# Odd things you notice in movies after the zillionth viewing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672 "2005-10-11T01:10:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/1 "2005-10-11T01:10:19Z")
The other night I was channel surfing and came across _Grease_. It was at the part where they have the dance contest. I noticed how incredibly dorky-looking the non-star dancers were. Especially the guys. They were even dorkier looking at the end (during “We Go Together”). What things have you noticed? ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/2 "2005-10-11T01:36:24Z")
I never, ever, EVER noticed the [T-16 Skyhopper](http://la-croisade-noire.chez.tiscali.fr/Quete/special/sbd/Pirate/t-16.jpg) in the background of the garage scene in _Star Wars_ in about a million viewings between age 5 and 22 or so. I often bemoaned that they never showed the thing in the film, since Luke was always talking about it and even playing with a toy of it in one scene. My coworker argued that _of course_ it’s _right there_ in the background during that whole scene, and that I must be **blind** to have never seen it. We even made a $10 bet on it. So I went home, popped in my old VHS copy, and of course it’s [right fucking there](http://index.echostation.com/trilogy/threeptrip.jpg) in the background of the scene - you can see the rear booster of it and part of the top fin. ---
**Author:** ![Erinaceus\_europaeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@Erinaceus\_europaeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erinaceus_europaeus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/3 "2005-10-11T01:41:47Z")
I never liked Grease 😃 Two things from _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_: When Sir Bedevere is introduced, he’s trying to get a pigeon to carry a coconut. There are (at least?) **two** scenes where someone is hitting a cat against the wall. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/4 "2005-10-11T01:44:40Z")
> [@VCO3](#): > > I never, ever, EVER noticed the [T-16 Skyhopper](http://la-croisade-noire.chez.tiscali.fr/Quete/special/sbd/Pirate/t-16.jpg) in the background of the garage scene in _Star Wars_ in about a million viewings between age 5 and 22 or so. I often bemoaned that they never showed the thing in the film, since Luke was always talking about it and even playing with a toy of it in one scene. My coworker argued that _of course_ it’s _right there_ in the background during that whole scene, and that I must be **blind** to have never seen it. We even made a $10 bet on it. > > So I went home, popped in my old VHS copy, and of course it’s [right fucking there](http://index.echostation.com/trilogy/threeptrip.jpg) in the background of the scene - you can see the rear booster of it and part of the top fin. I never noticed that before! ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/5 "2005-10-11T01:47:28Z")
> [@Erinaceus europaeus](#): > > I never liked Grease 😃 > > Two things from _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_: > > When Sir Bedevere is introduced, he’s trying to get a pigeon to carry a coconut. > > There are (at least?) **two** scenes where someone is hitting a cat against the wall. In the scene where they’re trying to convince him that the woman is a witch, he asks what floats in water, etc. When he asks, “What also floats in water?” he gets the responses of “Bread,” “Apples,”“Very small rocks,” etc, then in the background, a small voice says, “Florida!” ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/6 "2005-10-11T01:57:14Z")
In National Treasure the 200 year old stairs under the church are put together with Common nails, which are more modern than the stucture. They go for details and then do a close up with Common nails pulling out, and not square nails. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/7 "2005-10-11T02:24:50Z")
Oddly enough, I just ‘noticed’ something in Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan. In the scene wher Khan puts the ear worms in Checkov and his Captain, he is talking to them about what happened to him and his people after Kirk left them there. I always thought the line “Not all at once” was directed at the big bug as her babies came crawling out. I just noticed that he is talking about how the creatures didnt’ kill his crew ‘not all at once’. ---
**Author:** ![klintypooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3da27b/32.png) [@klintypooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/klintypooh)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/8 "2005-10-11T02:26:13Z")
During the last song in Grease one of the nerdy looking backing dancers appears to be furiously tweaking his nipples. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/9 "2005-10-11T02:34:45Z")
> [@Alias](#): > > In the scene where they’re trying to convince him that the woman is a witch, he asks what floats in water, etc. When he asks, “What also floats in water?” he gets the responses of “Bread,” “Apples,”“Very small rocks,” etc, then in the background, a small voice says, “Florida!” Never heard “Florida”,. but I got the DVD in my player right now, I’ll have to check tonight. The other day, I noticed that in that scene, when Eric Idle is biting on his farm implement, I had always thought his character was trying to think of an answer to the question. If you look close, you can see he’s biting it because he’s trying not to laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Baggins111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/10 "2005-10-11T03:37:48Z")
