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Sorry, I’m late to this thread…
Regarding Rosie by Jackson Browne:
When I was in high school we talked about Rosie Palm. And her five daughters…
Regarding Squeeze Box by The Who:
Sure it does. After all, “box” is slang.
So how many times did you watch the three Star Wars movies before finding out that Vader is Dutch for “father”?
I wouldn’t be surprised if it took George Lucas seven or eight times, if he ever realized it at all. If somebody told him so repeatedly, it would’ve gone in one year, straight through that neckless wooden block he calls a head, and right out the other ear.
Same here, except it was this line:
“So Tai, did you wanna grab something to drink?”
“I don’t know about that, but I could really go for some herbal refreshment.”
“Well, I don’t think we have any tea, but…”
I watched that movie two dozen times over in my youth and never got that Tai was into drugs.
This reminds me of one of my favorite lines from the Spider-Man movies: J. Jonah Jameson watches Dr. Octopus climb up a building, and says “Guy named Otto Octavius winds up with eight limbs. […] What are the odds?”
Something I thought of on the bus on the way to work: I love all the foreshadowing that happens in Arrested Development.
Buster’s hand: Several times, text is blocked off to show the words “arm off.” (Once it’s from “Army Officer” on an ad; another time, it’s “Alarm Off” on an alarm clock.)
Rita: Sitting on a bench advertising “Little Britain,” she blocks part of the words so that it reads “Little Brain.”
There’s also a line about, “Wait, you guys have coke here?” “Well, sure, this is America.”
And then later Cher lectures Tai on how it’s one thing to light up at parties and quite another to be baked all day.
…and Tataouine is a village in Tunisia. Many of the desert scenes in the original movies were shot in the area.
Not sure where the inspiration came from for Darth’s costume, but the face mask looks a lot like the front of a steam locomotive, complete with cowcatcher! Kinda gives him a “down home” appearance…would be fun to redesign him as a Texas outlaw (admittedly with severe asthma) and rename him Darth Brooks.
His white vinyl stormtroopers reminded me a lot of a friend’s Chevy Camaro.
kelly5078 said:
Uh, hello. In the context of the timeframe and especially Hollywood, effeminate = gay. They were using effeminate stereotypes to equate with not courageous.
Fair enough, but I’m not gay, and while I didn’t catch it as a child, it’s blatantly obvious now.
Rich1 said:
Or it could just be a place where he could go be alone with his honey for some nookie. With a radio for ambiance.
Annie-Xmas said:
[conspiracy theory]So Lucas names his bad guy Dark Father - er, Darth Vader, in the first movie because he heard it from some dutch people and it sounded menacing. Then for Empire, the screenplay writer decided that must make Darth Luke’s father, and wrote that in. And the rest is history. [/ct]
This probably would have been more obvious at the time the movie was released, but I’d seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show several times before I understood the significance of the scene where Dr. Frank-n-Furter refers to Dr. Scott as “Dr. Von Scott” and Brad gets offended. He is of course pointing out that Dr. Scott is German (which should have been obvious from his accent), and I thought the Dr. Scott = Nazi audience participation stuff was just based on the Nazis being German. It wasn’t until college that I learned about Operation Paperclip, a program to recruit Nazi scientists to the US immediately after WWII. Since Dr. Scott is a scientist and seems old enough to have been one back during the war (30 years before the time of the movie), there is good reason to suspect that this is how he wound up in the US.
Not to threadjack, but mind if I use that as a new sig line? 
Use what?
Don’t worry Robot Arm. Nobody read your post.
I’m embarrassed to say that I almost responded to tell you what he meant, but then I got it.
That Freddy Mercury (Queen - yah, I know) was gay.
You know the area where the wrasslin’ match is fought is called “Peniel”…
I’m thinking God gave Jacob a knee to the nutsack…an even better “inside joke”.
I’ll bite…what’s the question?
The Electric Company sketch Fargo, North Decoder is a spoof of Fargo, North Dakota.