The ending of that episode has been much discussed among Buffy fans. Consensus is that Dawn summoned the Demon. Xander took credit for it order to save Dawn. And that shows his usual courage and heart.
I don’t know if this has ever been officially confirmed.
I can buy that. Makes more sense than Xander calling Sweet.
Maybe. I remember those times, and there were love-ins and sit-ins and all sorts of other -ins. “Laugh-in” was just a logical addition to all those.
There’s a thread in Elections called Hee-haw, Y’all! The 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary. And I didn’t give it too much thought, but then today I realized what the Hee-haw part was about. :smack:
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Japan’s Rising Sun flag? The sun I can totally see: it looks like a sun. Today, however, I realized that the color was not quite the normal color of the sun but that was okay because yellowish white is hard to put on a flag. Then I realized that the sun as it is rising is indeed red.
I can buy that theory too. Thanks!
Which is…?
Hee-Haw is the stereotypical sound of a donkey.
Thank you! For weeks, I was trying to figure out how a reference to the TV show would work, and couldn’t.
Okay, I was just watching a video about the Mandela Effect and this one got me.
The theme song to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood - if you had asked me, I would have told you the opening line is “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood”.
But it isn’t. The line is “It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood”.
It probably wasn’t a factor when Japan adopted its flag but the classic laws of heraldry prohibit having white and yellow touching.
But look at the Papal flag, which clearly has yellow and white touching. That was intentional; it was supposed to demonstrate that the Pope, as God’s representative, did not have to submit to any secular laws.
I was watching the video for Up Up Down Down by Kirby Krackle, earlier. I’ve watched it a bazillion times.
There’s a twist at the end - she’s a serial killer and the singer is her latest victim - which, upon this rewatch, I realized was forshadowed by the girl’s choice of clothes… Her shirt has the Poison Mushroom from Super Mario Bros. II/The Lost Levels (depending whether you’re talking about the Japanese or US version, respectively). Boy should have seen it coming.
I don’t know if this has been covered, but for me it was the old TV show “The Prisoner” which I binge watched on dvd recently.
One of the ongoing themes is Drake trying to find out who is “Number One”, the person in charge of the Village. In the intro he asks his interrogator “Who is Number One?”, the answer is “You are number 6.” Which I always took to be a reply reinforcing to Drake what his own number is.
However, in the last episode, he pulls back Number 1’s mask and sees himself, which totally changes the response to the intro question: “You are, Number Six”. It was staring us in the face the entire series.
The belief is that he was the head of the Village and he gave himself an amnesia treatment and had himself placed in there as a “Prisoner” to test if the village was escape proof.
Congratulations – you’ve discovered what is possibly the answer (especially considering how, in the last episode, Fallout, The Prisoner pulls off the mask on Number One and sees his own face*. his idea has been bruited about for the past few decades among Prisoner aficionados. But I don’t think I’ve heard the idea of his giving himself amnesia to “test” the Village effectiveness.
One of my friends suggested that all of the series effectively takes place in The Prisoner’s own mind. He hypothesized that, as an agent, he was given information or an assignment that collided so strongly with his own beliefs and code of ethics that he retreated into his own mind, and he imagined it all. That explains how “They” can know so much, and why people he thought were undoubtedly on “his side” turn out to be turncoats.
Although lots of places claim that The Prisoner was really Drake, McGoohan’s character from Secret Agent/Danger Man (including one of the novels based on the series), McGoohan has consistently denied it. Arguably, that’s to avoid giving royalties to the folks responsible for that earlier series. McGoohan liked playing secret agents, and portrayed others in his career.
*Of course, another mask-pull revealed an ape, so make of that what you will.
I chose to ignore the ape face part since that didn’t fit into my theory 
I also thought it was interesting how McGoohan supposedly went into hiding after the finale aired because fans were so pissed off. I’m sure there’s already thread here for “Series Finales that were a Disaster”
Okay, I knew that Janis Joplin’s version of “Me and Bobby McGee” was a cover and that Kris Kristofferson wrote the song and sang it before Joplin.
But I recently found out that the song was originally recorded by Roger Miller. And then I checked and found out that Gordon Lightfoot, Kenny Rogers, the Stonemans, Charley Pride, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and the Statler Brothers all did a cover before Kristofferson released his version. So Joplin’s cover was the ninth release of the song. And all of these versions were recorded and released in an eighteen month period.
I just came across a clip from the Batman The Brave and the Bold cartoon featuring the obscure Batman villain The Music Meister. I realized that the villain in the musical episode of The Flash is basically (supposed to be?) the same villain.
Yeah. I strongly suspect that without the B&B episode raising the Meister’s profile a bit, he wouldn’t have been used in Flash/Supergirl.
Music Meister was created for B:tBatB.
There have been similar characters, such as the DCAU’s Music Master (and Music Master’s influence, Fiddler), but the Brave and the Bold character was the first Music Meister.
I suspect, though, given the similarity of name and design (the red hair, the diastema, the tie) that Music Meister began life as a version of Music Master, but for some reason they decided not to use that name.
