Slow On the Uptake

[SquallHeartilly]

This is the thread for those moments (moments In Life/TV/Movies/Video Games/Books) you completely missed the meaning of, or you didn't understand something and then, days (or years) later, you're like "OOOOOOOOOOOH."

Like on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air I always wondered where the episodes of Nikki when he was one, two, three, and four years of age were... Like six years after the show ended I was on jumptheshark.com and someone mentioned he magically aged to five over night and no one noticed.

When I was younger I though To Be Announced on TV guide (menu/channel) was a show. Then I realized no show could be on every channel. I also thought Viewers Like You was a corporation--and uh, not me exactly.

Rap City on BET is a play on rhapsody. Also on a similar note, the "every kiss begins with Kay" slogan had me stumped when I was little.

Also, the name Bob Loblaw is pronounced Bah Blah Blah on Arrested Development. Which, by the way is an awesome name.

Robot Chicken Moments: Seacrest out (Ryan Seacrest was dressed as a woman and saying that). Oh, and Zombie Kurt Cobain took the shotgun from Ving Rhames and blew his (Cobain) own head off (in the Dawn of the Dead Parody).

That's all I got for now. I now have a mantra going: "You stupid, stupid child..."

[Useless]

In To Kill a Mockingbird, I actually thought Bob Ewell accidentally stabbed himself when he attacked Scout and Jem (it took me a year to realize Boo did it).

[Drave]

@ Useless: Oh man, same here. More like a week actually, but still. I thought he just fell on the knife.

And it took me three chapter's worth of Ayn Rand's Anthem to realize that Equality 7-2521 was a single person. Better than some of my friends, though, as it took them the entire damn book, up until EGO. uh, hello.

Hmmm.. It took an episode's time and some persuasive convincing for me to figure that Kino of Kino no Tabi was actually a girl. Not sure if that counts or not.

[Setsumi-san]

I didn't get Rizzo's "How are things down under?" line from Grease until five years after I had first seen it. Also, when I was very small I thought that princes and princesses only existed in fairy tales.