Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2009 December 18

= December 18 =

Horror body counts
I'm trying to make a comparison to see which horror villain has the highest body count, but I simply don't have time to re-watch all of them, does anybody know how many characters have been killed by the hands of the following killers (only numbers needed):

Jason Voorhees Michael Myers Freddy Krueger Leatherface The Tall Man Pumpkinhead Hannibal Lecter Chucky Leprechaun Mary Lou Norman Bates Candyman Angela Bates Carrie White Ben Willis Ghostface Jigsaw —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rolandjordaan (talk • contribs) 09:07, 18 December 2009 (UTC) Other notable mentions: —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rolandjordaan (talk • contribs) 23:35, 17 December 2009 (UTC)


 * You might find what you're looking for at http://www.moviebodycounts.com/ Dismas |(talk) 01:05, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Did they need to kill on screen, or do their offscreen exploits count? Googlemeister (talk) 15:08, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

sharon angela. If you are able to propvide me with an answer I apprecite it
(Deleted email address in title) Bielle (talk) 02:39, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

I am sure I can remember a sitcom from the late 70`s early 80`s in which Sharon Angel appeared; Donna Pescow was the star I believe? I think it was a spinoff of Rhoda. I remember this because Sharon Angela is still very attractive today, however, then she was even more so. Can you clarify this for me please?

Take Care

Regards

Colin McMahon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.107.227.177 (talk) 01:15, 18 December 2009 (UTC)


 * According to IMDb.com, Sharon Angela and Donna Pescow have only worked together once and that was an episode of The Sopranos. IMDb allows you to search for connections between two or more actors.  Dismas |(talk) 01:50, 18 December 2009 (UTC)


 * There was no spinoff of Rhoda. However, there were three spinoffs of The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Rhoda (1974-1978), Phyllis (1975-1977) and Lou Grant (1977-1982). --  k a i n a w &trade; 02:36, 18 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Also note: Sharon Angela lists her first professional acting gig as Tina in "Tony and Tina's Wedding", which began in 1988 - long after all the Rhoda-related sitcoms were long gone. -- k a i n a w &trade; 03:19, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Top Gear
Jeremy Clarkson seems to get quite a bit of screen time on Top Gear compared to James May and Richard Hammond. He does most of the reviews, all the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car segments, and most always is the one to introduce The Stig. Going by our article, I would expect this to be due to his work on the old Top Gear series and his work in changing the format to the new one. They've been on the show for a few years now, so I would expect them to want equal amounts of screen time. Does anyone know if Clarkson having such a large share sits well with May and Hammond? (I'm not looking for gossip, just something a bit more factual) Thanks, Dismas |(talk) 01:31, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know about screen time, but I do remember a few arguments with the BBC over unequal pay. Ah, here's the first one I Googled. Vimescarrot (talk) 06:37, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * They get paid in proportion to their height, lol. 84.13.56.95 (talk) 12:19, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Surely the other two would be grateful they dont have to work so hard as JC (ooooh! Spooky initials!) disregarding issues of pay. The show is put over as a group of mates/boys playing around, and JC is the leader. Personally I'm sick of all this pretend mateyness and "authored" codswallop, and I wish documentaries and textbooks would go back to being objective, informative, and concise. 84.13.56.95 (talk) 12:15, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Eh? Top Gear isn't a documentary. Do you mean you want to go watch Fifth Gear? Vimescarrot (talk) 22:51, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * If it is not a documentary, then what is it? 92.29.50.52 (talk) 23:22, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know. Documentaries are supposed to be educational; Top Gear is for entertainment. Fifth Gear is far more informative, though since it's giving opinions - basically reviewing the products - I still wouldn't call that a documentary. Vimescarrot (talk) 23:41, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * It's just an (vaguely factual) entertainment show. Documentaries document things, they tell you everything you need to know about a particular topic. Top Gear certainly doesn't try to do that, it just tries to entertain. Even the car reviews clearly aren't intended to inform people - the vast majority of the audience will never be able to afford those cars. --Tango (talk) 23:59, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, you could say the same about some of the UK property programmes. I once read something that called them "property p*rn". 89.242.211.123 (talk) 16:42, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I may be wrong but but I think the industry term for this format of show is "Magazine" - not the paper type of course but basically a visual version of one of them - entertainment with a few factual bits, news, interviews... Basically like Nuts or FMH or Loaded... Gazhiley (talk) 10:03, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Toby Emerson - Raindrops
What are these songs ? Are they remixes of some other song? 192.103.98.4 (talk) 06:35, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * They are remixes of "Raindrops" by Stunt. 84.75.191.239 (talk) 09:05, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Lorre won't get Pantsed.
Over the years I have noticed that at the very end of both Worldwide Pants and Chuck Lorre  productions, there appears to be a long written statement, which of course disappears before anyone other than John Moschitta could read it. Has anyone been able to perhaps tape, slow down, and read what is said ? Thantesque. The Russian.C.B.Lilly 11:19, 18 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't know what those sorts of frames show, or particularly care. But I am utterly intrigued as to why they play them at such a ridiculously high speed.  I could understand it if they wanted to pay lip service to some legal requirement to advise or warn viewers about something, in which case they might play them fast but not so fast as to make them impossible to read, because in that case they might as well not play them at all, which renders even this lip service ineffective.  But that's precisely what happens, which is the absurd thing.
 * I'm also intrigued by your word Thantesque. What does it mean (apart from perhaps a new way of spelling "Thanks")?  I was reminded of thanatesque, a wonderful and under-used word meaning "deathlike".  --   Jack of Oz    ... speak! ...   11:33, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I hope someone knows the answer. Remember Wayne's World? Who could forget it? He says to someone - I cannot remember whom - the words      " Exsqueeze me "  and  " baking powder ?" for  " excuse me " and " beg your pardon? ". Thantesque therefore does mean thank you, and it is along those lines. I have been using it in spoken conversation to some people I know well for a couple of years. I cannot be sure if I got the idea from the movie or not. There are other words I use which are similar to this, and a kind of Spoonerism. The Russian.C.B.Lilly 13:20, 18 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Christopher1968 (talk • contribs)


