Tell me about it! I was in a marching band… in the Rose Bowl parade… behind horses.
(And, no, we couldn’t deviate a half inch from our assigned trajectories.)
Yes, the Rose Parade has always had horses and, eventually, marching bands.
One way round, no problem. The other, not so much.
It’s John Redcorn…
I’ve seen Goodfellas numerous times, but there’s one plot point that I never picked up until someone suggested it online, and became apparent when I watched the movie again this weekend: the babysitter was a mole for the police. It took me 35 years to figure that out. I’m such a genius.
Hmm. I think that’s a reasonable inference. But I don’t remember any evidence for it.
offhand, I don’t recall a babysitter. Can you remind me of the scene? Who babysat who?
Lois and her ‘lucky hat’,
I do so love the standard “testing drugs by tasting them” trope. Quality police procedural work there.
Except in real life I believe the babysitter got 10 years.
It’s possible. As far as I can tell she isn’t based on any real person. In real life Henry Hill was done in by a juvenile drug courier and the subsequent wire taps.
Maybe this is a trivial one. But I have probably watched Dogma five or six times and watched dozens of clips from the movie. But I was watching a clip the other day and it was the first time I noticed that Jason Mewes has a nose piercing.
In his 1962 parody “Don’t Buy the Liverwurst,” Allan Sherman sings:
Oh, buy the corned beef if you must,
The pickled herring you can trust,
And the lox puts you in orbit, A-OK!
Only recently did I figure out that he was punning on “lox” (smoked salmon) and “LOX” (liquid oxygen) - the latter of which would have been familiar to Sherman’s listeners on account of its use as a rocket propellant during the space race. (Hence “in orbit” and “A-OK.”)
Perhaps it was the larger screen or perhaps the subtitles had been redone but a couple weeks ago I saw Princes Mononoke in an IMAX theater and realized for the first time the Iron Town women were prostitutes Eboshi had rescued. That’s why they were so sassy.
The song is actually called “Shticks Of One And Half A Dozen Of The Other” with many clever snipits on a range of topics; the final bit is about the liverwurst.
Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
For the longest time (heh), I thought Billy was singing “…Bay of Pigs and Beijing.” Since it’s a song of non sequiturs, I didn’t really wonder too much about the reference to China in the early 1960s.
Last night, someone sent me a pic of them doing a karaoke version of the song and the lyrics were clearly visible: “…Bay of Pigs invasion”
Duh.
That’s right; if you watch this YouTube video of San Francisco just before the earthquake in 1906, you can see a few ‘street sweepers’ venture out to gather horse manure. That stuff was relatively valuable.
Heh - I spent about a decade thinking “Studebaker, television” was “Scooter Baker Television.” (Presumably some kind of pioneering early program à la The Ernie Kovacs Show.)
For what it’s worth, while this does fit this thread, there is also a long running thread specifically about misheard song lyrics:
Well, I’ll be. I always slightly wondered what was going on in Beijing during the WDSTF timeline, and also thinking that Americans were still calling it Peking back then.