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This is just a quick update with nothing too important, but since I was away for the weekend I am way behind with the capsule and notes and such (meaning I haven't even started them yet). Hopefully I will start on it tonight, but in the meantime if you want to help feel free to post whatever crazy references you spotted in the comments here. Hopefully this won't be as long as the many weeks it took me to get the Cremation Creek II stuff up.
- by Tess
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If it helps, I already copied down this line without brock's responses.
"This is going to be one of those things isn't it? I mean --- You get a bunch of short fused costumed idiots together in one room like this -- and what do you think's going to happen? Any minute now stuff's gonna start blowin' up, guys'll be throwing each other into other guys! Huh. You know when you're not the one in the middle of it for once. Actually, totally completely obvious." I love the sound of clarity in his voice, like he really did just have an epiphany. Great acting, directing, and writing right there!
"This is going to be one of those things isn't it? I mean --- You get a bunch of short fused costumed idiots together in one room like this -- and what do you think's going to happen? Any minute now stuff's gonna start blowin' up, guys'll be throwing each other into other guys! Huh. You know when you're not the one in the middle of it for once. Actually, totally completely obvious." I love the sound of clarity in his voice, like he really did just have an epiphany. Great acting, directing, and writing right there!
- by Tess
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Also another fun fact. A sidecar, the drink Dr. Venture orders at the opened bar:
2 oz Cognac
1oz Lemon juice
1oz Cointreau
It is one of the girliest drinks I have ever heard of. I guess one would NEED a double to get drunk enough to accuse your father's best friends of accidentally killing him tho.
2 oz Cognac
1oz Lemon juice
1oz Cointreau
It is one of the girliest drinks I have ever heard of. I guess one would NEED a double to get drunk enough to accuse your father's best friends of accidentally killing him tho.
- by Mike
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Yeah throughout the series he has ordered a ton of girly drinks. the only other one I can recall offhand is a rob roy (in Mid-life Chrysalis) but I am sure there are at least one or two other instances where he's ordered something supremely girly, though a sidecar is pretty impressively girly. also worth noting is that you are supposed to serve it in a sugar-rimmed glass.
- by Mike
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- by Phil
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- by Creepy Crooner
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I know it's somewhat obvious (and someone already kind of pointed it out in the episode discussion) but when Richard dives off the catwalk, presumably attempting to commit suicide, the situation and lines are a parody of The Omen, in which the nanny (or the maid or something) dedicates her fatal plunge off a tall building to Damien, the wee little antichrist.
- by haux
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:46 into this trailer for The Omen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PuIBNLOeEU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PuIBNLOeEU
- by Tess
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Any ideas on why the date was bleeped out when whats-his-brain said "Stranded me here in Nineteen*bleep*tynine!"
Is it 1969, and everything is pretty much normal. Or is it 1959, and Rusty is a clone? Since by my calculations, if chronologically the show started in 2003 (making season 3 take place in 04 or 05), then Rusty would have been born in 1960.
Also, frankly, 75% of the time little Rusty Venture looks like Pixie eared peter pan to me. And that can't be COINCIDENTAL symbolism, can it?
Is it 1969, and everything is pretty much normal. Or is it 1959, and Rusty is a clone? Since by my calculations, if chronologically the show started in 2003 (making season 3 take place in 04 or 05), then Rusty would have been born in 1960.
Also, frankly, 75% of the time little Rusty Venture looks like Pixie eared peter pan to me. And that can't be COINCIDENTAL symbolism, can it?
- by hank
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i'm 99% sure they dropped this episode right at comicon time for a reason.
the whole gag about the charging for autographs/photos is an experience the guys had at comicon (last year?) and i think they were definitely spoofing on that.
Also, the large grouping of weird people dressed up in costumes. does that SCREAM comicon to me only? isn't that EXACTLY what comicon is? a bunch of awkward people running around in costumes causing scenes?
the whole gag about the charging for autographs/photos is an experience the guys had at comicon (last year?) and i think they were definitely spoofing on that.
Also, the large grouping of weird people dressed up in costumes. does that SCREAM comicon to me only? isn't that EXACTLY what comicon is? a bunch of awkward people running around in costumes causing scenes?
- by Creepy Crooner
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I didn't really make that comicon connection, but I have to admit it does make a lot of sense.
The autograph scene actually marks the second joke of this nature so far this season (the first being Brock's criticism of Doc in The Buddy System) and according to Doc and Jackson's commentary the whole idea is based on Dana Shneider's experience at Dragoncon a couple of years back.
The autograph scene actually marks the second joke of this nature so far this season (the first being Brock's criticism of Doc in The Buddy System) and according to Doc and Jackson's commentary the whole idea is based on Dana Shneider's experience at Dragoncon a couple of years back.
- by Mike
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Oh god, if someone can tell me the drink Dr. Venture orders with around 3:40 left in part 3 (on the AS.com version) I would totally be your best friend. It sounds like 'sam in a sweater' or 'santa miss wetter' or something weird like that, but I can't find any drinks that are similar sounding. :(
- by tess
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OK. So, here's my theory:
At New York Comic Con Doc and Jackson were talking about how they like to make up drinks in Dr. Venture's voice. My guess here, since if a drink anything close to "Sand in a Sweater" or "salmon ice water" existed, the internet would know. I figure this is a joke on how silly girl-drink names are, also on how silly they look: if you see the thing he's given.
At New York Comic Con Doc and Jackson were talking about how they like to make up drinks in Dr. Venture's voice. My guess here, since if a drink anything close to "Sand in a Sweater" or "salmon ice water" existed, the internet would know. I figure this is a joke on how silly girl-drink names are, also on how silly they look: if you see the thing he's given.
- by Mike
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- by Mike
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