Obvious Things You 0nly Just Realised - 2020

[Paul Calf]

Nitin Sawnhey, the man behind Ibiza Sunday morning classic doper anthem Immigrant (among others) is the same Nitin Sawnhey who co-created Goodness Gracious Me with Sanjeev Bhaskar.

[olliebean]

Sawhney

[Icehaven]

I haven't seen Cheers! since the early 90s and it's on C4 in the mornings at the moment so I've been watching it, and I always thought Kirstie Alley was in it before Shelley Long, and that Frasier was involved with Diane after his divorce from Lilith rather than before. The episodes I'm watching at the moment are pure Neighties too, I'd just been assuming they were made in the mid 80s until yesterday where Sam said "It's the 90s".

[Paul Calf]

Sawhney

Oops.

[Icehaven]

The whole thing about Big Ben bonging Brexit at 11pm on the 31st was because we're leaving the EU by Brussels time and it'll be midnight there at 11pm here.

[Gulftastic]

I haven't seen Cheers! since the early 90s and it's on C4 in the mornings at the moment so I've been watching it, and I always thought Kirstie Alley was in it before Shelley Long, and that Frasier was involved with Diane after his divorce from Lilith rather than before. The episodes I'm watching at the moment are pure Neighties too, I'd just been assuming they were made in the mid 80s until yesterday where Sam said "It's the 90s".

Stop getting Cheers wrong!

[JesusAndYourBush]

The whole thing about Big Ben bonging Brexit at 11pm on the 31st was because we're leaving the EU by Brussels time and it'll be midnight there at 11pm here.

Ah, that makes sense.  I assumed it was because Farage's party in Parliament Square has to end by 11:15pm and everyone would have gone home by midnight.

[Norton Canes]

In the Doctor Who Sylvester McCoy title sequence, the three asteroid things appear in time with the theme music notes

[phantom_power]

The whole thing about Big Ben bonging Brexit at 11pm on the 31st was because we're leaving the EU by Brussels time and it'll be midnight there at 11pm here.

There's some sort of irony there but I can't quite grasp it

[Replies From View]

In the Doctor Who Sylvester McCoy title sequence, the three asteroid things appear in time with the theme music notes

Yeah I always assumed they were balls of scrunched-up newspaper as well.

[olliebean]

There's some sort of irony there but I can't quite grasp it

I think we should insist on staying in until midnight. We shouldn't let the EU impose their weird continental time on our lovely British Brexit.

[dissolute ocelot]

Actually named because it became fashionable to use them for mopping up after sessions of handkerchief-pandkerchief.

According to a Wikipedia page I just read, handkerchiefs were invented by Richard II (of the dull Shakespeare play without a proper ending) who was the first to use scraps of cloth to wipe his nasal secretions. He was big on handkerchief-pandkerchief, less keen on kinging. This is neither obvious nor a thing, though, and I'm not sure it counts as a realisation.

[Icehaven]

Looking For Linda wasn't by Pat and Mick, it was Hue and Cry
.

[Icehaven]

Chandler from Friends = Eric from the 80s Dungeons and Dragons cartoon

[Replies From View]

Chandler from Friends = Eric from the 80s Dungeons and Dragons cartoon

*does a google*

In a universe in which Chandler from Friends was played by someone called Don Most.

[touchingcloth]

Xena: Warrior Princess was a spin off from some other show, and was filmed in New Zealand.

[DrGreggles]

Xena: Warrior Princess was a spin off from some other show

'Xena's Mum: Warrior Queen'.

[NoSleep]

Xena: Warrior Princess was a spin off from some other show, and was filmed in New Zealand.

Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert (producers of Evil Dead, Hercules & Xena; the latter being Xena's real-life husband) discovered it was cheap to film in NZ; they were still doing it up to Spartacus & Ash Vs Evil Dead.

[touchingcloth]

Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert (producers of Evil Dead, Hercules & Xena; the latter being Xena's real-life husband) discovered it was cheap to film in NZ; they were still doing it up to Ash Vs Evil Dead.

My post was originally going to end with "...filmed in New Zealand, way before Lord of the Rings made it cool", but then I realised it was only about a year before that.

[NoSleep]

Hercules goes back a little earlier to 1995.

[Neville Chamberlain]

Apparently spelling your name "Stephen" or "Steven" tells you whether you're a Catholic or a Protestant. Some bloke at work told me that earlier today.

[touchingcloth]

Apparently spelling your name "Stephen" or "Steven" tells you whether you're a Catholic or a Protestant. Some bloke at work told me that earlier today.

As in everyone who spells their name either Stephen or Steven is either a Cath or a Prot, and no one else is? I wonder what John Paul makes of that, or would make of it if he weren't so thoroughly grave.

[Gulftastic]

The film title 'Die Hard' is a pun on 'try hard'.

[touchingcloth]

The thread in the film forum titled "Uncut Gems" is about a film of that name, not a place to discuss films which...I don't know, this is unravelling rapidly the more I actually think about it. I guess I assumed it might be about really good films in their uncut form. But all films are cut, aren't they, it's sort of one of their main selling points over things like CCTV.

[Sebastian Cobb]

The thread in the film forum titled "Uncut Gems" is about a film of that name, not a place to discuss films which...I don't know, this is unravelling rapidly the more I actually think about it. I guess I assumed it might be about really good films in their uncut form. But all films are cut, aren't they, it's sort of one of their main selling points over things like CCTV.

The excellent 2015 film Victoria is a single take. Didn't think about that did you?

[touchingcloth]

The excellent 2015 film Victoria is a single take. Didn't think about that did you?

Still snipped off the end and the start, didn't they. Didn't think of that one, did you, pal?

Also Birdman. All filmed in a single three hour take. The film reel was the size of the London Eye.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Still snipped off the end and the start, didn't they. Didn't think of that one, did you, pal?

Also Birdman. All filmed in a single three hour take. The film reel was the size of the London Eye.

How do you know? Maybe they started acting before they started filming.

[touchingcloth]

Nah, I've seen the snipped bits. Should see what Victoria is up to before filming proper starts, not to mention after. I can see where Andrew gets it from.

[beanheadmcginty]

Death Row is so called because it is a pun on death throes.

[JesusAndYourBush]

The thread in the film forum titled "Uncut Gems" is about a film of that name, not a place to discuss films which...I don't know, this is unravelling rapidly the more I actually think about it. I guess I assumed it might be about really good films in their uncut form. But all films are cut, aren't they, it's sort of one of their main selling points over things like CCTV.

I often see threads in the film forum and think "That can''t be the actual name of the film can it?" *click* "Bloody hell! It is!"