You think he’d feel the heat, if nothing else.
Wasn’t it J. I. Rodale, founder of the press that still bears his name?
See my post above from 9 September.
In Almadovar’s film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, there was Chekhov’s gazpacho.
I had to revisit this because Mrs. solost and I were watching a show last night in which someone was handcuffed to an old-fashioned radiator. Mrs. solost was probably wondering why I was laughing quietly to myself.
The show if anyone’s curious:
Devil in Ohio, Netflix
I attended a junior college where the main building was a former high school. Apparently the bell system still worked; it started off one day while remodeling was going on, que mass confusion from students and faculty.
Two guys are in an epic fist fight. One guy knocks the other down, and before he can hit him again, he reaches down and lifts the guy up, giving the guy an opportunity to continue the fight. If I’m in a life or death fight with someone, he’s not getting back up if I can help it. This was a scenario in every early tv show, and all westerns.
Small towns where a local business owner has killed DOZENS of people including cops to ensure his business and thus profits aren’t interrupted and somehow gets away with it.
Yeah some business that probably doesn’t even make a million a year is going to have the clout to murder a decent chunk of the local population and everyone knows it but doesn’t say anything because without it the town would be dead, except for the people in town who are already dead of course.
Oh, yeah! Serial killers and crazy stalkers with marginal jobs are able to buy FBI-level surveillance equipment, expensive, complicated tool for accomplishing their crimes, storage areas, and more complicated equipment for torture, or for disposing of bodies.
Movies or shows (I’m looking at you Hallmark Channel) are set in small towns but these towns have all the features that are generally reserved for larger areas. “Parks and Recreation” was also bad about this. It claimed to be set in a small town in Indiana but they had a very large police force, many parks, extravagant city hall facilities, and even luxurious offices for their what would normally be unpaid city council.
(from Wikipedia)
That was how I always pictured Pawnee. Not a small town, but a small city. Someplace similar to say, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
@SlipperyPete Given your username, I’m happy to hear that.
Reminds me of the lampshading of that trope in Firefly (paraphrased):
Mal and Big Baddie in a fight to the death.
Crew arrives, “We’ll save you, Captain!”
Zoë: “Hold your fire, this is something the Captain has to do one-on-one.”
Mal: “No, it’s NOT! Shoot him!”
Related, it always strikes me as contrived when there’s a brutal hand-to-hand fight to the death between two expert combatants, and there are actually swings and back-and-forths. I would have thought, without knowing a thing about it, that any time one combatant got a serious advantage – landed a really substantial blow on their opponent, knocked them dizzy for a moment, whatever – it would be all over because the person with the temporary advantage would instantly pounce and do something truly incapacitating while the other guy’s attention wasn’t fully on defense. But there are plenty of on-screen fights in which one person is WAY ahead, clearly temporarily having their way with the other person, but then after a while of being brutally pounded on with basically no defense, they get a second wind and get back in the fight (and, likely, end up winning).
Total BS?
Happens all the time. Don’t you watch WWE?
The older buildings where I went to college still had a bell system. They rang four times an hour, at the times when a class might potentially be starting or finishing. They shut it off soon after I graduated because there was a major overhaul of the schedules and the hardware couldn’t be altered to ring the bells at other times. I knew it probably wasn’t normal based on the number of instructors who griped about it going off.
Just do a quick search for " Falling Impalement on Rebar News Stories", happens more often than you might think…
Chekhov’s Radiator?
One of the Bourne movies – can’t remember which one – refreshingly had a scene where he enters his apartment to find an agent tossing it. A fight ensues and instead of your typical cinematic mano a mano fight was simply, block - block - block - block until the bad guy made a mistake and was killed, rather more like I’d expect if two trained, experienced killers went at it.