“This was the most physically taxing of all the film because of the lightsaber duels. Everytime I wasn’t shooting, I was rehearsing. Something that took weeks and weeks to shoot, even though it only lasts a few minutes on film. So it taxed me to the limit.”

MARK HAMILL “Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back” BTS › 1980

Important relevant thoughts courtesy of twitter

Sometimes it’s the people you don’t notice who matter just as much:

The guy in the Great Britain track suit teaching Mark Hamill how to handle a light sabre is Bob Anderson, British Olympian fencer and national coach, and fight choreographer extraordinaire. He doubled for David Prowse as Darth Vader in all the light sabre duel scenes in the original SW trilogy and was the fight director for The Princess Bride. A great coach and a wonderful human. I was fortunate to train with him a few times after he moved to Canada, and he introduced me to his favourite club in London before we moved there; I owe him a number of life-long friends. Bob passed away in 2012. 

Trek Trivia: Geordi La Forge was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in the African Confederation.

“Take a Chance on Me” is a 1978 song by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released as the second single from their fifth studio album ABBA: The Album.  It reached #1 in the UK, Austria, Mexico, Belgium and the Eurochart and #3 in the US, Germany, and Canada.

The working title of “Take a Chance on Me” was “Billy Boy”. Written and recorded in 1977 by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, it opens as a cold intro and was sung by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, with Fältskog delivering the solo passages. It has a constant uptempo throughout the entire recording. The song’s origins sprang from Ulvaeus, whose hobby was running. While jogging along, he would sing a “tck-a-ch”-style rhythm to himself over and over again, which then evolved into “take-a-chance” and the eventual lyrics.

My favorite bit of trivia: the extras didn’t speak much English and missed their cue. They were supposed to start cheering immediately. Mark Addy (Roland) shouting “Yeah!” to get the crowd going was not in the script, but it was so funny they kept it.

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)

One of my favorite things about this scene was that by this point, these three animal actors were so fond of each other that the trainers really didn’t have to do much work to make them go to each other like this. They were really that happy to see each other! 

That made this so much better!

Many of the elaborate background “sets” from the original Star Wars trilogy were actually just detailed oil paintings on panes of glass. Source Source 2 Source 3

In the Nintendo 3DS game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate, a message can be found that references Mario, pipes and mushrooms, and appears to have been written by Luigi. The writer wonders what would happen if he ate a dubious mushroom. The message is found in-game by examining a skeleton in the sewers, implying that it is Luigi’s corpse after dying from poisoning.

Somebody kill me

Each Jenny has a different symbol on their hat

And I don’t know which one to do for my cosplay…

…Holy crap, how did I never notice this before?

So THAT’S how Brock knows!

All the Joy’s are different, too. Their crosses are each different colors.

#I thought the Nurse Joy one only happened recently though #like in the new seasons

Nope. While blue and pink repeated a few times, generally each Joy had a different color city to city.

These are all from season 1 & 2 Nurse Joys.

Oh good god.

holy fucking shit how did no one else notice this it’s been like tEN FUCKING YEARS

Welp, I just learned something new. And I was in this fandom for 13 years.

I just learned yesterday that Pikachu, my favorite Pokemon, was originally designed not by Ken Sugimori (he only finalized the design), but by a female graphic designer named Atsuko Nishida. 

Also after googling her, I found out that she’s also designed Sylveon–another favorite PKMN of mine. She’s also illustrated some very pretty Pokemon cards!!

Thank you Ms. Nishida! :-) May you get more credit and love for your contribution to the Pokemon franchise.

Actor Crossover: Stargate & Star Trek

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ROBERT JORDAN

Seanchan -> Texas accent.

Two Rivers -> Irish/English accent.

Illianers -> Dutch.

Aiel -> somewhat Slavic.

Tairen -> Spanish.

Domani -> Indian.

Saldaean -> Egyptian/North African.

(Sources: 1, 2, 3) Follow Nowyoukno for more.

I always thought the “but satisfaction brought him back” part was a joke from the Munsters.

Here’s another one: “Jack of all trades, master of none,” is just one half of the saying. The other half reads “but better than a master of one.”

Okay one more: “Ignorance is bliss” is also only half of the saying. It’s “When ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.”

Pikmin.

http://tcrf.net/Pikmin/Windows_Executable

Luigi and Mario.

Welp, got the first one up! Kinda a test run; see if you’re okay with the design, layout, font, etc.

The mentioned post, here.

Episode image sources (clockwise from top left): Caper or Plastic, The Straw That Broke Two-Brains’ Back, Monkey Business, and The Rise of Miss Power.

See more WordGirl facts here.

7 Things You Might Not Know About Calvin and Hobbes

A few stories about the author, the boy, and his stuffed tiger.

According to tvguide

Tobey

writes

poetry

screaming