7x05 100 Clues
originally posted April 24, 2015
SHAWN
Dresses up in glam rock/metal outfit and goes backstage at a Billy Lipps concert (2007)
Is there on a cold case involving Melinda Lane, a groupie killed at Billy’s mansion (2007)
Says it’s their third case (2007)
Calls Vick “Chief Dick” (2007)
Tipped off the police but thought Billy could explain (2007)
Takes a selfie with Billy alongside Gus and Henry (2007)
Has eaten at Thank the Lard with Jules 3 times in one week
Decides to take Jules to Fuddruckers
Invited by singing telegram to Bella Rosa Mansion with plus one
Hoping for “exposed boobies”
Asks Gus because Juliet gets a case
Goes straight for the licorice pastels
Hands over cell phone
Bribes Clizby with $5 for house tour
Has a chocolate dance
Always splits the food of the dead 50/50 with Gus
Suggests the split into pairs to search the house
Teams up with Billy for the search and uses a saxophone as a weapon
Believes Billy invited them all for revenge
Saves Billy from a falling chandelier
Uses the proper French term for the roof over the drive in the front of the house (Porte-cochère)
Calls Gus “Burton” to get him to realize what he was saying and to stop
Keeps thinking Curt Smith is dead
Slaps Juliet on the ass
GUS
Dresses up in glam rock/metal outfit and goes backstage at a Billy Lipps concert (2007)
Is there on a cold case involving Melinda Lane, a groupie killed at Billy’s mansion (2007)
Takes a selfie with Billy alongside Shawn and Henry (2007)
Can identify panther scat
Goes straight for the licorice pastels
Hands over cell phone
Has an intense fear of toupées because of his grandfather. His grandfather beat him with a toupée because of his fear.
Has a chocolate dance
Pomona College, Class of ‘98
Always splits the food of the dead 50/50 with Shawn
Wants to leave when the cellphones are missing
Once bit Shawn for stealing his honey
Paired with Clizby
Uses a jousting lance as a weapon
Knows the smell of burning London broil
Finds secret toupee room and sobs in the corner
LASSITER
Comes into dressing room with Billy’s biography (2007)
Arrives with Juliet as part of their missing person case
Takes charge of the scene after Rip is found dead in the freezer
JULIET
Has eaten at Thank the Lard with Shawn 3 times in one week
Has wanted to go to the Bella Rosa mansion ever since she arrived in Santa Barbara
Owns a vintage Oscar de la Renta one-of-a-kind gown
Can’t make the party due to a missing persons case and doesn’t want Shawn to ask anyone else
Arrives with Juliet as part of their missing person case
Upset that Shawn asked Gus
Can’t believe that Leslie has the same gown
Is asked by Billy to go on tour with him to sleep with him, band and crew
Believes more than one person responsible for the killing
HENRY
Is also backstage at Billy Lipps concert and gets the band beer (2007)
Has been a fan of Billy since the Dapshats (2007)
Takes a selfie with Billy alongside Shawn and Gus (2007)
BILLY
Hit bandmate in the head with mic stand and it bleeds heavily (2007)
Sang “Rockin’ Nuts” for encore (2007)
Sort of remembers Gus (2007)
Used to be with the Dapshats (2007)
Thinks Shawn, Gus and Henry are hallucinations (2007)
A groupie died at his mansion
His biography recently came out (2007)
Was in prison for manslaughter last five years
Had androgynous cellmate named Appetite who stabbed him in the liver
Found faith in prison - went from Christian to Jewish when God didn’t answer his prayers to smite Appetite
His yarmulke has a Union flag on the back
His wife fell in love with Derek Hough
Believes Clizby’s pork belly bites are “like divine nuggets of God’s heroin meat”
Has a pet panther named Emma
Paired with Shawn to search the house
Uses a paintball gun as a weapon
Once bit bandmate Rip over Melinda
Shoots Gus with a paintball
Propositions Juliet to tour and sleep with him and the band
Producing Curt’s new album
Stole Clizby’s tunes
CLIZBY
Has been working for his boss for 25 years
Paired with Gus in the search
Has a blowtorch for a weapon
Is the father of Leslie’s son
LESLIE
Has a son Germaine who has never met his father
Stutters
Billy’s bands number one groupie
A registered nurse but was fired
Paired with Martin in the search
Has a sword for a weapon
Had a one-night stand with Clizby
HARRY
Was Billy’s manager
Shafted Rip on song royalties
Has one functioning heart valve
Died at least 10 times before
Once sat up in the middle of his own funeral
Not dead, he just blacked out
Lives in his mother’s basement
MARTIN
Wrote Billy’s biography
Member of MENSA
Paired with Leslie in the search
Has a tie rack (?) for a weapon
Believes Shawn could be the killer
CURT
Recording a new album “Curt Smith Duets with Curt Smith”
Shot as he made his way to the house
Passes out before he can tell who shot him
Left on the gurney by the EMTs when Emma attacks
PINEAPPLE SIGHTING
The mansion’s doorbell
GUS’ NICKNAMES
Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto
GUS DON’T BE…
The second time ever I saw your face
SHAWN & GUS FISTBUMP
Episode: 2
Series: 52
CATCHPHRASES
“Suck it” (episode: 4 series: 26)
SHAWN’S ACCENT WATCH LISTEN
English (Cockney)
French
DENZEL WATCH
Series - 4
ALLUSIONS
“Clue” - a 1985 American mystery comedy film based on the board game of the same name. The film is a murder mystery set in a Gothic Revival mansion, and is styled after Murder by Death (which also featured Clue star Eileen Brennan) and other various murder/dinner parties of mystery, including The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which also starred Tim Curry. The film was directed by Jonathan Lynn, who collaborated on the script with John Landis, and stars Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn (the episode was dedicated to her memory), Christopher Lloyd (“Martin Kahn”), Michael McKean, Martin Mull (“Highway Harry”), and Lesley Ann Warren (cleverly playing a character named “Leslie Ann”). The opening credits use the cards from the game. Also like the game and movie, different endings were shown depending on your location. Shawn running around the house leading the others through his recreation of the crime is taken from the film when Tim Curry, as the butler, takes the others through the manor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDDdeHtrxfA
Steve Valentine (Billy Lipps) - Steve Valentine (born 26 October 1966) is a Scottish actor, musician, and magician who has performed on stage and screen but who is best known for his role as the eccentric Nigel Townsend on NBC's crime drama Crossing Jordan and as Harry Flynn in the critically acclaimed PlayStation 3 game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves as well as the voice of Alistair in Bioware's Dragon Age franchise. He also starred in the Disney XD sitcom I'm in the Band as Derek Jupiter until its 2011 cancellation.
“This is my partner, Domo Arigato…Mr Roboto.” - Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto is a song written by Dennis DeYoung of the band Styx, and recorded on the Styx album Kilroy Was Here. It was also released as a 45 RPM single in a 4:44 radio edit, which has the synthesizer intro removed (available on "Greatest Hits" released by PolyTel in Canada in 1982), with the song "Snowblind" (from their previous album Paradise Theatre) as the B-side. The song's chorus features the line, "Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto", which has become a catchphrase. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cShYbLkhBc
“Shawn, we've eaten at Thank the Lard three times this week.” - http://www.thankthelardbbq.com/index.htm
“I'm taking you to Fuddruckers.” - Fuddruckers is an American fast casual, franchised restaurant chain that specializes in hamburgers. As of 2011, Fuddruckers had 56 company-operated restaurants and 129 franchises across the United States with one in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, one in Chile, one in Italia, one in Mexico, one in Panama, one in Dominican Republic, four in Puerto Rico and ten in Saudi Arabia. The company headquarters is in Houston, Texas.
Singing telegram - A singing telegram is a message that is delivered by an artist in a musical form. Singing telegrams are historically linked to normal telegrams, but tend to be humorous. Sometimes the artist is in costume or formal clothing. Singing telegrams are often given as a gift. Western Union, the American telegraph company began offering singing telegram services in 1933.
“I bet they have those things in the bathroom that hose off your bum.” - A bidet (US Listeni/bɨˈdeɪ/ or UK /ˈbiːdeɪ/) is a plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the genitalia, inner buttocks, and anus. Bidet is a French loanword. The bidet appears to have been an invention of French furniture makers in the late 17th century, although no exact date or inventor is known. Theories exist that its inventor was Christophe Des Rosiers, furniture maker for the French royal family, but Marc Andre Jacoud was also rumoured to have been the inventor. The earliest written reference to the bidet is in 1710 in Italy.
