# Things you finally noticed after the 100th time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 5, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771 "2007-06-05T01:23:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/21 "2007-06-05T14:26:06Z")
I didn’t notice this one until I heard in on the DVD commentary: in _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_, there is a scene in which R.K. Maroon is murdered while in his office. Since he is a cartoon producer, he has posters of some of his cartoons on the wall. The assassin’s gun can be seen reflected on a poster of a character called “Pistol-Packin’ Possum”- and the gun is at the same angle and in the same location as the gun Possum is holding. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/22 "2007-06-05T14:59:11Z")
I came into the living room this weekend to find my wife watching _10 Things I Hate About You_ for roughly the googolth time. On the off chance you haven’t seen it, let me set the scene for you: Rich snob Bogie Lowenstein will be hosting the biggest blowout party his high school has ever seen tonight – he just doesn’t know it. Everyone in the school is planning on being there, but somehow he remains blissfully unaware of their plans. We see a helicoptor shot of his parent’s masion (they’re out of town, of course), with the entire school body marching towards the door, ready to par-tee down. Interior shot of Bogie with a few of his yuppie scum friends. Bogie admonishes them to use coasters and such. The doorbell rings. “Ah,” says Bogie, “That must be Nigel with the brie”. He walks toward the front door, only to have it burst open and fill the house with carousing teenagers. What I never noticed until this viewing was the one person being pushed along by the crowd – a terrified-looking yuppie kid carrying a plate of brie. ---
**Author:** ![Freezair\_SilverEye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Freezair\_SilverEye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freezair_SilverEye)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/23 "2007-06-05T16:17:40Z")
Game nerdiness: In The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, there are brother and sister fairies named Tatl and Tael. It wasn’t until I said both their names out loud together that I “got” their joke. It’s a pun on “tattletale,” and the fairies in Zelda are a bit like tattletales, ya? ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/24 "2007-06-05T17:50:16Z")
[QUOTE=woodstockbirdybird] I think the name was actually based on Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, but I like your take better. [/QUOTE] Indeed, [you are correct](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors#Origins:_1965_.E2.80.93_1966). I like mine better too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/25 "2007-06-05T17:56:59Z")
[QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu] Not until this post [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8638949&postcount=1) did I ever notice Gary Burghoff had a deformed hand. And I call myself a huge M_A_S\*H fan. :smack: [/QUOTE] Don’t feel bad, no one did- you would’ve needed freeze frame technology to see it from watching the show- he always kept it hidden behind a clipboard, in his pocket, etc. Even on Match Game you couldn’t tell. I only found out by reading his Wikipedia page. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/26 "2007-06-05T18:24:23Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] I won’t count that specifically, because I haven’t seen that episode 100 times, but here’s what did hit me last week: the title of Christopher’s film, _Cleaver_, ties in nicely with the father-son relationship Tony keeps talking about with him, and Tony’s having seen his own father use a cleaver in the pork store that time. [/QUOTE] What I didn’t get the first viewing, but finally dawned on me the other day in retrospect, is the Hamlet reference. There’s a “nephew”, using a “play” to catch the conscience of his “king”. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/27 "2007-06-05T18:53:15Z")
Until I listened to the DVD commentary for Back to the Future II I never realized that Micheal J. Fox played his own daughter :smack: . ---
**Author:** ![LionelHutz405](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lionelhutz405/32/536_2.png) [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/28 "2007-06-05T19:41:34Z")
The incredibly lame yet hilarious The Great White North song [(Bob and Doug,eh?)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_and_Doug_McKenzie) was sung by Geddy Lee of Rush. Considering how unique his voice is, how did I not realize that? ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/29 "2007-06-05T20:00:02Z")
It wasn’t until, oh, maybe the twentieth viewing that I noticed the recurring Gumby in Spinal Tap. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/30 "2007-06-05T21:24:42Z")
In the movie No Way Out with Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman, there’s a scene early in the movie when Kevin’s character is “making love” to Sean Young’s character in the back of a limousine, as it’s driving around Manhattan. It took three or four viewings before I noticed the juxtaposition of the very phallic Washington Monument, seen through the back window of the limo. And in Galaxy Quest, I noticed the odd behavior of Tony Shalhoub’s character, but didn’t understand it until a friend pointed out the baggie he was carrying and suggested that he was meant to be a pothead. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/31 "2007-06-05T21:36:34Z")
