Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!ihuxs!okie From: okie@ihuxs.UUCP (B.K. Cobb) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: GREMLINS background jokes (spoiler?) Message-ID: <549@ihuxs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 09:29:18 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxs.549 Posted: Fri Jun 15 09:29:18 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Jun-84 03:53:07 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 26 George Otto noticed some background jokes in GREMLINS. I'd like to point some of them out so you can watch for 'em next time around: - Did you notice that Gizmo and Billy were watching "It's a Wonderful Life," the prototypical Christmas movie? - At the inventor's convention, our friend Robbie the Robot was spouting lines from "Forbidden Planet." Remember the scene where Earl Holliman wants Robbie to make him some "refreshment?" - Anybody notice the "smiley face" on the refrigerator door? That's a trademark from another Dante film, "The Howling." Whenever you saw the smiley face, a werewolf wasn't far behind. I know there were some others--go see it and try to find 'em! B.K. Cobb ihnp4!ihuxs!okie