It might work as a mondegreen 
My mom had a realization today.
Her: …so is Last Temptation of Christ any good? I’m thinking of watching it for Easter. I am not watching Passion of the Christ…
Me: I thought Last Temptation was…But if you want a shorter movie, try E.T..
Her: Why E.T.?
Me: It’s the Jesus story, in a late-20th century context.
Her: …OHHHHHHHHH.
MY.
GOD. That’s right. That’s absolutely right.
Me: Except no one gets flayed. But Last Temptation is good too…
Her: And the mother’s name is Mary. How did I not get that.
I love the movie Stick It. There’s a great scene in a mall where the gymnasts are shopping for prom dresses. They are dong cartwheels and handsprings along a balcony. Last night, I finally noticed the white mats. Of course they’re not having gymnasts do tricks on a tile floor. I should’ve noticed, as many times as I’ve watched it.
At the end of The silence of the Lambs, after Starling graduates and is milling around (until she’s told that there’s a phone call for her), she’s with her friend from the Academy and the two guys she met at the Smithsonian (one of whom was hitting on her).
I certainly wouldn’t notice mats if there were cartwheeling dongs on the screen, personally. >_>
After deep consideration and the critical analysis of decades, I am about 90% sure that the backup vocals on the verses of “Mountain of Love” by Johnny Rivers are “Johnny . . . Ohhh . . . Yeahhh.”
I would be grateful for corroboration.
I recently watched “Mirror, Mirror” for the umpteenth time on youtube. You can’t find it there any more, but you can still watch it on startrek.com. oddly enough it disappeared for copyright reasons after the first time I viewed it.
What is difficult to miss and almost impossible to forget is part of Earth Empire-Spock’s remarks to “Sulu” upon detecting him spying on him while investigating Kirk’s computer use. After Sulu tries to excuse himself by claiming a routine check whenever an unusually large amount of computer time is used, Spock issues a non-so-veiled threat against his much-distrusted subordinate. (The mistrust is later verified.) Spock points out that if he were eliminated, his associates would avenge his death. Then he adds, with a meaningful tone, that " …some of them are Vulcans." Sulu suddenly looks like he had just wet his pants. 
What I failed to notice, even when seeing it (again) sometime in the '80’s as one of three favorite episodes at a nearby suburban library is this: As Spock is trying to reason with our Kirk (this is for the second time, not counting an unauthorized sharing of conditional orders from above to kill him) while walking together walking with him down a corridor, one of the three guards with them clearly is showing pointed ears and the characteristic eyebrows.
It just seems so odd that I would repeatedly miss that.
I recently watched “Mirror, Mirror” for the umpteenth time on youtube. You can’t find it there any more, but you can still watch it on startrek.com. oddly enough it disappeared for copyright reasons after the first time I viewed it.
What is difficult to miss and almost impossible to forget is part of Earth Empire-Spock’s remarks to “Sulu” upon detecting him spying on him while investigating Kirk’s computer use. After Sulu tries to excuse himself by claiming a routine check whenever an unusually large amount of computer time is used, Spock issues a non-so-veiled threat against his much-distrusted subordinate. (The mistrust is later verified.) Spock points out that if he were eliminated, his associates would avenge his death. Then he adds, with a meaningful tone, that " …some of them are Vulcans." :eek:
Sulu suddenly looks like he had just wet his pants.
What I failed to notice, even when seeing it (again) sometime in the '80’s as one of three favorite episodes at a nearby suburban library is this: As Spock is trying to reason with our Kirk (this is for the second time, not counting an unauthorized sharing of conditional orders from above to kill him) while walking together walking with him down a corridor, one of the three guards with them clearly is showing pointed ears and the characteristic eyebrows.
It just seems so odd that I would repeatedly miss that.
Years ago when I first watched Inspector Morse on PBS, I thought Lewis was rather a dim bulb. Watching it again on Netflix, now I understand that Morse is just an insulting prick.
…
That’s what I get from typing on my phone. 
Yep. “Oh, be still, Lewis!”
