Learn Something New Everyday Thread

[D'Snowth]

I learned quite a bit about THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW that I actually wasn't even aware of. For example: Gomer was created specifically as a character replacement for Floyd the Barber since Howard McNeir had to walk away from the show due to the stroke that he had, and in fact, George Lindsey was slated to play the role, until Andy saw Jim Nabors at a night club and brought him in for the part instead. It wasn't too long that both Andy and Don Knotts were beginning to feel upstaged by Jim Nabors and wanted rid of him, hence why he quickly went to his own spin-off soon afterwards: GOMER PYLE, U.S.M.C.

 

[Flaky Pudding]

Maid Marian wasn't originally from the Robin Hood story. Apparently, people put on plays about Maid Marian and Robin Hood separately but then people started I guess you could say "shipping them" and Maid Marian eventually became a Robin Hood character. But they weren't originally from the same story. Man, you learn A LOT from TVTropes, don't you?

 

[Flaky Pudding]

Alex Hirsch, the creator of Gravity Falls's sister is the one who inspired Mabel. According to him, she was SUPER perky, always wore goofy sweaters, was a huge N*SYNC fan, and wanted a pet pig. In fact he got one of the members of N*Sync to play one of the Several Timez members to surprise her. In addition, Grunkle Stan was inspired by his Grampa Stan and Soos was inspired by his college buddy, Jesus Remirez. He says that his buddy would always offer to fix things, said dude a lot, and was given the nickname Soos.

 

[D'Snowth]

Chevy Chase was apparently in my town filming a movie today.

Now, Burt "Turd Ferguson" Reynolds (and, presumably, his mustache) was in my town filming the same movie. In fact, a film crew happened to be a number of blocks away from my house.

 

[Pig'sSaysAdios]

Now, Burt "Turd Ferguson" Reynolds (and, presumably, his mustache) was in my town filming the same movie. In fact, a film crew happened to be a number of blocks away from my house.

Did ya track 'em down? You've gotta take pictures! If you missed Chevy, you can't miss Burt.

 

[D'Snowth]

I didn't even know until I just happened to be driving by and saw a police barricade at the end of a side road, and saw the film crew on the other side.

 

[fuzzygobo]

The closest I came to a movie shoot, I saw Sylvester Stallone in '96 in Edgewater, NJ shooting "Cop Land". Got to watch them shoot a few minutes where they had a shootout in the streets. Didn't get Sly's autograph or anything, but the crew were decent enough to let us watch.
One thing you realize, how painstakingly slow movie making can be. Thirty seconds of finished film can take the better part of a day to create.

 

[aebthegofer]

I saw a movie shoot last month when I was in the Philippines. It was for a movie called Camp Sawi. Haven't got a clue who the actor and actress were!
They were supposed to jump off the cliff into the ocean in the scene. He jumped. Then all the crew and all of us watching spent the next 20 minutes yelling "3,2,1!" trying to convince the actress to jump! When she finally did, everybody clapped and cheered as if she'd won a race.

~Aeb

 

[Pig'sSaysAdios]

I was reading an interview from The Muppet Mindset with Muppeteer "Gabriel Velez". And apparently, a woman once auditioned for the Muppets. Unfortunately she didn't know what to improvise. So, Lisa Henson encouraged her to try anything off the top of her head. So, the woman decided to improvise about how much she disliked her mother. She ended up getting so worked up that they ended up having to be escorted out of the building!

 

[ShMuppetgal96]

I was reading an interview from The Muppet Mindset with Muppeteer "Gabriel Velez". And apparently, a woman once auditioned for the Muppets. Unfortunately she didn't know what to improvise. So, Lisa Henson encouraged her to try anything off the top of her head. So, the woman decided to improvise about how much she disliked her mother. She ended up getting so worked up that they ended up having to be escorted out of the building!

Yikes. Not the best idea