If I remember correctly, that song also emphasizes the quality of the buns and pickles and leaving a tip on the dresser…er, tray.
As a kid, I could never figure out what the background singers were saying in The Clashs “Should I Stay or Should I Go.” It never occurred to me until almost college that they were singing in Spanish.
My wife is a Friends fanatic. It’s on a lot in our house, and I’ve seen every episode multiple times. Here’s something I’d never pieced together until very recently:
- Monica and Chandler’s wedding date is May 15th.
- Rachel was about one month pregnant at the time of that wedding.
- In the episode just before Rachel goes into labor, she complains that “It’s 100 degrees outside.”
That’s quite a heat wave for New York City in… January.
I happened to catch the first 20 minutes or so of Room With A View, which is a film I’ve probably seen half a dozen times over the year. In all those viewings, I never noticed…
In the early part of the film, our heroine Lucy Honeychurch meets her future love interest George Emerson while on holiday at a small pensione in Florence. In an early scene, she’s playing the piano in the parlor. As the camera zooms in on her hands, the piano is quite clearly labeled “Steinwal”. I’m not quite sure if this is because Steinway refused to allow the filmmakers to use their trademark or if it is a sly detail elucidating the downscale pensione trying to appear a bit more upscale while not spending upscale money to do so.
I was watching the Tick animated series from the 90s and got to the episode with The Terror. One of the villains that The Terror recruits is Joseph Stalin. Stalin admits that he’s actually a graduate student in Russian studies and is basing his work on Stalin. He calls himself Stalingrad. I totally missed hearing the pun back then.
It kinda fits…
I was today years old when I learned Fox news anchor Chris Wallace is 60 Minutes’ Mike Wallace’s kid.
Same here!
Jeux sans frontiers was a popular TV show in Europe at the time.
Ha! I found that out when I googled the spelling. Also that the song was named after the show.
And just in case you missed it, the UK version of the show was called “It’s A Knockout”
The lyrics of the song include the words :
“It’s a knockout.
If looks could kill they probably will in
Games without frontiers, war without tears”
The US version was called “Almost Anything Goes,” by the way (I watched it as a kid)
There was French film called Les Yeux San Visage. Everytime I heard the Idol song I thought of it.
They showed this, unedited , on WOR’s Supernatural Theater when I was a kid, including the plastic surgery/removing the facial skin scene. Gave me nightmares.
I saw it in college during one of the marathon movie things they’d do during finals week to relieve stress.
It’s definitely different seeing it with a semi-rowdy college crowd. I remember the scene where the girl who was going to be their plant asked if she was going to lose something (can’t remember what she said now). Some wag in the crowd yelled out “Only your face!”
Not apropos to the thread, but this did remind me of the burger joint in the part of SF most identified as gay, whose out and proud slogan was “You can’t beat our meat!”
The Flintstones was originally shown in the evening for adults (sponsored by a cigarette company), so any entendres were fully intended. It only became a “kid’s show” in reruns.
Despite the animation and fantasy setting, the series was initially aimed at adult audiences, which was reflected in the comedy writing, that as noted, resembled the average primetime sitcoms of the era, with the usual family issues resolved with a laugh at the end of each episode, as well as the inclusion of a laugh track. Hanna and Barbera hired many writers from the world of live-action, including two of Jackie Gleason’s writers, Herbert Finn and Sydney Zelinka, as well as relative newcomer Joanna Lee, while still using traditional animation story men such as Warren Foster and Michael Maltese.
Kris Kristofferson’s “Casey’s Last Ride” is a melancholy ballad that follows a man getting on the London Underground, and then stopping in a pub for a pint. The first and third verses describing this are interspersed with verses in the voice of an ex-lover, with whom he has just had a one-night stand, talking about being lonely and the simple pleasure of touch:
“Still,” she said
“It’s so blessed good to feel your body.”
“Lord,” she said
"Casey, it’s a shame to be alone
I’ve known this song for literally 40 years, and only last week realized that the title is a play on the British slang term “ride”: “sex”.
I would say Family, not Adult audiences, but yeah, it wasn’t a kiddie kartoon. My Dad liked Huckleberry Hound IIRC
Also used by The Beatle’s in Ticket to Ride, viz. a licensed prostitute.
You’re right. “Family” is a better term.