Wonderin

[ericcoleman]

coat_of_brown touched on this earlier today. This is kinda my variant.

What is your favorite "they didn't do their research did they" moment in movies or TV?

Mine, I think it has to be the episode of the X-Files (which I am too lazy to go look up at the moment, but I think it's in season 1) that happens, partly, around Lake Okoboji in NW Iowa.

I personally was not aware that there were lovely mountains in NW Iowa.

Comments

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Oh, too many to come up with at this hour of the morning. (I may make another entry when awake; you never know.) So let me pass on a moment which doesn't really fit your category, but impressed me at the time.

Before The Addams Family, John Astin was in a show called I'm Dickens, He's Fenster.

The carpenters were trying to sleep in a room with fewer beds than people. Dickens (Astin) is on a short sofa (or door laid across two hobby horses, or somesuch). It is too short for his whole body length. He keeps sliding forward and back. This keeps everyone awake. Finally, Fenster (Marty Ingels) sputters, "What are you doing?"

"I'm trying to decide whether I want to lie this way, and have the blood rush to my feet, or this way, and have the blood rush to my head."

Engels shakes his fist, "In a minute, the blood will rush to your nose."

I thought this was very silly and not at all physiologically likely to happen. It made a great impression on me, which I now share. Please keep in mind that I was seven in 1962 and not Wise In The Way of the World as I am today.