 * I can't find anything specifically about World Wide Pants, but, as noted in our Chuck Lorre article, they're called "vanity cards". There is a full archive of them on his website.  There is also a Wall Street Journal  article about them.  The Simpsons also uses a similar technique, popularly referred to as "freeze frame jokes."  -- LarryMac  | Talk  13:25, 18 December 2009 (UTC)


 * In other words, the Chuck Lorre ones are different every time. Or they used to be; I haven't seen any of his shows recently.  The idea is that if you want to see what they say then you will record them (or equivalent). --Anonymous, 01:15 UTC, December 19, 2009.

That is what I thought. It seemed to begin with the words " I believe ", so like he was giving his philosphy on life. Sometimes the lines Bart does at the start aren't on long enough for us with below average vision to read, but is that what you are referring to, or is there something else ? What really annoys me, is when some shows and movies show their credits so fast you can't read them. What's the point ? Especially that great show All in  the  Family,( based originally on the British 'Til death do us part, starring now Australian citizen 83 year old Warren Mitchell), where the credits whizzed by in an age before most had VCRs. Actually, I notice that in TV programmes most credits will show a screen full of names, then move to the next screen full, while in feature films the credits seem to roll down, as if the names are on a long strip of acetate. What is the reason for these conventions ? As an aside to my use of the word " Thantesque " ( pronounced than - tess - cue, with the th like it is in thank you, and the cue like the one we play pool with ). I sometimes fool around with words in my mind, giving them extra or repeated syllables, such as " Univerversity", " Cananada ", or " Excellantulous "  but I am not trying to invent a new language. I tried that when I was a teenager, but then realised I should have been spending the time on my Maori, French and German, rather than esperanterising. In addition I try to come up with new words. Years ago I heard the word " ginormous ", which has been round a while, but was a putting together of course of the words gigantic and enormous. More recently, words like " chillax ", " irregardless ", and many others. I came up with " thusfore ", which I like, although others may have thought of that independently by now. Does anyone have a list of words like that ? I was also intrigued about the names that can be used interchangeably for boys and girls without changing the spelling. By this I mean names like " Jamie ", which belongs to one of my nephews. In playing around with names we call him " Jamington ". I do not mean names like Francis/Frances or Robin/Robin. I do not know if the boy's name Tracy is spelt differently to the girls' one. There is also " Christopher ", as in the    Trapper John, M.D. actress Christopher Norris  who played Gloria Brancusi, R.N., and used to be confused with Melanie Griffith. But was that because her parents might have wanted a boy ( looking at her, I can't see why ), or is that a girl's name? After all, there was Mary Benjamin, R.N., played by the actress Michael Learned, in Nurse, originally of The Waltons. Other such names include Ashley, Courtenay, Lyndsay, Kim, Spencer, Kelsey, Morgan, Glenn, Carroll, Jan, Sean, Shane, Taylor, Dale, and so many others. Nor do I mean ones with different lettering changed to sound the same, like Jo, as opposed to Joe. I even remember a Kojak episode, in which there was a man named Joyce, but because his parents liked the Irish poet of that name. The Russian.C.B.Lilly 08:28, 19 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Christopher1968 (talk • contribs)


 * In a similar vein, Lee and Herring used to have a few frames full of extra content at the end of their show, and specifically encouraged and reminded people to record it so that they could pause and read each frame. We only remembered once, and it was actually pretty funny. 81.156.95.117 (talk) 22:11, 19 December 2009 (UTC)


 * The Simpsons used to do this with quick stuff flashed during the episode, not the blackboard jokes; one was also during the opening, when the cash register used to flashe a number when Maggie was scanned. A good one is the list of corrections from "Rock Bottom" when Homer is accused of harrassment (V8 juice is not 1/8 gasoline, etc). I don't know if they do jokes like that anymore, since it's pretty lowbrow these days. Adam Bishop (talk) 02:54, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

how come guns n roses
was good but velvet revolver sounded awful  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.65.3.30 (talk) 20:09, 18 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Some people liked Velvet Revolver, and you apparently do not. This reference desk is not an appropriate place to start a debate over the quality of one band's music over another.  -- Jayron  32  20:30, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Ecuadorian (or similar) music charts
I was in Ecuador for the past couple months going out to clubs all the time, and in Ecuador the dance music is really fun. A lot of reggaeton (but somehow better reggaeton than reaches the US) and techno-cumbia and other latin pop and American hip-hop. Anyways now that I'm back in the US I don't know what any of the names of any of the popular songs, and the only Ecuadorian charts I can find are from one radio station that plays American rock music. :( Does anyone know where I could find music charts of dance/hip-hop/reggaeton type music, not necessarily from Ecuador (I'm pretty confident that little of the music there was actually from Ecuador) but at least from somewhere with similar music? (I'm guessing Colombia, Venezuela, etc but I'm not really sure. I found one Colombian chart I was going through but most of the songs were ballads and I got bored of going through them all with so few good songs...) Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:30, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * A couple songs by obvious artists as examples of the sort of music I'm looking for: Don Omar's Sexy Robotica and Shakira's Loba. Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:31, 18 December 2009 (UTC)