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Yep- Sam Dooley and Rick Blaine (Bogart), together as Sam played the piano and sang. The closest we got was HER saying, "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.' " Rick replied, "If she can stand it, so can I. Play it."

I don't know more about this. I tried to find something, but that name is coming up empty in 2 different search engines. For the benefit of those of us who don't know, can you fill in a little bit? Who is/was Ira Hearnes? Where was this " ancient tomb" ? Where did you hear this? Example 1: "When I was in twi, there was some buzzing on-grounds around the BRC that some ancient tomb in Jerusalem was found to have seeds. There was this Christian farmer who was among those chosen to try to grow them. His name was ira Hearnes." Example 2: "While at the water-cooler at work, I'd heard a news story about an ancient tomb opened near Cairo. Supposedly some guy names Ira Hearnes was one of the people selected to try to grow them." Example 3: "I heard through the grapevine that Ira Hearnes was picked by a Senate subcommittee to go to some farm to try to grow some seeds found in some ancient tomb." There's huge differences between those, but all fit what little you said. If I had more, I might be able to do better searches. Can we get what little information you have?

Oops. Actually wanted this one...

So, here's the next movie. Should be fairly easy.

Yeah. I get busy at unpredictable moments, lately.

If it was dumped in my lap, there would be an episode or 2 with his powers going crazy, then he'd stabilize with a new face. Again, this would have been easier to fix during CoIE.

How about "MELROSE PLACE"???

The Nitpickers Guides were fun. Personally, I liked "alternate explanations"- which is how some labeled "mistake" may not have been. I like to see if I can "fix" a problem so that the story we saw was "correct" because there's no actual internal error. (Example: We'd heard that the Borg had no names. Yet "Locutus" had one. I said "it's not his name TO the Borg, it's his name TO humans because he was borged specifically to be a spokesborg to the Federation and Earth." And so on. Other example- Riker was given a field promotion to Captain of the Enterprise-D at the beginning of "Best of Both Worlds 2". yet, afterwards, when Picard returned to duty, Riker was a Commander again. Since Riker had been offered 3 commands already, most recently the same Melbourne that was destroyed at Wolf 359, he was considered qualified for the promotion. Raf's explanation- that Admiral died at Wolf 359 but never put through Riker's promotion formally, possibly due to everything else keeping him busy at the time.) I'm confident that those Guides improved DS9. A lot of continuity gaffes could have been fixed with a line or 3 of dialogue. After the DS9 Guide came out, later seasons included such dialogue. Example: Before the Guide was the "Sword of Kahless" episode. Worf was able to just get up and leave the station with no comments- his job must really be make-work! After the Guide (and that comment), we saw another episode where Worf went away again. We had a moment where the senior staff sat around a table at Quark's, venting about all the extra work they had to make up for Worf's absence. (Miles had to hand-inspect all the hand-phasers, Julian had to wade through ALL reports to find the few that affected the station...) I'm certain those improvements came from knowing the fans were paying attention. In fact, I saw 2 moments where there were opportunities for gaffes, and the production team put in the work to prevent it. Example 1: Odo gained back his ability to shape-shift. As he was regaining it, I began watching closely. he transformed into a bird and flew up- leaving behind the cloth uniform Garak had made for him. It wasn't the focus of the scene, but it was clearly visible for those of us looking specifically for it. Example 2: Sisko rushes the Defiant (NX) to Cardassia Prime and said to ready the cloaking device. I watched Julian, who looked like he had something to say- and hoped it was a comment about their agreement with the Romulans about not using the device in the Alpha Quadrant. That IS what Julian said, Sisko agreed, but added he intended to survive this mission. "Well, I won't tell the Romulans if you won't." That's all that had to be said on the subject. And I was satisfied.

Mrs Wolf saw CoIE, and thought that the time to switch Batwoman would have been the beginning of Part 5- possibly not revealing she was different until afterwards in her own series. After all, we saw different Clark Kents, and different Lex Luthors, why not a different Kate Kane? She and I had different thoughts about whether or not flashbacks should show her with the first actress (she remembers the previous events) or re-remembering them with the new actress (her memories "corrected" to her current appearance.) Yes. the current thing also kicks out a "paragon", and so on. But, again, I'm not their target audience, so obviously they don't care what I think.

I know the movie, I know the scene, I know the moment, I know the homage. This was "ANIMAL HOUSE." The scene was the toga party. The location was the staircase of the Delta House (the Delta House house, if you must.) One "sensitive" guy was singing a madrigal to a girl, while playing a guitar. For the record, I recognized it as a real one- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riddle_Song As he began (during a really kicking party), Bluto/Blutarsky (John Belushi) was annoyed. We saw him roll his eyes as the guy continued. Just as he was beginning the third stanza, Bluto snatched the guitar from him, smashed it into the wall and the bannister, then handed back what was left of the guitar. "*shrugs* Sorry. *walks away* " The Star Trek homage. (Oddly enough, Phil Farrand didn't recognize it when he saw the episode, someone had to tell him about it.) In the ST:TNG Robin Hood episode, ("Q-pid", IIRC), Geordi was dressed as Alan-A-Dale and Worf as Will Scarlett. As different crew members tried to figure out how to use their equipment, Geordi began playing his mandolin. BADLY. After several moments, Worf walked over, signaled Geordi to pass over the mandolin, smashed it with a big hit, then handed what was left back to Geordi. I keep imagining that Worf ended that with "Sorry" but that's almost certainly my active imagination.

