Are those his hands? :dubious:
Seeing as he’s called the Suicide King, I would say yes.
Neither does the King of Diamonds
Who holds a axe, instead.
Our Walmart has a much bigger sporting goods, etc section than grocery. It’s only the really big stores that have full on fully stocked grocery sections including produce/meat counters, etc. This smaller one, closest to me, only has stuff like chips/snacks/drinks/some other pre-packaged stuff, and after a remodel a few years back frozen stuff and a TINY produce aisle (not even a full section).
Yes. Sometimes he’s called the suicidal king due to how he’s stabbing himself in the head.
edit: sorry didn’t see it was already mentioned. My bad, my bad.
As I posted in the “Celebrities whose names join phonetically in the middle” thread:
Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lechter both count. And their phonetic “S” and “L” form the initials of the most famous book written about them: Silence of the Lambs.
I wonder if that was inadvertent or deliberate.
Sheldon Cooper, among his many character traits, sure is a braggart when it comes to his own skills and qualifications. I mean he brags like a stereotypical … well, that is a Texan stereotype.
Huh. He’s Texan, and he brags, about his physics skills. Its not just his manifestation of Asperger’s. He grew up, surrounded by men bragging on their sports skills, or gun collection, or monster truck. He grew up believing this is how to behave. It has nothing to do with his anti-social tendencies, such male behavior is perfectly expected and acceptable in Texas – apparently even if you’re a physicist.
Its Howard, Leonard and Raj who can’t behave in that way.
Something I never realized until fairly recently about this Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quote:
For literally decades I thought that was an absurdist humor scenario where the guy was run over by a herd of zebras. Only recently did I find out it’s a term originating in Britain for a type of crosswalk.
I still think the “literally run over by zebras” idea is funnier, though.
Nnnnnnnyyyeeah, well, I grew up in Texas, and while I saw plenty of troglodyte bragging, I never saw a nerd act like that. I think it’s his anti-social whatever-it-is.
Me, too!
EDIT: I think I misunderstood what you were getting at, so please disregard.
Hannibal Lechter was created for the book Red Dragon, so I’m guessing inadvertent.
Similar to Ford Prefect being the make and model of a car sold in Britain but not the US, another joke that most Brits understood but not most Americans.
I suppose this falls under the heading of general movie errors, but I was watching Goldeneye last night. At the very beginning, Bond bungee jumps off a dam to infiltrate a chemical weapons facility at its base. Later, when he’s escaping, the facility is high up on a mountainside and even has a runway that he rides a motorcycle off in order to board a plane in mid air. As he flies away the facility blows up, and there’s not a dam in sight.
Furthermore, Bond meets up with 006 inside the factory. Why? If you’ve got a way to sneak in, have both agents use it. Having them take different routes to infiltrate the factory just doubles the chance of someone getting caught.
Interesting movie; Brosnan’s first time as Bond, and some nice moments, but egregiously stupid sometimes, too.
Perhaps the dumbest scene is the very final one. Bond and the girl are in a clearing in the woods/jungle and Joe Don Baker’s character (an American intelligence agent) walks in and talks to them. He shouts a command out and a bunch of Marines pop up all around them in the clearing, having been camouflaged and hiding in the grass. Okay, fine, whatever. But there are also three helicopters that drop immediately into sight. Apparently they were hovering just above the view of the camera, but were invisible (and inaudible!) to Bond and the girl until they descended an extra 10 feet toward the ground.
I was unaware that too. Incidentally, what was the Ford Prefect’s reputation in the UK?" If it was a lemon like the infamous Ford Edsel, that would add another level of humor that most Americans wouldn’t get.
I noticed that before, as well.
The IMDb trivia pages for the Bond films have lists of the specific vehicles used in each movie. I went through them once and checked, and there were only two of the movies (I think) that didn’t have a helicopter in them at some point. For such a rare form of transportation it seems absolutely vital in the world of international espionage.
Tom Baker’s Doctor rode around in a 1910 Stutz Bearcat. You would have to be a real auto enthusiast to recognize it.
No, it wasn’t really known as a lemon.
You know that sort of small to mid-sized family car that was seen as pretty run-of-the-mill when it was launched, but over time develops a kind of nostalgic glow, and comes to epitomise a particular period? It wasn’t that either.
The Ford Prefect was a dull car that appeared to have been designed to be adequate, and by the time Hitchhikers was first broadcast, the only people who remembered it had ever existed were those who’d owned one.
That’s weird, I didn’t know what a Ford Prefect looked like (although I may have been vaguely aware that it was automobile-related), but looking at it on wikipedia it does seem to epitomize 1940s and 50s England to me. For a moment I thought that it was that it may be a resemblance to a black cab, but up on looking at pictures of those, they seem more different from the image I had in mind, not more similar. I wonder if anyone knows why this looks so familiar? Were they perhaps in a lot of movies since they were cheap and recognizable?
I tried again, google imaging for “1940s/1950s black car” to see if maybe there were a lot of cars that looked like the Prefect from around the globe, and they all look different too.