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The last 4 highest grossing movies of all time have been two films by the same director.

Steven Spielberg
E.T. The extraterrestrial 1982-1993
Jurrasic park 1993-1997
James Cameron
Titanic 1997-2009
Avatar 2009-2019
 
Jasonfan89 said:
The last 4 highest grossing movies of all time have been two films by the same director.

Steven Spielberg
E.T. The extraterrestrial 1982-1993
Jurrasic park 1993-1997
James Cameron
Titanic 1997-2009
Avatar 2009-2019
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Speaking of highest grossing films, Avengers: Endgame is the only highest grossing film to not win a Oscar.
 
Weird Al doesn't take suggestions for song to parody as a rule, for legal and personal reasons. But the parody "Like A Surgeon", a parody of Madonna's "Like A Virgin" was actually suggested by Madonna herself in a casual conversation with a friend, when she wondered if Weird Al would parody her song, and she suggested the title. A mutual friend of theirs heard the suggestion, and told Yankovic, who asked Madonna if he could run with it, and she was enthusiastic about the idea. Rumor has it she fell out of her chair laughing when she head the song for the first time.
 
DrJonesHat said:
Weird Al doesn't take suggestions for song to parody as a rule, for legal and personal reasons. But the parody "Like A Surgeon", a parody of Madonna's "Like A Virgin" was actually suggested by Madonna herself in a casual conversation with a friend, when she wondered if Weird Al would parody her song, and she suggested the title. A mutual friend of theirs heard the suggestion, and told Yankovic, who asked Madonna if he could run with it, and she was enthusiastic about the idea. Rumor has it she fell out of her chair laughing when she head the song for the first time.
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Al also asks every musician for permission to parody their work. Of those he's covered the only one he felt regret for saying yes was Coolio for gangster's paradise. And even then it was because Amish paradise turns what he feels was a dark serious deconstruction of the "gangsta/thug life" and turned it into a joke.
 
TiggerNits said:
Chuck Yeager was the first man to break the sound barrier and survive. There had been others who broke it as far back as WW2, but they all were in a death spiral or a full power dive that broke them up as the first serious trans-sonic shockwaves started to ripple around them. Some German pilots claim a few Stuka's created sonic booms when the dive brakes failed to engage and the immediately shattered a few hundred feet from the ground before impacting at incredible speeds
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He's still shitposting on Twitter and likes the Oak Ridge Boys.
 
Jasonfan89 said:
Al also asks every musician for permission to parody their work. Of those he's covered the only one he felt regret for saying yes was Coolio for gangster's paradise. And even then it was because Amish paradise turns what he feels was a dark serious deconstruction of the "gangsta/thug life" and turned it into a joke.
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It's well known but Kurt Cobain felt like Nirvana hit the big time when Weird Al asked to parody one of their songs.
 
Synthetic Smug said:
He's still shitposting on Twitter and likes the Oak Ridge Boys.
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Yeah, that seems right. I met him as part of the Civil Air Patrol as a kid when he talked to us at an air show they had all of the CAP kids helping provide security on static displays with (we just told trailer trash not to sit on the wings to take pictures and for some reason they listened to us). It was 30+ years ago and he still looked old then, too. Dude did not give a single fuck, just answered questions asked to him as bluntly as possible and even ripped on a kid who asked him the same question another had asked him 5 minutes prior.

In fact, Im pretty sure it was Gen Yeager himself that told us that factoid I mentioned earlier about him just being the first guy to survive breaking the mach barrier.

Duncan Hills Coffee said:
He also asked him if the parody was also going to be about food when Al first requested permission.
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Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo was pissed about "Dare to Be Stupid", not because of it infringing on anything he or Devo had ever done, but because he realized it would have been such an amazing Devo song and that it made him realize how much better of a song write Al was than pretty much anyone
 
Mark Knopfler's only condition for letting Weird Al do a parody of Money for Nothing was that Knopfler himself would play guitar on the track.

Weird Al also wanted to call the parody Hillbillies for Nothing or Money for Nothing for the Beverly Hillbillies, but the lawyers got involved and made him give it the awkward title Money for Nothing/Beverley Hillbillies*. Yes, the asterisk is part of the title.
 
Jasonfan89 said:
Al also asks every musician for permission to parody their work. Of those he's covered the only one he felt regret for saying yes was Coolio for gangster's paradise. And even then it was because Amish paradise turns what he feels was a dark serious deconstruction of the "gangsta/thug life" and turned it into a joke.
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There was also something weird about the permissions where he thought he had a green light but it was from the record company and apparently Coolio himself wasn't actually okay with it. By that time the song was already made and Al decided not to cancel it. Then he was actually mad at the contents of it. At some point Coolio realized he was being a little bitch about it and they made up.

TiggerNits said:
Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo was pissed about "Dare to Be Stupid", not because of it infringing on anything he or Devo had ever done, but because he realized it would have been such an amazing Devo song and that it made him realize how much better of a song write Al was than pretty much anyone
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It was the best Devo song.

Also Al: the song "One More Minute" was based on an actual break-up and he tore up a picture of his actual ex in the video for it.
 
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The banned episode of married with children, "her cups runeth over." Was only banned because of the title. Which back in the early 90s would only be visible by looking up the title in a tv guide since sitcoms don't display titles.

Keep in mind this same episode has a couple of guys going to a sex shop, getting mistaken for a gay couple. A flamboyant gay man posing in a mirror with a tiara on. Al making a joke about Calling gays "queens" and an older man wearing a suit jacket from the waist up and a skirt and stockings from the waist down.
 
Less than fun fact: the BBC took re-runs of allo allo off of the air because it's considered 'politically incorrect' and if you buy the DVD box-sets the episodes are half the length of the originals. Piracy is our friend.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
You know who's mad at 'allo 'allo? Neo-nazis.

gg BBC
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I love that show it's great man, TBH I only realized after my dad picked up a DVD copy of the first two seasons and I was like 'wait stuff is missing' so I torrented that shit and now we're having a great time, we watch an episode with dinner and howl with laughter.

Another fun fact, to stay on topic: most people who adopt wolfdogs have no idea what the fuck they're doing as they expect them to behave like regular handbag dogs, which is why the rescue is inundated and I'm trying to socialize a flood of the damn things.

I guess that's another less than fun fact and I'm a party pooper but for real: stop adopting wolfdogs as a status symbol cause I'm tired and wolves are stubborn as shit.

Edit: honestly big cats are easier to train than wolves, so are stallions and most stuck up horse girls run from them like they're a plague. Stop giving me more work because you think having a wolfdog makes you feel like a game of thrones character when you are in fact an idiot /powerlevel
 
For years the only two part episode of the Simpsons was who shot Mr. Burns, this trend was finally broken in 2017 with the great fatsby.

The first episode of the Simpsons to be in 720 widescreen was take my wife please in 2009, which aired just a few months prior to widescreen HD being FFC mandatory.

The first episode to use digital ink and paint was radioactive man in 1995

The 3D segment in Homer 3 in treehouse of horror 5 was the first time the Simpsons used CGI animation and it was done by Pacific Data images, who would later be the cgi animation team for DreamWorks animation. It was not the first time CGI animation was on television however. The first episode of Reboot beat the Simpsons by three weeks.
 
The now famous Godzilla March as it's called. Wasn't originally intended to be the monster theme. It was originally meant to be the theme for the military, but audiences in Japan and America mistook the theme for being Godzilla's theme and so toho just decided to roll with it.
 
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