I was watching “Master and Commander” last night for the nth time. In the opening scene when the night watchman is walking through the cabins, there’s a shot with these “bags” hanging from above. I always wondered what the hell they were. I though it might be some ancient sailing thing that I was not aware of. Last night it hit me. They were freakin sailors hanging in hammocks. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/11 "2005-10-11T03:39:53Z")
> [@Alias](#): > > In the scene where they’re trying to convince him that the woman is a witch, he asks what floats in water, etc. When he asks, “What also floats in water?” he gets the responses of “Bread,” “Apples,”“Very small rocks,” etc, then in the background, a small voice says, “Florida!” I had to stop that scene several times, just to be sure that I heard someone say, “Churches.” ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/12 "2005-10-11T05:51:56Z")
I assume spoilers don’t need to be boxed here. In the 500th running of Shrek at our home (we have a 2-year-old), I noticed that Lord Farquaad had Mama Bear turned into a rug. ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/13 "2005-10-11T05:54:09Z")
_King of Comedy_ with Robert Deniro. Deniro’s character Rupert Pupkin is having lunch with someone(Sandra Bernhard?) in a diner. Rupert faces the camera and in the far background slightly out of focus there is a guy who starts mimicking/mocking Ruperts gestures. The wierdest thing. He’s not a character in the story, it’s never addressed later. Very easy to miss. Makes me think the film is a dream sequence in Ruperts mind. He (we) can see the guy mocking him in the dream. One of those self-degrading things we do to ourselves in dreams. Anyone know if this is explained in a DVD director track? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/14 "2005-10-11T12:13:47Z")
In the first Back to the Future movie, Marty mets Doc at the “Twin Pines Mall.” When Marty goes back in time, he drives into a pine tree. When he comes back, it’s the “Lone Pine Mall.” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/15 "2005-10-11T12:22:36Z")
Pepper Mill picked up on this one – I never noticed it, and it’s ver easy to miss. In **The Wizard of Oz** , when the Tin Man gets his award (his heart), there’s a brief flash of light – it’s as if a flashbulb is going off as a photo is taken to immortalize the momenmt for the newspaper. Only there isn’t anyone there, of course, besides Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Lion, the Wizard, and Toto. But it’s unmistakeably there if you look for it. Prasctically a subliminal effect. ---
**Author:** ![Desperate\_Welfie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Desperate\_Welfie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desperate_Welfie)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/16 "2005-10-11T13:05:10Z")
After watching X-Men a bunch of times, my friend and I realized that at the end during Xavier’s and Magneto’s chess game, they aren’t even pretending to play an actual game. They are just moving pieces around. -D.W. I love humanity, but I hate people. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/17 "2005-10-11T13:12:51Z")
> [@Harmonious Discord](#): > > In National Treasure the 200 year old stairs under the church are put together with Common nails, which are more modern than the stucture. The freemasons had Common nails. They kept the secret safe for centuries. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/18 "2005-10-11T13:15:42Z")
When watching **The Wizard of Oz** on a big screen for the first time, I noticed that, just before the attack of the flying monkeys, the Scarecrow is carrying a pistol. It’s also pretty clear on the big screen that the “hanged munchkin” is really just a bird. ---
**Author:** ![metj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@metj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/metj)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/19 "2005-10-11T13:22:12Z")
Not exactly the same, but pretty much every movie I watch, I don’t notice that it’s wide-screen until 3/4 way through the movie. Then I say, “Has this movie always been wide-screen?” DH will sigh and say that it has. I was so proud of myself when I watched a movie the other day and noticed the wide-screen within 30 minutes of the movie starting. ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672/20 "2005-10-11T13:24:08Z")
> [@VCO3](#): > > …_Star Wars_ in about a million viewings. Did ya ever notice R2-D2 walking down the stairs as they leave the cantina? Once you see it, and how ridiculous it looks, you’ll never miss it again. I also always spot the Stormtrooper who bonks his head. It’s the scene in the Death Star where the troopers blow the door where the droids are hiding. The door doesn’t open all the way and the third or fourth trooper walks right into it and kind of falls backwards. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-you-notice-in-movies-after-the-zillionth-viewing/325672.md?page=2)