DopeR MMM, not DopeD! :smack:
Sorry, MMM
^ Watch it; he always shouts out something obscene!
And this scene has a reference to this guy. (The scene also contains some NSFW offensive language.)
I can’t say I realized this one but I just learned something about this scene from The Wizard of Oz that I hadn’t known. As I think most people know, the early parts of the movie that were set in Kansas were filmed in sepia monochrome. The movie then switched to technicolor when Dorothy arrived in Oz. And there’s the shot where she opens the door of her house and reveals Oz in all its color.
What I just learned is that they filmed that shot in technicolor. They decided it would be simpler than trying to combine the two color schemes into a single shot. So they created a special set with everything painted in shades in sepia so it would look like monochrome even though it was being filmed in full color.
And how did they get Dorothy to go from sepia to technicolor in the single shot? They used two Dorothys. The Dorothy we see inside the house is Bobbie Koshay, Judy Garland’s stand-in. She was dressed in a sepia costume and done up in sepia make-up. Judy Garland was wearing her regular Dorothy costume and standing just behind Koshay off camera. When Koshay opened the door and the camera pulled in close, Garland stepped around Koshay and into the shot to walk outside.
I do have sisters, but no Pams. I *have *used Pam before, though.
And I have never made the Polythene Pam connection either. 
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I may have been missing something all this time, but: right here in the real world of our universe, wasn’t a shattered statue of that pharaoh right next to another statue of the same guy, which survived in not-too-shabby fashion?
During his ride in the helicopter at the beginning of the film, Dr. Grant can’t get his seatbelt to work. He has two “male” ends. He makes them work anyway, being creative and simply tying them together. And although I’ve seen the film many times, it never occurred to me that this was a reference to how later the all-female population of dinosaurs “find a way” (to breed). Somehow I just (no pun intended) never connected the two things.
Also, in “The Social Network,” the character played by Justin Timberlake gets his female friend’s attention by telling her there’s a snake in the room. (This is one of his character’s first scenes in the film.) She runs in and he tells her he’s lying. But of course, he isn’t lying. HE is the snake, as the story later establishes. I never made the connection until someone pointed it out to me.
Also Stevie Wonder’s “Fingertips”
It’s two “female” ends that Dr Grant ties together. You can check YouTube video to confirm this.
From this thread, nearly one decade ago now, Post #343:
I never realized it myself until I read this same thread ten years ago. That’s why I still remember the post.
This one may not be as obvious as you seem to think it is.
Watched Carson semi-regularly from ca. 1974-ca. 1992. No idea how many times I’ve seen Carnac the Magnificent come out and trip over the step up to the desk.
It was only recently that it occurred to me that this happens just after he’s introduced as “all-seeing.”
After seeing “The Chinese Woman” on Seinfeld for the umpteenth time, I realized that Noreen was contemplating suicide at the end because she was afraid she was pregnant with Kramer’s child. :eek:
Why she was rescued by Frank Costanza’s lawyer of all people still escapes me. 
Is it because he was wearing a cape, like a superhero? The way Superman (i.e., George Reeves) got Lucy Ricardo off the ledge in I Love Lucy? 
Brilliant! Thanks.
Stevie Wonder has fingertips?
The funny thing is that trick never worked on TV until the movie finally came out on VHS. From 1949 until 1989, the first two reels were grayscale B&W in all prints and on TV. When I was a kid, I thought it looked strange when that shot comes up and she’s brown before going into the color world. When it came out on VHS for the 50th anniversary they updated the beginning to be sepia toned, as that was how it was when it came out. Once they did that, the trick was a much better effect.
The Tingler from William Castle pulled a similar trick in one scene. The film is in B&W but for one scene they painted the set monochrome and slathered the actress in gray makeup so they could film a bathtub filled with red blood in full color. I was lucky enough to see the film projected in 35mm which made the effect apparent. The video (DVD and Blu-ray. that is. The laserdisc still has the original effect, but so low resolution it doesn’t look very good)) has been post-processed as a rotoscoped optical effect, so it no longer has the trick.
Hey! I kinda remember that looking weird; I definitely first saw Wizard of Oz before 89 as a kid.
I just realized that in the song “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Music, in the lyric “fa, a long long way to run”, that “fa” and “far” really are quite similar to a British person speaking in a non-rhotic dialect. It’s not just a vague similarity that’s used only because there’s no “real” word that sounds like “fa”.
Me was also a dummy too, until reading your post.
The two female seatbelts from Jurassic Park was inspired and I loved reading about it. (Although I wouldn’t call it “obvious”.)
I was indulging in some free association that went something like this…
Someone called me “Red” tonight (because of my hair color). I think I prefer the English “ginger” to the American “red”. How would I like to be called “Ginger”?. There aren’t too many characters I can think of called Ginger. There was Ginger from Gilligan’s Island, who had … red … hair… DUH!