[QUOTE=Dewey Finn] In the movie No Way Out with Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman, there’s a scene early in the movie when Kevin’s character is “making love” to Sean Young’s character in the back of a limousine, as it’s driving around Manhattan. It took three or four viewings before I noticed the juxtaposition of the very phallic Washington Monument, seen through the back window of the limo. [/QUOTE] The Washington Monument is in Washington DC, not Manhattan. The only phallic monument I can think of in New York is [Columbus Circle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TWC_and_Columbus_Circle.jpg), which isn’t as “pointy” as [the Washington Monument](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Washington_Monument_Dusk_Jan_2006.jpg) is. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/32 "2007-06-05T21:42:30Z")
Sorry, they were driving around Washington, DC. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/33 "2007-06-05T22:46:09Z")
**Laverne & Shirley** and\*\* The Odd Couple\*\* were the same show. \*The Same Show! \* Damn you, Garry Marshall! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/34 "2007-06-05T23:49:00Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] This isn’t one of those every-time-I-watch-Citizen-Kane-I-see-something-new threads . . . [/QUOTE] Speaking of which: I never noticed this until a professor (journalism-history, not film-history – it came up in connection with William Randolph Hearst) pointed it out: In the scene where Kane and Susan are having a “picnic” on the grounds of Xanadu, if you look closely you can see what appear to be the silhouettes or shadows of pterodactyls flying past on the edge of the screen. They are, in fact, pterodactyls – the scene was done using outtakes from _King Kong._ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/35 "2007-06-05T23:53:04Z")
[QUOTE=Dewey Finn] And in Galaxy Quest, I noticed the odd behavior of Tony Shalhoub’s character, but didn’t understand it until a friend pointed out the baggie he was carrying and suggested that he was meant to be a pothead. [/QUOTE] Hmmm . . . that might explain his behavior with the Thermian chick . . . GUY FLEEGMAN: Heh-heh-heh . . . Heh-heh-heh . . . Oh, that’s not right! ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/36 "2007-06-06T00:22:30Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad] He kept it pretty well hidden with clipboards and other props. I’ve been looking ever since I heard of it but to no avail. The image linked to may make it look worse than it is, however. [/QUOTE] Same thing with James Doohan’s hand (missing parts of a couple of fingers from the D-Day landings): thing is isn’t it possible that a guy who has been around machines all his life (Scotty of course) as an engineer could be missing a few digits from various accidents? I believe they used a stand-in for any closeups of the transporter console. I need to check my copy of ST IV, where he does a bunch of lightning fast typing on a Macintosh… ---
**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:** [June 6, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/37 "2007-06-06T01:42:46Z")
> [@](#): > > The Washington Monument is in Washington DC, not Manhattan. The only phallic monument I can think of in New York is Columbus Circle, which isn’t as “pointy” as the Washington Monument is. You forgot **Cleopatra’s Needle** behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art > **[File:Obelisk Central Park.jpg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Obelisk_Central_Park.jpg)** > > Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. > You cannot overwrite this file. The following page uses this file: > The following other wikis use this file: ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/38 "2007-06-06T02:18:46Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] Same thing with James Doohan’s hand (missing parts of a couple of fingers from the D-Day landings): thing is isn’t it possible that a guy who has been around machines all his life (Scotty of course) as an engineer could be missing a few digits from various accidents?.. [/QUOTE] True, but Star Trek is set hundreds of years into the future. I’m not sure if it was ever mentioned in TOS, but TNG had limb/organ regeneration as a common medical procedure. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/39 "2007-06-06T02:40:30Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] Same thing with James Doohan’s hand (missing parts of a couple of fingers from the D-Day landings): thing is isn’t it possible that a guy who has been around machines all his life (Scotty of course) as an engineer could be missing a few digits from various accidents? I believe they used a stand-in for any closeups of the transporter console. I need to check my copy of ST IV, where he does a bunch of lightning fast typing on a Macintosh… [/QUOTE] I am curious to see what you find when you check (um, like if you were really going to check, as opposed to it being a figure of speech) because I haven’t seen that in _years_ and I have a vague memory of him typing with two fingers, with the joke being that the Mac is _so_ low-tech that he has never had to learn to type. Or I could be thinking of something else entirely … ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/40 "2007-06-06T04:33:37Z")
Near the end of the Huston/Bogart version of _The Maltese Falcon_, Gutman is explaining to Spade why Thursby was shot. As he says that Thursby “was quite determinedly loyal to Miss O’Shaughnessy,” a look of realization crosses Bogart’s face, and he looks at Mary Astor, whose eyes drop guiltily. It was only a couple of years ago, on watching the film for perhaps the 10,000th time, that I caught on to the fact that Spade has only just realized that Brigid had won Thursby’s loyalty by sleeping with him. Very significant in light of how Spade will deal with Brigid just a few minutes later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771.md?page=3)