references you've missed

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?

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!".

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.

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!

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

yep, it has a movie connection with labyrinth.

and apparantly, scooby doo. o.O

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...

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.

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?

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.

Aw man, it must have been much less amusing not knowing that! :)

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.

I loves shout-outs like that. It's a little reward to fans. They're best used sparingly though. :)

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.

Yeah that was a really cool bit. :)

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.

*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*

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...

...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