“It may be one of those Eyes Wide Shut shindigs with the masks or a Boogie Nights shindig with lots of cocaine.” - “Eyes Wide Shut” is a 1999 American erotic thriller film loosely based upon Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Dream Story. The story, set in and around New York City, follows the sexually charged adventures of Dr. Bill Harford, who is shocked when his wife, Alice, reveals that she had contemplated an affair a year earlier. He embarks on a night-long adventure, during which he infiltrates a massive masked orgy of an unnamed secret society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgVo96JaqeM “Boogie Nights” is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher, Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg), who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through to his fall during the excesses of the '80s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOk0fsMGyck
“I'm gonna wear my one-of-a-kind vintage Oscar de la Renta dress!” - Oscar de la Renta is a Dominican American fashion designer. Born in Santo Domingo, he was trained by Cristóbal Balenciaga and Antonio del Castillo. De la Renta became internationally known in the 1960s as one of the couturiers who dressed Jacqueline Kennedy. An award-winning designer, he worked for Lanvin and Balmain. His eponymous fashion house continues to dress leading figures, from film stars to royalty.
“That guy boxes and designs dresses?” - Oscar de la Hoya is a retired Mexican American professional boxer. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy," De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from James A. Garfield High School.
“Careful out there.” - Catchphrase from the TV drama “Hill Street Blues” (1981-7). After the morning briefing, Sgt. Esterhaus told his uniformed officers “Be careful out there”.
“Scatman Crothers?” - Scatman Crothers is an American actor, singer, dancer and musician known for his work as Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and as Dick Hallorann in the Stanley Kubrick film The Shining in 1980. He was also a prolific voiceover artist, and provided the voices of Meadowlark Lemon in the animated TV version of The Harlem Globetrotters, Jazz the Autobot in The Transformers, the title character in Hong Kong Phooey, and Scat Cat in the 1970 animated Disney film The Aristocats.
“Gus, don't be the second time ever I saw your face.” - This is a reference to the 1957 folk song written by British political singer/songwriter Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger, who would later become his wife, to sing. At the time the couple were lovers, although MacColl was married to someone else. Seeger sang the song when the duo performed in folk clubs around Britain. During the 1960s, it was recorded by various folk singers and became a major international hit for Roberta Flack in 1972, winning the Grammy Awards for Record and Song of the Year. Billboard ranked it as the No. 1 song of the year for 1972. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9jmusgMgro
Garrett Morris (“Clizby”) - an American comedian and actor. He was part of the original cast of the sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live, appearing from 1975 to 1980. Morris also had a long-running role as Junior "Uncle Junior" King on the comedy sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, which aired from 1996-2001. Currently, Morris has a starring role as Earl on the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls
“So, Clizby... how long have you worked for Denzel Washington?” - Denzel Washington is an American actor and filmmaker. Washington has received much critical acclaim for his film work since the 1990s, including his portrayals of real-life figures such as South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko (in the 1987 film Cry Freedom), Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X (in the 1992 film Malcolm X), boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (in the 1999 film The Hurricane), football coach Herman Boone (in the 2000 film Remember the Titans), poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson (in the 2007 film The Great Debaters), and drug kingpin Frank Lucas (in the 2007 film American Gangster).
“Uh, what he meant to say was, how long have you worked for Wendy's founder Dave Thomas?” - Dave Thomas was an American businessperson and philanthropist. Thomas was the founder and chief executive officer of Wendy's, a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the chain from 1989 to 2002, more than any other company founder in television history.
“Muhammad Ali must really value you as an employee.” - Muhammad Ali is an American former professional boxer, generally considered among the greatest heavyweights in the sport's history. A controversial and polarizing figure during his early career, Ali is today widely regarded for the skills he displayed in the ring plus the values he exemplified outside of it: religious freedom, racial justice and the triumph of principle over expedience. He is one of the most recognized sports figures of the past 100 years, crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC
Leslie Ann Warren (Leslie) - Lesley Ann Warren (born August 16, 1946) is an American actress and singer. She has been nominated once for an Academy Award and Emmy Award and five times for Golden Globe Award, winning one. She is known for her roles in films, The Happiest Millionaire, Victor Victoria, Clue, Burglar, Cop, Color of Night and Secretary. Warren has also starred in popular TV shows, Mission: Impossible, Desperate Housewives, Will & Grace, and In Plain Sight.
“That spindly mongrel pierced my bloody liver while singing Sarah Mclachlan.” - Sarah McLachlan is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2009, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards (out of four nominations) and four Juno Awards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1GmxMTwUgs
“I'm in Mensa.” - MENSA is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. The word mensa means "table" in Latin, as is symbolized in the organization's logo, and was chosen to demonstrate the round-table nature of the organization; the coming together of equals
“Barbra Streisand.” - Barbra Streisand is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker. During a career spanning six decades, she has become an icon in multiple fields of entertainment, winning numerous awards. Among those are two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors award, a Peabody Award, and eleven Golden Globes. She is among only 17 entertainers who have won an Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5H3Z-lTtCs
“Steven Speilberg.” - Steven Speilberg is an American filmmaker. Spielberg is consistently considered as one of the leading pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as being viewed as one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. In a career spanning more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing humanistic issues such as the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, war, and terrorism. He is one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios.
“Benihana.” - Benihana is a Doral, Florida-based American restaurant company. It owns or franchises 116 Japanese cuisine restaurants around the world, including its flagship Benihana Teppanyaki brand, as well as the Haru (fusion cuisine) and RA Sushi restaurants. The company was founded in 1964 on West 56th Street in New York City by 25-year-old Hiroaki "Rocky" Aoki. Aoki, a wrestler who had qualified for but did not attend the 1960 Summer Olympics, started the restaurant with $10,000 earned from driving an ice cream truck in Harlem. The first restaurant, Benihana of Tokyo, was named for the red Safflower that was the name for the coffee shop owned by his parents in Tokyo. Aoki's concept was for the meals to be theatrically prepared by a knife-wielding, joke-telling chef at a teppanyaki table surrounded by a wooden eating surface in front of the guests
“Bojangles.” - Bojangles is a Southeastern regional chain of fast food restaurants based in Charlotte, North Carolina, specializing in spicy, "Cajun" fried chicken and buttermilk biscuits. The company was founded in Charlotte, in 1977 by Jack Fulk and Richard Thomas.
“Ricardo Montalban.” - Ricardo Montalban was a Mexican actor. His career spanned seven decades, during which he became known for many different roles. During the 1970s, he was a spokesman in automobile advertisements for Chrysler, including those in which he extolled the "soft Corinthian leather" used for the Cordoba's interior. From 1977 to 1984, Montalbán played Mr. Roarke in the television series Fantasy Island. He played Khan Noonien Singh in the original Star Trek series (in the 1967 episode "Space Seed") and the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He won an Emmy Award in 1978 for his role in the miniseries How the West Was Won, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1993. In his 80s, he provided voices for animated films and commercials, and appeared as Grandfather Valentin in the Spy Kids films.
“I mean, sure, my gorgeous angel of a wife fell in love with Derek Hough, the blond bastard-face from Dancing with the Stars, but it's all right.” - Derek Hough (/ˈhʌf/; born May 17, 1985) is an American professional Latin and ballroom dancer, choreographer, actor, singer, and songwriter. He is known for his work, since September 2007, on the ABC dance-competition series Dancing with the Stars, on which he has won a record six seasons. He has won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Choreography for several routines that he choreographed for the show. Dancing with the Stars is an American dance competition show airing since 2005 on ABC in the United States, and CTV/CTV Two in Canada. The show is the American version of the British television series Strictly Come Dancing. Tom Bergeron is the Emmy-winning host, alongside Erin Andrews, who became co-host in season eighteen. Lisa Canning was co-host in season one, Samantha Harris co-hosted seasons two through nine and Brooke Burke-Charvet in seasons ten through seventeen, and Erin Andrews beginning with the eighteenth season. The show has been renewed for season 22. The format of the show consists of a celebrity paired with a professional dancer. Past celebrity contestants have included professional and Olympic athletes, models, actors, singers, reality television stars, chefs, talk show hosts, journalists, entrepreneurs, magicians, politicians, newsmakers, internet personalities, and an astronaut. Each couple performs predetermined dances and competes against the others for judges' points and audience votes. The couple receiving the lowest combined total of judges' points and audience votes is eliminated each week until only the champion dance pair remains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA4gscxddf4
“Doing pilates.” - Pilates (/pɪˈlɑːteɪz/; German: [piˈlaːtəs]) is a physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates. It is practiced worldwide, and especially in western countries such as Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. As of 2005, there were 11 million people practicing the discipline regularly and 14,000 instructors in the United States. Pilates called his method "Contrology" (from "control" and Greek -λογία, -logia). In his book Return to Life through Contrology, Joseph Pilates presents his method as the art of controlled movements, which should look and feel like a workout (not a therapy) when properly manifested. If practiced with consistency, pilates improves flexibility, builds strength and develops control and endurance in the whole human body. It puts emphasis on alignment, breathing, developing a strong core, and improving coordination and balance. Pilates' system allows for different exercises to be modified in range of difficulty from beginner to advanced or to any other level, and also in terms of the instructor and practitioner's specific goals and/or limitations. Intensity can be increased over time as the body conditions and adapts to the exercises.
L’chaim - in Hebrew is a toast meaning "to life".
