Inside the inside jokes of the BDM

POSTED BY: CapnHarbatkin
UPDATED: Saturday, July 17, 2004 22:23
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CAPNHARBATKIN

Thursday, July 15, 2004 6:23 AM

A while back there was a really great thread ( http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=4261) asking "What 'inside jokes' for current fans would you like to see in the movie?".

The responses were really great and funny to think about.

I think all of the responses centered around stuff that Joss would write into the script though .. the kind of "official" inside joke.

With Serenity making it into the Battlestar Galactica verse, I got to thinking.... what inside production jokes could be pulled off by the production or post-production staff before anyone noticed? And which ones would you like to see?

I'll kick off this discussion with one that I've thought might be funny.

In one of the shots of the core planets we'd see a cityscape (kinda like Persephone)... hovercars, lots of ships coming and going, futuristic skyscrapers and complex roadways. If you look really carefully you'll see a sign above one of the roadways at an exit ramp with an arrow pointing to "Yosaf Bridge".

What would cause you to crack up hysterically in the theatre? (while everyone slowly turns their head and stares wide-eyed)

Now, how's about we get on with this increasingly eerie-ass day

TMURRIE

Thursday, July 15, 2004 6:40 AM

I would personally like to see the "Good Dogs" sign again. Or maybe a Battlestar Galactica fighter ship put in.

CAPTAINHARBATKIN

Thursday, July 15, 2004 1:11 PM

Recall the bit in the opening shots for "The 'A' Team" where Dirk Benedict is at a theme park and does a double take when a Cylon walks past?

Okay, now let Mal do the same bit in the movie. I mean talk about obscure! What's worse, of course, is WAY too many of us would "get it", I suspect...

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...they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their
clothing - and if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order.
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CAPTAINHARBATKIN

Thursday, July 15, 2004 1:49 PM

By the way, I wanted to comment on your login name. It demonstrates that you are obviously a mensch, keenly observant, a seeker after freedom and individuality. All that kind of stuff...

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...they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their
clothing - and if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order.
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CAPNHARBATKIN

Thursday, July 15, 2004 3:59 PM

And you sir, strike me as an urbane and literate sort. Ah.... us intelligent types seem to have this thread to ourselves.

(bump)

HARBATKIN

Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:15 PM

dopplegangers???

...like a trained ape, without the training

SOUPCATCHER

Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:44 PM

Okay, I'll play

I'd love to see Wash relate an amusing anecdote about his uncle Jerry Lee, who everyone mistakes him for, and his geese farm.

I shaved off my beard for you, devil woman!

MANWITHPEZ

Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:19 PM

I would like to see Nathan Fillion do a double take when he walked past Two Guys, and a Girl standing in front of a Pizza Place. That would be kinda obscure. Plus, if they could get Traylor Howard to do it, that'd be ggggrrrrreeeeeat. She's so hot. Or Wash getting hit with a Dodgeball would be good...Especially if he went "Gar! Serenity be the only place for Steve....uh Wash!" Or Barney Miller pointing at Book and saying "I know you!" Or Laurence Fishburne walking past Zoe and smacking her on the ass while saying "Free your mind"...etc, You get the idea. Actually, I'm ashamed that I even took the time to write all that down.

I'm sorry. I'll go beat myself now.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

LINDALE

Friday, July 16, 2004 3:29 AM

Don't know who'd do this, production staff, set dressers, Joss, but there's a storefront the BDH pass that's a game store with a big display of bouncy balls that look just like River's one from OiS. Or any subtle reference/similarity in ship design or something with Starship Troopers, a call back to the alliance helmets. :)

GRAKSTAR

Friday, July 16, 2004 9:28 AM

It would be great if they were being chased by the allience for some crime or other, and Mal does a double take saying 'dang!! for a gorram minute there I thought the starship troopers we're chasing us!!!'

G x

UK Browncoats are taking over!!!!!

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