Obvious things about a creative work you realize after the millionth time (OPEN SPOILERS POSSIBLE)

I was watching an old episode of Friends, from the 1st or 2nd season. There was a scene where Ross goes to see his ex-wife, Carol the lesbian, unannounced. She opens the door in her bathrobe and he says, “Oh, am I interrupting anything?”
To which she replies, “yeah, sort of,” and she reaches up real quickly to pick a pube off her tongue. It’s an unmistakable move.

How appropriate to follow that post with this:

The Beatles’ “From Me to You” includes the lines

I got lips that long to kiss you
And keep you satisfied.

The song was released in 1963, so I was 7 or 8 when I first heard it, and naturally knew nothing about cunnilingus at the time. But you might think that some time in the intervening 60 years the implication of lips “keep[ing] you satisfied” might have dawned on me. :person_facepalming:

You’re not the only one!

It’s at the very end of the episode “The One Without the Ski Trip”.

Earlier in the episode, Ross shows up at Carol’s apartment to borrow her car, and she is preparing dinner for her and Susan’s anniversary. Later when he returns the car, he apparently interrupts their anniversary celebration.

On that note: it appears to be a revelation that All Saints’ song “Never Ever” is based on “Amazing Grace”. Once you listen for it, it becomes obvious.

I’ve always told my students that history is the science of change. I don’t know where I got that from but I’ve been saying it for 20+ years. Today it hit me … when I was a child I watched James Burke’s Connections series,

I’m one episode away from finishing season 2 of The Bear, and it just hit me that the title of each episode is something that appears in that episode. At least I’m pretty sure that’s the naming convention; I don’t feel like rewatching the earlier episodes to verify it. Some of them are pretty obvious, like “Fishes”, “Forks”, and “Omelette”. Others are more subtle, like in “Bolognese”, Carmy cooks that dish for Claire. In “Sundae”, if I remember correctly, Sydney eats a sundae when she’s visiting a bunch of other restaurants looking for inspiration. In “Honeydew” did Marcus use honeydew in a dessert when he was training in Copenhagen?

I was watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang a couple days ago and noticed something. Near the end, Truly is singing for Baron Bomburst’s birthday. She’s pretending to be an automaton on a music box with very mechanical movements. The sound effects that are part of the music, and synchronized with her movements, are differnt depending on which part of her body is moving. There’s kind of a grinding sound when she moves her arms, a knocking woodblock sound when she moves her head, etc.

It’s a pretty minor thing, but it was something I’d never consciously noticed before. Someone had a good eye for detail when they were putting that scene together.

Oh, and the whole movie is basically Goldfinger for kids.

Okay, just rewatched Coco. Pretty nice little Disney Film.

Miguel discovers that Ernesto is kinda a fake and a real rotter, but that is in the land of the dead.

However, at the end of the film, Ernesto’s centograph has “Remember me” covered up by “Forget You!” but why? No one alive but the kid knows that, and will the whole village believe his story- and would he even tell people?? Seems kinda odd.

Well, it is based on a book by Ian Fleming.

It’s much more than just that. An Englishman* gets a gadget-filled car from Desmond Llewelyn, flies across the English Channel in pursuit of Gert Fröbe, and foils his evil scheme. Produced by Albert R. Broccoli, screenplay by Roald Dahl (You Only Live Twice), and the female lead is named Truly Scrumptious.

Directed by Ken Hughes, who was one of the co-directors of the 1967 Casino Royale.

* Technically, Bond was a Scot.

I presume he came back and found some kind of proof. And yes, I assume he’d tell people. Why let the murderer’s image go unspoiled?

Was Book Bond a Scot? I thought that was only to compensate for Sean Connery’s accent.

Fleming wrote Bond some Scottish heritage after being impressed by Connery. Literary Bond had a Scottish father and Swiss mother. I don’t think he ever stated Bond was born there himself.

At the end Coco reveals she has all her father’s old letters, demonstrating who wrote the songs originally.

Pretty hard to do after so many decades, and remember, that was just one villages, whereas Ernesto was idolized all of Mexico.

I notice you’re both skipping the main part of my posts, and just commenting on the throw-away bit at the end. I must be burying the lede in this thread.

I didn’t have anything to add to your main part, but I read and appreciated it.

As did I, but now I need to watch Chitty-chitty Bang-bang again.

TIL

The only reason I can think of for not ever noticing that is because I copied someone else’s tape, so I don’t think I ever saw the cover. By the time I was in college, everyone just had their CD’s in a book, so I wouldn’t have seen their covers either.