# "Pennslyvania 6-5000"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennslyvania-6-5000/391894 "2007-02-12T18:43:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennslyvania-6-5000/391894/21 "2007-02-12T21:51:05Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] The same pun was used for the title of a memorable Bugs Bunny cartoon. [/QUOTE] Also used as a song in a [Wayne & Shuster](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_and_Shuster) routine, soon to be stuck in my head for the rest of the evening… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennslyvania-6-5000/391894/22 "2007-02-12T21:55:11Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] The same pun was used for the title of a memorable Bugs Bunny cartoon. Abrakapocus! Hocuscadabra! Walla Walla, Washington! Newport News! [/QUOTE] Must not have been all that memorable–you have it out of order. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennslyvania-6-5000/391894/23 "2007-02-12T21:56:55Z")
[QUOTE=JohnT] Had no idea why she kept being cast with Jeff Goldblum. [/QUOTE] Well, they were married in the late eighties. _Transylvannia 6-5000_ might have been when they met (they were both married to other people at the time) but even during their marriage, they only made two films together: _The Fly_ and _Earth Girls are Easy_. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennslyvania-6-5000/391894/24 "2007-02-12T21:58:54Z")
[QUOTE=MGibson] I remember Geena Davis’ outfit and it wasn’t a total bust. Uh, on the other hand I remember her outfit and an impressive bust was involved. Marc [/QUOTE] I’ve never seen the movie so I had to google this. [Which I will post the results for other interested parties](http://www.cult-cinema.ru/pictures/screenshots/transylvania_6-5000/transylvania_6-5000_6.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennslyvania-6-5000/391894/25 "2007-02-12T22:40:16Z")
Incidenntally, the Hotel Pennsylvania’s a dump. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennslyvania-6-5000/391894/26 "2007-02-12T23:44:04Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] Why Pennsylvannia instead of something else, I don’t know. [/QUOTE] It’s across 7th Avenue from Pennsylvania Station, then a major hub of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and was in fact built by the PRR for its passengers’ convenience. [Wiki sez](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Pennsylvania) 736-5000 only New York’s oldest continuous phone number, not the US’s. As another Glenn Miller hit, “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” says, _You leave the Pennsylvania Station at a quarter to four, Read a magazine and then you’re in Baltimore, Dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer Than ham and eggs for breakfast down in Carolina"_ ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennslyvania-6-5000/391894/27 "2007-02-12T23:53:17Z")
[According to this](http://www.nationaltrust.org/magazine/archives/arc_news_2007/010807.htm), the hotel is about to be demolished. ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennslyvania-6-5000/391894/28 "2007-02-12T23:53:46Z")
Re: The OP Call 867-5309 to find out. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennslyvania-6-5000/391894/29 "2007-02-13T03:59:33Z")
[QUOTE=Manatee] Re: The OP Call 867-5309 to find out. [/QUOTE] Stop reading the walls… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennslyvania-6-5000/391894/30 "2007-02-13T06:28:59Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Well, they were married in the late eighties. [/QUOTE] You break my heart. ☹ I completely forgot about that. :o Where’s that brainbleach (and vomit smilie) when you need it? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennslyvania-6-5000/391894/31 "2007-02-13T13:43:20Z")
[QUOTE=GIGObuster] That was Transylvania 6-5000, one of the worse movies ever made, and I almost succeeded in forgetting it, thanks a lot.. :mad: [/QUOTE] IIRC it was the director’s first film. I’m inclined to cut people some slack on their debuts. I don’t remember the budget, but it was tiny. This is one reson they filmed in Yugoslavia (Croatia). The director wanted to shoot many of the scenes at night, but couldn’t. I don’t remember whether this was because there was not enough money for the lights, lights weren’t available, or if there was an issue with the authorities. In any case, he didn’t get the shots he wanted. I think he did a good job considering his lack of experience and his limited resources. One place he really failed though, was with Geena Davis. In the DVD commentary he said he didn’t realise that people would want to see more of her. Dude. _Look_ at her! How could to _not_ know that your target audience would want more Geena Davis? Low budget, the inability to get shots the director wanted, some schtick that didn’t work (Dr. Malavaqua’s mad/nice routine where he keeps asking if someone wants some cappuccino – or was it espresso?), the failure to take full advantage of the vampire character’s… assets. The film had its faults. But it was a good ‘first effort’, and it did have some funny stuff in it (Michael Richards’s ‘Smell this!’ routine, Carol Kane’s loveably dumb Hunchback’s Wife character), and Geena Davis was sexy and cute. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennslyvania-6-5000/391894/32 "2007-02-13T15:03:45Z")
[QUOTE=drewbert] [According to this](http://www.nationaltrust.org/magazine/archives/arc_news_2007/010807.htm), the hotel is about to be demolished. [/QUOTE] ☹ I had a couple drinks there once…we worked down the street on 33rd. It was kind of sad even then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennslyvania-6-5000/391894.md?page=1)