so long to notice it, if the director and producer also missed it for a while.
Lots of little "J.C."s pop up in fiction, if you keep an eye out for 'em…John Coffey, John Connor, etc.
I’m partial to this one, myself.
Nope, don’t feel bad. I’ve loved TDTESS since I was a kid in the 50’s, probably seen it a couple of dozen times. The Jesus allegory never occurred to me, I had to read about it.
I don’t know whether this counts, but I must have listened to The Jacksons’ Destiny a million times, before I realized that Jermaine did not contribute to that album. It hadn’t even crossed my mind that they had changed their name from “The Jackson 5” to “The Jacksons” in part because Randy had temporarily replaced Jermaine in the group.