I don’t get it. What do heart surgeons have to do with purchasing arguments?
Oh, nothing to do with purchasing arguments that I can think of, but they weren’t just random names picked out of a hat, either. It’s just kind of an odd easter egg for people who are paying close attention. As the years pass it’s becoming very obscure, indeed.
There’s a season 2(I think) episode of Friends in which Monica bumps into this guy she used babysit when she was younger. The scene ends with him asking her “are you the one who fooled around with my Dad?” Now, in British English, that particular euphemism doesn’t really exist as far as I’m aware, so later when Monica says to Rachel “I bumped into Stevie Fisher” and Rachel says “Oh. Hey, how’s his Dad?”, my young self didn’t make the connection. I reckon I must have interpreted it as meaning something like played a mean prank on, rather than shagged.
I watched the episode again recently and I’m suddenly all :eek::smack:
Maybe there’s a subcategory in there - Jokes you didn’t get as a kid
When I was a teenager a friend of mine sang a song called “Stranded” it wasn’t until years later that I found out that the song was a parody of the theme song from Branded.
In Aliens, Hicks has a bullet hole in his armor that says “born again”.
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The actors were allowed to decorate their own armour and lockers, so that’s Michael Biehn’s own joke.
In The Breakfast Club, once everyone gets high, Brian and Andrew(Anthony Michael Hall and Emilio Estevez respectively) are sitting on a couch, talking. Andrew asks Brian what his middle name is, and Allison(Ally Sheedy) cuts into the conversation by saying “your middle name is Ralph, as in puke.”
It never occurred to me until a year or so ago that “ralph” is a slang term for “vomit.” It’s never been a very popular euphemism around here. I just always heard her statement as saying that his middle name is ugly.
I just realized that POLIDENT translates into “many teeth.”
That’s awesome! There were a few more little things I noticed on watching Aliens for the upmteenth time last night, but that one really stood out. I really liked it because it was a way to story build, make the people feel real, without exposition. Clearly, at some point, Hicks has been shot through the armor.
Possibly, but I think “denture polish” is more likely.
Serenity is one of my favorite movies and besides owning (a couple) disks, see it at CSTS every year. I was watching last night with earphones on and the first time they call Mr. Universe, behind him are multiple screens showing the puppet show. One of them has a news story about the Reaver raid on the hamlet they’d robbed, which I had noticed before but this time I could hear ever so faintly something like, “…only survivors was a group who took refuge…”
I think that would be “Polydent,” with a “y.” 
Today was the first time I’ve ever been to Chuck E Cheese. I suddenly realized that the Freddie Fozbear restaurant from Five Nights at Freddies is a parody of that restaurant.
Good thing Chuck E Cheese doesn’t hire security guards (anymore:eek:).
I’ve heard “I’ll Be Seeing You (in All the Old, Familiar Places)” many times, and always understood it to be a “We’ll Meet Again (Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When)” type of song. Which was why it was so popular back in 1944, or so I thought.
It wasn’t until recently that I paid attention to the second half of the song:
*I’ll be seeing you
In every lovely summer’s day,
In everything that’s light and gay,
I’ll always think of you that way.
I’ll find you in the morning sun,
And when the night is new,
I’ll be looking at the moon
But I’ll be seeing you.*
Just the opposite: The singer is assuming they’ll never meet again! Which during WWII would have been kind of a downer, I’d think. 
More of a “I’ll be thinking of you constantly while we’re apart” than a “I’m never going to see you again” vibe, I think.
I might agree with you if it weren’t for the “always.” Whether they never see each other again, it’s clear they’re going to be apart for a long, LONG time!
It’s also clear the singer is talking about seeing him/her in his/her imagination, and not in person.
I was watching clips from Blazing Saddles and it caused me to wonder who was still alive from the cast (my mind works that way). It’s surprisingly few; Brooks himself, Burton Gilliam (Lyle), Carol Arthur (Harriet Johnson), Rodney Allen Rippy (Bart as a child), and maybe Robyn Hilton (Miss Stein) but she has dropped out of the public eye so thoroughly I can’t find whether she’s alive or dead.
Anyway, that’s not related to the thread topic. What I hadn’t realized, despite watching this movie several times was how young Jack Starrett (who played Gabby Johnson) was. He was only 37 when he made this movie. I also didn’t recognize him in his other best-known role - as Deputy Galt, the cop who harassed John Rambo in First Blood.
Since I was living abroad for most of the '90s, I saw very few episodes of Murphy Brown. So I didn’t know one of its running gags was Murphy constantly firing her secretaries.
I found out this evening watching Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and finally got 100% of the Seinfeld joke about Kramer being Murphy’s secretary (and subsequently getting axed from the series) when he was in California.