Initially, this post was going to bring up how the start of the chorus in Nicki Minaj’s Super Bass is quite reminiscent of the bridge in Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream, but I found another angle… a sign of the times, if you will.
(SIDENOTE: If you’re interested in which portion of the songs I speak of, here you go:
SUPER BASS: Boy you got my heart beat runnin’ away/ Beating like a drum and it’s coming your way
TEENAGE DREAM: I’ma get your heart racing/ In my skin-tight jeans / Be your teenage dream tonight
That is all…)
So anyhotties, what was I saying? Oh yeah.
I only recently learned of this terrible song by ABBA called Super Trouper, and it got me thinking… this is a precursor to Nicki Minaj’s Super Bass. Besides both of them having the world super in their titles, they both have a lot more in common than you’d think (I’ve included the full videos at the end of this post, after the jump).
Aside from one being about –
Super trouper lights are gonna find me…
– and the other being about –
Don’t you hear that heartbeat comin’ your way…
– in both videos you have the following:
Icy Blue Glows
Check
Singer Closeups
Check
Topless Men
Check
Quick Costume Changes
Check
Sound Stage Night Clubs
Check
Unique Party Locales
Check
Playing With Elements
Check
Distinct Eye Makeup Choices
The Source Of Blue Glows Revealed as Spotlights
Check
Optical Effects in the Third Act
Everyone in ABBA gets a chance at being a GIF, so "check" again.
(SIDENOTE: Somehow all Target commercials accomplish the same thing.)
I don’t watch a lot of commercials these days, but I have seen some that made me raise my unibrow eyebrows. Apparently Dairy Queen has been running this odd campaign for some time now, but it does beg the question… Coinkydink or Coinkydonk?
(SIDENOTE: Another question begged… will DQ singlehandedly bring back the moustache?)
When I began working on this post, I honestly thought I’d be hard-pressed to find even five Actors! that starred in multiple comic book film adaptations. What I found was quite a closed-circuit community of future Comic Con mainstays. I’ve opted to showcase the plethora of Actors! that have played in three (!) or more characters featured in paneled ink. The double-dippers are all after the jump.
Chris Evans
Johnny Storm - Lucas Lee - Jensen - Captain America
Clearly the king, Chris Evans has been in fantastic four comic adaptations: Fantastic Four, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Losers, and Captain America: The First Avenger.
Ryan Reynolds
Hannibal King - Deadpool - Green Lantern
As Hannibal King, Ryan Reynolds did not belong in Blade: Trinity, even though King was in the Blade comic books. It’s just that Blade: Trinity didn’t need to be. Strike two came in the form of Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Wade Wilson, the merc with the mouth, without a mouth?! And though the studios were underwhelmed by Green Lantern’s opening weekend box office performance, I didn’t think it was too bad. I guess you could say that it’s his first superhero film without a colon that didn’t suck ass.
Michael Fassbender
Stelios - Burke - Magneto
Surprise, surprise, surprise. I didn’t realize Michael Fassbender wasn’t a comic book rookie in X-Men: First Class. He was also in 300 and Jonah Hex. Also, he was the guy that held up the wrong fingers in that underground bar in Inglourious Basterds. That scene still beats Magneto facing retired Nazis, but it’s not far off.
Scarlett Johansson
Rebecca - Silken Floss - Black Widow
It’s about time to get a lady on the list, and who better than the former Mrs. Reynolds. Prior to being in Iron Man 2, she was in Ghost World and The Spirit. Yes, both of those were comics.
Bruce Willis
John Hartigan - Tom Greer - Frank Moses
He’s played an aging cop in Sin City, a FBI agent in Surrogates, and a retired CIA agent in RED. I dare you to call him old.
Morgan Freeman
Lucius Fox - Sloan - Joe
Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are fantastic, and he played his part well (everything after God is a cinch). I probably shouldn’t have included Sloan, his character in Wanted, because he wasn’t in the comic book, but eh. Oh yeah… he was also in RED.
John Malkovich
Professor Sandiford - Quentin Turnbull - Marvin Boggs
You probably didn’t see Art School Confidential (neither did I), but it was a graphic novel. Actually, you probably didn’t see Jonah Hex either. RED, you probably seen. And not only on this list twice before.
Tommy Lee Jones
Two-Face - Agent K - Colonel Chester Phillips
I tried to forget Batman Forever, but as the title suggests, it’s forever in my head. Maybe I need one of those neuralizers, like in Men in Black 1 & 2, or perhaps some super-soldier serum, like in Captain America: The First Avenger.
Michael Clarke Duncan
The Kingpin - Manute - Kilowog
Daredevil, Sin City, and Green Mile Lantern comprise Duncan’s resume. People complained about him playing The Kingpin before Daredevil came out; people complained about Daredevil after it came out.
