In "Afternoon Delight" (where GOB's suit value keeps going up with each mention), when GOB says "-king $6300 suit, come on!" Then, later in the episode we get the flashback where the beginning of that sentence was "no, Al, I want to spill booze all over my fu-".
An F-bomb on network TV, albeit split up. I didn't pick that one up until multiple viewings.
And Buster being such a pro at the claw game
An F-bomb on network TV, albeit split up. I didn't pick that one up until multiple viewings.
George Michael: I’m just in the middle of a stupid girl problem, that’s all.
Michael: I don’t even have a girl, much less a stupid one.
Funny in itself, but funnier if you realize it foreshadows the Rita storyline. Whose name in a British accent in turn sounds like the word "Retard." Who in turn covered the letters "it" on the bench in that one episode that said "Wee Britain." Which in turn made the bench look like it said "Wee Brain."
Here's another one: at the end of the storyline with Rita, she walks across the pool on top of the water. This is a reference to the Peter Sellers movie Being There, in which a retarded man is mistaken as brilliant - the same way Michael mistakes Rita.
Tony "Buster" Hale dances to Domo Arrigato, Mr Roboto, re-enacting an old commercial he once did.
When Michael tells George Sr. "you're a regular Brad Garrett," Jeffrey Tambor had just lost an emmy to Brad Garrett.
Michael: I don’t even have a girl, much less a stupid one.
Funny in itself, but funnier if you realize it foreshadows the Rita storyline. Whose name in a British accent in turn sounds like the word "Retard." Who in turn covered the letters "it" on the bench in that one episode that said "Wee Britain." Which in turn made the bench look like it said "Wee Brain."
Here's another one: at the end of the storyline with Rita, she walks across the pool on top of the water. This is a reference to the Peter Sellers movie Being There, in which a retarded man is mistaken as brilliant - the same way Michael mistakes Rita.
Tony "Buster" Hale dances to Domo Arrigato, Mr Roboto, re-enacting an old commercial he once did.
When Michael tells George Sr. "you're a regular Brad Garrett," Jeffrey Tambor had just lost an emmy to Brad Garrett.
Remember in Season 3 when Tobias references a guy from some Village People-style group?
Tobias: "He's a regular Freddy Wilson, that one." "I don't get that reference." "...Neither do I."
I always thought Tobias was referencing some embarrassing part of his past, or some gay icon. Apparently this was actually a joke about how viewers couldn't keep up with the obscure references in the show. (I, for one, thought Tom Jane was a fictional character until he starred in Hung.) The gag is that not even Tobias knows whom he was referencing.
Tobias: "He's a regular Freddy Wilson, that one." "I don't get that reference." "...Neither do I."
I always thought Tobias was referencing some embarrassing part of his past, or some gay icon. Apparently this was actually a joke about how viewers couldn't keep up with the obscure references in the show. (I, for one, thought Tom Jane was a fictional character until he starred in Hung.) The gag is that not even Tobias knows whom he was referencing.
Buster's Hand
When he is sitting on a bench in the same episode as he loses his hand (I believe), the bench says "Army Officer" but he is covering up the "icer" making it say "Arm Off".My favorite hand foreshadowing is when George is talking about how Buster doesn't want to be Adam any more (when George is going to be God) and he says something like "I'll never be able to reach out and touch that hand of his again." Te-he. When I caught this I was so excited.
There's soooo much build-up to the hand losing...like when Oscar, Lucille and Buster are in a car and they accidentally smash the hand off of a traffic sign. Also, I wonder if the recurring "you're a crook, Captain Hook.." was also related.
I think the stealthiest hand reference one is in "My Hand To God", the first episode where Buster's lost his hand. George Sr. is test driving a Ford Escape ("What a fun name!"). In the background is one of those Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Men, but his left arm has been tied/slit or something so that it hangs limply while the rest of the body catches air and dances around. Brilliant, yet so easy to miss.
There's soooo much build-up to the hand losing...like when Oscar, Lucille and Buster are in a car and they accidentally smash the hand off of a traffic sign. Also, I wonder if the recurring "you're a crook, Captain Hook.." was also related.
And Buster being such a pro at the claw game
And the seal is for marksmanship.
"Like anyone would ever want to R her..."
ReplyDelete...another possible hand reference is when Buster thinks he's in Mexico but he's actually just at Lupe's house and discovers his red hand chair in her living room.
ReplyDelete"You people are just like me!"
Also, when the seal with the yellow bow tie who "had a taste for mammal blood" gets his hand bit off too.
ReplyDeleteI could really do this all day so I'll stop.
It took me a while to catch that in Motherboy XXX, half of the sons are Buster's age.
ReplyDeleteLindsy, looking at the picture of the volvo(a) says, "it's a little boxy."
ReplyDeleteWe SHOULD do this all day. When George Sr. is worried that he may go to prison for a long time and won't be able to participate in the recreation of Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam," in which Buster plays Adam (who is reaching his hand towards God played by George Sr.) says, "I'll never be able to reach for that hand again." Subsequently, Buster's hand is bitten off by a loose-seal, which, by the way, is homophonic to Lucille. And THAT'S how you narrate a story.
ReplyDeleteAnd what's your name? Tobias.
ReplyDeleteAnother Tobias Fave: My name is Dr. Tobias Fuhnke, I received my PhD in Neurolinguistics from MIT, and this is Bye Bye Birdie
GOD DAMMIT. I didn't see the paragraphs above. The first paragraph is one of the best of the entire series. GOB's final suit-related exclamation: "Sure the guy in the $600 banana suit. C'mon!"
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