IIRC, yes it was.
“Riker’s beard” is the opposite of “jumping the shark”.
You mean Downtown Abbey?
I think I dated her once.
There’s even a page on it at TV Tropes.
I watched, and very much enjoyed, the incredible show “The Venture Bros”. Shared it with my youngest kid when he was old enough, he loved it too.
Yesterday, to kill some time before he got home, I pulled up a compilation video on YouTube of Bunson Hunnydew, from Muppet Lab (creating tomorrow, today!).
I got about 3 clips in before I made the connection that Beaker, the assistant, is essentially H.E.L.P.eR, the robot assistant in Venture Bros. Similar sounds, similar freakout, similar build…
Well. Didn’t this just ruin my morning.
I recently noticed that Veruca Salt’s fate in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is essentially a twisted parody of Lewis Carroll’s Alice. One chases after a rabbit and falls down a hole into a wondrous hidden world, the other chases after some squirrels and falls down a hole into a pile of garbage.
And Violet Beauregarde changes size and color. And Mike Teavee gets stretched out to five times his height, and Augustus Gloop gets squeezed thin. And nothing happens to Charlie; nothing negative, that is. He gets everything as a reward for obedience. (The Fizzy Lifting incident was not in the book.) I think you have something there!
Eh, that’s a bunch of hooey. The song was originally titled ‘Brown-skinned Girl.’
I can see that interpretation as being possible.
Hey, where did we go?
Days when the rains came
Down in the hollow
Playin’ a new game
This could be a metaphor for trying out anal sex during her period.
And whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow?
Going down the old mine with a
Transistor radio
Standing in the sunlight laughing
Hiding 'hind a rainbow’s wall
Slipping and sliding
All along the waterfall with you
Mentions of going slow, slipping and sliding, and going down the old mine all work with the anal sex interpretation.
I can see somebody writing a song that of the surface is about looking back to innocent memories of times spend with a past girlfriend - but then throwing in sexual references for a laugh.
Okay, smart guy: now explain the part about making love behind the stadium.
Maybe behind is the operative word there!!
That’s just a metaphor for man’s inhumanity to man.
The song Istanbul (Not Constantinople), by They Might Be Giants, ends with a cymbal crash. It’s likely that cymbal was made by Zildjian, a company founded in Constantinople (not Istanbul).
The song was written in 1953 by Jimmy Kennedy (lyrics) and Nat Simon (music), and first performed by The Four Lads, whose version went gold.
Yes, I knew that TMBG’s version was a cover. I mentioned their version because it’s probably better known here, and it ends with the cymbal crash; I don’t know if the original does.
And even if the earlier versions ended with the cymbal, the Zildjian company dates back to the 17th century, so there’s still a good chance that the the cymbal was a Zildjian (I don’t know when they became the dominant manufacturer of cymbals in the US).
For nearly 30 years now, I was under the impression that Kyle’s mom was a super king kong (or maybe super fucking) mega mega bi-otch. Turns out she’s a super King Kamehameha bi-otch.
I just assumed it was Cartman saying ‘mega mega’ in a stylized way.
I was re-watching this video and the way the opera singer pronounced it caught my attention:
Oh, yeah, they’ve been around forever, and are still owned by the same family, I believe. At some point the company moved to Massachusetts, which wasn’t even a colony at the time it started.