A noodle dish, no less.
Some of my best friends are noodledish.
Fun Japanese noodle dish trivia: the word *ramen *in Japanese is borrowed from the Chinese lo mein.
I saw “Dancing Homer” last night for the upteenth time, which includes the following exchange:
Bart: We need a pitcher, not a belly itcher.
Lisa: We need a catcher, not a belly scratcher.
Let’s see; Itcher & Scratcher. Itcher & Scratcher…Itchy & Scrachy:smack:
Great coincidence, but “belly itcher” and “belly scratcher” as baseball taunts go back a long time.
I just saw a rerun of Family Fuy where Stewie and Brian go back in time to 1930 and Stewie dresses up like Hitler. He then runs into the real Hitler, and they imitate the famous mirror scene of Lucille Ball and Harpo Marx.
Later I remembered that Harpo’s first name was Adolph. (He later changed it to Arthur).
That doesn’t count as obvious. In fact, unless you provide more evidence they had ‘Harpo’s name was Adolph’ in mind when they came up with the joke, I’m going to say that’s coincidence.
I had to look up the Lucy/Harpo thing on YouTube, cuz I’d never seen it. Brilliant!
A couple from Newsies:
The very beginning of the movie (after the opening monologue) is shot in sepia tones, and slowly changes to color. Took me YEARS to realize this (though I suspect this was due to my switching from watching fullscreen to widescreen).
When Joseph Pulitzer (played by Robert Duvall) says “when I created the world…” he means his newspaper (The World), and is not intentionally being tongue-in-cheek.
And the original.
OK, I think in this case the homage was better than the original.
Hereis the Family Guy homage
Post #11 in this thread "Athletes with the most appropriate names: If only there were a famous golfer called Woods
I can’t actually take credit for having *realized *this, but…
We were dancing to EMF’s “Unbelievable” at a Halloween party a few weeks back and Mr. Smaje told me that Andrew Dice Clay provided the "Oh!"s and "You’re unbelievable"s sampled within the song.
I had NO idea about that. Now when I hear the song, I can’t believe I ever missed it!
I just realized after watching Lemon of Troy for the dozenth time why Milhouse’s parents look so much alike: Luann is the Shelbyville version of Kirk. She mentions in that episode that she’s from Shelbyville, and later when the kids go to that town, we see dopplegangers of various Springfield citizens. So Milhouse isn’t a product if incest after all. Although they probably are distant cousins.
After watching **Back to the Future **I wondered for years what a “jigowatt” was, and then a few weeks ago I read in Wikipedia (bolding mine):
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I’ve both read Gregory Maguire’s book “Wicked” and seen the musical. It’s a prequel to The Wizard of Oz.
I just learned that the Wicked Witch’s name “Elphaba” is a tribute to author L. Frank Baum–L.F.B.
I’m pretty sure it’s a coincidence. Early scripts had a completely different character named Darth Vader who was relatively minor. Lucas just liked to reuse names and it became the primary villain’s name. “Vader” think InVader. Just like InSidious.
I couldn’t tell you how many times I watched Ghostbusters before I figured out Louis and Dana had to have sex to open the portal.
Keymaster = penis, Gatekeeper = vagina.
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We recently acquired a copy of Live Aid, and I enjoy it a lot. Especially the part where Sting “guest sings” with Dire Straits on Money for Nothing.
I never knew Sting was on the radio version of the song until listening to the song again after watching that. :smack: