So *that's* where they got it from!
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What are some things that you grew up never knowing was a reference to something else until much later, when you ran across the original and it suddenly dawned on you?
For example, because of Duck Tales I knew who Uncle Scrooge was long before I ever knew about Ebenezer Scrooge.
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I pretty much stopped listening to pop music by 1990. So there are tons of songs that everyone else seems to know about, but when I hear them I think "oh, so that's what Weird Al was making a parody of!"
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@da-Doctah said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
"oh, so that's what Weird Al was making a parody of!"
At least half of his songs, I know his version but not what he's parodying.
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@HardwareGeek said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@da-Doctah said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
"oh, so that's what Weird Al was making a parody of!"
At least half of his songs, I know his version but not what he's parodying.
That's the "Weird Al" Effect (Warning: TV Tropes): the parody spreads wider than the original because parodies partially cross genre boundaries. I'd never heard of MacArthur Park, but I enjoyed Weird Al's Jurassic Park - because I enjoyed the movie.
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I actually thought "There's no crying in baseball!" was from someone like Yogi Berra making some inspirational real-life speech to his players. I didn't realize it was from A League of their Own until... about a year ago.
Growing up, a lot of 90s childrens shows made references to contemporary adult movies like that, so they seemed so prevalent, I had thought in my child mind they were indispensible quotes that came from history. "You can't handle the truth," "Show me the money"...
But I'd probably say the quote that best meets this thread is "I feel the need, the need for speed." Between the video game series and a local pizza joint commercial portraying their delivery service as some bats out of hell to get your meal home on time, I always figured it was just a catchy jingle that was just out there. Never realized it originated from Top Gun until way later.
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@The_Quiet_One and today I learned that Yogi Bear's name was a reference to Yogi Berra.
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@pie_flavor said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@The_Quiet_One and today I learned that Yogi Bear's name was a reference to Yogi Berra.
On a similar note, it wasn't until I was several years too old to watch yogi Bear that I heard about Yellowstone park and thought "huh, that sounds like jellystone park. Oh"
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@Mason_Wheeler said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
What are some things that you grew up never knowing was a reference to something else until much later, when you ran across the original and it suddenly dawned on you?
Pretty much the entirety of Looney tunes as a kid. Still funny as hell originally and they only get better as you understand all the references.
Edit: The bugs bunny version of "The Barber of Seville" (The Rabbit of Seville) is still the best version of that opera.
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. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/62598/do-rabbits-really-love-carrots
Rabbits also enjoy a whole variety of food, but unfortunately some people think they can live exclusively off carrots. In reality, bunnies donât eat root vegetables in the wild, so things like carrots should only be an occasional treat. The RSPCA found that 11 percent of all pet rabbits have tooth decay as a result of hitting the orange stuff too hard.
So if rabbits donât eat carrots in the wild, where did the idea come from? Most blame Bugs Bunny.
While many thought Bugs got the habit from his furry peers, he actually adapted the carrot munching from the King of Hollywood, Clark Gable. Creators Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Bob Clampett have explained that Bugs' trademark love of carrots was inspired by a scene in the 1934 film, It Happened One Night. In it, Gable's character leans against a fence and eats a carrot while explaining the rules of hitchhiking. In 1940, Bugs Bunny made his debut in a cartoon called "A Wild Hare," and exhibited similar behaviors:
At the time, the movie had just come out so the satire was likely obvious to viewers. Today, most children have never heard of Clark Gable and attribute the carrot eating to normal rabbit behavior. If you have a pet rabbit, read up on the proper foods to feed itâcarrots are like candy for rabbits, so they should be given in moderation!
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@da-Doctah said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
I pretty much stopped listening to pop music by 1990. So there are tons of songs that everyone else seems to know about, but when I hear them I think "oh, so that's what Weird Al was making a parody of!"
There are a lot of current songs that I've only heard Leo Moracchioli's metal covers of. Occasionally I'll be somewhere and hear the originals and it takes me a bit to figure out why the song sounds familiar. I think this one was the most recent example:
Obviously I know that they're covers but the original songs can sound quite different.
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@boomzilla said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
There are a lot of current songs
"Sultans of Swing" is a song by British rock band Dire Straits from their eponymous debut album, written by frontman Mark Knopfler. Released in 1978, its 1979 rerelease made it a hit in the United Kingdom and United States.
Does your
have its own ?
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@Dragoon said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@boomzilla said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
There are a lot of current songs
"Sultans of Swing" is a song by British rock band Dire Straits from their eponymous debut album, written by frontman Mark Knopfler. Released in 1978, its 1979 rerelease made it a hit in the United Kingdom and United States.
Does your
have its own ?Heh...an amusing example. I never owned any of their albums and am really only familiar with a couple of their songs. Not this one, obviously.
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This one seems pretty common. A lot of people are familiar with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSufJgCXwnw
...but don't seem to know about the scene from the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup with that line.
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Both good movies.
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@boomzilla said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
This one seems pretty common. A lot of people are familiar with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSufJgCXwnw
...but don't seem to know about the scene from the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup with that line.
Source? I just looked and can't find anything suggesting that the line is older than Dr. Strangelove or that the Marx Brothers used it.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@boomzilla said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
This one seems pretty common. A lot of people are familiar with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSufJgCXwnw
...but don't seem to know about the scene from the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup with that line.
Source? I just looked and can't find anything suggesting that the line is older than Dr. Strangelove or that the Marx Brothers used it.
Huh...I could have sworn it was in there towards the end. Went and looked and you're right. Not sure how I got that into my head.
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@boomzilla Probably because it's the sort of witty thing that one of them would say.
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@HardwareGeek said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@da-Doctah said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
"oh, so that's what Weird Al was making a parody of!"
