Charles Schulz didn’t work for peanuts - the peanuts worked for him.
I had a similar reaction to the end of the John Sayles film Brother from Another Planet, in which Joe Morton plays a mute black alien slave who ends up in NYC. He’s pursued by a couple of white alien slave catchers (one played by Sayles himself). In the end, Morton’s character gets away from his pursuers, and is shown riding off on a subway car.
It didn’t hit me until later that a Subway is an Underground Railway.
Not sure if this has been mentioned because I didn’t read all 40 pages, but I just re-watched Cop Land and realized the town all the police live in is named Garrison.
Back when I was a kid, the original “Electric Company” series had a character that would take scrambled sentences and arrange the words in an order that made sense. He “decoded” the sentence. His name? Fargo North, Decoder.
It took me twenty years to get that joke.
Not a work of fiction but: It just occurred to me how un-PC the Dallas/Washington NFL rivalry is. In my defense, I never played cowboys and indians growing up.
Heh…Richard Scarry sometimes draws a tiny mouse with a chef’s toque. His name? Able Baker Charlie. Didn’t get that until I was in my late teens, reading it to a cousin. (Of course, that one’s expired now that Able and Baker have become Alpha and Bravo.)
Scarry also draws an aviator named “Wrong Way Roger.” For years, I assumed this was an idiom like “sorry, Charlie!” or “no way, Jose!”. Turns out it’s just the character’s name.
ETA: though “Roger!” is an aviation term…
It’s also a play on Wrong Way Corrigan.
He is the Most Interesting Cartoonist in the World.
I don’t get it.
“Fargo North, Decoder” = “Fargo, North Dakota”
Thank you. I said it out loud a couple times, trying to get the joke, but never got the inflection right. :smack:
Now try saying: “Owa tagoo siam.”
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the two “anarcho-syndicalist” peasants spend most of their scene scooping up muck with their hands…because they’re
I linked to that skit in a thread earlier today, Flywheel. Did you happen to see that, or was this just a happy coincidence? 
The second thing.
That sounds … unlikely. It’s pretty obscure, and the wrong date by about a thousand years. I don’t think it was deliberate.
Yeah I think that’s a reach.
Ooooh, now we see the oppression inherent in the system!
Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman has dementia. The thought never occurred to me when I read the play in school or saw the Brian Dennehy version, but when I saw the Philip Seymour Hoffman version it seemed so obvious. I’m not sure if Miller intended it or not, but if you look at Willy’s memory lapses, his confusion and his depression and anger, it fits very well.