Spike Lee’s movie about Michael’s “Off the Wall” album mentioned that they had been forced to change the name due to changing their record label; here’s roughly the same information:
I was watching the movie Weird Science the other day and in one of the scenes a band of warrior/mutants interrupts the party Anthony Michael Hall is throwing. The head mutant struck me as overly familiar for some reason, which was strange as I’ve seen this movie plenty of times in the past. It finally dawned on me that the actor (Vernon Wells) was playing his same exact character from The Road Warrior.
Yeah, I know that most people probably caught onto this, but for some reason I never made the connection.
Not obvious, but I just noticed that the latest episode of “The Goldberg’s” was directed by Kevin Smith (Jay & Silent Bob). Go figure…
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It’s not?
I always wondered why they would expect someone to walk out on them for singing out a tune. They were the Beatles, after all.
Oh, speaking of. Ask me how long I was fan before I realized they were the Beatles. I’d heard the story of Paul’s weird dream, ‘‘We’re the Beatles, with an A!’’ but I thought it was just them being nonsensical as usual. I didn’t get it was a music-related pun until a few months ago.
It would appear that the numbers do not reflect cylinder counts.
I haven’t read this whole thread, so maybe someone else already pointed this one out.
I’ve heard Dolly Parton’s song “9 to 5” probably hundreds of times. This morning I was at the grocery store and the song came on the store radio. All of a sudden I realized the “tick-ticka-tick” percussion line in the song is a typewriter! :eek::smack:
In a similar vein, I’ve heard “California Dreamin’” by the Mamas and the Papas for well over 40 years now, and was always bugged by the line “You know the Preacher’s like a Cove… (Preacherrrr…like…a…cooooooooove…)”
And a few days ago, as I’m standing in line at Walgreens and it comes on I hear “You know the Preacher likes the cold…(Preacherrrr…likes…the…coooooooooold…”)"
OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH! Well THAT lyric suddenly made sense.
Another musical background one. The 80’s song She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals.
After the lead singer sings “she drives me crazy”, I always thought the backing vocals were just going “Oooo - Oooo”. This weekend I finally caught that they are saying “Koo-Koo” as in crazy = cuckoo.
When characters like Yosemite Sam are saying “varmint”, is that meant to be a bastardization of “vermin”? Never even crossed my mind.
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Well, hmm. Yes, “Varmint” came from “vermin” but it has been around since at least 1829 with a version going back to the 1530’s.
It’s “… Sang out of tune”
I don’t know if this has been mentioned before (it is a long thread, this is my first dipping of my toe in it) but this makes me think of the James Taylor song Carolina in My Mind–why would a friend of his hit him from behind?
It took me a while to get the idea behind Kristofferson’s The Pilgrims lyrics;
From the rocking of the cradle to the rolling of the hearse
The going up was worth the coming down.
Get it? Rock and roll.
When I graduated from high school in 1974, one of my gifts was Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album. I became very familiar with most of the songs and had their lyrics memorized.
“Saturday Night’s All Right For Fighting” for instance. For more than forty years, I was struck by the discrepancy between Elton’s East End Bad Boy overall hooligan nature, and the fact that he was a really supportive brother to his sister, who must surely be going through school enduring taunts like “metal mouth.”
He was so supportive that he even sang that she looked “cute” in her braces and boots (and handful of grease in her hair). It never occurred to me until last year that he was talking about her suspenders, NOT her orthodontic hardware.
“Suspenders” in the American sense of the things that hold up your pants, and not in the British sense of the things that hold up your stockings, right? 
Anthony Newley.
I was similarly confused when I first read The Hobbit, and in the opening paragraphs was told that Bilbo leaned back in his chair and stuck his thumb inside his braces. I couldn’t figure out why the hobbit would be putting his thumb in his mouth, especially since he was smoking his pipe at the time. It didn’t occur to me until later that this was a British book, the hobbits, with their medieval level of technology probably didn’t have advanced orthodontics, and Tolkien undoubtedly meant what we Americans call “suspenders”, for holding up pants.
But I still get that mental image of Bilbo sucking on his thumb while talking to Gandalf.
Well, I didn’t know until JUST NOW!
My contribution:
I just watched Star Wars, but the Special Edition. I’ve managed to only see it a few times compared to the hundred or so of the “real” version.
In the Deathstar attack, I always snarkily replied to Luke after he cockily says he’ll have no trouble pulling up out of the trench: “It’ll be just like Beggar’s Canyon back home” with a “But, I’ve never flown Beggar’s Canyon!” Well, now with the deleted scenes added, I note that the guy he’s talking to isn’t some random rebel, but Biggs, his buddy from Tattooine. Hmm, maybe he HAS flown into Beggar’s Canyon, and it’s not a stupid line.
I’ve been chastised in the past for saying it was dumb to cut Biggs’ scenes out of the original movie because he also mentions him after the two robots are bought: “Oh, Biggs was right. I’m never gonna get out of here!”
Evidently SOME people think we should automatically fill in the holes when faced with discontinuities like this. On the other hand, everyone I’ve ever known who saw the movie at the same time just looked around in bewilderment: “Biggs? Who’s Biggs?”
The Biggs scene was needed to fill in some holes, but I can see why Richard Chew cut it. It interrupted the overall flow.