“Tonight's Mitzvah will now be in Highway's honor.” - In its primary meaning, the Hebrew word mitzvah (/ˈmɪtsvə/; meaning "commandment", מִצְוָה, [mit͡sˈva], Biblical: miṣwah; plural מִצְווֹת mitzvot [mit͡sˈvot], Biblical: miṣwoth; from צִוָּה ṣiwwah "command") refers to precepts and commandments as commanded by God. It is used in rabbinical Judaism to refer to the 613 commandments given in the Torah at biblical Mount Sinai and the seven rabbinic commandments instituted later for a total of 620. The 613 commandments divided into two categories: 365 Negative Commandments and 248 Positive commandments. According to the Talmud, all moral laws are, or are derived from, divine commandments. In its secondary meaning, Hebrew mitzvah, as with English "commandment", refers to a moral deed performed as a religious duty. As such, the term mitzvah has also come to express an act of human kindness. The tertiary meaning of mitzvah also refers to the fulfillment of a mitzvah.
“And a proper Kevurah--that means funeral--will take place mañana once we perform the Tahara.” - Kevurah means burial. Specifically, shoveling earth onto the casket. Using the back of a shovel shows reluctance and the hurt felt by having to bury a loved one. Covering the casket is considered a mitzvah (honor), as it is something done for the deceased that cannot be reciprocated. Tahara is a ritual cleansing of the deceased, fulfills the verse from Ecclesiastes 5:14, "As we come forth, so we shall return."
“Hava nagila!” - Hava Nagila is an Israeli folk song traditionally sung at Jewish celebrations. It is perhaps the first modern Israeli folk song in the Hebrew language that has become a staple of band performers at Jewish weddings and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs. It was composed in 1920s Palestine, at a time when Hebrew was first being revived as a spoken language for the first time in 2,000 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHSNZK4Je-Y
“Mick had Keith.” - Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a co-founder of The Rolling Stones. Jagger's career has spanned over 50 years, and he has been described as "one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll". His distinctive voice and performance, along with Keith Richards' guitar style, have been the trademark of the Rolling Stones throughout the career of the band. Jagger gained press notoriety for his admitted drug use and romantic involvements, and was often portrayed as a countercultural figure. In the late 1960s Jagger began acting in films (starting with Performance and Ned Kelly), to mixed reception. In 1985 Jagger released his first solo album, She's the Boss. In early 2009 he joined the electric supergroup SuperHeavy. In 1989 Jagger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2004 into the UK Music Hall of Fame with the Rolling Stones. In 2003 he was knighted for his services to popular music. Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, actor, and one of the original members of the rock band The Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone Magazine credited Richards for "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him 4th on its list of 100 best guitarists. Fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger are listed among Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The Stones are generally known for their guitar interplay of rhythm and lead ("weaving") with Brian Jones, Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood over the years. In spite of this, Richards plays the only guitar tracks on some of their most famous songs including "Paint It Black", "Ruby Tuesday", "Sympathy for the Devil", and "Gimme Shelter". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVTKWojoWlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxPoCgk7A90
“Axl had Slash.” - W. Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose, Jr.; raised as William Bruce Bailey; February 6, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, a position he has held since its inception in 1985. Due to his powerful and wide vocal range and energetic live performances, Rose has been named one of the greatest singers of all time by various media outlets, including Rolling Stone and NME. Born and raised in Lafayette, Indiana, Rose moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980s, where he became active in the local hard rock scene and joined several bands, including Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns. In 1985, he co-founded Guns N' Roses, with whom he had great success and recognition in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their first album, Appetite for Destruction (1987), has sold in excess of 30 million copies worldwide, and is the best-selling debut album of all time in the U.S. with 18 million units sold. Its full-length follow-ups, the twin albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II (1991), were also widely successful; they respectively debuted at No. 2 and No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and have sold a combined 35 million copies worldwide. Saul Hudson (born July 23, 1965), known professionally as Slash, is a British and American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During his later years with Guns N' Roses, Slash formed the side project Slash's Snakepit. After leaving Guns N' Roses in 1996, he co-founded the supergroup Velvet Revolver, which re-established him as a mainstream performer in the mid to late 2000s. Slash has since released three solo albums, Slash (2010), featuring an array of famous guest musicians, Apocalyptic Love (2012) and World on Fire (2014) recorded with singer/guitarist Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge, along with rhythm section Brent Fitz and Todd Kerns, known on the album as The Conspirators. Slash returned to Guns N' Roses in 2016. Slash has received critical acclaim as a guitarist. Time named him runner-up on their list of "The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players" in 2009, while Rolling Stone placed him at No. 65 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2011. Guitar World ranked his solo in "November Rain" No. 6 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos" in 2008, and Total Guitar placed his riff in "Sweet Child o' Mine" at No. 1 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Riffs" in 2004. In 2012, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with the rest of Guns N' Roses' original line-up as well as Dizzy Reed and Matt Sorum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7OgIMMRc4
“Morrissey had Johnny.” - Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), professionally known only as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author. He rose to prominence as the lyricist and vocalist of the indie rock band The Smiths, which was active from 1982 to 1987. Since then, Morrissey has had a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on ten occasions. Born in Davyhulme, Lancashire to a working-class Irish migrant family, Morrissey grew up in Manchester. As a child he developed a love of literature, kitchen sink realism, and popular music. Involved in Manchester's punk rock scene during the late 1970s, he fronted two punk bands, The Nosebleeds and Slaughter & The Dogs, with little success. Beginning a career in music journalism, he authored a number of books on music and film in the early 1980s. With Johnny Marr he established The Smiths in 1982, soon attracting national attention for their self-titled debut album. As the band's frontman, Morrissey attracted attention both for his intelligent, witty, and sardonic lyrics and his idiosyncratic appearance; deliberately avoiding rock machismo, he cultivated the aesthetic of a social outsider who eschewed drugs and embraced celibacy. The Smiths released five further albums - including the critically acclaimed Meat is Murder and The Queen is Dead - and had a string of hit singles. Personal differences between Morrissey and Marr resulted in The Smiths' separation in 1987. Johnny Marr (born John Martin Maher; 31 October 1963) is an English musician, songwriter and singer. Between 1982 and 1987 he was the guitarist and - with Morrissey - co-songwriter of The Smiths, an English rock band formed in Manchester. Critics have called them the most important alternative rock band to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s. Q magazine's Simon Goddard argued in 2007 that the Smiths were "the most influential British guitar group of the decade" and the "first indie outsiders to achieve mainstream success on their own terms". NME named The Smiths the "most influential artist ever" in a 2002 poll, even topping The Beatles. Marr has also been a member of Electronic, an alternative dance supergroup formed with New Order singer and guitarist Bernard Sumner; The The, an English musical and multimedia group led by singer/songwriter Matt Johnson; Modest Mouse, an American indie rock band formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington; and The Cribs, an English three-piece indie rock band originally from Wakefield, West Yorkshire. As well, he has worked as a prolific session musician. In 2013, he released a solo album titled The Messenger (2013). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpILIIo9ek
“He's been here all night long, Lionel Richie style, lurking, waiting for the opportunity to get back at Highway Harry for cheating him out of song royalties.” - Lionel Ritchie is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and actor. Beginning in 1968, he was a member of the musical group Commodores signed to Motown Records. Richie made his solo debut in 1982 with the album Lionel Richie and number-one hit "Truly". He has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. "All Night Long (All Night)" is a hit single for American singer-songwriter Lionel Richie from 1983. Taken from his second solo album, Can't Slow Down, it combined Richie's soulful Commodores style with Caribbean influences. This new, more dance music and pop inspired approach proved popular, as the single reached number one on three Billboard charts (pop, R&B and adult contemporary). In the UK, the song was kept off the top spot by Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl", peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks. The song lyrics were written primarily in English, but Richie has admitted in at least one press interview that "African" lyrics in the song, such as "Tom bo li de say de moi ya," and "Jambo jumbo," were in fact made-up gibberish of his own invention. Richie has described these portions of the song as a "wonderful joke," written when he discovered that he lacked the time to hire a translator to contribute the foreign language lyrics he wished to include in the song. He was partially inspired by an early childhood experience which he described as a "wonderful joke." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqAvFx3NxUM
“You can't do that--there's a Roland Emmerich-style storm raging out there!” - Roland Emmerich is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer. His films, most of which are English-language, Hollywood productions, have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide. His films have grossed just over $1 billion in the United States, making him the country's 14th-highest grossing director of all time. (“Independence Day”, “Stargate”, “The Day After Tomorrow” and “The Patriot”)
“Great Scott!” - Really, did Christopher Lloyd think he’d get away without saying Doc Brown’s favorite phrase? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ACTIVntAKg
“First off, you might want to lower that paint gun, Alice Cooper.” - Alice Cooper is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and occasional actor whose career spans five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by fans and peers alike to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock"; he has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a theatrical and macabre brand of rock designed to shock people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oo8QzDHimQ
“Now, I'm not sure if you're familiar with the 1984 Chuck Norris classic, Missing in Action, but my partner and I are about to grill each and every one of you like Colonel Braddock did the Vietcong.” - Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist, actor, film producer and screenwriter. After serving in the United States Air Force, he began his rise to fame as a martial artist, and has since founded his own school, Chun Kuk Do. Norris appeared in a number of action films, such as Way of the Dragon, in which he starred alongside Bruce Lee, and was The Cannon Group's leading star in the 1980s. He played the starring role in the television series Walker, Texas Ranger from 1993 until 2001. Norris is a devout Christian and politically conservative. He has written several books on Christianity and donated to a number of Republican candidates and causes. In 2007 and 2008, he campaigned for former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who was running for the Republican nomination for president in 2008. Norris also writes a column for the conservative website WorldNetDaily. Since 2005 Norris has been widely associated with an internet meme which documents fictional and often absurd feats associated with him. Missing in Action is a 1984 action film directed by Joseph Zito and starring Chuck Norris. It is set in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue. Colonel Braddock, who escaped a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp 10 years earlier, returns to Vietnam to find American soldiers listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War. The film was followed by a prequel, Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985) and a sequel, Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgmADv4tkLQ The Việt Cộng ((About this sound listen)) was the name given by Western sources to the National Liberation Front during the Vietnam War (1959-1975). The National Liberation Front was a political organization with its own army - People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) - in South Vietnam and Cambodia, that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments, eventually emerging on the winning side. It had both guerrilla and regular army units, as well as a network of cadres who organized peasants in the territory it controlled. Many soldiers were recruited in South Vietnam, but others were attached to the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), the regular North Vietnamese army. During the war, communists and anti-war spokesmen insisted the Việt Cộng was an insurgency indigenous to the South, while the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of Hanoi. Although the terminology distinguishes northerners from the southerners, communist forces were under a single command structure set up in 1958.
