A joke that’s funnier if you say it aloud: “The Gentry is full of gents, and the Country is full of … counts.”
But it was not luck. They had the opportunity to go to school. They preferred the carnival. Their final fates were the results of their own choices.
:smack:
Me :smack: too.
Old panel show joke:
Q: What is a definition of ‘countryside’?
A: The murder of Piers Morgan
I was watching Young Frankenstein yesterday and noticed something that I never saw before.
It’s the scene where they’re trying t re-caprure the Monster. Gene Wilder is dressed as a villager, with hat and fake beard, and he’s playing the Monster’s Theme on the violin. The Monster drifts towards him, lulled by the meoldy. When he’s in position, Wilder as Frankenstein yells “Now!” and a net drops over him. Wilder/Frankenstein and Feldman/Eye-gor wrestle him to the ground, as Terry Garr/Inga comes up with a massive hypodermic. She sticks it in, apparently sedating the Monster.
I noticed, though, that she doesn’t push the plunger while the hypodermic is in. After she pulls it out, however, she does depress it, and you can see the liquid gush uselessly out. It’s pretty obvious once you know it’s there. So evidently there was nothing to sedate the Monster.
I’m sure it wasn’t intentional. It was probably the best overall take they had, and they figured nobody would notice it (I find it hard to believe that Mel Brooks missed it – when you’'re filming things you tend to notice details like that). They were right, too, up to a point It only took me a zillion viewings to pick this one up.
^Huh. Never noticed that.
Caddyshack:
Early in the movie, Chevy Chase’s character is practice putting, making some amazing shots, all the while making these sounds like “NaNaNaNaNaNaNaaah” or PaDDaDaDaDaDaDaaaah". Okay, kinda silly, but whatever.
Flash forward about thirty years. There’s this commercial on TV - I can’t remember the product or service - where two guys in an outdoor cafe are arguing over what the “bionic sound” in The Six Million Dollar Man was. They make a couple of attempts at it, until the guy at the next table, who is of course Lee Majors, says “it’s more like ‘NaNaNaNaNaNaaahh’!”
At that point, I literally stand up, point at the TV and shout to my wife “Is THAT what Chevy was doing? The bionic sound??”
Please tell me I’m not the last English-speaking person over the age of twenty to get this.
Having not seen an episode of that show in probably 36 years, indulge my curiosity: Did bionics actually make that sound, as I believed when I was a kid watching the show? Or was the sound simply a soundtrack audio cue to let the audience know “bionics in action”, which I suspect now as an adult?
Sorry, I can’t say you’re the last, but everyone I know who knows that movie knew what that was.
Given that bionics were often used (and indeed were originally intended to be almost entirely) in covert situations, under cover of darkness and/or when stealth was of high importance, I would certainly assume the latter.
Lord, especially with the bionic eye sound.
I concur with KneadtoKnow. In the pilot episode, which I saw recently, the sound effect wasn’t used and it just seemed wrong. However, he (and the Bionic Woman) often had to use their bionics in front of people who might say things like, “How did you do that?” But I never remember anyone saying, “What’s that weird sound?”
It never even occurred to me to think he was imitating something. So no, you’re not the last English-speaking person over the age of twenty to get that.
I am. Apparently.
It was just a sound effect added later.
Steve Austin (Lee Majors) used to jump slow motion up onto high places such as short buildings (two or three floors or more), and the sound effect would happen.
Since it was showed in slow motion, one would have to assume that the noise would also be speeded up if shown at real speed, which is ridiculous. It would then have sounded more like the electronic passing of gas.
…Then again, given the thought processes of some of the executives in charge of network television programs, maybe it *was *intended to be audible to others…
On Person of Interest Reese has adopted (ok, stolen) an attack dog he renamed Bear.
I thought the writers just picked out a name that wasn’t cute and wasn’t overly aggressive. Then someone pointed out Bear only got his name after he destroyed a small fortune in bearer bonds.
I and my family love Chicken Run. It is full of subtle (few) and not-so-subtle (many) gags. I’m pretty good on the Great Escape and all the Mel Gibson references, but still, every time I watch it, I seem to pick up something new.
Example - I know they used blocks of Toblerone chocolate for the aeroplane chocks (they’re the right shape), but it wasn’t until about my 20th viewing and hearing Fowler shout ‘Chocks away!’ that I got - chocks=chocolates.
The movie takes place in Philadelphia, so I’m not sure if it’s Wall Street, but it still makes sense.
Can’t say I noticed this either.
Rick Geary’s Treasury of Victorian Murder volume on the Ripper killings has a close up of the Ripper’s hand grasping a knife on its cover. You can see it here.
I’ve owned that book for years, and often encouraged friends to read it. But it was not until a few weeks’ ago that I realised that out-stretched pinkie is Geary’s subtle parody of the Victorians’ prissy habit of extending their little finger whenever they held a tea-cup.
Transferring that tiny detail of domestic manners to the Ripper case nicely points up the gap between the apparent respectability of Victorian society and the brutality just below its surface - but that was entirely lost on me until now.
This Simpsons opening sequence has takeoffs on the opening sequences of The Honeymooners, Dick Van Dyke, The Brady Bunch, and Cheers.
After seeing it for about the tenth time, it dawned on me why Sideshow Bob walked in at the end. Think he goes there to meet up with Fraiser Crane?
Watching Wizard of Oz just infuriates me now, because the Wizard is simply the biggest dick in the universe:
(1) He sends Dorothy and her friends off on a suicide mission, just to get them out of his hair.
(2) When they complete the mission and return with the broom, he tells them to fuck off.
(3) When they expose him as a total fraud, he placates them with a bag of dime-store junk: a cheap watch, a fake diploma, a crappy medal.
(4) After promising to take Dorothy home, he ditches her and goes off in his balloon alone. (Yes, I know the Tin Man shares some of the blame, since he unties the rope holding the balloon down, but I consider that a production gaffe.)
Oh, and Glinda is also a total bitch. “You had the power all along, my dear.” Oh, really? REALLY? You put Dorothy through this horrific ordeal just to make some obtuse point? Bitch.
I also hate Aunt Em and Uncle Henry for allowing Miss Gulch to take Toto.
I never realized it either, until just now. I always assumed it was just Chevy making a silly noise.
Same here.