At least half of his songs, I know his version but not what he's parodying.
Weird Al did a parody of the song "Smells like teen spirit" by Nirvana, which I had never heard at the time he did it. Most of his version was about how the song's lyrics are mostly garbled and unintelligible. Then one day i heard the original song. And he was right.
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@El_Heffe I was in middle school when the original came out, and it was just played everywhere on the radio, over and over and over again, and it never made any sense because of all the "blarf snargle flowwf" Weird Al mentions. It's right up there with Louie Louie and Fast As You in the annals of unintelligible gibberish songs. So then when Weird Al's version came out, I laughed soooo hard, just because it's so true!
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@Mason_Wheeler said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
because of all the "
blarf snargle flowwfbargle nawdle zouss" Weird Al mentions.FTFY
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I'm trying to think of contributions to add to this thread and what I can think of are variations of "oh, so that's how this word is pronounced in English".
Like the name of the town of Reading; it's not pronounced the way I was reading it.
The latest addition to this list was "disheveled", weeks ago.
Yeah, duckduckgoing the word I see the syllables are diâąshevâąeled, which, had I known, would have helped.
I had been thinking of it has disâąhevâąeled since ever.
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@Zecc said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
Like the name of the town of Reading; it's not pronounced the way I was reading it.
You've passed easy mode. Now try Bicester and Loughborough
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@boomzilla said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
This one seems pretty common. A lot of people are familiar with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSufJgCXwnw
...but don't seem to know about the scene from the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup with that line.
In that vein, I strongly suspect that almost everyone who goes âYou talkinâ to me? You talkinâ to me? It must be, thereâs nobody else here.â has not seen Taxi Driver.
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@Jaloopa said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
Loughborough
Not very long after I had first read the name, I had to buy a train ticket there. I suspect the man behind the counter must have heard every variation on it, because asked me for confirmation using the right pronunciation.
Iâve noticed itâs now spelled as Loughboroâ on street signs, which still doesnât really make clear how itâs pronounced but is at least one step in the right direction.
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@Jaloopa said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@Zecc said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
Like the name of the town of Reading; it's not pronounced the way I was reading it.
You've passed easy mode. Now try Bicester and Loughborough
Glue-sister-shear
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
Glue-sister-shear
Glo-ste-shu
(first syllable stressed, all vowels short)
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@dkf said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
Glue-sister-shear
Glo-ste-shu
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Now do Schenectady or Featherstonehaugh.
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@lolwhat said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
Schenectady
Ske-ne-ta-di (all short vowels)
I know someone from there, or rather from Niskayuna.
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@dkf Close! SkÉ-nek-tÉ-dee.
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@Gurth said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@lolwhat said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
Schenectady
Scheveningen?
Gesundheit!
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@Jaloopa said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@Zecc said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
Like the name of the town of Reading; it's not pronounced the way I was reading it.
You've passed easy mode. Now try Bicester and Loughborough
There's always these 3 in Milton Keynes:
Loughton.
Woughton.
Broughton.
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@loopback0 said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
Milton Keynes
Why they're all called Milton?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@loopback0 said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
Milton Keynes
Why they're all called Milton?
That would be the most English spelling of all time âŠ
Loughton: pronunciation /mÉȘltÉn kiËnz/.
Woughton: pronunciation /mÉȘltÉn kiËnz/.
Broughton: pronunciation /mÉȘltÉn kiËnz/.
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@Gurth said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
I visited The Netherlands when I was 14 and listening to Dutch people speak Dutch made me think they were choking and/or coughing.
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@boomzilla Germans say Dutch isn't a language; it's a throat disease.
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@Gurth said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@lolwhat said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
Schenectady
Scheveningen?
Schadenfreude?
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@HardwareGeek said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@boomzilla Germans say Dutch isn't a language; it's a throat disease.
I usually think itâs just a pretty funny dialect (I can understand a tiny bit but not speak it, whereas they usually understand German).
But then itâs also said a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
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@topspin said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
I usually think itâs just a pretty funny dialect
Hoerejong!
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@Luhmann said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@topspin said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
I usually think itâs just a pretty funny dialect
Hoerejong!
Gesundheit.
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@topspin said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
But then itâs also said a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
TIL Luxembourg has a navy.
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@homoBalkanus said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@topspin said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
But then itâs also said a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
TIL Luxembourg has a navy.
No idea, but it certainly doesnât have a language.
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@topspin said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
it certainly doesnât have a language.
they have an army and a navy so ...
It does sound like the bastard child of German and French
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@topspin said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
I can understand a tiny bit but not speak it, whereas they usually understand German
Only insofar as it's mandatory in school. To a limited level, everyone gets English AND German AND French. And Dutch, of course. How long you're stuck with it depends on your education level - only English and Dutch are always mandatory all the way through. I got through just in time that I got to drop conversation in both German and French and only had to do reading - they changed it the year after because "It is unacceptable that people graduate from the highest level of education but only speak one foreign language".
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@PleegWat said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
It is unacceptable that people graduate from the highest level of education but only speak one foreign language
I guess Latin counts, right?!
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@topspin said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@PleegWat said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
It is unacceptable that people graduate from the highest level of education but only speak one foreign language
I guess Latin counts, right?!
I was able to persuade my college to accept Fortran as fulfilling the foreign language requirements for a degree.
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@da-Doctah said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@topspin said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
@PleegWat said in So *that's* where they got it from!:
It is unacceptable that people graduate from the highest level of education but only speak one foreign language
I guess Latin counts, right?!
I was able to persuade my college to accept Fortran as fulfilling the foreign language requirements for a degree.
Oh stewardess, I speak
JiveNerd.
Luxembourgish - Wikipedia
