Have you ever watched a classic movie or TV show and realized that a scene or character had been repurposed, riffed on, or just plain ripped off by something more familiar to you? And maybe made you feel a little foolish for not knowing the original reference point? Spill the beans below!
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I have always been aware of Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson but never read any of the stories or seen any of the tv specials. Earlier in the summer I started listening to the Sherlock Holmes radio shows on XM radio and got hooked. I started reading the books and rented the series starring Jeremy Brett and even listened to the old radio shows with Sir John Gielgud. Then when I was watching reruns of House a couple of weeks ago, I smacked my forhead, duh! House/Wilson, Holmes/Watson. Their relationships with each other are identical, even down to the apartment number, 221, and Holmes & House’s chemical dependancies. Talk about catching on late.
Clueless was based on Jane Austen’s Emma. Duh!
The Prisoner. So many later movies, tv shows stole/paid homage to TP.
I’m looking at you JJ.
The first time I watched Aladdin as an adult, I realized just how much of Genie’s riffing (Ed Sullivan, Jack Nicholson) had previously gone over my head.
About 10 years ago, I had a chance to see Gone With the Wind in a theater. I thought it was the perfect place to finally see the classic. I was so bored! I’d seen the overall story as well as various scenes in so many other forms, that I couldn’t stand it.
Growing up with the Simpsons meant I saw spoofs and borrowed storylines long before I saw the source materials. The one that initially comes to mind is their take on “Cape Fear.” When I saw Scorsese’s, it was difficult to not think of Robert DeNiro as playing a version of Sideshow Bob.
“The Mentalist” is “Psych” retooled to be serious.
There’s a shot in “Goodfellas” which I have always thought was just brilliant. And then I saw “In the Heat of the Night” and realized Marty had straight lifted it.
I saw the Lion King before I read Hamlet in high school.
Hate to be The Correcting Person but it’s Deep Throat and his first season meetings with Mulder, not Cigarette Smoking Man…
Animaniacs/Pinky and the Brain – the episode where Brain is voicing commercial spots. It was funny as a stand alone, but HILARIOUS after I learned it was based on Orson Welles outtakes. Thanks to Mark and Brian radio show (Los Angeles area) for introducing the original to me and making me laugh twice over!
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