The first line would have been way better.
A lot of the dialogue in the Peanuts specials—I watched them from a very early age, and the child actors clumsy/Spliced Together delivery didn’t really help, either.
Of course, watching and enjoying them from an early age, I think I got the tones and cadence of the lines pretty indelibly etched upon my memory, to this day. Odd thing, that…kinda like memorizing a song that’s sung in a language you don’t understand.
So did I and my brother; my brother found it pretty offensive in fact. 
Things that just seemed silly in old cartoons now make sense, like rifles going flaccid.
Wait… They did, didn’t they?
:smack:
Considerably hotter than than that, in the scene when she’s possessed and showing off those amazing gams.
:smack:
Lots of references in Rocky and Bullwinkle – the Kerwood Derby, The Ruby Yacht of Omar Kyamm, etc.
Not long ago I watched Spartacus again after not seeing it for many years, and I was astounded by all the homoeroticism.
I didn’t realize that Pale Rider was a remake of Shane until years after seeing it first.
And now that I mention Shane and homoeroticism… well, Shane and homoeroticism.
:smack:
I wasn’t exactly a kid when A Bug’s Life came out, but I didn’t realize until I was watching it recently with one of my students that it is a remake of The Magnificent Seven. It even has the same style of music.
And Cameron Diaz’s.
The “snails and oysters” scene was re-integrated into Spartacus in one of the re-releases, so maybe you didn’t see it if you watched it manye years ago. But perhaps you’re referring to other things too, I can’t right now recall
At one point in The Odd Couple, the 1968 film with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, Oscar says the following to Felix:
You leave me little notes on my pillow. I told you 158 times I can’t stand little notes on my pillow. “We’re all out of cornflakes. F.U.” Took me three hours to figure out F.U. was Felix Ungar!
It took me 20 years to realize “F.U.” has another particular meaning, and that that’s the whole point of the joke.
I don’t remember seeing this cartoon as a kid, but I wouldn’t have gotten the joke even as an adult if I hadn’t read about it.
The Tex Avery cartoon “Uncle Tom’s Cabaña” contains a money shot, but there’s nothing explicitly sexual involved. It contains racial stereotypes offensive to many, so I’ve put the URL in the spoiler, positioned to the scene in question. [spoiler]- YouTube
Ah, I dunno. There was more going on with Shane and Marian, I thought. Unless you mean Alan Ladd and Van Heflin.
I didn’t know that Ethan’s sister-in-law was in love with him, in The Searchers.
When I was little, the family went to town on Saturdays. Mom shopped, stepdad went to the tavern, and my brother and I went to the movies – any movie. I saw Man With the Golden Arm and kept waiting for a look at Frank Sinatra’s golden arm. You know, an arm made of gold!
Another one that confused me: The Three Stooges. I was only about four or five when their shorts started being broadcast on TV, and they were the funniest things I had ever seen up to that time in my short life. But I wondered why Moe and Larry were the only two who were in every short. Why did Shemp look like Moe? Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe were still active as Stooges at the time, although their career was beginning to wind down. But what happened to Curly and Shemp and that other Joe? Why weren’t they Stooges anymore? Did they quit? Did Moe and Larry get mad at them and kick them out? I was too young to know that the shorts were decades old and that Curly and Shemp had passed on, nor did I know that Moe, Curly, and Shemp were all brothers. Now that I’m older, of course, I do know my Stooge history.
In “Little Rascals” I missed that Froggy is supposed to be the Devil.
The sexual innuendo is rampant. Half the lyric of “Look At Me I’m Sandra Dee” are dirty, and Sandy and Danny have very differing memories of what happened on those “Summer Nights.” And it all went over my head. Save for when Marty Maraschino introduces herself with “as in cherry.” I did get by the time I was about 12, and it made me give this face: :eek:
But was there a broken condom involved in Rizzo’s pregnancy scare? I only recall her being unsure if it was Kenickie’s problem or Crater Face Balmudo’s.
My kids loved Grease when they were younger, so I bought them the soundtrack on CD. I had a passing acquaintance with the lyrics, but I went :eek: while thumbing through the lyric booklet.
So I put that booklet away; I have no idea where it is today.
Jon
No broken condom mentioned. But she knew the potential sprog was Kenickie’s (Marty asked her and she confirmed could only be his) - she just lied to Kenickie 'cause she couldn’t stand his sympathy and worry for her.
“Greased Lightening” was a handful of outuendo for our high school musical director to deal with. Somehow, the principal didn’t think, “the chicks’ll cream!” were appropriate lyrics for a 17 year old boy to be singing to a crowd of parents and grandparents. Of course, telling the 17 year old boy that he had to change the words simply *ensured *that they’d be sung loud and proud on performance nights!