“M&M?” - M&M's are "colorful button-shaped chocolates" produced by Mars, Incorporated. The candy shell, each of which has the letter "m" printed in lower case on one side, surrounds a filling which varies depending on the variety of M&M's
“Pretty sure it just floats around in the ether and haunts people like Beetlejuice.” - Beetlejuice is a 1988 American comedy fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, produced by The Geffen Film Company and distributed by Warner Bros. The plot revolves around a recently deceased young couple (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) who become ghosts haunting their former home, and an obnoxious, devious ghost named Betelgeuse (pronounced Beetlejuice, portrayed by Michael Keaton) from the Netherworld who tries to scare away the new inhabitants (Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones, and Winona Ryder) permanently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hovKm9oFiM
“Clock the Noggin” - Basically a made-up game by Billy and the band about hitting each other on the head
“The first one is a special version of Billy Boy.” - "Billy Boy" is a traditional folk song and nursery rhyme found in the United States. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 326. It is a variant of the traditional English folk song "My Boy Billy," collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by him in 1912 as number 232 in "Novello's School Songs." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fuJz2u7oCM
“Curt Smith!” - Curt Smith (born 24 June 1961, Bath, Somerset, England) is an English-American musician. He is best known for forming the band Tears for Fears, along with childhood friend Roland Orzabal. As a solo artist, he has released four full-length albums.
“I was going to put them on eBay.” - eBay Inc. (stylized as "ebay" since late 2012) is an American multinational corporation and e-commerce company, providing consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales services via the internet. It is headquartered in San Jose, California. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble. Today it is a multibillion-dollar business with operations localized in over 30 countries.
“In a deep sleep from all of the alcohol, Quaaludes, and Clizby.” - Methaqualone, sold under the brand name Quaalude (\ˈkwā-ˌlüd\),[a] in the US and Mandrax in the UK and South Africa, is a sedative and hypnotic medication. It is a member of the quinazolinone class. The sedative-hypnotic activity of methaqualone was first noted by researchers in the 1950s. In 1962, methaqualone was patented in the US by Wallace and Tiernan. Its use peaked in the early 1970s as a hypnotic, for the treatment of insomnia, and as a sedative and muscle relaxant.
“To the porte-cochèr.” - Porte-cocher is a porch- or portico-like structure at a main or secondary entrance to a building through which a horse and carriage (or motor vehicle) can pass in order for the occupants to alight under cover, protected from the weather.
“The real muse was the first card-carrying member of the Wilt Chamberlain club, makes the tastiest snacks this side of the Pecos and also has a gift for whistling undeniably catchy melodies.” - Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain (August 21, 1936 - October 12, 1999) was an American basketball player. He played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA); he played for the University of Kansas and also for the Harlem Globetrotters before playing in the NBA. The 7 foot 1 inch Chamberlain weighed 250 pounds as a rookie before bulking up to 275 and eventually to over 300 pounds with the Lakers. He played the center position and is widely considered one of the greatest and most dominant players in NBA history. Chamberlain holds numerous NBA records in scoring, rebounding and durability categories. He is the only player to score 100 points in a single NBA game or average more than 40 and 50 points in a season. He also won seven scoring, nine field goal percentage, and eleven rebounding titles, and led the league in assists once. Chamberlain is the only player in NBA history to average at least 30 points and 20 rebounds per game in a season, a feat he accomplished seven times. He is also the only player to average at least 30 points and 20 rebounds per game over the entire course of his NBA career. After his basketball career ended, Chamberlain played volleyball in the short-lived International Volleyball Association, was president of this organization, and is enshrined in the IVA Hall of Fame for his contributions. Chamberlain was also a successful businessman, authored several books, and appeared in the movie Conan the Destroyer. He was a lifelong bachelor, and became notorious for his claim to have had sexual intercourse with over 20,000 women. The Pecos River flows through New Mexico and Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande. The headwaters of the Pecos River are located north of Pecos, New Mexico, United States, at an elevation of over 12,000 feet (3,700 m) feet on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Mora County. The river flows for 926 miles (1,490 km) through the eastern portion of that state and neighboring Texas before it empties into the Rio Grande near Del Rio. The river's drainage basin is about 44,300 square miles (115,000 km2) in size.
“That Swatch was $50.” - Swatch SA (and its subsidiary 'Montres Flik Flak SA') design, manufacture, distribute and service wristwatches sold under the 'Swatch' and 'Flik Flak' brands. It is a subsidiary of the Swatch Group founded by Nicolas Hayek whose group launched the brand in 1983 with remarkable success, and thereby culminating the end of the quartz crisis of the 1980s.
“I got no credit for Sowing the Seeds of Love.” - Sowing the Seeds of Love is a song by the British group Tears for Fears. It was released as the first single from their 1989 album The Seeds of Love, and was a worldwide hit, reaching the top five in the UK, Canada (where it was #1), Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, and the US where it peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, while topping the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The single also reached the Top 20 in numerous other countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_5dE81WV8k
“Now... Gus and I are going to go home and make love to our wives.” - This is an homage to the closing line of the film Clue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN0nLZvne5U
“Barbara Walters.” - Barbara Walters is an American broadcast journalist, author and television personality. She has hosted morning television shows Today and The View, the television news magazine 20/20, co-anchored the ABC Evening News, and was a contributor to ABC News.
“Bergdorf-Goodman.” - Bergdorf-Goodman is a luxury goods department store based on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The company was founded in 1899 by Herman Bergdorf and was later owned and managed by Edwin Goodman, and later his son Andrew Goodman. Today, Bergdorf operates from two stores situated across the street from each other at Fifth Avenue between 57th and 58th streets. Bergdorf Goodman's main store, which opened at its current location in 1928, is located on the west side of Fifth Avenue. A separate men's store, established in 1990, is located on the east side of Fifth Avenue, directly across the street.
“Dedicated to Madeline Kahn” - Madeline Kahn (born Madeline Gail Wolfson; September 29, 1942 - December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian and singer, known for her comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks; including What's Up, Doc? (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Award nominated roles in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974). Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968, and received the first of four Tony Award nominations for the 1973 play In the Boom Boom Room. She received subsequent nominations for the revivals of the musicals On the Twentieth Century (1978) and Born Yesterday (1989), before winning the 1993 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the comedy The Sisters Rosensweig. She had previously won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for ABC Afterschool Special. Her other film appearances included The Cheap Detective (1978), City Heat (1983), Clue (1985) and Nixon (1995). She played the role of Mrs. White in Clue.
CONTINUITY
This is the 100th episode!
There is a time continuity error. The flashback is set in 2007 and Shawn states that this is the third case for the SBPD. However this cannot be the case as the series starts in 2006, as evident from "Cloudy with a chance of Murder" being set in 2006 (season one) along with its remake stating this very fact of the year 2006 at the beginning.
