I watched Pulp Fiction with a friend who had experience with gangs in Southern California and he said the reason Vince took Mia out was Marcellus wanted him to prove he was still loyal to his syndicate after being away for so long.
Ooh, speaking of Doctor Who…
There was a point many years ago, when I was walking down the street holding my cellphone in my hand with earphones wired in (I did say “many years ago”) listening to music and reading something off the phone and had an epiphany: “Holy shit - I’m an Ood.”
Remember the Ood? Aliens with a “second brain” they always carried around in one hand? A second brain that wirelessly linked to a “central brain” that allowed them all to communicate with each other in a “collective consciousness”? Seriously, that whole Planet of the Ood episode was just about the Doctor giving everyone back their WiFi access.
I mean, I haven’t seen this theory elsewhere but it totally works.
I love the Ood.
I searched this very long thread, but don’t see it mentioned yet.
I watched Blade Runner for the umpteenth time, and noticed something. Deckard is looking for a replicant woman with a snake tattoo on her neck, as seen in the photo printout from his magic photo examination machine. He goes to Taffy Lewis’s, sees Zhora perform onstage, and follows her into her dressing room. There is no snake tattoo on her neck. Later, after he shoots her and then turns her over, there’s a snake tattoo on her neck.
The first time I saw Bluetooth earphones I thought to myself “the Borg are here!”
This is not exactly a revelation. But I just saw a YouTube video that talks about movie props. I hadn’t known that common objects like paper bags and ice cubes make too much noise and screw up the sound recording during scenes. So prop masters have developed quieter replacements for these objects.
I just watched that video yesterday!
Maybe someone knows this one? So, when the F.B.I. arrested Bukowski and he was sharing a cell with “Tara Bubba eat, Tara Bubba sheet!”… what was the connection to Gogol, or the Ukraine?
You know, it wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized the significance of the counting vampire on Sesame Street being named THE COUNT.
Yeah, well I just noticed that Big Bird was… a big bird.
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(Or I might have just said that to make Hypno-Toad feel smarter)
And in European and Chinese vampire lore, vampires are obsessed with counting.
"Other methods commonly practised in Europe included severing the tendons at the knees or placing poppy seeds, millet, or sand on the ground at the grave site of a presumed vampire; this was intended to keep the vampire occupied all night by counting the fallen grains,[26] indicating an association of vampires with arithmomania. Similar Chinese narratives state that if a vampiric being came across a sack of rice, it would have to count every grain "
In Kelly Clarkson’s “Because of You” video she’s singing to/blaming her mother. Her father left them both but it was seeing her mother’s response to it which destroyed her.
The world awaits the first movie about a vampire with characteristic OCD. A sort of Monk – The Vampire
A vampire haunts Vegas. Tragically, his hiding space is near the blackjack tables…
They blew their chance to depict this when they made the TV movie The Night Stalker (which eventually gave us the Kolchak TV series).
Having no soul, he doesn’t appear on the security cameras.
Then the pit bosses wouldn’t either…
In Parks and Recreation, Henry Winkler plays an obstetrician named Dr. Saperstein. In Rosemary’s Baby, the satanic obstetrician is a Dr. Sapirstein. Spelled slightly different, they are pronounced the same. (Different first names though.)
Would like to note that, in the ‘only Nixon can go to China’ way, mad props to Spielberg for getting a 10yo boy to shout out the word ‘penis’ in the #1 box office hit of the year, a movie for all ages. Just completely got away with it, a true banner moment in cursing history. 
Dee Wallace’s reaction was perfect as well.
Ha — good analogy.