5.30.2008

The Pumaman

(a car is following another car to a British manor)
Servo: Goldfinger is following Octopussy and Oddjob!
(a shot of that gold mask thing)
Servo: Goldfinger got Mike Tyson!

Ha. These are both references to two James Bond films—the first being Goldfinger (with Sir Sean Connery as Bond) and the other being Octopussy (with Sir Roger Moore as Bond). Goldfinger is, in most people’s opinions, the better of the two, as Bond matches wits against the gold-obsessed Auric Goldfinger (played by Gert Frobe) and his big, deadly, hat-throwing henchman Oddjob while trying to get the cool pilot Pussy Galore—which, if you want to be like Sean Connery, you should pronounce “Pushay”—to play for the other team (in more ways than one wink wink). The best part about Goldfinger—besides Shirley Bassey’s theme song, and the sight of Sean Connery in a teeny terry-cloth jumper—is arguably the fight between Bond and Oddjob. Very cool. Unfortunately I haven’t seen Octopussy…yet…but I do know that Octopussy runs a circus, and Bond and her get together, and Louis Jourdan is in the movie, and he was also in The VIPs with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. And there’s a fight between Bond and a bad guy on the wing of a plane. So, had you been looking out a window on the plane and had seen them fighting, you could have yelled, “There’s a man on the wing of the plane!” and not get into too much trouble. Just saying. It should be noted that not only do Pushay Galore and Octopussy have the same…um…word in their names, but they both run circuses: Octopussy and her Amazonian woman circus, and Miss Galore and her “Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus” (begin the Monty Python theeeme…now.)

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