- Progression - After seeing The Sicilian from The Princess Bride preparing to shack up with Eleanor Waldorf the other night, I thought it might be amusing to see how the world might look if actors were only allowed to play one character.
- The eponymous Buffy the Vampire Slayer went on to play tennis at Eastern State University before being kidnapped by Charlie Sheen. One wonders how a vampire slayer gets kidnapped by a feckless small-time crook.
- Her college boyfriend, quarterback Joe Kane, somehow ended up in Tree Hill, where his father must have led a full life before becoming a fall-down drunk in whatever college town houses ESU, romantically attached to Brendan Frasier’s former roommate, who’s calmed a lot since Harvard.
- Kane’s backfield companion, Darnell Jefferson, changed his name and completed his “poor black kid makes good” story by becoming a doctor in New Jersey, where none of the many white people ever discuss football.
- Similarly, the Senator’s daughter who Buffalo Bill intended to flay (”It puts the lotion on its skin!”) grew to become a belatedly lesbian cardiothoracic surgeon in Seattle. No one seems to know about her past trauma, but she’s still a bit jumpy.
- One hates to break a rhetorical convention, but I just don’t know what to do with the cast connections between Lost and Saw. I guarantee that anyone attempting to watch the latter after seeing the former will continue wondering first why the Asian cop doesn’t just ask the resident ghosts what happened and then how anyone successfully out-masterminded Ben Linus. That’s just plain impossible.
- Also, how many viewers of Criminal Minds - I know there aren’t many - kept waiting for Inigo Montoya to strap on his scabbard and sally forth in search of the six-fingered man? Maybe if he’d done so, he wouldn’t have been written off the show.
While I’m certain there are many more such connections, these are the first that come to mind. Feel encouraged to hitherto contribute your own favorites as comments on this post.
- Sort - The world is aflutter with Obamanian exuberance, but the final post on Slate’s Big Sort might help lend some perspective. Then again, the fact that the presidency changed parties in 2000 and 2008 seems an unaddressed contradiction to Bishop’s premise of a progressive geo-political sort. I’ll read the book when it’s issued in paperback.
- Mission - Yesterday morning, a Jehovah’s Witness knocked on my door with the apparent intent to inform me of Jesus. After nearly a dozen hours of wakefulness, I had little patience or appetite for heresy, so I politely(?) accepted her leaflet, informed her of my non-belief, and locked the door. That struck me as an adequately cordial sequence of action, but I’m unfamiliar with proper etiquette for dealing with someone who’s disturbed my home for the purpose of implicitly insulting my perception of reality. I suspect that, in many parts of the world, this procedure involves machetes and/or firearms.
Mr. Burnz | 12-Nov-08 at 11:14 am | Permalink
I love Criminal Minds, but I never realized that was Inigo!! That’s great, although I may never be able to see Gideon in the same way when I watch the re-runs I missed.
justinb013 | 12-Nov-08 at 12:31 pm | Permalink
Lucky for you. The JWs in my neck of the woods tend to ring my doorbell (making the dogs go apeshit) as close to 9AM on Saturdays as possible; usually, they manage to pick the Saturday after I consumed roughly my own body weight in tequila the night before, which makes for a pleasant exchange, usually along the lines of “If you leave quickly, I’ll aim my vomit at someone/something else; please never come back.” I think I may take up this guys tact… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT2cIpzMDY4
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