The opening credits use Clue cards
This is Curt Smith’s second appearance. The first was 5x08 “Shawn 2.0”
The song over the closing credits is the same as the singing telegram
Gus refers to Rachael and Max as “my girl and another man’s child”
The title cards used between the different versions were also used in the film Clue
SHAWN
Dresses up in glam rock/metal outfit and goes backstage at a Billy Lipps concert (2007)
Is there on a cold case involving Melinda Lane, a groupie killed at Billy’s mansion (2007)
Says it’s their third case (2007)
Calls Vick “Chief Dick” (2007)
Tipped off the police but thought Billy could explain (2007)
Takes a selfie with Billy alongside Gus and Henry (2007)
Has eaten at Thank the Lard with Jules 3 times in one week
Decides to take Jules to Fuddruckers
Invited by singing telegram to Bella Rosa Mansion with plus one
Hoping for “exposed boobies”
Asks Gus because Juliet gets a case
Goes straight for the licorice pastels
Hands over cell phone
Bribes Clizby with $5 for house tour
Has a chocolate dance
Always splits the food of the dead 50/50 with Gus
Suggests the split into pairs to search the house
Teams up with Billy for the search and uses a saxophone as a weapon
Believes Billy invited them all for revenge
Saves Billy from a falling chandelier
Uses the proper French term for the roof over the drive in the front of the house (Porte-cochère)
Calls Gus “Burton” to get him to realize what he was saying and to stop
Keeps thinking Curt Smith is dead
Slaps Juliet on the ass
GUS
Dresses up in glam rock/metal outfit and goes backstage at a Billy Lipps concert (2007)
Is there on a cold case involving Melinda Lane, a groupie killed at Billy’s mansion (2007)
Takes a selfie with Billy alongside Shawn and Henry (2007)
Can identify panther scat
Goes straight for the licorice pastels
Hands over cell phone
Has an intense fear of toupées because of his grandfather. His grandfather beat him with a toupée because of his fear.
Has a chocolate dance
Pomona College, Class of ‘98
Always splits the food of the dead 50/50 with Shawn
Wants to leave when the cellphones are missing
Once bit Shawn for stealing his honey
Paired with Clizby
Uses a jousting lance as a weapon
Knows the smell of burning London broil
Finds secret toupee room and sobs in the corner
LASSITER
Comes into dressing room with Billy’s biography (2007)
Arrives with Juliet as part of their missing person case
Takes charge of the scene after Rip is found dead in the freezer
JULIET
Has eaten at Thank the Lard with Shawn 3 times in one week
Has wanted to go to the Bella Rosa mansion ever since she arrived in Santa Barbara
Owns a vintage Oscar de la Renta one-of-a-kind gown
Can’t make the party due to a missing persons case and doesn’t want Shawn to ask anyone else
Arrives with Juliet as part of their missing person case
Upset that Shawn asked Gus
Can’t believe that Leslie has the same gown
Is asked by Billy to go on tour with him to sleep with him, band and crew
Believes more than one person responsible for the killing
HENRY
Is also backstage at Billy Lipps concert and gets the band beer (2007)
Has been a fan of Billy since the Dapshats (2007)
Takes a selfie with Billy alongside Shawn and Gus (2007)
BILLY
Hit bandmate in the head with mic stand and it bleeds heavily (2007)
Sang “Rockin’ Nuts” for encore (2007)
Sort of remembers Gus (2007)
Used to be with the Dapshats (2007)
Thinks Shawn, Gus and Henry are hallucinations (2007)
A groupie died at his mansion
His biography recently came out (2007)
Was in prison for manslaughter last five years
Had androgynous cellmate named Appetite who stabbed him in the liver
Found faith in prison - went from Christian to Jewish when God didn’t answer his prayers to smite Appetite
His yarmulke has a Union flag on the back
His wife fell in love with Derek Hough
Believes Clizby’s pork belly bites are “like divine nuggets of God’s heroin meat”
Has a pet panther named Emma
Paired with Shawn to search the house
Uses a paintball gun as a weapon
Once bit bandmate Rip over Melinda
Shoots Gus with a paintball
Propositions Juliet to tour and sleep with him and the band
Producing Curt’s new album
Stole Clizby’s tunes
CLIZBY
Has been working for his boss for 25 years
Paired with Gus in the search
Has a blowtorch for a weapon
Is the father of Leslie’s son
LESLIE
Has a son Germaine who has never met his father
Stutters
Billy’s bands number one groupie
A registered nurse but was fired
Paired with Martin in the search
Has a sword for a weapon
Had a one-night stand with Clizby
HARRY
Was Billy’s manager
Shafted Rip on song royalties
Has one functioning heart valve
Died at least 10 times before
Once sat up in the middle of his own funeral
Not dead, he just blacked out
Lives in his mother’s basement
MARTIN
Wrote Billy’s biography
Member of MENSA
Paired with Leslie in the search
Has a tie rack (?) for a weapon
Believes Shawn could be the killer
CURT
Recording a new album “Curt Smith Duets with Curt Smith”
Shot as he made his way to the house
Passes out before he can tell who shot him
Left on the gurney by the EMTs when Emma attacks
PINEAPPLE SIGHTING
The mansion’s doorbell
GUS’ NICKNAMES
Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto
GUS DON’T BE…
The second time ever I saw your face
SHAWN & GUS FISTBUMP
Episode: 2
Series: 52
CATCHPHRASES
“Suck it” (episode: 4 series: 26)
SHAWN’S ACCENT WATCH LISTEN
English (Cockney)
French
DENZEL WATCH
Series - 4
ALLUSIONS
“Clue” - a 1985 American mystery comedy film based on the board game of the same name. The film is a murder mystery set in a Gothic Revival mansion, and is styled after Murder by Death (which also featured Clue star Eileen Brennan) and other various murder/dinner parties of mystery, including The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which also starred Tim Curry. The film was directed by Jonathan Lynn, who collaborated on the script with John Landis, and stars Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn (the episode was dedicated to her memory), Christopher Lloyd (“Martin Kahn”), Michael McKean, Martin Mull (“Highway Harry”), and Lesley Ann Warren (cleverly playing a character named “Leslie Ann”). The opening credits use the cards from the game. Also like the game and movie, different endings were shown depending on your location. Shawn running around the house leading the others through his recreation of the crime is taken from the film when Tim Curry, as the butler, takes the others through the manor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDDdeHtrxfA
Steve Valentine (Billy Lipps) - Steve Valentine (born 26 October 1966) is a Scottish actor, musician, and magician who has performed on stage and screen but who is best known for his role as the eccentric Nigel Townsend on NBC's crime drama Crossing Jordan and as Harry Flynn in the critically acclaimed PlayStation 3 game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves as well as the voice of Alistair in Bioware's Dragon Age franchise. He also starred in the Disney XD sitcom I'm in the Band as Derek Jupiter until its 2011 cancellation.
“This is my partner, Domo Arigato…Mr Roboto.” - Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto is a song written by Dennis DeYoung of the band Styx, and recorded on the Styx album Kilroy Was Here. It was also released as a 45 RPM single in a 4:44 radio edit, which has the synthesizer intro removed (available on "Greatest Hits" released by PolyTel in Canada in 1982), with the song "Snowblind" (from their previous album Paradise Theatre) as the B-side. The song's chorus features the line, "Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto", which has become a catchphrase. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cShYbLkhBc
“Shawn, we've eaten at Thank the Lard three times this week.” - http://www.thankthelardbbq.com/index.htm
“I'm taking you to Fuddruckers.” - Fuddruckers is an American fast casual, franchised restaurant chain that specializes in hamburgers. As of 2011, Fuddruckers had 56 company-operated restaurants and 129 franchises across the United States with one in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, one in Chile, one in Italia, one in Mexico, one in Panama, one in Dominican Republic, four in Puerto Rico and ten in Saudi Arabia. The company headquarters is in Houston, Texas.
Singing telegram - A singing telegram is a message that is delivered by an artist in a musical form. Singing telegrams are historically linked to normal telegrams, but tend to be humorous. Sometimes the artist is in costume or formal clothing. Singing telegrams are often given as a gift. Western Union, the American telegraph company began offering singing telegram services in 1933.
“I bet they have those things in the bathroom that hose off your bum.” - A bidet (US Listeni/bɨˈdeɪ/ or UK /ˈbiːdeɪ/) is a plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the genitalia, inner buttocks, and anus. Bidet is a French loanword. The bidet appears to have been an invention of French furniture makers in the late 17th century, although no exact date or inventor is known. Theories exist that its inventor was Christophe Des Rosiers, furniture maker for the French royal family, but Marc Andre Jacoud was also rumoured to have been the inventor. The earliest written reference to the bidet is in 1710 in Italy.
