Gunslinger

(wormy guy plods solemnly down a street in the Old West)
Crow (singing): Why am I such a misfit?

That song belongs to one of my favorite holiday clay-mation movies (and there are a lot, I tell you), Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. It’s sung by Herby, the cute little blond elf who doesn’t want to make toys; he wants to be a dentist, and is ostracized by the other elves for doing so. He gets kicked out of his elf home and meets up with Rudolph (who also has been cast off) and they go to the Land of Broken Toys. One must wonder why dentistry is so despised up at the North Pole, because God knows elves and the Claus’ must need a filling or two, what with all the candy canes they eat…


(Assassin is riding a horse)
Tom (singing): Duh-duh-duh O-Oklahoma where the wind goes—oh forget it.

The song Tom mangled was “Oklahoma” from…yes, that’s right, Oklahoma! As Gunslinger takes place in the Old West, it seems only fitting that, while striding atop of a horse, the Good/Bad Assassin erupt into song! Of course, this is a Roger Corman film, so it’s also only fitting that he screw said song up real good.


(Beverly Garland is riding a horse when Assassin rides up to her)
Tom: Don’t sleep in the subway…oh hi!

Nothing to do with movies. Just like the song.


(Music plays as Beverly Garland rides along on her horse)
Servo: (singing) Gold finggguuuhhh, Gold finggguuuhh, gold…finger…

I like how he just kind of peters out at the end. He’s singing (or mocking; who knows which) the theme from the James Bond flick Goldfinger (Makes sense. Tell me more.) It's sung by Shirley Bassey, who also sang the theme song to a subsequent Bond flick, Diamonds Are Forever (she also sang a great cover of "As Long As He Needs Me" from Oliver! But that's neither here nor there).


Joel: Day two, the rabbi gets robbed!

A reference to The Frisco Kid starring Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford, in which Wilder goes to the Old West to find a wife and supply a little Jewish community with a rabbi (himself). The plot itself doesn’t really matter. What matters is you get to see Harrison Ford in long underwear. Which is almost as priceless as seeing him covered only by a teddy bear in Frantic. “That’s right, man, I am crazy and I am an American!”


(Beverly Garland chucks a drunk into the slammer)
Crow: Attica! Attica!

Dog Day Afternoon. It’s about a group of guys (led by Al Pacino) who get stuck in a bank after a derailed robbery; pretty soon the media picks it up and there’s a big standoff (much bigger than it really should have been). At one point Al Pacino walks out and he yells, “Attica! Attica!” on the sidewalk (Attica being the infamous prison in which prisoners rioted and, again, there was a bloody standoff). It's a key scene in the film, and probably one of the most famous in the history of cinema. And it still holds up today. So go rent it.