It’s also an homage to the newspaper comic strip created by Stan and drawn by Dan DeCarlo called Willie Lumpkin that ran from December 1959 to May 6, 1961. Stan and Jack Kirby introduced another Willie Lumpkin character as the Fantastic Four’s mailman in 1963.
Stan also acted as the character in the 2005 Fantastic Four movie.
I understood it was a Willie Lumpkin reference. But I had missed the significance of Stan Lee’s character getting Tony Stark’s name wrong after Tony Stark had gotten his name wrong in the past.
In case anyone is wondering, I watched a YouTube video of all of Lee’s MCU scenes and seeing them together was when I made the connection.
Yeah, I was just adding on to what you said for those who didn’t grow up on the comics.
In the ***Columbo ***episode “Forgotten Lady,” strains of “Walking My Baby Back Home,” from the movie Janet Leigh uses to establish her alibi, are woven into the background incidental music. I think this has to be unique in the series; I don’t know of another instance where something besides the studio music composed for the show was heard.
(The episode where Johnny Cash was the murderer might be an exception, but I don’t think that one is ever shown anymore. I certainly haven’t seen it in decades.)
The Amityville Horror.
Unlike other spooky/satanic scary movies of the 70s which were at times forgetable, like The Devil’s Rain or The Hearse, there is ONE aspect of this film which makes it enduring…
The fucking House
HAS EYES!!!
It was kind of obvious from the original movie poster. How did you miss that? The sequel made it even more clear.
I’d say more than that, theside of the house looks like a human skull.
How did you miss the point of the whole thread?
It’s one thing if it was subtle, but the advertising campaign emphasized it! Of course, we can all miss obvious things, I get that. 
I was working from home today, using a desktop and a laptop at the same time, very non-ergonomic. I was stretching out to the laptop doing one handed copy and pastes, and I suddenly realized why paste is CTRL-v.
Remove text is CTRL-x: check
Copy is CTRL-c: check
Paste is CTRL-v: what the heck? Oh, yeah (::dope smack:
“x” is next to “c” is next to “v”
It’s poor design. They shouldn’t have put active keys next to each other and made it easy to hit the wrong key by mistake. (I’ve done it. I’ve copied a section of text with CTRL-C and then inserted it where I wanted with CTRL-V - only, oops, I hit CTRL-C a second time by mistake instead of CTRL-V. I just lost the section of text I had copied. Or I wanted to copy a section of text with CTRL-C but erased it by accidentally hitting CTRL-X.) They should have put neutral keys between the active keys to separate them.
But that can be rectified with CTRL-Z.
The “v” looks like a caret ^ that’s been inverted like so ˇ, both used in proofreading to indicate insertions. Caret - Wikipedia
Just saw the Tom Hanks desert-island movie Cast Away for, I think, the third time, and finally noticed, in an early panning shot of the rooms of his character Chuck’s house, that he’d won several awards as a yachtsman. Made it clearer why he was able to later build and capably sail his raft to escape the island.
I stand by what I said. CTRL-Z,C,B,M would have been better than CTRL-Z,X,C,V.
In our house, when somebody is embarrassingly slow on the uptake, the phrase used when admitting it/being riduculed for it is “Oh, like the boots!” which references the time - about 18 months after first seeing it - that I realised the sitcom ‘Doc Martin’ isn’t solely called that because it’s about a doctor called Martin.
Y’know…? “Doc Martin”? Doc Martens…like the boots?
Sorry to disagree, but I do all those functions with my left hand alone, and although I have pretty large hands, CTRL-M is not comfortable. Although I very occasionally mis-key CTRL-V (usually as CTRL-B, which bolds in most programs) CTRL-M would simply be unworkable. And as Peter Morris pointed out, if you hit the wrong key, CTRL-Z fixes it instantly.
In the DC Cinematic Universe…
The Wayne Enterprises logo
https://t6.rbxcdn.com/4333e2ab08b7a14b469e8ff8ab3addd2
look at it…upside-down.
[spoiler] It is a mausoleum for two…Dr. Thomas and Martha Wayne!
https://www.salemstones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Grey-mausoleum-with-bronze-door.jpg[/spoiler]
I must not be a great sailor, or else I was dazzled by the sci-fi, because I always quickly assumed the “warp drive” referred to bending and twisting space (it does, of course), before thinking about, you know, warping a ship.
Okay, this isn’t “obvious”, but there isn’t any other thread appropriate to put this in.
In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in the scene where Indy and his father have gone to Berlin to rescue the GRail diary, there’s a scene where the Nazis are having a book burning bonfire, and Indy inadvertently tuns into Adolph Hitler.
Playing in the background was a march that I recognized as what I was always told was the Hohenzollern March, but which is evidently properly called the Hohenfriedberger March*, the composition of which is credited to Frederick II (the Great), although apparently no one really believes this. It’s named after the Prussian victory at the Battle of Hohenfriedberger in 1745. (And the tune was apparently inspired by an even earlier march, the Pappenheimer March)
In any event, the version in the movie had parts added onto it, and I wondered if this was a part I was unaware of, or if some other march segued into the Hohenfriedberger. It turns out that the march played in the movie was actually the Königgrätz March , written by Johann Gottfried Piefke to celebrate (what else?) the Prussian victory at the Battle of Königgrätz in 1866, the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War. Piefke deliberately included the Hohenfriedberger March in his own composition, so I wasn’t completely wrong (aside from the name).
I never would have known this, but I picked up a CD of Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonik playing a selection of marches (all European, and mostly German, for that matter. Not a Sousa in the bunch), and it included both the Hohenfriedburger and the Königgrätz Marches.
*The Hohenzollern March is actually a very different composition by Gustav Mahler, composed in 1880
Not directly linked to a creative work but I’ve seen every episode of The West Wing and a bunch of movies and TV shows without realizing this.
I was just watching a YouTube video about the White House and I learned the Oval Office is not in the main building, the Executive Residence, which is where I always thought it was. It’s out in the West Wing and it’s been there since 1909.