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Post by Blurryeye on Feb 4, 2004 17:17:22 GMT -5
I think the 3-M references are about the huge corporation that makes Band-Aids, Post-It Notes, and tons of other stuff. Servo usually says it when you see a shot of a large corporate building, as if he's narrating a promotional short about the 3-M Corporation.
A running joke is "Stay alive! Whatever may occur, I will find you!" It sounds like it's from a movie. Which one?
In Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders, when the wife's bed falls down into the basement through the ceiling, Mike says "It's the Woolworth's(??) method of going down to dinner." What's that about?
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Post by TV's Cowboy on Feb 4, 2004 17:22:32 GMT -5
I don't think Mike said "Woolworth" I think he said Wallace as in Wallace and Gromit because in one W&G episode(I think it was the Wrong Trousers)Wallace's bed crashed through his bedroom.
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Post by Miss Interoceter on Feb 4, 2004 17:41:02 GMT -5
3M is also a Minnesota company and one of the biggest employers in the state. The music that usually accompanies Tom's 3M plugs sounds like what you'd hear in a industry promotional type video that a company such as 3M might put out.
Stay Alive. Isn't that from the song, Time After Time? I seem to remember there being a line that went : "I will find you Time after time" Early to mid 80's song.
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Post by otrfan on Feb 4, 2004 17:45:40 GMT -5
I found this answer online:
"Stay alive! Whatever may occur, I will find you!" - Line from the 1992 film adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans, the 1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper. At one point, as title character Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) is separated from his love Cora Munro (Madeline Stowe), he delivers this line to her. The line does not appear in the original novel.
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Post by Commander Kalgan on Feb 4, 2004 19:34:04 GMT -5
Here's a few from "Touch Of Satan"-
Jody is sitting at the pond eating his sandwich, then he looks over to where Melissa has walked up. The camera zooms in on Melissa, at which point Mike says, "I won't go back, Jim!" in a wierd voice. What's that from?
Later on when Jody has agreed to stay overnight, Melissa shows him to his room. When they are standing at the door Crow says "There's tons of varnished bread laying around, just push it out of the way." What's he talking about? The best I could figure out was it was from another film about Satanic stuff.
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Post by MoonZeroTwo on Feb 4, 2004 19:47:44 GMT -5
I think I can answer the Samuel Beckett thing. Joel starts doing eenie-meenie-miney- moe, and Tom comes in with the Beckett reference. Beckett as a well-known Irish playwright, most famous for his drama, "Waiting for Godot," one of the most famous plays from the Theater of the Absurd, as literary school developed by absurdists and existentialists in the 30's-50's. Anyway, since absurdism refutes any meaning or purpose in life, or at least, any a human could understand, the Beckett riff applies because the eenie-meenie-miney-moe thing is a method of decision without purpose; it's simply randomness and devoid of meaning.
From many Season 6 episodes, Tom, Crow, and Mike are humming this little song that goes... "Hum-diddy-he-he--who-a-who-a." What is this from?
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Feb 4, 2004 20:40:23 GMT -5
Here's a few from "Touch Of Satan"- Jody is sitting at the pond eating his sandwich, then he looks over to where Melissa has walked up. The camera zooms in on Melissa, at which point Mike says, "I won't go back, Jim!" in a wierd voice. What's that from? The origianl Star Trek. Spok get's infested with some spores that make him happy and fall in live with Jill Ireland. He tells Kirk "I won't go back, Jim!"
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Post by TheEvilDead on Feb 4, 2004 21:32:01 GMT -5
HO scale.
Crow makes reference to something being "HO scale", in Prince of Space and Merlin's Shop. Both times it's showing a terrible looking model.
What do it mean?!
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Post by JCrow on Feb 4, 2004 22:38:08 GMT -5
HO scale (a.k.a. HO gauge) is the standard, most popular scale size for model railroads.
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Post by NewGirl731 on Feb 5, 2004 7:44:01 GMT -5
One more Charlie Callas reference -
Teenage Strangler has the nerdy little guy (I know, they were all nerdy and little, but you'll figure it out) is dancing, and one of the guys notes he looks like Charlie Callas - Charlie Callas was also known for that type of hyper movement kind of thing - it looks just like what he used to do. They also if I recall make some noises there like Callas used to.
My dad still does Charlie Callas impressions to this day.
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Post by Miss Interoceter on Feb 5, 2004 11:33:20 GMT -5
From many Season 6 episodes, Tom, Crow, and Mike are humming this little song that goes... "Hum-diddy-he-he--who-a-who-a." What is this from? Man I love it when Crow does that! The who-a who-a gets me laughing everytime. I have no idea if it means anything though. To me it always meant he was bored to death with the movie they were watching. Was it Creeping Terror they were watching? "Tom, I don't get you." "Nobody does. I'm the wind, baby!"
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Post by Torgo on Feb 5, 2004 12:39:51 GMT -5
The origianl Star Trek. Spok get's infested with some spores that make him happy and fall in live with Jill Ireland. He tells Kirk "I won't go back, Jim!" LOL, that episode was on a Sci-Fi channel marathon the other day.
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Post by emperordorkin on Feb 5, 2004 17:17:19 GMT -5
I asked this in a previous esoteric thread, but it got lost in the shuffle...
In a handful of episodes, whenever a man with a pencil-thin mustache picks up a phone, Servo says "Yyyyyeeeeeees?!" in a very piercing British-sounding voice.
Anyone?
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Post by Torgo on Feb 5, 2004 17:21:24 GMT -5
I asked this in a previous esoteric thread, but it got lost in the shuffle... In a handful of episodes, whenever a man with a pencil-thin mustache picks up a phone, Servo says "Yyyyyeeeeeees?!" in a very piercing British-sounding voice. Anyone? From the lost thread: It has to be Frank Nelson, a character actor from old time radio and early television, most notably Jack Benny. He was alway a floorwalker, or a waiter, or something similar. He was also on 'I Love Lucy' as Betty Ramsey's husband in the later Connecticut episodes. The 'Simpsons' episode "Mayored To The Mob" also contains a parody of him. (A note from your friendly neighborhood Admin: You get better results and it's easier to read if you place your response "after" the quote tags)
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Post by Commander Kalgan on Feb 5, 2004 19:48:26 GMT -5
Yeah, I know. Just a slip up.
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