Amusingly, I just made that connection myself a few days ago when that song came on the radio at work (to be fair, I’d never really listened closely to the lyrics before).
Lyrics to **Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats:
*Can you sing at the same time in more than one key?
Duets by Rossini and waltzes by Strauss?
And can you (as cats do) begin with a ‘C’?
That always triumphantly brings down the house?
*
Yes, CATS do begin with a ‘C.’ C-A-T-S
For bonus points, note that Inigo doesn’t actually say “fight”.
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then, what did he say? Don’t leave us hanging. Come on!
I only just noticed that in the Billy Strayhorn standard “Lush Life,” the first syllable of “stifling” forms part of a double internal rhyme with the title phrase:
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive,
I’ll live the lush life in some small dive
Inigo: I’m going to do him left-handed.
Vizzini: YOU KNOW WHAT A HURRY WE’RE IN!
Inigo: Is the only way I can be satisfied. If I use my
right, over too quickly.
That song is the gift that keeps on giving. My favorite version is done by the World Saxophone Quartet.
I always heard that as “I’m going to DUEL him left-handed.”
That could be the actual quote. I found both versions in scripts online.
Speaking of virgin’s names, Grease’s Sandy Dumbrowski literally is Sandra Dee
I’ve been a fan of Paul Di Filippo’s series of amusing shorts published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under the series title of “Plumage from Pegasus,” each one inspired by some real news article (all the stories are available here Fantasy and Science Fiction Departments: Plumage from Pegasus (Humor)—Paul Di Filippo, by the way). Just tonight, I realized that “Plumage from Pegasus”=“Horsefeathers” (or nonsense). D’oh.
Ok i’m bumping this thread because it was fun the first time around and I have something to add.
I’m watching Waynes World and I just noticed that near the beginning Wayne and the crew are driving around and they stop at a donut shop and get coffee and donuts. Well Garth orders a jelly donut and then a bit later in the scene Stacey comes over and is talking to Wayne and a couple of times the camera cuts back to Garth who has stuck a straw into his donut and he is drinking from his donut and it is making the slurpy sound like if you were drinking from a kids juice box.
I never noticed it before and I thought it was a clever little touch.
Had a friend in college who thought that Sandy’s name was “Sandra Dee” - he’d never heard of the actress.
Sorry to resurrect, but it just came to me yesterday that “Disco Tex” (AKA Monte Rock III), from “Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes,” is a play on “discothèques.” Disco Tex. Ha.
ETA: That record came out THIRTY-NINE YEARS AGO. It took me 39 years to realize that pun.
I don’t know when Monte Rock III came out.
In an episode of Modern Family Phil mentioned the song “If you Leave” by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and I said to my wife, “he’s wrong, by the way, that song was by OMD oh my god that’s what that stands for!”
I felt dumb about realizing this one after listening to the song about a billion times, until I told my friends and BLEW THEIR MINDS.
Yanno Lonely Island’s “The Ballad of Captain Jack Sparrow”? Yanno the hook the Michael Bolton sings? It’s the same melody as Captain Jack Sparrow’s theme in Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
The old dude with his trousers around his ankles in the Simpsons is singing “Old Gray Mare, she ain’t what she used to be.” Until a minute ago I thought he was saying “Old Grandma, she ain’t what she used to be.”
Although that’s probably just as true…
It is? I thought it was similar, but different. Is it really?
Cool Hand Luck : “What we have here is a failure to communicate”