Seeing some bug posts reminded me that I met this dude about six or seven years ago. I lived in North Carolina all my life (over four decades) until a couple of years ago and never saw one of these until that day.
Anyone ever noticed the similarities between the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore 1990 hit, Ghost, and certain scenes in BBC’s ghosts?
For a start, in Ghost, Sam Wheat sits beside Whoopi Goldberg’s character Oda Mae while she’s trying to sleep and sings “I’m Henry the 8th I Am” to convince her to speak to his love, Molly. Very similar to The Captain singing to Alison while she’s trying to sleep to attempt to get her and Mike to leave.
Oda Mae’s sister says, “I love Love Connection” while watching TV, Kitty claims “Actually, I love Love Actually, actually”.
Sam having difficulty learning to push objects around with his fingers smacks a bit of Julian and his finger-pushing trick.
To scare the villain in the movie, Sam turns on the hot water in the bathroom and writes “Boo” in the mirror, Julian accidentally freaks Mike out by writing “2o” (2 of them!)
There’s the obvious similarity between Oda Mae and Alison wandering around talking to “thin air”, seeming to be crazy, including both having conversations with construction workers due to talking to ghosts.
Once Oda Mae and Alison start seeing (or hearing, in Oda Mae’s case) one ghost, they start cropping up everywhere to comedic effect.
And Sam’s conversation with the angry Subway Ghost about why some rules of being able to touch things and not others seems to be echoed closely by the one in Ghosts re: Julian sitting down and not falling through the chair, with Thomas replying it doesn’t make sense.
I’m aware that many of these things are tropes, but having done a recent rewatch of the 1990 movie, it seems they are (dare I wordplay it) eerily close.
Not knocking the Six Idiots, not saying they’re plagiarizing, but it does seem at least a few of them were fans of the movie and incorporated bits of the movie into the show’s zeitgeist. (Har).
More wooden shrooms!
Haven’t posted here in a while, but I wanted to show off some of the newest of the wooden mushrooms hubs and I make. He harvests the wood locally and turns the blanks into shrooms on his lathe, and I do the painting. I use a mix of acrylics, wood stains, chromashift powders, and inks.
We haven’t had any fun doing these for a while since we’ve been busy with real life, but I thought I’d share just for funsies.
Whee!