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I think he was able to do real Vegas-style magic tricks. It was a really oddly specific power. Like how he literally pulled a rabbit out of his rear end.
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Not sure if it's on purpose but somewhere in the first season, they use 'monkey slut' as a code word because 'when's monkey slut ever going to come up in conversation?' Later in series two, Kelly 'meets' a gorilla...
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Mu Zeta posted:I think he was able to do real Vegas-style magic tricks. It was a really oddly specific power. Like how he literally pulled a rabbit out of his rear end. IIRC it was described as a sort of local reality-bending power which he used to do tricks, cheat at craps and try to make casino chips fall out of his girlfriend's vagina.
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Chainsaw McGee posted:Or in the Gargoyles-verse they could have used some kind of magical artifact to visit Notre Dame (actually this makes so much sense I'm not sure it didn't already happen). Yeah, the Phoenix Gate. They used it a lot during "Goliath, Eliza and Bronx's Fantastical Boat Quest".
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So here's one that I noticed a while back when rewatching some old episodes of Parks and Rec: Late in season 4, there's an episode that guest stars Bradley Whitford, probably best known as his character Josh Lyman on The West Wing. In the episode he plays Councilman Pilner, and Leslie has to go see him for one reason or another to advance the plot. Anyway, when they first show his office, they show several shots of the room to drive home his affinity for building ships-in-a-bottle, an ongoing gag throughout the episode. One shot though, lingers just a bit on a framed cocktail napkin that has "Pilner 4 Pawnee" scrawled on it in sharpie. It took me a bit to piece it together, but I realized it was totally a call back to the West Wing. Fans of the show will probably remember a particularly poignant flashback, when President Bartlett's chief of staff, Leo McGarry, is remembering how he decided he wanted to convince Bartlett to run. Sitting alone at a bar, he writes "Bartlett for President" on a cocktail napkin, which sets off the chain of events that convinces Bartlett to run and gets him elected, which sets up the entire basis for the show. Later in the episode, Leo gives President Bartlett the same cocktail napkin, set in a picture frame, and I'm pretty sure it can be seen on his desk or somewhere in the Oval Office for the rest of the show. For such a throw-away reference (the "Pilner 4 Pawnee" napkin is shown for maybe 3 seconds and is never explicitly mentioned), I love that the writers took the time to give Whitford's character a name that they could alliterate with Pawnee, just so they could do a call back to the show he was in ten years ago that also just happens to be my favorite political drama of all time.
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DeathFromAbove1988 posted:So here's one that I noticed a while back when rewatching some old episodes of Parks and Rec: AV club did a rundown with the shows creators over that season of Parks and Rec and I think they have a lot to say about the west wing in it.
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I don't know if it's been mentioned yet or not, but i was just watching Men In Black 3... Since i don't know how to spoiler things (i don't post much) I'll be vague. When a certain someone is pulled over, there's a billboard in the background, and on it is an advertisement for the Fair or whatever is going on. There's an ad for the "Amazing Talking Pug!" Which i thought was pretty funny.
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["Spoiler]text here[/spoiler"] Without the quotes.
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There's a link to a list of all the different BBcode underneath the box you type into when you make a post, as well as a list of smilies.
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Mu Zeta posted:I think he was able to do real Vegas-style magic tricks. It was a really oddly specific power. Like how he literally pulled a rabbit out of his rear end. Hey, he stole Harry Anderson's idea for Heroes!
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A goofy little thing in the South Park episode "Best Friends Forever" where Kenny dies and goes to heaven is that whenever they show an angel they have a beam of light shining on them from the sky.
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Rewatching Commando on Netflix, I only just now realized that Bennett's chainmail is actually just gray yarn knitted to look like chainmail. This loving movie.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Rewatching Commando on Netflix, I only just now realized that Bennett's chainmail is actually just gray yarn knitted to look like chainmail.
