I went to an animal farm expecting to see all sorts of wonderful creatures, but all they had there was one small cute dog. It was a shih tzu.
I’ve been watching Columbo for years and never noticed that he doesn’t wear a wedding band.
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Obvious things you notice about a joke for the first time.
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Okay, we all remember Raiders, and how Indiana Jones barely made it through the gap before the door came down, and how he grabbed his hat at the last second. In Witness, which also stars Harrison Ford, Lukas Hass rolls under a divider from one bathroom stall to another, and grabs his hat at the last second before someone opens the door to the stall he just left.
That reminds me of another one Harrison Ford one.
I’m sure we’ve all heard some of the trivia about how Mel Brooks and George Lucas working out the details about some of the various aspects of Spaceballs.
A few years ago, I heard Mel Brooks saying that George Lucas told him Lonestar can’t wear a vest in the movie. According to Brooks “They didn’t want him to look like Han Solo so I made him look like Indiana Jones”.
In The Lion King, Simba’s meerkat friend Timon shares his name with a Shakespeare title character. Took me a while to notice that Simba meets Timon (and Pumbaa) in a plot twist that roughly echoes Timon of Athens: a well-off man turns his back on society and retreats into nature to live off the land.
But the comic is from 1986, and I don’t think many people back then noticed or cared how many cameras a sitcom used.
Maybe not obvious; just an interpretation I never thought of before.
When Roald Dahl created Willy Wonka and his chocolate factory, he must have been heavily influenced by the Cadbury chocolate empire. The way he describes the basic Wonka Bar sounds a lot like the Cadbury Milk bar. They had a huge factory, and from time to time gave tours of it, and they were constantly trying to come up with exciting new varieties of chocolate and candy. However, the Cadburys were Quaker, and while I’m not saying they never had any fun, they certainly didn’t sing and dance and make smart remarks around the factory.
So Willy Wonka is as if the Wizard of Oz was a candy/chocolate magnate. Think so?
Kind of funny, the film was produced by Quaker Oats.
Coincidental, because Quaker Oats and Cadbury’s have never been affiliated. But that’s how a producer named David Wolper got the movie financed, by having QO use it as a vehicle. Unfortunately, it was not a hit on its original release! Just can’t predict these things.
Right, but the coincidence is funny. How often does Quaker come into conversation, fictional or real?
In fact, Dahl was directly inspired by Cadbury - they used to beta-test new candy bars by sending prototypes to him and his boarding-school classmates, which led him to imagine what kind of mad genius was working behind the scenes to invent such wondrous new confections.
Sign me up for that study!
Mind…blown. Thank you for sharing.
I feel that the book portrays Wonka as a mad scientist who just happens to be obsessed with candy.
Just read the replies. I don’t feel that this fact negates what I said.
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I just realized today that “Amazing Race” sounds like “Amazing Grace”.