Yepper. According to Wikipedia, the WWII aircraft carrier Enterprise was the most decorated ship in U.S. Naval history.
The Continental Army had two ships named Enterprise, and the U.S. Navy has had six.
So, if you want people to think, Endeavour, you don’t want to call a ship Enterprise.
Also sounds like ‘Screw’, which is the only joke I saw in it until these posts. :o
That reminds me, somehow: I didn’t recognize the melody of “Don’t Stand So Close To Me” in Sting’s cameo intro to Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” until 1999 or so.
The story behind that was that Sting happened to be in the same studio while Knopfler was recording that song, and overheard that bit, recognizing it as the same melody. He pointed this out to Knopfler, then offered to let him use it as long as he (Sting) could sing it.
The Wizard of Oz was on the other day, and having seen it a brazillion times I figured I’d spotted just about everything, and this may not fit the criteria of “obvious” but…watch the scene where the Tinman, Scarecrow and Lion are creeping up on the castle and get jumped from behind by the guards. When they poke their heads back up and are wearing the uniforms as disguises, look for Toto. He’s disguised too - he has one of the red tassels in his mouth. Good boy. You’ll blend right in.
“I just can’t wait to be King” popped up on my iPod and I was thinking what an awkward phrase they had concocted in “wildly out of wing” just to rhyme with King. Then it dawned on me many years after having first seen The Lion King. That line is sung by a bird, who would of course say “out of wing” instead of “out of hand”. Doh!
Christ, I couldn’t read any more of the stupid argument with caligula. I hope it is resolved by the time I post this but caliglua, taglines are generally a pun ON a movie title. Having “Deux” pronounced as “duh” in the movie title means there’s no reason for a “Lets Deux it” pun.
END OF STORY.
Oh no. Did you *really *have to open that back up?
Futurama:
When Fry “dies” and they have a funeral, Amazonian Woman sobs, “he give good snoo snoo!” Accompanied by all the women fry slept with in the show. About the 20th time I saw this episode I noticed the radiator sitting conspicuously nearby and suddenly realized it was the “Radiator alien from the Radiator Planet” fry made out with in the Ms Universe pageant.
More than that, it suggests “Skroob Balls” = “screwballs”, very similar to the film title.
My mind must just work that way, but all of this nameplay with Skroob’s name was pretty obvious to me when I first saw the movie.
What are you talking about? I’ve already addressed that. I dropped the pronunciation thing. Besides, Deux is not pronounced doo nor is it pronounced duh, but it is somewhere in between. It works for both. There’s no law that says you can’t use two homophonic puns. Anyway, you guys are taking it way too seriously. I merely said it seemed to me to be a pun in the title of an extremely bad movie and you would think I called into question someone’s sexuality.
Hey, look, Deux was just *experimenting *back in college, okay?! It doesn’t mean anything now. It has a wide stance!
Ok, that was funny.
(bolding mine)
That’s really only true in The Wiz. In Garland’s The Wizard of Oz, the Lion never does anything heroic that I can recall, whereas the Lion in the Wiz is a genuine badass as long as it’s someone else in danger – and, in fact, suffers greatly if he thinks he has failed, as he takes it to be his job by definition to protect Dorothy and the others.
I don’t remember the movie too well, but the Lion is definitely a badass in the book.
His description of his cowardice, is, like Scarecrow’s description of his lack of intelligence, or the Woodman’s description of his lack of heart, simply a misapprehension - he confuses feeling fear, and heeding it when he’s outmatched, with cowardice. He states he drives off challengers, despite his fear, but that his fear makes him a coward.
He (briefly) faces the kaleidas - he fails to drive them off, but he does stop and try.
He drives off a whole regiment of Winkies when they’re after the Witch.
He stands up to the Wizard when the old Humbug tries to renege on their deal - rather more forcefully than the other three.
Well you did say it’s homophonic.
That’s the study of the inflection of expressions like “Heeeeeeeeey, girlfriend!” right?
For the longest time, I thought that Navigator Dave Unger was Harry Hamlin. I just watched Airplane II last night and found out that it was actually Kent McCord!
OK, I’ve decided to jump into this thread, even though I have no intention of ever reading the first 1000 posts, so I have no idea if this has been mentioned.
Royal Guardsmen. “Snoopy’s Christmas”, 1967. Just recently realized that the chorus (“Christmas bells, those Christmas bells, ringing through the land…”) takes its melody from Buffy Sainte-Marie’s “Universal Soldier”. Nice, subtle nod by a “pop” band to a much more explicitly antiwar song.
Something I only just learned, a quarter century after first watching it: the model featured in The Power Station’s Some Like It Hot is a transsexual. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it is kind of obvious now that I look again. (My reaction: :smack: d’oh!) And the makers of the video made obvious reference to it . . .