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I think I heard that the reason it looks vaguely chainmail-ish is because it was selected for someone much smaller than him and he was a last-second recast. I guess it was just super stretched out.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Rewatching Commando on Netflix, I only just now realized that Bennett's chainmail is actually just gray yarn knitted to look like chainmail. No shame in that: 
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Something interesting in Hunger Games: Catching Fire is that in the scene where Katniss is doing her archery training the holographic opponents are all the other tributes.
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Just caught something in a King of the Hill episode, the one where Bobby becomes a rodeo clown. The whole episode is about how low-class and shameful it is to be a clown and how everyone looks down on them. During the climax Joseph is in danger of being gored to death by a bull and the two main clowns get knocked out--Bobby steps in to save the day by distracting the bull, happy music plays, and in the background you can see two cowboys come out into the arena and lift Joseph up and help him walk out. And for a very brief second you see a third cowboy come out and start moving one of the passed-out clowns, by kicking him. Hehe.
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In Hunchback Of Notre Dame, when Frollo slams Quasimodo's wooden figure of Esmeralda on the table and tosses it on the ground, he knocks over a wooden figure of himself in the process. Frollo's obsession with Esmeralda is what leads to his downfall.
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In Blast from the Past Adam and Eve go to a 1940's-themed nightclub so Adam can score a date. It's at that point where Eve realizes she has feelings for Adam but things happen to dampen their relationship. The song playing during the establishing shot for the nightclub is "Hell" by Squirrel Nut Zippers.
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Just finished watching Elysium and one small detail I enjoyed was when looking down at a combat zone through a camera every participant was labeled with their identity except for the unauthorized commando guy who is tagged "Unknown" and is blurred out on the feed. It's only in the shot for a few seconds and I thought it was a great bit of world-building.
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fuckpot posted:Maybe this is subtle, I don't know. That's a close-up of a garlic scape - the "flower" part that grows aboveground. Just foodie hipster photography, I think.
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Was watching Idiocracy again last night and noticed all sorts of subtle stuff and little sight gags in the background I'd never noticed before. Maybe not subtle gags, but the camera doesn't linger too long on them for the most part. Not Sure's ID says "Eyes: yes" and "Hair: yes". I couldn't make out the rest. Then later when his wanted alert shows up on the screen, one of the charges is "being a dick". There were a lot of little funny product names I'd never noticed before either. I love this movie.
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The various maladies on the ordering register at the hospital were quite entertaining As well as the fact that they ran out of space on the hospital for the name so they just had the letters drop vertically like they hit the edge of the page.
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I watched The World's End based on the posts in this thread and really enjoyed it!
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While The Core isn't exactly a subtle movie there was one scene that is kind of goofy early on. In the scene where they're introducing the Unobtanium you can see the back wall of his lab has a bunch of holes with shapes cut out where he had been previously testing the laser/unobtanium.
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Was watching the Muppet Christmas Carol with my kid earlier as she's already all psyched about Xmas. I could be wrong but when Scrooge kicks out Bunsen & Beaker while ranting I swear Beaker flips Scrooge off as they exit.
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Krypt-OOO-Nite!! posted:Was watching the Muppet Christmas Carol with my kid earlier as she's already all psyched about Xmas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvZPm3lqaPs
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A funny thing from the third episode of the first series of Sherlock when they're investigating the death of the TV lady the news program lists her age as 48 but when they're at the autopsy Lestrade gives her age as 54.
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muscles like this? posted:While The Core isn't exactly a subtle movie there was one scene that is kind of goofy early on. In the scene where they're introducing the Unobtanium you can see the back wall of his lab has a bunch of holes with shapes cut out where he had been previously testing the laser/unobtanium. The Core is the subject of my favorite insultingly stupid movies physics review. Also holy poo poo it's been 10 years since the Core came out.
