Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x Ok, so I'm catching up on my Friends and George Lopez using my DVR. So, I'm starting this thread, so if you are watching TV or a movie, you can post what reference you've just seen. Here's the first one: George Lopez "Fishing Cubans" George, Vic, and Ernie are off the coast of Florida looking for Vic's brother. They see some refugees on a raft, and thinking it's Vic's brother, welcome them aboard the boat. They find out they are Haitians and realize that could get them jail time. Ernie says "What am I going to tell my mom? She thinks I'm at EPCOT!"
Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 Seinfeld: "The Money" George's parents decide that they're running out of time to blow all of their money before they die, so they decide to move to Florida. George's father says, "You can drop a grand like that (snap) at Disney World!"
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x Since I've started this thread, I've seen so many more, but I couldn't find this! LOL
Originally Posted By irishfan I was watching Desperate Housewives (a guilty pleasure) tonight, here in Australia the show is months behind America. Anyway, so the gay couple install this hideous fountain and Susan mentions due to the sound it's like "living next door to Splash Mountain"....or words like it.
Originally Posted By u k fan ^^^ At least you've got Desperate Housewives. In the UK it was cancelled indefinitely while the strike was on. I haven't heard of a new transmission date yet! In Friends the strangest place Ross had had sex was on IASW "behind a couple of those mechanical Dutch girls". He was asked never to return to the Magic Kingdom! There were lots of Disney references in Buffy including mention of The Hall of Presidents. I'll see if I can find the quote later. Also, long before any Disney involvement the Muppets had an episode that featured Mickey Moose and Ronald Duck!!!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Also don't forget the infamous trip to WDW Rosanne and family made. Also there are several references in the Simpson's - EFCOT, emptier than Disney's California Adventure, Euro Itchy and Scratchyland (where it is empty), and my favorite, where the Disney lawyers get heavy with principal Skinner for using the tag "Happiest Place on Earth" for the school carnival.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Also don't forget the infamous trip to WDW Rosanne and family made. Also there are several references in the Simpson's - EFCOT, emptier than Disney's California Adventure, Euro Itchy and Scratchyland (where it is empty), and my favorite, where the Disney lawyers get heavy with principal Skinner for using the tag "Happiest Place on Earth" for the school carnival.
Originally Posted By alexbook Just caught an episode of "Two and a Half Men" in which they go to DL. Predictably, Alan has a great time, and Charlie and Jake hate it.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x I was watching another Friends episode. Chandler is afraid to sleep with Kathy, his new girlfriend he "stole" from Joey. So Monica and Rachel are helping him prepare. Monica lists 7 erogenous zones, and Chandler is surprised there are 7. And Rachel says "Well, if you go to Disneyland, you don't spend all day on the Matterhorn." Chandler says "You do if it's anything like 7" LOL
Originally Posted By FerretAfros So, I'm currently watching Grease 2 (talk about a boring night, but at least it has the USC band as the Rydell High band), and I found another one. There are two characters (I'm not really paying enough attention to know names since it's that bad), one male and one female, who seem to be getting shipped off to war to fight and be a nurse, respectively. There's something that they've wanted to do for a while that, put subtly, their mothers probably wouldn't approve of. In the song ever so discretely titled "Do It for Our Country" they come up with justifications for doing it...for the country. Then they get to the big key change part and they start talking instead of singing: Him: Just think about it -- it would be like as if we were doing it for the Statue of Liberty! Her: oOr the Grand Canyon! Him: Or the New York Yankees! It would be like as if we were doing it for... Both: Disneyland! Maybe it's just me, but I don't want to think about people doing that for our country, and certinaly not for Disneyland. : /
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Unfortunately that seems to be the highlight of the movie so far, and even that wasn't all that impressive. There was a kind of funny shot at the very beginning of everybody going into school on the first day for class, and after the front of the school is empty, a guy runs across the path and dives into a classroom window. That was about 5 minutes into the movie, and it's all been down hill from there. And it's getting late here, so there's going to be even less interesting stuff on, but I'm still on west coast time, and that unplanned nap today isn't helping me get to sleep either...
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x did you see the "reproduction" song? Or are you watching it on TV (they cut it out of the TV movie)
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It was on TV, so that was thankfully cut out. That movie just didn't have any of the stuff that made the original Grease so good. Memorable songs, likeable characters, onscreen chemistry, semi-believable acting....none of it. I also just thought of another one. In "That Thing You Do!" the band is told that they are done with the state fair circuit, and will be going to California to record. The various members of the band get excited about the beaches and girls and stuff, but The Bass Player (he doesn't have a real name) just says "Disneyland!" Later, they are trying to record their song, and he's nowhere to be found, and then it cuts to a shot of him on the Matterhorn, complete with era-appropriate yellow bobsleds, but they're in two car trains. That part really made me laugh, since all my friends say that I'm The Bass Player.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x LOL!! I've never seen that movie! I only know the song and the reference "Oneders" I'll have to watch it.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Another Simpson's reference is when they get a magical nanny for one episode who's named Sherry Bobbins. She dresses pretty much the same way as Mary Poppins, and clearly has some o fthe same mannerims.
Originally Posted By alexbook Just saw a "Family Guy" episode in which Peter has a flashback to his job as a Mary Poppins-ish nanny. It's pretty gruesome.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm watching Raiders of the Lost Ark right now (doing homework for another thread!) and just about every other scene seems to be a reference to The Great Movie Ride or Indiana Jones in DL. They even have the same music! What are the odds? : )
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Okay Charmed - the girls are caught up in fairytale magic- Pheobe is caught in Cinderella and Paige is caught up in Snow White.