“It may be one of those Eyes Wide Shut shindigs with the masks or a Boogie Nights shindig with lots of cocaine.” - “Eyes Wide Shut” is a 1999 American erotic thriller film loosely based upon Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Dream Story. The story, set in and around New York City, follows the sexually charged adventures of Dr. Bill Harford, who is shocked when his wife, Alice, reveals that she had contemplated an affair a year earlier. He embarks on a night-long adventure, during which he infiltrates a massive masked orgy of an unnamed secret society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgVo96JaqeM “Boogie Nights” is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher, Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg), who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through to his fall during the excesses of the '80s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOk0fsMGyck
“I'm gonna wear my one-of-a-kind vintage Oscar de la Renta dress!” - Oscar de la Renta is a Dominican American fashion designer. Born in Santo Domingo, he was trained by Cristóbal Balenciaga and Antonio del Castillo. De la Renta became internationally known in the 1960s as one of the couturiers who dressed Jacqueline Kennedy. An award-winning designer, he worked for Lanvin and Balmain. His eponymous fashion house continues to dress leading figures, from film stars to royalty.
“That guy boxes and designs dresses?” - Oscar de la Hoya is a retired Mexican American professional boxer. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy," De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from James A. Garfield High School.
“Careful out there.” - Catchphrase from the TV drama “Hill Street Blues” (1981-7). After the morning briefing, Sgt. Esterhaus told his uniformed officers “Be careful out there”.
“Scatman Crothers?” - Scatman Crothers is an American actor, singer, dancer and musician known for his work as Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and as Dick Hallorann in the Stanley Kubrick film The Shining in 1980. He was also a prolific voiceover artist, and provided the voices of Meadowlark Lemon in the animated TV version of The Harlem Globetrotters, Jazz the Autobot in The Transformers, the title character in Hong Kong Phooey, and Scat Cat in the 1970 animated Disney film The Aristocats.
“Gus, don't be the second time ever I saw your face.” - This is a reference to the 1957 folk song written by British political singer/songwriter Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger, who would later become his wife, to sing. At the time the couple were lovers, although MacColl was married to someone else. Seeger sang the song when the duo performed in folk clubs around Britain. During the 1960s, it was recorded by various folk singers and became a major international hit for Roberta Flack in 1972, winning the Grammy Awards for Record and Song of the Year. Billboard ranked it as the No. 1 song of the year for 1972. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9jmusgMgro
Garrett Morris (“Clizby”) - an American comedian and actor. He was part of the original cast of the sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live, appearing from 1975 to 1980. Morris also had a long-running role as Junior "Uncle Junior" King on the comedy sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, which aired from 1996-2001. Currently, Morris has a starring role as Earl on the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls
“So, Clizby... how long have you worked for Denzel Washington?” - Denzel Washington is an American actor and filmmaker. Washington has received much critical acclaim for his film work since the 1990s, including his portrayals of real-life figures such as South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko (in the 1987 film Cry Freedom), Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X (in the 1992 film Malcolm X), boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (in the 1999 film The Hurricane), football coach Herman Boone (in the 2000 film Remember the Titans), poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson (in the 2007 film The Great Debaters), and drug kingpin Frank Lucas (in the 2007 film American Gangster).
“Uh, what he meant to say was, how long have you worked for Wendy's founder Dave Thomas?” - Dave Thomas was an American businessperson and philanthropist. Thomas was the founder and chief executive officer of Wendy's, a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the chain from 1989 to 2002, more than any other company founder in television history.
“Muhammad Ali must really value you as an employee.” - Muhammad Ali is an American former professional boxer, generally considered among the greatest heavyweights in the sport's history. A controversial and polarizing figure during his early career, Ali is today widely regarded for the skills he displayed in the ring plus the values he exemplified outside of it: religious freedom, racial justice and the triumph of principle over expedience. He is one of the most recognized sports figures of the past 100 years, crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC
Leslie Ann Warren (Leslie) - Lesley Ann Warren (born August 16, 1946) is an American actress and singer. She has been nominated once for an Academy Award and Emmy Award and five times for Golden Globe Award, winning one. She is known for her roles in films, The Happiest Millionaire, Victor Victoria, Clue, Burglar, Cop, Color of Night and Secretary. Warren has also starred in popular TV shows, Mission: Impossible, Desperate Housewives, Will & Grace, and In Plain Sight.
“That spindly mongrel pierced my bloody liver while singing Sarah Mclachlan.” - Sarah McLachlan is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2009, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards (out of four nominations) and four Juno Awards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1GmxMTwUgs
“I'm in Mensa.” - MENSA is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. The word mensa means "table" in Latin, as is symbolized in the organization's logo, and was chosen to demonstrate the round-table nature of the organization; the coming together of equals
“Barbra Streisand.” - Barbra Streisand is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker. During a career spanning six decades, she has become an icon in multiple fields of entertainment, winning numerous awards. Among those are two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors award, a Peabody Award, and eleven Golden Globes. She is among only 17 entertainers who have won an Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5H3Z-lTtCs
“Steven Speilberg.” - Steven Speilberg is an American filmmaker. Spielberg is consistently considered as one of the leading pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as being viewed as one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. In a career spanning more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing humanistic issues such as the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, war, and terrorism. He is one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios.
“Benihana.” - Benihana is a Doral, Florida-based American restaurant company. It owns or franchises 116 Japanese cuisine restaurants around the world, including its flagship Benihana Teppanyaki brand, as well as the Haru (fusion cuisine) and RA Sushi restaurants. The company was founded in 1964 on West 56th Street in New York City by 25-year-old Hiroaki "Rocky" Aoki. Aoki, a wrestler who had qualified for but did not attend the 1960 Summer Olympics, started the restaurant with $10,000 earned from driving an ice cream truck in Harlem. The first restaurant, Benihana of Tokyo, was named for the red Safflower that was the name for the coffee shop owned by his parents in Tokyo. Aoki's concept was for the meals to be theatrically prepared by a knife-wielding, joke-telling chef at a teppanyaki table surrounded by a wooden eating surface in front of the guests
“Bojangles.” - Bojangles is a Southeastern regional chain of fast food restaurants based in Charlotte, North Carolina, specializing in spicy, "Cajun" fried chicken and buttermilk biscuits. The company was founded in Charlotte, in 1977 by Jack Fulk and Richard Thomas.
“Ricardo Montalban.” - Ricardo Montalban was a Mexican actor. His career spanned seven decades, during which he became known for many different roles. During the 1970s, he was a spokesman in automobile advertisements for Chrysler, including those in which he extolled the "soft Corinthian leather" used for the Cordoba's interior. From 1977 to 1984, Montalbán played Mr. Roarke in the television series Fantasy Island. He played Khan Noonien Singh in the original Star Trek series (in the 1967 episode "Space Seed") and the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He won an Emmy Award in 1978 for his role in the miniseries How the West Was Won, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1993. In his 80s, he provided voices for animated films and commercials, and appeared as Grandfather Valentin in the Spy Kids films.
“I mean, sure, my gorgeous angel of a wife fell in love with Derek Hough, the blond bastard-face from Dancing with the Stars, but it's all right.” - Derek Hough (/ˈhʌf/; born May 17, 1985) is an American professional Latin and ballroom dancer, choreographer, actor, singer, and songwriter. He is known for his work, since September 2007, on the ABC dance-competition series Dancing with the Stars, on which he has won a record six seasons. He has won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Choreography for several routines that he choreographed for the show. Dancing with the Stars is an American dance competition show airing since 2005 on ABC in the United States, and CTV/CTV Two in Canada. The show is the American version of the British television series Strictly Come Dancing. Tom Bergeron is the Emmy-winning host, alongside Erin Andrews, who became co-host in season eighteen. Lisa Canning was co-host in season one, Samantha Harris co-hosted seasons two through nine and Brooke Burke-Charvet in seasons ten through seventeen, and Erin Andrews beginning with the eighteenth season. The show has been renewed for season 22. The format of the show consists of a celebrity paired with a professional dancer. Past celebrity contestants have included professional and Olympic athletes, models, actors, singers, reality television stars, chefs, talk show hosts, journalists, entrepreneurs, magicians, politicians, newsmakers, internet personalities, and an astronaut. Each couple performs predetermined dances and competes against the others for judges' points and audience votes. The couple receiving the lowest combined total of judges' points and audience votes is eliminated each week until only the champion dance pair remains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA4gscxddf4
“Doing pilates.” - Pilates (/pɪˈlɑːteɪz/; German: [piˈlaːtəs]) is a physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates. It is practiced worldwide, and especially in western countries such as Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. As of 2005, there were 11 million people practicing the discipline regularly and 14,000 instructors in the United States. Pilates called his method "Contrology" (from "control" and Greek -λογία, -logia). In his book Return to Life through Contrology, Joseph Pilates presents his method as the art of controlled movements, which should look and feel like a workout (not a therapy) when properly manifested. If practiced with consistency, pilates improves flexibility, builds strength and develops control and endurance in the whole human body. It puts emphasis on alignment, breathing, developing a strong core, and improving coordination and balance. Pilates' system allows for different exercises to be modified in range of difficulty from beginner to advanced or to any other level, and also in terms of the instructor and practitioner's specific goals and/or limitations. Intensity can be increased over time as the body conditions and adapts to the exercises.
L’chaim - in Hebrew is a toast meaning "to life".
