I was watching Airplane! the other day. I’ve probably seen it a dozen times. I never noticed before that when the reporters insisit on coming in and interviewing McCroskey and Hinshaw, holding microphones for them to talk into, one of them is actually an ice cream cone.
Doh! Wondered where he came up with that. Now it makes sense.
Because there is no Flying Monkeys’ chant?
Bah! NOW you tell me. :smack:
I always thought it was a chicken leg…
Okay, so even if you haven’t seen Mystic Pizza, you probably know that’s the one that starts with Lili Taylor and Vincent D’Onofrio’s wedding, which doesn’t happen because she has a panic attack and collapses at the altar. But what I didn’t notice until about the fifth time watching was that while she’s hyperventilating, he takes a long look over his shoulder, gauging the distance to the door.
ETA: No, it’s an ice cream cone.
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Family Guy is set in the city of Quahog. Their watering hole is called The Drunken Clam.
Only took me about a thousand episodes to put those two together.
In the Disney version of Pinocchio, the personification of Pinocchio’s conscience has a name which is the sort of euphemistic corruption of the ejaculative “Jesus Christ!” that your auntie might use to avoid offending anyone when she finds a dead mouse in the cupboard.
That’s fairly obvious, but it was a long time before I clued in that this name was probably intentionally chosen to evoke the concept of Christian conscience. (What with me being all humanist and stuff and used to thinking of Christianity and ethics as discrete concepts.)
… I never noticed that.
“Probably intentionally”? That’s an extraordinary claim. Have you anything to back that up?
Collodi did use an unnamed cricket in his original story. You’d expect Disney to use a cutesy name derived from a common expression (and Disney altered the story almost beyond recognition, as well). Hell, how many people even know “jiminy crickets” is a substitution? I didn’t until I was an adult. How many people know “dickens” is altered from “devilkins”? “Dear me” from “Dio mio” (“My God” in Italian)?
In Macross, and in Robotech, the ace pilot’s name is Max. His signature jet is blue.
Blue Max. What a horrible, horrible pun.
It’s not really a creative work, it’s the name of the Beatles. I never put two and two together until just a few years ago…
Oh DERRRRR the BEAT les. sheesh :smack:
Right. The cricket lasted about half a page, not long enough to serve as a conscience. He started getting moral, and Pinnochio squashed him – literally.
Well, now I do! BTW, “blimey” means “God blind me.”
Yes, there are a HELL of a lot of dopers here who inexplicably read “obvious” as “obscure artsy-fartsy plays on words that only they and a handful of other fans of X works actually GET”.
GAAAAH,
I’m still waiting to see if the A in Audi and the 2,4,6 stand for something other than Audi 2 cylinder etc. 'Cuz I’m with the other doper who stated (paraphrased) if they named their cars Audi Audi 4,6,8 cylinder, I’m heading for the tower with an Uzi. SHEESH.
On The Muppet Show, the bass player for Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem was named Floyd.
Guess what color he was.
“Jiminy Crickets” is a mild euphemistic oath from the Midwest. It shows up in other Disney cartoons (look at Peter Pan, where Michael says it in the beginning). It certainly belongs to that class of “sorta based on Jesus Christ” euphemisms, because of the initials. Although there is a class of people who claim that “Jiminy” itself is a corruption of “Gemini” – Romans used to swear by the Gemini (especially women – see Colleen McCulloch’s Makers of Rome series), and people with a classical education in the 19th century would have known that.
No, I’m not making any of that up – I’m serious.
The point is that “Jiminy Cricket(s)!” was a common Midwestern oath that Disney and his Kansas City Film Ad associates would have known. When seeking a name for Cricket from the Collodi book, it would have naturally suggested itself. I suspect that any Jesus Christ/conscience connection, if noticed or intended at all, would just have been gravy.
A rather blue shade of lavender. (Here he is from the second episode just to prove his colouration wasn’t pinker in his earlier appearances.)
He IS named for Pink Floyd (and Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band), but ‘pink’ is not nearly the word I’d use to describe his colouring.
Actually, pink is exactly the word I’d use for that colour.
Oh, that one I knew. Didn’t know Janice was based on Keith Richards, though.
I liked this bit from that first link:
That perfectly describes the bass player’s job 
I saw a line in an ad for some kind of bass guitarist equipment that said something like, “Without a bassist, there’d be nobody to translate between the drummer and the piano player.”
Ditto.