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references you've missed

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goovie is married! · 18 years, 4 months ago
so neal and i found out today that the beginning of the song "magic dance" from the movie labyrinth--"you remind me of the babe!" "what babe?" "the babe with the power!" "what power?" "the power of voodoo!" "who do?" "you do!" "do what?" "remind me of the babe!"--is a reference to an exchange by cary grant and [eta: shirley temple] in a movie called the bachelor and the bobby-soxer. all these years i've been wondering why the babe had the power of the voodoo, and now i finally understand. well, sort of. (i guess i'll have to rent the bachelor and the bobby-soxer to find out why the man had the power of voodoo in the first place.)

likewise, when i started watching firefly, i was really pleased to finally find out the origin of the quote, "also? i can kill you with my brain."

have you ever found out that you've been missing a reference? or discovered what some phrase or quote was in reference to?
Andrea Krause Back · 18 years, 4 months ago

Yes...this happens to me a lot. And...I'm having trouble thinking of any. But it happens all the time!! :)

Oh! This isn't quite it but it took me forever to understand Michael Penn was saying "Heathcliff" in No Myth.� It wasn't until I actually read Wuthering Heights and later listened to the song some random time, that it was like "OH!".

Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 18 years, 4 months ago
Oh yeah, all the time, not that I can remember them. One was of a different source was from the first time I saw The Wizard of Oz in color. Then I realized that the "horse of a different color" kept actually changing colors.

There were tons of references in cartoons I didn't get till I was older. Things like "The Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayam" on Bullwinkle.
sheryls Back · 18 years, 4 months ago

i remember my dad being able to quote "you remind me of the man." "what man?" when we first watched labrynth together, so i knew it was from something old, i just didnt know what :P

as for references i've missed, i know i do this all the time but i cant think of any now!

Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 18 years, 4 months ago
I knew that Cary Grant was involved with that. I didn't know the film. Either Jimmy Stewart is wrong or the film is wrong. Stewart wasn't in batbs. I thought the scene was with an actress. A little research turns up that it was Shirley Temple. I believe that was her first adult role.

Here is more on it: A Perfect English Gentleman
sheryls Back · 18 years, 4 months ago

yep, it has a movie connection with labyrinth.

and apparantly, scooby doo. o.O

Andrea Krause Back · 18 years, 4 months ago
Richard Nugent: Hey, you remind me of a man.
Susan Turner: What man?
Richard Nugent: Man with the power.
Susan Turner: What power?
Richard Nugent: Power of hoodoo.
Susan Turner: Hoodoo?
Richard Nugent: You do.
Susan Turner: Do what?
Richard Nugent: Remind me of a man...
goovie is married! Back · 18 years, 4 months ago
ah. the first page i read online claimed that it was cary grant and jimmy stewart. that'll teach me to believe anything i read on the internet.
It's a girl! Back · 18 years, 4 months ago
I think the exchange goes back even further--- pretty sure it was an old vaudeville routine.

As for The Bachelor and The Bobby-Soxer, wow that is certainly one of those films that would never be made today. I mean, a judge orders a swinging bachelor playboy to date her still illegal teen sister?

Gordondon son of Ethelred · 18 years, 4 months ago
I saw the Episode of Monk where he flys for the second time the other day. This time I got the joke of Tim Daly, the star of Wings playing himself on the show. I didn't know till this week that Tony Shaloub, the star of Monk, had been a regular on Wings.
Andrea Krause Back · 18 years, 4 months ago
Aw man, it must have been much less amusing not knowing that! :)
renita Back · 18 years, 4 months ago
that reminds me of the enterprise episode that had dean stockwell.

i was dying when his character was fiddling with the handheld device :) that scene would not have been half so cool if you hadn't been a quantum leap fan.
Andrea Krause Back · 18 years, 4 months ago
I loves shout-outs like that. It's a little reward to fans. They're best used sparingly though. :)
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 18 years, 4 months ago
In the first episode of Stargate SG-1 Samantha Carter say they McGuyvered the stargate. Richard Dean Anderson the star of SG-1 was the star of McGuyver. i'm not spelling that right but i'm too lazy to look it up.
Andrea Krause Back · 18 years, 4 months ago
Yeah that was a really cool bit. :)
Mamalissa! · 18 years, 4 months ago
So when I ask Yoram a question like "do you know where the phone is" he'll just answer "yes" without telling me where it is.

One day he asked me if we had any more lightbulbs. I said "yes." He said "I know it's really annoying when I do it, but i really need to know if there are any more lightbulbs" and I said "Ah... the tables are turned, Mr. Bond" and started laughing maniacally. He started laughing too and was really laughing and pointing. I thought it was funny, but not that funny. Then I realized I had been stroking the cat when I said it.
meh Back · 18 years, 4 months ago

*looks around shiftily*

I'd tell a certain story about�a Werewolf game prelude... but for one, it'd probably lose something (although not perhaps the funny) to non-WOD gamers... and for two... Talcott probably tells the story better than I do, even though it was me-missing-my-reference, and all.

Er... Anyway...� *slinks away*

A girl named Becca · 18 years, 4 months ago
I had used the phrase "Don't be that guy!" for about 4 years before I even knew it was from something. Then I saw PCU. :)

I'm sure there are a ton more references I've missed, but that's the one that leaps to mind...
derek harrison · 18 years, 4 months ago
...is full of them. many (the majority) of them are references to earlier episodes (actually some are also references to later episodes, which i love) and i've watched each episode of the first two seasons numerous times and keep noticing new ones

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