“Tonight's Mitzvah will now be in Highway's honor.” - In its primary meaning, the Hebrew word mitzvah (/ˈmɪtsvə/; meaning "commandment", מִצְוָה, [mit͡sˈva], Biblical: miṣwah; plural מִצְווֹת mitzvot [mit͡sˈvot], Biblical: miṣwoth; from צִוָּה ṣiwwah "command") refers to precepts and commandments as commanded by God. It is used in rabbinical Judaism to refer to the 613 commandments given in the Torah at biblical Mount Sinai and the seven rabbinic commandments instituted later for a total of 620. The 613 commandments divided into two categories: 365 Negative Commandments and 248 Positive commandments. According to the Talmud, all moral laws are, or are derived from, divine commandments. In its secondary meaning, Hebrew mitzvah, as with English "commandment", refers to a moral deed performed as a religious duty. As such, the term mitzvah has also come to express an act of human kindness. The tertiary meaning of mitzvah also refers to the fulfillment of a mitzvah.
“And a proper Kevurah--that means funeral--will take place mañana once we perform the Tahara.” - Kevurah means burial. Specifically, shoveling earth onto the casket. Using the back of a shovel shows reluctance and the hurt felt by having to bury a loved one. Covering the casket is considered a mitzvah (honor), as it is something done for the deceased that cannot be reciprocated. Tahara is a ritual cleansing of the deceased, fulfills the verse from Ecclesiastes 5:14, "As we come forth, so we shall return."
“Hava nagila!” - Hava Nagila is an Israeli folk song traditionally sung at Jewish celebrations. It is perhaps the first modern Israeli folk song in the Hebrew language that has become a staple of band performers at Jewish weddings and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs. It was composed in 1920s Palestine, at a time when Hebrew was first being revived as a spoken language for the first time in 2,000 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHSNZK4Je-Y
“Mick had Keith.” - Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a co-founder of The Rolling Stones. Jagger's career has spanned over 50 years, and he has been described as "one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll". His distinctive voice and performance, along with Keith Richards' guitar style, have been the trademark of the Rolling Stones throughout the career of the band. Jagger gained press notoriety for his admitted drug use and romantic involvements, and was often portrayed as a countercultural figure. In the late 1960s Jagger began acting in films (starting with Performance and Ned Kelly), to mixed reception. In 1985 Jagger released his first solo album, She's the Boss. In early 2009 he joined the electric supergroup SuperHeavy. In 1989 Jagger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2004 into the UK Music Hall of Fame with the Rolling Stones. In 2003 he was knighted for his services to popular music. Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, actor, and one of the original members of the rock band The Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone Magazine credited Richards for "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him 4th on its list of 100 best guitarists. Fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger are listed among Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The Stones are generally known for their guitar interplay of rhythm and lead ("weaving") with Brian Jones, Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood over the years. In spite of this, Richards plays the only guitar tracks on some of their most famous songs including "Paint It Black", "Ruby Tuesday", "Sympathy for the Devil", and "Gimme Shelter". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVTKWojoWlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxPoCgk7A90
“Axl had Slash.” - W. Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose, Jr.; raised as William Bruce Bailey; February 6, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, a position he has held since its inception in 1985. Due to his powerful and wide vocal range and energetic live performances, Rose has been named one of the greatest singers of all time by various media outlets, including Rolling Stone and NME. Born and raised in Lafayette, Indiana, Rose moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980s, where he became active in the local hard rock scene and joined several bands, including Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns. In 1985, he co-founded Guns N' Roses, with whom he had great success and recognition in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their first album, Appetite for Destruction (1987), has sold in excess of 30 million copies worldwide, and is the best-selling debut album of all time in the U.S. with 18 million units sold. Its full-length follow-ups, the twin albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II (1991), were also widely successful; they respectively debuted at No. 2 and No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and have sold a combined 35 million copies worldwide. Saul Hudson (born July 23, 1965), known professionally as Slash, is a British and American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During his later years with Guns N' Roses, Slash formed the side project Slash's Snakepit. After leaving Guns N' Roses in 1996, he co-founded the supergroup Velvet Revolver, which re-established him as a mainstream performer in the mid to late 2000s. Slash has since released three solo albums, Slash (2010), featuring an array of famous guest musicians, Apocalyptic Love (2012) and World on Fire (2014) recorded with singer/guitarist Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge, along with rhythm section Brent Fitz and Todd Kerns, known on the album as The Conspirators. Slash returned to Guns N' Roses in 2016. Slash has received critical acclaim as a guitarist. Time named him runner-up on their list of "The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players" in 2009, while Rolling Stone placed him at No. 65 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2011. Guitar World ranked his solo in "November Rain" No. 6 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos" in 2008, and Total Guitar placed his riff in "Sweet Child o' Mine" at No. 1 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Riffs" in 2004. In 2012, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with the rest of Guns N' Roses' original line-up as well as Dizzy Reed and Matt Sorum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7OgIMMRc4
“Morrissey had Johnny.” - Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), professionally known only as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author. He rose to prominence as the lyricist and vocalist of the indie rock band The Smiths, which was active from 1982 to 1987. Since then, Morrissey has had a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on ten occasions. Born in Davyhulme, Lancashire to a working-class Irish migrant family, Morrissey grew up in Manchester. As a child he developed a love of literature, kitchen sink realism, and popular music. Involved in Manchester's punk rock scene during the late 1970s, he fronted two punk bands, The Nosebleeds and Slaughter & The Dogs, with little success. Beginning a career in music journalism, he authored a number of books on music and film in the early 1980s. With Johnny Marr he established The Smiths in 1982, soon attracting national attention for their self-titled debut album. As the band's frontman, Morrissey attracted attention both for his intelligent, witty, and sardonic lyrics and his idiosyncratic appearance; deliberately avoiding rock machismo, he cultivated the aesthetic of a social outsider who eschewed drugs and embraced celibacy. The Smiths released five further albums - including the critically acclaimed Meat is Murder and The Queen is Dead - and had a string of hit singles. Personal differences between Morrissey and Marr resulted in The Smiths' separation in 1987. Johnny Marr (born John Martin Maher; 31 October 1963) is an English musician, songwriter and singer. Between 1982 and 1987 he was the guitarist and - with Morrissey - co-songwriter of The Smiths, an English rock band formed in Manchester. Critics have called them the most important alternative rock band to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s. Q magazine's Simon Goddard argued in 2007 that the Smiths were "the most influential British guitar group of the decade" and the "first indie outsiders to achieve mainstream success on their own terms". NME named The Smiths the "most influential artist ever" in a 2002 poll, even topping The Beatles. Marr has also been a member of Electronic, an alternative dance supergroup formed with New Order singer and guitarist Bernard Sumner; The The, an English musical and multimedia group led by singer/songwriter Matt Johnson; Modest Mouse, an American indie rock band formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington; and The Cribs, an English three-piece indie rock band originally from Wakefield, West Yorkshire. As well, he has worked as a prolific session musician. In 2013, he released a solo album titled The Messenger (2013). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpILIIo9ek
“He's been here all night long, Lionel Richie style, lurking, waiting for the opportunity to get back at Highway Harry for cheating him out of song royalties.” - Lionel Ritchie is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and actor. Beginning in 1968, he was a member of the musical group Commodores signed to Motown Records. Richie made his solo debut in 1982 with the album Lionel Richie and number-one hit "Truly". He has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. "All Night Long (All Night)" is a hit single for American singer-songwriter Lionel Richie from 1983. Taken from his second solo album, Can't Slow Down, it combined Richie's soulful Commodores style with Caribbean influences. This new, more dance music and pop inspired approach proved popular, as the single reached number one on three Billboard charts (pop, R&B and adult contemporary). In the UK, the song was kept off the top spot by Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl", peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks. The song lyrics were written primarily in English, but Richie has admitted in at least one press interview that "African" lyrics in the song, such as "Tom bo li de say de moi ya," and "Jambo jumbo," were in fact made-up gibberish of his own invention. Richie has described these portions of the song as a "wonderful joke," written when he discovered that he lacked the time to hire a translator to contribute the foreign language lyrics he wished to include in the song. He was partially inspired by an early childhood experience which he described as a "wonderful joke." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqAvFx3NxUM
“You can't do that--there's a Roland Emmerich-style storm raging out there!” - Roland Emmerich is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer. His films, most of which are English-language, Hollywood productions, have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide. His films have grossed just over $1 billion in the United States, making him the country's 14th-highest grossing director of all time. (“Independence Day”, “Stargate”, “The Day After Tomorrow” and “The Patriot”)
“Great Scott!” - Really, did Christopher Lloyd think he’d get away without saying Doc Brown’s favorite phrase? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ACTIVntAKg
“First off, you might want to lower that paint gun, Alice Cooper.” - Alice Cooper is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and occasional actor whose career spans five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by fans and peers alike to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock"; he has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a theatrical and macabre brand of rock designed to shock people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oo8QzDHimQ
“Now, I'm not sure if you're familiar with the 1984 Chuck Norris classic, Missing in Action, but my partner and I are about to grill each and every one of you like Colonel Braddock did the Vietcong.” - Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist, actor, film producer and screenwriter. After serving in the United States Air Force, he began his rise to fame as a martial artist, and has since founded his own school, Chun Kuk Do. Norris appeared in a number of action films, such as Way of the Dragon, in which he starred alongside Bruce Lee, and was The Cannon Group's leading star in the 1980s. He played the starring role in the television series Walker, Texas Ranger from 1993 until 2001. Norris is a devout Christian and politically conservative. He has written several books on Christianity and donated to a number of Republican candidates and causes. In 2007 and 2008, he campaigned for former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who was running for the Republican nomination for president in 2008. Norris also writes a column for the conservative website WorldNetDaily. Since 2005 Norris has been widely associated with an internet meme which documents fictional and often absurd feats associated with him. Missing in Action is a 1984 action film directed by Joseph Zito and starring Chuck Norris. It is set in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue. Colonel Braddock, who escaped a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp 10 years earlier, returns to Vietnam to find American soldiers listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War. The film was followed by a prequel, Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985) and a sequel, Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgmADv4tkLQ The Việt Cộng ((About this sound listen)) was the name given by Western sources to the National Liberation Front during the Vietnam War (1959-1975). The National Liberation Front was a political organization with its own army - People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) - in South Vietnam and Cambodia, that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments, eventually emerging on the winning side. It had both guerrilla and regular army units, as well as a network of cadres who organized peasants in the territory it controlled. Many soldiers were recruited in South Vietnam, but others were attached to the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), the regular North Vietnamese army. During the war, communists and anti-war spokesmen insisted the Việt Cộng was an insurgency indigenous to the South, while the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of Hanoi. Although the terminology distinguishes northerners from the southerners, communist forces were under a single command structure set up in 1958.
