Final Justice

(two Mafia guys are walking out of the woods)
Tom Servo: It’s It Happened One Night, only gay!

It Happened One Night was a comedy-romance made in 1934. It starred Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert and is considered the first road movie. But don’t hold that against it; it’s actually a really good film. The scene Servo is referring to is when Gable and Colbert are running away from a bus that holds a guy who knows she’s a runaway, and was going to blackmail Gable for her. It Happened One Night is a great classic, the first movie to win the four major categories in the Oscars (Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Director), and was the only one to do so until One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (to date, The Silence of the Lambs is the only subsequent movie to share that distinction). Gable has a scene where he takes off his shirt to reveal that he’s not wearing an undershirt! Women swooned. The sales of undershirts hit an all-time low (I’m not making this up). They only came back into style when Marlon Brando wore one in Streetcar Named Desire. Clark Gable went on to play Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, by the by…


(credits show Rosanno Brazzi)
Crow: (singing) Some enchanted evening!

The song, “Some Enchanted Evening”, was sung by Rosanno Brazzi in the movie South Pacific. I like that song a lot but rather dislike the film (I'm just not a fan of Mitzi Gaynor, who plays Brazzi's love interest); whenever I hear the song, I can’t help but think of Harrison Ford singing it in American Graffiti. (He played Bob Falfa, who always wore a cowboy hat, and he got Beat Down by Shirley, from “Laverne and Shirley”, who was going out with Opie…just see the damn movie. It’ll make sense then.)