Brandon Routh
Superman - Todd Ingram - Dylan Dog
I thought Routh did a great job filling in Christopher Reeves’ iconic red boots, which sounds weird to say, but he did. He was a good choice. Too bad Superman Returns’ director, Bryan Singer, made some other strange decisions like giving Supes a kid and having him throw a Kryptonite island into space. So there won’t be a sequel to that version, but at least he wasn’t typecast. He was great as super-vegan Todd Ingram in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and even though Dylan Dog: Dead of Night was an Italian comic book, I still count it.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
The Comedian - Clay - Jeb Turnbull
You might not know Morgan by name, but you likely know him by gravelly voice (or when I’ve written about him before). He played a great psychotic hero in Watchmen, the cool as a cucumber leader in The Losers, and based upon the limited images online, a very small role (yup, he dies) in Jonah Hex, which again, I haven’t seen.
Jaime King
Jade - Wendy - Lorelei Rox
The only other lady on the triples list, King could be King Chris Evans’ queen because she technically played two characters in one movie. She was Jade in Bulletproof Monk, twins Goldie and Wendy in Sin City, and Lorelei Rox in The Spirit.
This concludes this portion of the show, although I should hand out two special awards.
The Un-S.H.I.E.L.D.ed Eye Award goes to:
Colonel Nick Fury
You see this guy everywhere… well, at least in the Marvel Studio produced films. He’s been in Iron Man 1 & 2, The Incredible Hulk, and Thor. He’s somehow in Captain America: The First Avenger, and he will definitely be in The Avengers next summer. He’s signed on to be in at least nine movies, giving him a decent list, but the patch catch is this: he’s always Nick Fury. But I almost forgot… he was also in The Spirit as this guy that loves eight of everything:
The Octopus
(SIDENOTE: Clark Gregg’s Agent Coulson appears in all the Marvel films too, but alas, he is not in any comic books.)
The Hitchcock Walk-On Award goes to:
Stan Lee
(Who else would it have been?)
Twenty-two more double-dippers can be found by clicking here —->
I only recently learned of this, and it made me suckle(!) chuckle, so I thought I’d share.
Tori Amos is probably best known for her weirdness red hair this(!) song Cornflake Girl. If you are one of those unfamiliar with it, take a piglet(!) gander:
Here’s the weird thing… she kinda was a cornflake girl:
That got me wondering about what other musicians kinda lied.
For instance, was Bruce Springsteen really Born to Run?
This is a true Coinkydonk or Coinkydonk because it is a coincidence… or not.
Both Lil Wayne and Jason Derulo have recently released new singles that sample the same song! Sure, it’s different parts of the delightful ditty, Harry Belafonte’s Day-O, also known as The Banana Boat Song from Beetlejuice, but still.
Lil Wayne’s 6 Foot 7 Foot
Jason Derulo’s Don’t Wanna Go Home
Derulo’s song also heavily samples a song by Robin S. called Show Me Love:
Which incidentally happens to share the same name, Show Me Love, as a song by a Swedish pop star named… Robyn:
In closing, doesn’t Lil Wayne bear an uncanny resemblance to Howard Stern semi-regular, Beetlejuice?
Nowadays, Amanda fights in mixed-martial arts, and in the midst of fighting she looks like the fast-running character from The Battle for Endor named Teek:
There have been a few things that I’ve remembered or discovered or wondered that didn’t warrant their own posts. So here they all are in one place!
What do Growing Pains, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, and Full House all have in common?
Well, they were all on ABC. That’s easy. But did you know remember care that Alan Thicke appeared at the beginning of Mark Curry’s new show to welcome him to the network as well as the old Growing Pains‘ set? Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper’s first show took place in the Seaver home – as is/was. That’s weird. But even weirder still was that the second episode featured Michelle Tanner (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen) and Uncle Jesse (John Stamos) from Full House. Weirdest of all – the show lasted five seasons.
EMF and Andrew Dice Clay’s worlds collided.
I had no idea that the opening “Oh!” and titular line “That’s unbelievable!” in EMF’s Unbelievable were sampled from raunchy “comedian” Andrew Dice Clay. And that’s unbelievable.
Things that still make me go hmmm…
I haven’t been able to find anything one way or another about these possible Coinkydinks or Coinkydonks, but it doesn’t mean that they’re true (or not):
Let’s get right into business, since this is overdone overdue.
Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer’s Shared History
Two and a Half Men wasn’t Sheen and Cryer’s first shindig together. That would have been 1991’s Hot Shots!
Everyone's thinking - "You were in that movie?"
Charlie Sheen and Angus T. Jones’ Shared History
Sheen and young co-star Jones each appeared in two different movies with the same title. Can you guess? No peeking below–too late.
The answer is... "The Rookie"
Charlie Sheen and Michael J. Fox’s Shared History
Everybody already knows that Sheen replaced Fox on ABC’s Spin City. But did you know that Fox had it in his contract that should he leave the show, he’d still get paid? And did you know that Sheen had this same “Michael J. Fox Clause” in his own contract? You did? Okay. Then did you realize that Sheen’s character in the Wall Street films was named Bud Fox? Is that enough of a Coinkydink or Coinkydonk for ya?
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