There’s an Aussie comic strip called Ginger Meggs, the eponymous hero being a small boy with red hair.
Ah, but “Back in the U.S.S.R.” is done in a style much more like the Beach Boys than Chuck Berry.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dave Bowman transforms into the Starchild.
I always thought that was a static prop…something that just sat there being photographed…THE EYES MOVE!
time index 7:15
“Oh my God, what a boring movie!”- repeated by a friend with increasing frequency and intensity as we watched the VHS with a group of friends in our 20’s.
A few years ago, I realized what was meant by the line “She’s the kind of a girl/who makes the news of the world” in “Polythene Pam.”
Turns out The News of the World was a British tabloid famous for writing about sensational sex scandals.
On Happy Days The Fonz was supposed to be something of an outsider (his ethnicity, clothing, motorcycle). When I watched it as a kid, I just thought of him as the cool guy who could get the pinball machine to work without paying.
Stevie Wonder relies on his fingertips considerably more than you and I do.
Back in the 70s when I was courting the girl who would later become kaylasmom, she had all of Stevie’s albums on LP. The one titled Talking Book had the artist and title on the album cover in Braille.
Most of her other albums, she had to label with Dymo Tape…
Don’t beat yourself up for not noticing. The Fonz was such an odd figure. He was clearly INTENDED to represent an outsider deliquent, but Winkler’s charisma and the flat cheeriness of the writing meant that he was pretty much portrayed as a magical, chivalric, lovable rock-and-roll elf pretty quickly.
I don’t think I’ve heard that song since I was a kid. And speaking of obvious things, I never noticed the shout out to Ray Charles.*
That Georgia’s always on my mind.
- Yes, he didn’t write it.
LOL at rock-and-roll elf
She Loves You by the Beatles was released in 1963, a month before my eighth birthday. It’s one of the Fab Four’s iconic early songs, and I don’t know about you, but I have undoubtedly heard it hundreds of times.
I was listening to it again today, and realized I couldn’t figure out the third line of the third verse. It goes:
You know it’s up to you
I think it’s only fair
???
Apologize to her
Do you know the missing line? I had to look it up.
Pride can hurt you too
I had never heard that line!
Okay, this MIGHT be stretching the definition of “creative work,” but: Dunkin’ Donuts coffee. I’ve heard people wax rhapsodic about it and bemoan its lack of availability on the west coast.
I’ve had it dozens of times because, hey, it’s around and it’s cheap, but I never got it. Tastes like cheap coffee, one step up from a gas station but a big step down from a decent coffee shop.
But I always got it black. I just recently found out that DD coffee’s default is with cream & sugar, and…darn, they changed my mind. Sweet coffee isn’t my usual preference, but I’ll be darned if DD doesn’t have that blend dialed-in perfectly.
I don’t know if this is or isn’t obvious, but in the famous long shot at the beginning of Goodfellas when Henry Hill takes his date into the Copacabana through the kitchen, most of the scene was unnecessary- if you pay attention, they enter and leave the kitchen by the same door. The nightclub entrance was opposite that door, making the loop through the kitchen a pointless detour.
Garrett PI, by Glen Cook.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_P.I.
Took me a couple books to figure out that: Garret is Archie. The Dead Man is Nero. Dean is Fritz.
Your URL is wrong (missing last period). Should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_P.I.
I’ve never heard of them. I might have to have a look.
Here’s my own unusual take on Nero Wolfe, Murder with Trimalchio:
IIRC that shot was meant to portray the figurative labyrinthine nature of the life of organized crime.
You ended up with the same problem, because you can’t just paste a raw URL that ends in anything but a number, letter, or slash and expect vBulletin to parse it correctly. You need to use the URL tag.
Godfather fans!
How many times have you seen this movie and missed the Oscar statuette on Jack Woltz’s nightstand?
At the start of the Season 8 ***Seinfeld ***episode “The Little Jerry,” Jerry and Elaine are waiting for George in front of a Chinese restaurant called “Madame Chang’s.” This is probably a callback to the Season 6 episode “The Chinese Woman” with “Donna Chang” (who wasn’t Chinese).
It’s a pretty common name for English sidekicks; I can think of two off the top of my head.