What’s the stupidest pop culture-related fight you’ve ever had? I don’t mean over something subjective — like, was Wings a good show? — I mean Read the full post.
Dec 6
2007
05:05 PM ET
The PopWatch Confessional (Vol. 43: Your stupidest pop culture-related fight edition)
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CHILDREN OF THE CORN! the little weirdo kid JOHN FRANKLIN is often wrongfully remembered as “Malachi” Mal is actually the tall red head COURTNEY GAINS. and FRANKLIN plays “ISAAC” I won a 10 dollar bet on this!
here’s proof:
http://www.kindertrauma.com/?p=76#more-76
A friend of mine once bet me a bunch of money that Julia Roberts was in “Patch Adams”, of course it was actually Monica Potter. After hunting down a copy of the DVD I happily collected my reward. What does he know anyway, he’s Canadian.
My husband and I are constantly using IMDB to identify minor characters in TV and Movies that we disagree about. Most recently, “Was is that the dad from Family Matters on Bones?”. I was right, it was.
So the song Les Poissons in “The Little Mermaid” where the chef notices Sebastian and sings, “How on earth could I miss/such a sweet little succulent crab” wasn’t sufficient enough evidence of his identity?
I always had an issue with Sebastian because he was red. I grew up on the Chesapeake and crabs were green when they were alive and didn’t turn red until you cooked them. So I remember arguing that Sebastian should actually be dead because of his coloring.
My best friend and I didn’t speak for a few days after our argument over whether or not Anastasia was a Disney movie.
I’ve also gotten into one where we were arguing whether it was Marlo Thomas or Mary Tyler Moore who represented St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in the commercials.
I recently was involved in a disagreement over which Affleck brother was in the Voyage of the Mimi. It is Ben, not Casey (even though I was convinced). There was also a long conversation once about which Bryan Adams song was in Robin Hood. It is “Everything I Do (I Do It For You) not “Please Forgive Me”. And I remember two of my friends getting into a screaming match on the bus in 5th grade over whether it was “I saw the sign” or “I saw the sun” in the Ace of Base song.
the only fight my best friend and I have EVER had in our 15-year friendship was back during X-Files and was over the attractiveness of David Duchovny. At the time I was pro and she was con. It ended in a screaming match where we didn’t speak for 2 days.
The best pop culture fight I’ve ever seen/heard was the one on that episode of the Venture bros. where numbers 21 & 24 are arguing over whether Smurfs lay eggs or not.
http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=3111900a7a0b40a89f1bfdad13ba30e0
Sure I could talk about an argument I’ve actually had but it doesn’t get any better than that. I will say that IMDB solves most arguments and I cannot figure out how we all survived before it’s existence.
I once had a semi-heated debate with a co-worker concerning Dirty Dancing – I mentioned that Patrick Swayze sang “She’s Like the Wind” from the movie soundtrack, and he asserted that Patrick was also the male vocal on “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.” A quick Google search later, I heard that wonderful silence that precedes an admission of guilt. “Oh, you’re right,” he said.
I also once got into a heated debate with my boyfriend about Peter Parker. He said the comics the webs were just like the movie (naturally shooting out of his wrists), while I argued that in the comics, Peter constructed the web-shooting-stuff. Right again.
Dude, I’ve had that same lobster/crab debate with my husband for the past year. Guess, he was right…this time.
One of my friends and I had an ongoing argument for years (and I’m talking *at least* 3 here) about whether or not Ricardo Montalban’s chest in WRATH OF KHAN was real or fake.
Neither of us trusted the other one to procure evidence. And so we just bickered for years w/out any resolution.
And despite finally settling the debate, even now it is not wise to bring up the subject.
Many years ago (pre-IMDB) my entire extended family fought with my mother who insisted that Jodie Foster had been on the Brady Bunch in the early days. While we were all vacationing in London, we sent to some movie museum there just to look it up. As far as I can tell, Jodie Foster has NEVER been on the Brady Bunch.
How could anyone think Sebastian was a lobster? He doesn’t have a lobster tail!
My friend and I got into a rough yelling match at a bar a couple of weeks ago over which Disney movie came out earlier – Aladdin or The Lion King. I knew it was Aladdin, because I saw both films in the theatre with my parents, and remember being ecstatic with 10-year old glee to go see Aladding with them, but the Lion King? OH NO NO, at 12 I was horrified to be accompanied by my weird annoying alien family who were singing along to “Can You Feel the Love Tonight.”
I told my friend this memory and he still didnt believe me. It was a race to see who could pull it up on their phones faster (I also texted another friend for support, who consulted IMDB) but of course I was right in the end. Aladdin in ’92, and the Lion King in ’94. He begrudgingly bought me a High Life.
Betrayed, y’all are BOTH right about webbing. In the comics Peter Parker does have to create the webbing after he is first bitten by the spider. He doesn’t get the ability to shoot webbing from his hands until later.
Back in the Old Skool HP days- before it was a cultural juggernaut, I believe around the release of CoS- my good friend and I got in an argument about whether professor Binns, the ghostly professor of History of Magic, was, in fact, also the Fat Friar.
Zof insisted that the Hufflepuff house ghost and Prof. Binns were one and the same; I disagreed.
We didn’t speak for a week, it got so heated. (And considering we were both high school freshmen in a class of less than 200 people who shared almost every class… well, that was an accomplishment.)
The argument was finally resolved a few years later, when I pulled up MuggleNet and refused to let her move from my computer chair until she admitted that I had been right all those years ago.