Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2010 January 5

= January 5 =

What's that music video?
I've been trying to remember the music video that featured a lab that was trying to build a male robot, and they would churn out new versions and test them with sexy lab assistants. They would go up to the male robot and dance, and if it broke, it was thrown out. The second or third attempt came out with a gay male robot which only responded to the male assistant. It was sung by a guy, I'm not really sure. I've tried searching google using variations of key words from what I remember. I don't remember any line from the song. Can anyone tell me the title of the song or music video?58.69.8.146 (talk) 09:43, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Probably this crappy tune  meltBanana  04:20, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! That's the crappy tune I was looking for!58.69.8.146 (talk) 15:08, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

16 Tons
Your information on the song 16 Tons was very interesting, thanks. At one time 16 referred to bomb weight. Does anyone know what it meant in the coal mining world? Weight of a train car full of coal perhaps? It's a trivia question I never have found the answer to. Theatredoctor (talk) 18:59, 5 January 2010 (UTC)


 * First: Did you check our article Sixteen Tons and the links at the bottom?  Comet Tuttle (talk) 20:41, 5 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Actually I don't have an answer for this - whoever gets an answer should add it to the Sixteen Tons article. I doubt that it's an allusion to bomb loads, but might be.  It's not the amount that fits on a rail car, which is more like 110 or 120 tons, according to a google search of tons coal carload.  Maybe a worker was expected to load 16 tons of coal within X period of time.  Comet Tuttle (talk) 20:48, 5 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Looking at the lyrics, it would seem a miner was expected to load 16 tons of coal a day. Not sure how realistic that number would be.  I sure would not want to try.  Googlemeister (talk) 21:35, 5 January 2010 (UTC)


 * My reading of the lyrics is that sixteen tons is considered an unusually large amount of coal for a miner to load in one day: "I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine | I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal and | the straw boss said, "well bless my soul!" "  John M Baker (talk) 06:43, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Giant Turtle movie?
Does Wikipedia already have a list of movies involving giant turtles?

If it does, I must have missed it.

I am trying to remember the name of a particular movie from the late 1970s (maybe 1976) where a woman is cursed with eternal life as a giant turtle or tortoise, until something or other happens. I have seen the movie in parts or fragments, just twice. The director may have been a Japanese guy who was hired by ABC or CBS to do a made-for-television dramatization of a concept that may have been created by someone else earlier. Another problem, is that the movie was marketed under two different names (why, I have no idea). Dexter Nextnumber (talk) 21:16, 5 January 2010 (UTC)


 * TV Tropes as a giant turtle island page and a more general turtle page. 87.113.46.161 (talk) 23:52, 5 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the suggestion, but having gone to the website and looked around, the movie I am looking for, is still not to be found.  I think I will end up trying The Internet Movie Database. and see if it is over there.   If it helps any, or otherwise rings a bell, I *think* it was marketed in some places as the Curse of the Devil's Triangle, or Curse of the Bermuda Triangle, or something like that.   It ought to be on a list of cult films somewhere.  Unfortunately not on Wikipedia, yet.   Dexter Nextnumber (talk) 09:02, 6 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Just found it over at the Internet Movie Database. Shouldn't have taken as many mouse clicks as it did, but below is the pertinent information I was seeking.  Thanks for looking.  Dexter Nextnumber (talk) 09:17, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Movie: The Bermuda Depths (1978) Director: Tsugunobu Kotani Writers: William Overgard (writer) and Arthur Rankin Jr. (story) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dexter Nextnumber (talk • contribs) 09:15, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

image of Terry and Bob, the owls in Where the Wild Things Are?
Hi - I'd like to draw them, but google images isn't coming up with anything. Can anyone help?

Thanks Adambrowne666 (talk) 22:59, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

http://wherethewildthingsare.warnerbros.com/#/Gallery --i am the kwisatz haderach (talk) 00:12, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

thanks for the reply, but going through that gallery wasted my time - no pics of owls there Adambrowne666 (talk) 01:48, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

You know, a week after seeing this film, I go to this restaurant called HOME here in LA, Silverlake area, a couple walk in, she's wearing a CROWN just like MAX. I wanted to borrow it right then and there and scream out LET THE WILD RUMPUS BEGIN!!, my adult self stopped me. I don't know if you'll find any pics of them yet online, maybe when the DVD comes out people will put screenshots online. This wiki link[] theres mention of the Jim Henson's Creature Shop doing the puppets. On their website contact info, you can try calling the LA office and have them email you a picture of Bob and Terry. Although, Terry hates pictures. --i am the kwisatz haderach (talk) 18:02, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * You're not the Kwisach Haderach, you're a very naughty boy who failed to close off his 'small text' format, thus smallifying all the following posts! I've done it for you now :-). 87.81.230.195 (talk) 18:23, 7 January 2010 (UTC)