“M&M?” - M&M's are "colorful button-shaped chocolates" produced by Mars, Incorporated. The candy shell, each of which has the letter "m" printed in lower case on one side, surrounds a filling which varies depending on the variety of M&M's
“Pretty sure it just floats around in the ether and haunts people like Beetlejuice.” - Beetlejuice is a 1988 American comedy fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, produced by The Geffen Film Company and distributed by Warner Bros. The plot revolves around a recently deceased young couple (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) who become ghosts haunting their former home, and an obnoxious, devious ghost named Betelgeuse (pronounced Beetlejuice, portrayed by Michael Keaton) from the Netherworld who tries to scare away the new inhabitants (Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones, and Winona Ryder) permanently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hovKm9oFiM
“Clock the Noggin” - Basically a made-up game by Billy and the band about hitting each other on the head
“The first one is a special version of Billy Boy.” - "Billy Boy" is a traditional folk song and nursery rhyme found in the United States. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 326. It is a variant of the traditional English folk song "My Boy Billy," collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by him in 1912 as number 232 in "Novello's School Songs." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fuJz2u7oCM
“Curt Smith!” - Curt Smith (born 24 June 1961, Bath, Somerset, England) is an English-American musician. He is best known for forming the band Tears for Fears, along with childhood friend Roland Orzabal. As a solo artist, he has released four full-length albums.
“I was going to put them on eBay.” - eBay Inc. (stylized as "ebay" since late 2012) is an American multinational corporation and e-commerce company, providing consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales services via the internet. It is headquartered in San Jose, California. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble. Today it is a multibillion-dollar business with operations localized in over 30 countries.
“In a deep sleep from all of the alcohol, Quaaludes, and Clizby.” - Methaqualone, sold under the brand name Quaalude (\ˈkwā-ˌlüd\),[a] in the US and Mandrax in the UK and South Africa, is a sedative and hypnotic medication. It is a member of the quinazolinone class. The sedative-hypnotic activity of methaqualone was first noted by researchers in the 1950s. In 1962, methaqualone was patented in the US by Wallace and Tiernan. Its use peaked in the early 1970s as a hypnotic, for the treatment of insomnia, and as a sedative and muscle relaxant.
“To the porte-cochèr.” - Porte-cocher is a porch- or portico-like structure at a main or secondary entrance to a building through which a horse and carriage (or motor vehicle) can pass in order for the occupants to alight under cover, protected from the weather.
“The real muse was the first card-carrying member of the Wilt Chamberlain club, makes the tastiest snacks this side of the Pecos and also has a gift for whistling undeniably catchy melodies.” - Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain (August 21, 1936 - October 12, 1999) was an American basketball player. He played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA); he played for the University of Kansas and also for the Harlem Globetrotters before playing in the NBA. The 7 foot 1 inch Chamberlain weighed 250 pounds as a rookie before bulking up to 275 and eventually to over 300 pounds with the Lakers. He played the center position and is widely considered one of the greatest and most dominant players in NBA history. Chamberlain holds numerous NBA records in scoring, rebounding and durability categories. He is the only player to score 100 points in a single NBA game or average more than 40 and 50 points in a season. He also won seven scoring, nine field goal percentage, and eleven rebounding titles, and led the league in assists once. Chamberlain is the only player in NBA history to average at least 30 points and 20 rebounds per game in a season, a feat he accomplished seven times. He is also the only player to average at least 30 points and 20 rebounds per game over the entire course of his NBA career. After his basketball career ended, Chamberlain played volleyball in the short-lived International Volleyball Association, was president of this organization, and is enshrined in the IVA Hall of Fame for his contributions. Chamberlain was also a successful businessman, authored several books, and appeared in the movie Conan the Destroyer. He was a lifelong bachelor, and became notorious for his claim to have had sexual intercourse with over 20,000 women. The Pecos River flows through New Mexico and Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande. The headwaters of the Pecos River are located north of Pecos, New Mexico, United States, at an elevation of over 12,000 feet (3,700 m) feet on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Mora County. The river flows for 926 miles (1,490 km) through the eastern portion of that state and neighboring Texas before it empties into the Rio Grande near Del Rio. The river's drainage basin is about 44,300 square miles (115,000 km2) in size.
“That Swatch was $50.” - Swatch SA (and its subsidiary 'Montres Flik Flak SA') design, manufacture, distribute and service wristwatches sold under the 'Swatch' and 'Flik Flak' brands. It is a subsidiary of the Swatch Group founded by Nicolas Hayek whose group launched the brand in 1983 with remarkable success, and thereby culminating the end of the quartz crisis of the 1980s.
“I got no credit for Sowing the Seeds of Love.” - Sowing the Seeds of Love is a song by the British group Tears for Fears. It was released as the first single from their 1989 album The Seeds of Love, and was a worldwide hit, reaching the top five in the UK, Canada (where it was #1), Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, and the US where it peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, while topping the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The single also reached the Top 20 in numerous other countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_5dE81WV8k
“Now... Gus and I are going to go home and make love to our wives.” - This is an homage to the closing line of the film Clue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN0nLZvne5U
“Barbara Walters.” - Barbara Walters is an American broadcast journalist, author and television personality. She has hosted morning television shows Today and The View, the television news magazine 20/20, co-anchored the ABC Evening News, and was a contributor to ABC News.
“Bergdorf-Goodman.” - Bergdorf-Goodman is a luxury goods department store based on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The company was founded in 1899 by Herman Bergdorf and was later owned and managed by Edwin Goodman, and later his son Andrew Goodman. Today, Bergdorf operates from two stores situated across the street from each other at Fifth Avenue between 57th and 58th streets. Bergdorf Goodman's main store, which opened at its current location in 1928, is located on the west side of Fifth Avenue. A separate men's store, established in 1990, is located on the east side of Fifth Avenue, directly across the street.
“Dedicated to Madeline Kahn” - Madeline Kahn (born Madeline Gail Wolfson; September 29, 1942 - December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian and singer, known for her comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks; including What's Up, Doc? (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Award nominated roles in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974). Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968, and received the first of four Tony Award nominations for the 1973 play In the Boom Boom Room. She received subsequent nominations for the revivals of the musicals On the Twentieth Century (1978) and Born Yesterday (1989), before winning the 1993 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the comedy The Sisters Rosensweig. She had previously won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for ABC Afterschool Special. Her other film appearances included The Cheap Detective (1978), City Heat (1983), Clue (1985) and Nixon (1995). She played the role of Mrs. White in Clue.
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This is the 100th episode!
There is a time continuity error. The flashback is set in 2007 and Shawn states that this is the third case for the SBPD. However this cannot be the case as the series starts in 2006, as evident from "Cloudy with a chance of Murder" being set in 2006 (season one) along with its remake stating this very fact of the year 2006 at the beginning.
The opening credits use Clue cards
This is Curt Smith’s second appearance. The first was 5x08 “Shawn 2.0”
The song over the closing credits is the same as the singing telegram
Gus refers to Rachael and Max as “my girl and another man’s child”
The title cards used between the different versions were also used in the film Clue