Shut the front door!
Holy hell, watched that movie 500 quadrillion times and it never occurred to me that Marla wasn’t real either.
Mind. Blown.
OK, here’s my (much lamer) contribution:
Gerry Rafferty’s “Right Down the Line” has two scientific falsehoods in one line of lyrics:
“You’re as constant as the Northern star, the brightest light that shines.”
Er… no. Precession of the axis, and Sirius.
(Like I said - lame. But I heard the song last night, and caught this one.)
I don’t think I ever thought about the pretty obvious double entendre in the chorus of It’s Raining Men…
I’m gonna go out and let myself get absolutely soaking wet…
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I have been listening to a lot of Jimmy Buffet on my commute. He often says “take it away…” (fill in name of soloist). But I was confused who the heck was Karl Reevers…
Coral Reefers, the band. :smack:
It recently occurred to me that there is a common expression “time to kill”, as in, “I’ve got some time to kill, let’s see if we can get that wall painted”. And there’s a John Grisham book/movie “A Time To Kill”.
Is there a connection there? I don’t see what it would be, but…
I was watching the original Ghostbusters the other night. There’s a moment in the scene where they get their first big client, the hotel. They’re surprised by a housekeeper with her cart, and she’s got a spray bottle of some cleaning fluid. They shoot her cart and start a few small fires. A few seconds later, after they apologize to her, you can see her in the background trying to put out the fire with her spray bottle.
I never noticed it before, thought it was funny.
It may be a small bit of wordplay, but the book is about a man who stands trial for murdering two men who raped his underage daughter. In other words, a bad time that might drive someone to kill, or at least that’s how I interpreted it.
I’d assume “A Time to Kill” would be a reference to Ecclesiastes*:
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal…
*Or the Byrds if you’re so inclined
Absolutely.
That movie is full of subtle gems. The last time I watched it, I noticed a package of Stay-Puft marshmallows in someone’s grocery bag. (Probably Dana? Can’t recall.)
Best movie of all time.
Sigourney Weaver’s character.
Through some fluke I noticed the obvious placement of that marshmallow bag with its made-up name and knew it would be significant the very first time I saw the movie.
Of course, it being brand new and all, nobody knew about the “Stay Puft Marshmallow Man” yet.
Just realized that, on South Park, Mr. Mackey’s name is very similar to his favorite phrase. M’kay?
This is really stupid, but I only recently realized that The Beatles intentionally misspelled their name as a play off “the beat”.
Completely blipped over that for decades and didn’t even realize it was a misspelling of “Beetles.”
I probably shouldn’t be allowed to drive.
Really? I Googled this after reading your post and the first thing that came up was: “The original BMW logo was designed in-house at Bayerische Motoren Werke AG in 1927. Whilst many think its checkered design is representative of a spinning aircraft propeller, it is in fact a combination of the logo of the Rapp Motorenwerke, from which the BMW company grew, and the colours of the Bavarian flag.”
When that song first came out, there was an article in the local paper about misheard song lyrics and titles. One disc-jockey said that a listener somehow misheard “Kyrie Eleison” as “Rip Her Legs Off” and kept calling in to request it.
Huh!
I only realized in the last couple of years that one of the two young shopkeepers they meet is a very young Michael Crawford, later to achieve fame in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera.
The title of the novel was later ripped-off for a non-fiction book about the Iraq War.
Haldeman himself was a Vietnam veteran, of course, serving as a Combat Engineer.
Re: Yellow Submarine
If all of your friends are aboard, how can many more of them live next door?
I watched the first showing of A Charlie Brown Christmas when I was a kid, and have watched it almost every year since, but did not notice until a couple of years ago when it was pointed out to me that Linus carries his security blanket throughout the special (even when Snoopy violently swings him around by it) except for one scene - when he walks onstage to recite the Gospel of Luke. At the moment when he says “Fear Not!” he drops the blanket; “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior; 'tis Christ the Lord.” - as if for that one moment he doesn’t need the external security of his blanket…
That’s wonderful, thank you for noticing that.
*
“For perfect love doth cast out fear… and the random blankie.”*