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My name is Erik Mallinson. I draw pictures, make music, and some other stuff. I like playing the ‘ukulele, riding my scooter around Boston, and playing board games.
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With audible murmurs of “This is no way to live,” “What the hell am I doing here—I hate it here,” and “Fuck this place. Fuck this horrible place,” all 8.4 million citizens in each of the five boroughs packed up their belongings and told reporters they would rather blow their brains out with a shotgun than spend another waking moment in this festering cesspool of filth and scum and sadness.

Gathering, Shindig, or Hootenanny?

  • OZ: We should figure out what kinda deal this is. I mean, is it a-a gathering, a shindig or a hootenanny?
  • CORDELIA: What's the difference?
  • OZ: Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, (Cordelia smiles) less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage; and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
  • XANDER: Well, I hate brie.

According to Wikipedia’s entry on Zero Hour! the Zuckers bought the rights to the film so they could use the dialog verbatim.

patrickrhone:

Airplane vs. Zero Hour (widescreen) (via flipflomas)

Proves the fact that the classic film comedy Airplane was a shot by shot send-up of the serious 1957 film, Zero Hour.

There are many cases like this in film. For instance, the 1989 movie Heathers has many shots and plot points with the 1976 film Massacre at Central High

Just further proof that few ideas are truly original, especially in Hollywood.