[net.movies] More GREMLINS background jokes

davidl@mako.UUCP (David Levine) (06/18/84)

Here are some more in-jokes and background humor from GREMLINS.

	-  The Time Machine from the George Pal movie 
	   was in the background during one of the phone
	   calls from the Inventor's Convention.  In the
	   next shot, it was gone and everyone was standing
	   around scratching their heads.

	-  One of the film cans in the projection room
	   at the movie theater where the Gremlins were 
	   watching "Snow White" was labeled "Miracle 
	   Pictures."   You know: "If it's a good film, it's
	   a Miracle!"

It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights, it's time
to meet the Gremlins at the movie theatre tonight...

David D. Levine  (...decvax!tektronix!tekecs!davidl)          [UUCP]
                 (tekecs!davidl.tektronix@csnet-relay.csnet)  [ARPA]

P.S.  See this one before you get sick of all the Gremlin merchandise.  It's a
really good film, but it's going to be sickeningly commercialized...

ron@fluke.UUCP (Ron Pankiewicz) (07/02/84)

Can someone explain the significance of the electrified
artichoke dancing around on the kitchen table in the
scene where we see the Peltzer coffee brewer in action?
(This takes place right after they untangle the dog
from the Christmas lights...)

moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (07/02/84)

Possibly a reference to the original "The Thing", where the giant vegetable
creature (James Arness) is toasted by the scientists in the Artic circle?

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer

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