In the movie, the producer specifically says, “she was the greatest piece of ass I’ve ever had.”
Yeh, hence me admitting it was an obvious thing to miss. So now I feel like an idiot because I must’ve seen it 10 times. I honestly think I naively assumed he meant ‘had’ as in she was in the films he produced. I know, dumb.
In the episode “Krusty Gets Kancelled” on The Simpsons, Krusty the Clown talks about how he and Better Midler bought a horse together and named it Krudler. That name is funny enough, imo, but years later, I realized that they could have named it Misty.
This is one of the bette(r) autocorrects!
The Autronic Eye was an automatic headlight-dimming system, before the sensors and electronics existed to make it effective or helpful. It was known for being confused and randomly dimming the headlights when triggered by, amongst other things, oncoming traffic.
During the “guilded age” 1870-1890, estimated 15% of NYC was “servants”.
In the 1920’s, " chauffeur" for rich people was often explicitly part of the ex-military security detail, but it’s not clear to me how much of this was just “fashion” (I’m so important I have security), how much of this was spitefulness (I’ve got a bodyguard to piss off my ex), and how much of it was protection.
I note that in the UK, a rich man’s personal body servant, as well as his chauffer, were normally ex-military, and often function in literature like Kato, but I doubt that real life was much like the Green Hornet.
Before Robert Peel and the creation of professional police forces, home security was a real issue in Britain. In addition to purely servile duties the majordomo or butler of a wealthy house was responsible for maintaining the security of the estate. “Housebreaking”– smash-and-grab home invasions by a flash mob could and did happen.
Jay Gould, 1836-1892, had a 24-hr armed guard team at his country estate. But the notoriety of that arrangement suggests that it was unusual it the time.
Isn’t oncoming traffic when you’re supposed to dim your headlights?
Randomly attacking their boss?
I think that the Autronic Eye was supposed to be a dusk/dawn sensor, but whatever-- it was known for poorly controlled blinking.
Heck, I see street lights do this feedback thing where their own turning on and off changes the light level enough to trigger them.
Dang it - I was too slow.
I’m unfamiliar with the Green Hornet television series. Were the Pink Panther movies parodying GH on that score, or did they make up the attacking thing entirely on their own?
That was a Pink Panther thing. Riffing off the fact the Green Hornet’s Kato was played by Bruce Lee.
I needed a good laugh this morning. Thanks!
If you put the sentence “In the Godfather video game, how do you plant the horse’s head?” into Google, you will get a description of how to do this. I have no idea if this is sufficient within the game. I have no idea if this remotely works in doing this in real life. I didn’t even realize that there was such a thing as a Godfather game until now.
Unfortunately, no questions are really answered. They don’t show you how they get the horse’s head or how they plant it in Woltz’s bed without him waking up. It’s hidden behind cut-scenes. Rocco goes into the stall, you hear a bunch winnying and a thump and he comes out with a “package” - the head in a burlap sack. Then they sneak into the mansion - leaving a trail of dead guards behind them - and then Rocco sneaks into the Woltz’s room and it cuts right to him screaming.
Maybe they did just pull the horse’s head off. Who knows?
The mid-13th century (in Europe), you mean? 
(Sorry for the nitpick. We know you meant “gilded”.)
They’re so expensive some people* call them “guilded missiles”.
*okay, just me