This came to me while I was watching Star Trek Into Darkness for the fifth or sixth time:
Kirk, Scott, and Chekov are on board the Enterprise. Things are bad, and part of making them better involves seeing to a device that is housed in the secondary hull behind the main deflector dish. One of the party rushes off to see to it. Soon, Kirk dies. Later, he’s alive again.
It’s from Into Darkness, but it’s also from Star Trek: Generations. It was a very subtle homage, but I’m certain it wasn’t an accident.
This was brought to my attention by one of Mr. Plinkett’s reviews on Red Letter Media of the Star Trek movies.
In one movie, Picard receives a gift, a sculpture, and he is literally in tears rhapsodizing on how unique and valuable the is to him.
In a later movie there’s been a battle, and Picard is rummaging through the debris in his office, presumably looking for salvageable stuff. He picks up the same sculpture, looks at it for about half a second and then tosses it back into the trash on the floor.
Another Star Trek one is in Generations…
I was thinking about how ridiculous it is that Kirk doesn’t die on the bridge of the Enterprise… that he really should go out on the bridge…
well he literally does die on the bridge, it’s just not a ship’s bridge it’s a bridge bridge.
Which in retrospect, makes it seem even DUMBER.
This is a fairly old post, but in answer to the question: back in the good old days, orange was not “orange”, it was just a kind of red (the colour is named after the fruit, not the other way round). Hence we have red foxes, red squirrels, etc.
Yeah, I know that now. I didn’t know that when I was in elementary school.
Robin red-breast has a suspiciously pale chest.
Forgive me if you’re already aware of TV Tropes, but just in case: Dropped a Bridge on Him.
Warning: TV Tropes link. If this is your first time, just go ahead and write off the rest of your day.
Subtle additional meaning in hostile comment:
I’m doing this from memory, as I do not have the individual comic in hand. I have recently resurfaced Secret Society of Super Villains#1, but the following concerns ish#2.
Some background: About a decade before the title debuted, there was a pair of JLA stories about a so-called Royal Flush Gang. A former leader of a white-bread gang of young, very successful, sneak-thieves contacted his old friends, when, as an adult, he had discovered “stellaration” and felt confident that they could use the very versatile energy to vanquish the JLA. Face masks alone were not considered adequate for a gang that would go down in history as “the best” so they costumed-up with white faces (thick makeup?) and everything to go with walking, talking playing cards. (After their second defeat all but the “Jack of Clubs” gave up and he took the name Hi-Jack and was recruited by the SSoSV.)
Two Flash villains, Mirror Master and Capt. Boomerang are returning to the fancy headquarters after a disappointingly small heist and a “free” lunch at a fast food place. One of the entering pair makes a joking remark to the group of baddies lounging there. Sinestro mouths off about the level of humor, and IIRC, another negative observation. The first speaker (and I’m pretty sure it’s CB, because of the choice of words) is not too upset and merely excuses himself about meaning well with his humor, and points out that there is no need to “be so bloody abusive.” Hi-Jack is decidedly angry over Sinestro’s attitude, though, and starts in on him.
Sinestro is not about to take anything from what he considers a much lesser villain and talks trash while pointing his ring-face right at Hi-Jack. It’s interesting to note, though, that he does not take any hostile action, or even seem to have the ring glowing, ready for action. (I figure it’s more of a boys-will-be-boys situation. And that Sinestro knows a good thing when he sees it, and is not about to blow it right away, although he very soon is willing to speak privately with an Earth-2 Villain about going off separately on their own agenda.)
At this point Hi-Jack very stupidly announces to Sinestro that he is “calling his bluff!” To which the response, of course, is that Mr. S. is not bluffing. At this point Manhunter (Paul Kirk) has just come in and anxiously breaks up the non-fight.
The fairly “obvious” although somewhat minor angle I had missed over all these years is connected to the person who first uses the word “bluffing” and it now seems clear that it would be just like a living “playing card” to use a poker term.
Just realized after watching The Running Man again last night that Arnold’s two buddies in the game zone, Laughlin and Weiss, are Redshirts. Ben Richards and Amber Mendez’s uniforms are silver trimmed with yellow, and Laughlin and Weiss’s are silver trimmed the red.
Guess who dies? 