Anytime Andrew Lloyd Webber is mentioned as a lyricist or the composer of Les Miserables I cringe. And when supposedly theatre minded people refer to Les Miserables or Avenue Q instead of Laymiz and A-Q, I cry.
In more than one movie, I’ve seen swords blades being forged with the hilt, crossguard and other furniture already in place. This is so breathtakingly dumb that it boggles the mind. IIRC, Conan the Barbarian featured just such a scene.
I’m watching the complete set of “Smallville” episodes on DVD. I’m nearing the end of season 5, and hoo-boy! Mind you, at this point Clark hasn’t yet developed the power of flight, but I guess Newton’s Law Of Motion aren’t enforced in Smallville.
I’ve seen several examples where Clark Kent (young Superman to those unfamiliar with the show) or others are hit by speeding vehicles, only to have the vehicle fold around around them as if they’re a post rooted in the ground. The person hit doesn’t even budge from the spot where they’re standing!
There have also been times when the hero saves a falling person by catching them just inches from the ground! No attempt is made to slow, or cushion their descent. Just stick out those indestructible super-arms. Doesn’t matter if they’ve fallen hundreds of feet, as long as they don’t hit the GROUND they’re safe.
And remind me NEVER to get one of those super-noisy computers! You know, the ones that make a “chirp”, “whirr”, “buzz”, “beep” sound whenever a key is pressed, or a mouse clicked?
:rolleyes:
I was living in Madison, Wisconsin when That '70s Show was first on the air, and it was amusing to see references to real places in Wisconsin. Initially the geographic references all seemed consistent with the fictional town of Point Place being somewhere south of Milwaukee. In the pilot Eric plans to drive to a concert in Milwaukee, and in another early episode the gang goes to the new disco that just opened up in Kenosha. There are also references to Donna’s mother Midge taking classes in Kenosha. Jackie’s family goes skiing at Alpine Valley. When the kids make a trip to Chicago it doesn’t seem like it’s a very long drive.
Later episodes seem to have Point Place somewhere farther north. In one episode Donna and Jackie went roundtrip to Sheboygan twice in one day for Jackie’s modeling audition, and Donna doesn’t complain about this being a long time on the road. Sheboygan is only about an hour and a half north of Kenosha, but to go back and forth twice in one day would mean 6-7 hours of driving. In the same episode the guys drove to Canada, and this was portrayed as a long trip but they didn’t seem to think they’d be gone overnight. Wisconsin doesn’t share a land border with Canada (Lake Superior is in the way), so and road trip to Canada would require going around through either the upper peninsula of Michigan or northern Minnesota. So for this to be a one day trip, Point Place would probably have to be a good bit north of Milwaukee.
The show’s website claimed that the town was near Green Bay. If Point Place was somewhere south of Green Bay then it would be a fairly short drive into Sheboygan and about six hours into Saulte Ste Marie, Ontario, which I think would be the closest place in Canada. But there’s no way kids living near Green Bay would drive two and a half hours down to Kenosha to go to a disco, especially not since they’d have to go right through Milwaukee to get there! I also don’t remember any episodes where anyone actually said they were going into Green Bay, the nearest big city always seemed to be Milwaukee.
Originally Posted by Biffy the Elephant Shrew
Any science fiction show in which altering the DNA of a grown man (or Vulcan, or whatever) results in magically changing his gross anatomy makes me want to throw a shoe at the screen. The Star Trek TNG episode that had everyone reverting to evolutionary ancestors compounded this idiocy by implying that humans are somehow descended from spiders.
Worst. Pseudoscience. Ever.
There was an episode of Doctor Who in series 3 The Lazarus Experiment that had the experimentee devolve into a giant scorpion-like creature.
The Doctor explained (while running, of course) that it was some evolutionary throwback that was rejected but was still hanging around in the DNA somewhere.
All screwy with the science, of course, and the giant scorpion drained life energy from other people and the person was able to revert back and forth to human form.
I’d say they explained it just enough to make it work. I mean, this is a universe where all kinds of wacky stuff happens.
I WOULD like to have one of those keyboards, however, that all you have to do is push about 12 random letters with absolutely any hand-finger positions and it will instantly bring up exactly what you’re looking for (you don’t have to go through several links or refine your search or even use a search engine).
Those are special-ordered from Vulcan, as they use a mind-meld interface.
I’ve never seen Spock tap someone on the skull. 
They have better tech by the 23rd century.
The latest season of Red Dwarf made fun of this.
“Okay, now zoom in on that mirror. Flip it 30 degrees. Now zoom in on that raindrop that’s reflected in the mirror. Invert that. Etc…”
-Joe
Eh, when I worked Security, I had a couple of supervisors (one a retired cop) who were so clueless that, while reviewing recorded security footage, ordered me to rotate the camera to look at other areas.
ON TAPE/DVR.
Um…NO. The camera only records what it’s looking at.
Another mention of “really bad accents” (with Leonard Pinth Garnell). Particularly bad southern accents since those are the ones I encounter most in real life and in movies and TV (there are dozens of actual southern accents- that’s not one).
There was an episode of Heroes in which a character (can’t remember her name but Nichelle Nichols played her grandmother) was being sexually harassed by her boss. She lives in post-Katrina New Orleans, and her boss was telling her that if she lost her job there then there’s no way she’d find another one after Katrina had wrecked the city. This was a :rolleyes: moment to anyone who knows anything about post Katrina New Orleans- there are hourly/minimum wage jobs (like the one she had) that are going begging; she could probably get a new one in 15 minutes without leaving that same street.
I must not watch enough TV…wait, that can’t be true, as almost any quantity of tv is too much.
Anyway–where has Lloyd Webber been mentioned as involved in Les Miz? Not contesting, just wondering.
In another thread someone mentions Cleopatra. I get irked everytime I watch her come grand entrance into Rome passing under the Arch of Titus, which was built in 66 A.D., more than 100 years after Cleopatra died. It’s a greater anachronism than if you showed George Washington standing at the Statue of Liberty.
He could easily have been lying. Would she know?
I have never seen Heroes. But presumaby the character lived in New Orleans, as she worked there. She would surely have noticed the state of the job market.
Turning it around a bit, there was a WKRP episode where they are talking about someone’s drinking problem, saying that he passed out into his lasagna at an Armenian Organization dinner. Lasagna is obviously Italian, not Armenian, and on behalf of my Armenian ancestors, I was getting ready to get pissed about their poor research, but then Les did it for me:
“Why are Armenians eating lasagna?!”
Thanks Les! 
Why is that, by the way? What is it about being located in the middle of the country that makes people go to bed so early?
Another thing I hate is few TV shows have any idea what winter is like. Perhaps this is why it’s easier to set a show in LA. The most ridiculous was Bewitched. It took place in suburban New York City and even at Christmas, it looked like Summer.
I think Michael Bay just had both inspiration and an erection.
Just remember, July 2011, YOU are to blame.
-Joe