"Me. And you. God only knows it's not what we would choose to do "Forward!" he cried From the rear And the front rank died And the general sat And the lines on the map Moved from side to side. b]Black. And blue. And who knows which is which and who is who? Up. And down. And in the end it's only round and round and round. "Haven't you heard It's a battle of words?" The poster bearer cried. "Listen, son," Said the man with the gun, "There's room for you inside."" [/b] "Down. And out. It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about. With. Without. And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about? Out of the way It's a busy day I've got things on my mind For want of the price Of tea and a slice The old man died."

Still your turn, George.

The Goodies, Series 5, Episode 7. "Kung Fu Kapers." Aired March 24, 1975. In January 2020, it was declared to be the fans' favorite episode. Ok, I don't know much about the Two Ronnies. I DO know that I recommend the following skits: Four Candles, Swedish Made Simple, My Blackberry Is Not Working.

Someone who lived in California for a while once told me that they use it the British way there (meaning drunk.)

To quote Regis Philbin, it's only easy if you know the answer. Some other people have noted it's easy if you know exactly what's a real clue and what's fluff. You mentioned it was a real person role, and the actor handled some things of the person. So, that should eliminate, say, Alexander the Great and that time-frame because their personal items would have been lost to time. So, with MULTIPLE items, it was probably sometime since, say, the 1600s. So, the signing of the Declaration of Independence or thereabouts. The audition tape had a skull and crossbones on it. That strongly suggests some kind of pirate film, or some kind of pirate role (or some role where they had a name like "Poison" or something like that. The director wore a suit and tie. That suggests a movie where people wear suits and ties. The movie includes Leonardo di Caprio, and another male lead- who had a bigger role than di Caprio. I can't think of a pirate flick with di Caprio, nor one which was a biopic. Di Caprio wore a suit in "The Great Gatsby", but he was the title role and there was no male lead in front of him. Plus, it was based on a novel, a work of fiction. With di Caprio, and a suit and tie, I could try "The Wolf of Wall Street", but di Caprio was the title role again. So, movie with suits co-starring di Caprio, and with pirates, that was a biopic. I've got nothing, I don't think your clues are as much of a slam-dunk as you think they are. Perhaps I haven't seen this movie. Perhaps one or more clues is pointing in the wrong direction and you didn't mean to.

From "the Goodies", I only saw the episode with "Ecky Thump", the British martial art. Ever hear that show killed a man? It was that very episode. Somebody watched it at home, and when he got to the scene with a soldier in Highland garb in a fight with an Ecky Thump practitioner wielding a pudding as a weapon, he went into hysterical laughter. He apparently had a history of a bad heart, and that was it for him. (I was curious because a UK comic book once had a one-panel joke. They were introducing martial artists, and that included "the last living practitioner of Ecky Thump- who was dressed in the garb "the Goodies" specified when they made it up. So, I got curious after that..especially after "the White Stripes" did a song with the name "Ecky Thump."

Blackadder is from the 70s/80s. BTW, if you look at the thread, the shows I mentioned in that round were from no later than the 70s, also. Have you watched "The Two Ronnies?"

BTW, Twinky, if you go to the Games forum, and the "TV Show Mash-Up" thread, page 57 starts with clues to a bunch of British shows. (Further down the page, they're all named.) Perhaps you would enjoy trying to guess them now for laughs (even though that round was years ago.)

It varies. Mrs Wolf watches that Regency stuff. I grew up on Benny Hill and Monty Python. She's also a WHOvian. As a Shakespeare fan, I think "Upstart Crow" is HYSTERICAL. We've watched the original "Who's Line is it Anyway" and a little of "Would I Lie To You." We definitely like to watch "QI" together. We're watching a little Blackadder lately (we finished Series 1.) We also like both the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes and the Father Brown Mysteries. (Mystery shows appeal to both of us.) We watch "Maigret" also, but since the entire series is 4 episodes, that doesn't count for much. Naturally, we're also fans of "SHERLOCK", the modern Holmes adaptation with Cumberbatch and Freeman as Holmes and Watson. We also watched "Britain's Brightest Families." So, we're all over the map. Comedies, game shows, mysteries. I'm probably forgetting something.

I was going to go with "Will and Grace", but I don't think there were brothers in the story. I think Billy Crystal's straight and played a gay man, so I'm going to go with "SOAP."

BTW, as the Mrs and myself watch more than a little UK television, we have less of a problem understanding this than the average American.

A jumper is a dress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumper Right- to a Brit, it's the boot of the car, and to an American, it's the TRUNK. One comedian was surprised to live in the UK for a while and realize he spoke "American." In an exam, someone asked to "borrow a rubber." At first, he was puzzled why he picked the middle of an exam to ask. Then, he thought "I don't want it back, it's not something you borrow." The guy wanted an ERASER, of course. A woman later asked him to show up and give her a wake-up or something. "Come by in the morning and knock me up." "Well, I didn't want to be the 'ugly American.' " He was a little disappointed when he arrived, since he thought she wanted him to use an eraser. (He warned her about saying that phrase to Americans afterwards.)

"Me. And you. God only knows it's not what we would choose to do "Forward!" he cried From the rear And the front rank died And the general sat And the lines on the map Moved from side to side." ["Down. And out. It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about. With. Without. And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about? Out of the way It's a busy day I've got things on my mind For want of the price Of tea and a slice The old man died."

That's him. "High Anxiety" was his spoof of HItchcock and suspense movies. And so on.

OK, let's say he does date films. Most of these are outright comedies.