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unusual facts about So Long, Stooge


Charlélie Couture

In 1983, he wrote his first complete film soundtrack, for the movie Tchao Pantin ("So Long, Stooge"), for which he was nominated for a César Award.


Beer Barrel Polecats

Upon hearing that Curly's absence temporarily halted production on the profitable Stooge shorts, Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn forbade the ailing Stooge from taking any future time off to regain his strength.

Brideless Groom

Brideless Groom is one of four Stooge shorts that fell into the public domain after the copyright lapsed in the 1960s (the other three being Malice in the Palace, Sing a Song of Six Pants, and Disorder in the Court).

Disorder in the Court

Disorder in the Court is one of four Stooge shorts that fell into the public domain after the copyright lapsed in the 1960s (the other three being Malice in the Palace, Brideless Groom, and Sing a Song of Six Pants).

Julia Breck

She is a British actress and "glamour stooge", most famous to British television buffs for her frequent appearances in Spike Milligan's Q series (1975–80), in which she generally appeared as a buxom sexual predator.

Matri-Phony

Matri-Phony is the first Stooge film to employ the accordion-based, driving version of "Three Blind Mice" over the opening credits.

Mike Davenport

After numerous recordings, tours, and a major label release with The Ataris, So Long Astoria in which he co-wrote the song “The Hero dies in this One” Davenport played bass on Live at the Metro.

Mostly Harmless

In the alternate ending, after the destruction of Earth, the description of the Babel fish from the earlier series is replayed with an additional section, which states that dolphins and Babel fish are acquainted, and that the dolphins' ability to travel through possibility space (first mentioned in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel) and elaborated on in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish) is shared by the Babel fish as well.

After the events in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Arthur Dent and his love interest Fenchurch attempt to sightsee across the Galaxy, but when Fenchurch disappears during a hyperspace jump due to being from an unstable sector of the Galaxy, Arthur becomes depressed and travels the Galaxy alone, raising money to pay his passage by donating his biological material to DNA banks (mostly sperm, due to it having the highest payout).

Later in the series, Ford is surprised to discover that all of his contribution had been edited back into the Guide, prompting his reunion with Arthur on the alternative Earth in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

Mouseland

A variation of this story is told in Douglas Adams' novel So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, involving a democracy where people vote for lizards as their leaders.

Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards

In an article about John Lyon's questioning by the parliamentary enquiry into MPs' expenses, Private Eye described him as 'feeble' and an 'establishment stooge'.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Having been taken along to a computer fair, he became enamored of the first model of the Macintosh, the start of a long love-affair with the brand (he claimed to have bought two of the first three Macs in the UK — the other being bought by his friend Stephen Fry).

Adams' editor Sonny Mehta moved in with the author to ensure that the book met its (extended) deadline.

So Long, Stooge

This stranger has also no family, lives alone in a dingy room, and scrapes together a living as a drug dealer.

Sonny Mehta

He is well known for moving in with Douglas Adams in order to make sure Adams finished his book, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

Staring to the Sun

"Staring to the Sun" seems to be a sister song to So Long, Scarecrow's title track as the two songs share multiple lines of lyrics.

Aside from the title track, the single came with two B-sides; "City Noise", taken from their previous album So Long, Scarecrow and a cover of Pixies' "Wave of Mutilation".

Tony McHale

Tony McHale (born Antony wright) is a British actor, writer and director who is best known as a "stooge" to Jeremy Beadle on Game For A Laugh and later, Beadle's About.

We Want Our Mummy

We Want Our Mummy is the first Stooge film to employ "Three Blind Mice" as the Stooges' official theme song (the song also appeared somewhat prematurely in 1938's Flat Foot Stooges, due to some confusion in that film's release date).


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