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June 25

Award show opening monologue referencing House (TV series)

This is a long shot, but:

A few months ago, I went on a binge and watched a lot of award show opening monologues on Youtube (Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globes, etc). In one of them, a comedian delivered the line: "Can you imagine a real doctor doing what Hugh Laurie does?"

Which award show was this and what year was it?

I'm pretty sure it was a joke about House (TV series), so definitely after 2004 after House started airing. And jokes are usually topical, and House ended in 2012, so it was probably no later than 2015ish.

Thank you for your assistance. Any hints will be much appreciated.

Cheers, Daniel T Wolters (talk) 18:03, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I believe you are referring to Ricky Gervais hosting the 2010 Golden Globes: Golden Globes 2010. Maineartists (talk) 18:16, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's precisely it. Thank you!!! Daniel T Wolters (talk) 19:04, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

June 26

Strange Magic was supposed to have a spin-off series?

I was reading the Strange Magic page on TV Tropes recently, and in an item mentioning the "Stillborn Franchise" trope it was mentioned that there were plans for a spin-off focusing on the characters Dawn and Sunny (plans that were, if they existed, probably shelved following the film's commercial and critical failure). TV Tropes doesn't give a source for this claim and a search I just did wasn't productive. Were there really such plans mentioned at some point by the film's staff, or were such plans made-up? For what it's worth, our article on the film makes no mention about this supposed spin-off. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:04, 26 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not seeing any such mention on the TV Tropes page (assuming I'm looking at the right one): can you provide a link?

Casual web-searching shows that there is a 2020 sequel Strange Magic 2. There is also a Strange Magic ebook series (or at least volume 1 of it) available on Kindle, but this is an entirely unrelated work that just happens to have the same title. Hope this helps. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.201.73.76 (talk) 11:24, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Here: "Stillborn Franchise: There was going to be a sequel series focusing on Dawn and Sunny." Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 15:29, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[Edit Conflict] Ah, I see. That appears to be one of 14 different 'Strange Magic' pages on TV Tropes: I had only looked at the top page that came up in a search there, which I wrongly assumed to subsume all the others.

I'm not familiar with the workings of TV Tropes, but as far as I can tell (from the page's History tab), that information was added by a TV Tropes user ("Troper?) WilliamShakesman on Feb 4th 2020 at 11:32:29 AM. It appears one can message users, so perhaps you could ask him whence he got the information. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.201.73.76 (talk) 22:26, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I should clarify that the "sequel" mentioning in the Fandom link is not real. Indeed it's in a fandom called "Ideas" which makes me think it was made-up by the article writer as an idea but treated as if it were real. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 22:20, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for explaining the fictionality of "Ideas Wiki", which I had never seen before and assumed was factual when a websearch threw up that page. What a remarkably stupid concept, or at least presentation! {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.201.73.76 (talk) 22:26, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

June 27

Song lyrics

I need to get this song out of my head, so I’m asking this.

The 1978 song “Feeling That Way” by Journey says this:

When the summer's gone She'll be there standing by the light (or standing by the liiiyiiight) Once she's been to where she's gone to She should know wrong from right

Questions: What the heck does this mean? Is it about having had sex? (Many songs are about this.)

If not, then let me ask: How do you stand by a light? Was she leaning on a lamppost? It’s easy to stand under a light, but not so easy to stand by a light, unless it was a footlight.

Where has she been? Can we all go to that mystical place? Would I learn wrong from right if I went there? And do you have that knowledge once you have been there, or only once you go there, come back, and stand near a light? And is this the only way to learn wrong from right?

I need to learn wrong from right, and I want to know what these lyrics mean (if anything).

71.228.112.175 (talk) 00:50, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]