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Avatar: When we first see Sigourney Weaver she opens her pod and starts yelling about how none of her underlings have brought her a cigarette until a scientist brings over a cigarette and a lab coat. A few seconds earlier, as the pod is still opening, you can see said scientist run off screen to retrieve them. Scrooged: When Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is having a nervous breakdown in front of his boss at lunch and throws a bucket of water on a waiter he thought was on fire ("I thought you were Richard Pryor") he then stumbles and slips on the water he just threw on the floor. There's also a scene where Frank's brother is playing a trivia game with his friends and Frank knows all the answers. That's because (coincidentally?) the questions were about TV shows and it was established earlier that he'd spent the first 20 years of his life glued to the television. Not really subtle but its only in the background for a few seconds. On the wall in Frank Cross's office: 
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I was watching Kick rear end 2 and noticed the TV station everybody watches is WNRD. NRD = "nerd"?
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Watching The Devil's Advocate on TV and I will admit this movie is a guilty pleasure, I love biblical lore gone Hollywood. Two moments -- the first is when Pacino and Keanu walk down a street together, there is a desperate delivery man behind them holding a box of fruit labelled 'Halo'. It hangs there between them for a few seconds. The other moment is when the Milton firm's director guy freaks out and says that 'Weaver' has been calling him, and next time, he will answer. Then he gets killed. 'Weaver' = 'Creator'.
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Holy poo poo, I am really surprised they got away with that. I bet there's lots of muppet stuff on the cutting room floor somewhere. I know I would be extremely tempted.
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I know most Edgar Wright stuff is all subtle in general. But at the beginning they talk about smoking pot and getting paranoid at one point. And once they get to the bar after the Bee Hive they get paranoid again at that bar. I have watched the movie multiple times and did not make that correlation as I did the more obvious ones. Thought it was clever.
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Supreme Allah posted:Watching The Devil's Advocate on TV and I will admit this movie is a guilty pleasure, I love biblical lore gone Hollywood. Two moments -- the first is when Pacino and Keanu walk down a street together, there is a desperate delivery man behind them holding a box of fruit labelled 'Halo'. It hangs there between them for a few seconds. The other moment is when the Milton firm's director guy freaks out and says that 'Weaver' has been calling him, and next time, he will answer. Then he gets killed. 'Weaver' = 'Creator'. There's a moment also where Keanu's character is approached by someone from the Weaver Commission (or whatever it was), and there's a few moments where the cut of the man's coat makes it look like he's wearing a priest's collar.
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tagelthebagel posted:I know most Edgar Wright stuff is all subtle in general. But at the beginning they talk about smoking pot and getting paranoid at one point. And once they get to the bar after the Bee Hive they get paranoid again at that bar. I have watched the movie multiple times and did not make that correlation as I did the more obvious ones. Thought it was clever. And which movice is this?
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bunnyofdoom posted:And which movice is this? World's End
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I watched Dressed to Kill last night. It's a Sherlock Holmes movie from the 40s starring Basil Rathbone. Then I watched Mickey's Christmas Carol this morning and noticed that one of the bit parts recycled from another Disney movie was Basil of Baker Street from The Great Mouse Detective. Then I looked up the relevant wiki/IMDB pages and saw that that part was actually voice acted by Basil Rathbone. Arthur Conan Doyle's original character of Sherlock used the name "Basil" as an alias in The Adventure of Black Peter
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syscall girl posted:I watched Dressed to Kill last night. It's a Sherlock Holmes movie from the 40s starring Basil Rathbone. Then I watched Mickey's Christmas Carol this morning and noticed that one of the bit parts recycled from another Disney movie was Basil of Baker Street from The Great Mouse Detective. Then I looked up the relevant wiki/IMDB pages and saw that that part was actually voice acted by Basil Rathbone. Arthur Conan Doyle's original character of Sherlock used the name "Basil" as an alias in The Adventure of Black Peter God drat, you're a sharp one! They should call you, um. Erm... I got nothing.
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Ariong posted:God drat, you're a sharp one! They should call you, um. Erm... Shirley Holmes? To contribute: I just watched 30 Rock all the way through again and noticed something that they slipped past the standards department. In the Season 2 episode "Ludachristmas", Liz's family comes to visit for Christmas. Her dad, Dick Lemon, remarks, "it wouldn't be a lemon party without old Dick!". You may remember lemonparty.org, which was famous for featuring some...well, old dick.
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