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[edit] Colour timing
It looks to me as if the colours in the second half of the episode are very rich and over-saturated. Could this be a deliberate reference to the movie's switch from sepia to colour when Dorothy arrives in Oz or have I imagined the whole thing? Tomsalinsky 00:44, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Munchkin?
Is Jack (Cox's son) being painted green supposed to be a munchkin reference? Munchkins in the MGM movie were not green. This could also have been a reference to the Wicked Witch of the West (the only character with a green face that I can recall) or The Emerald City, but neither seems quite right to me. Tomsalinsky 01:01, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I have now amended this part of the table. Tomsalinsky 13:24, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
This might be a stretch, but could it be a reference to Gregory Maguire's books? Jack is, after all, the "Son of a Witch."
[edit] Book or Film
It seems clear to me that the episode is specifically referencing the 1939 film and no other version of the story. Whenever 1939 film and original book conflict, the episode references the film (e.g. ruby slippers) and many references are film-specific (e.g. Bolger, "Over the Rainbow"). I have re-written the intro accordingly. The original intro pedantically differentiated between the movie title "The Wizard of Oz" and the book title "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and then refered to the "movie of the same name". I have removed this confusion. I have also tidied up or added a number of other allusions and done a bit more house-keeping. Tomsalinsky 13:48, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Title Reformat
Should the name of this article be reformatted the way other shows are? Example: Shindig (Firefly episode) I don't know how exactly to do this, so I figured I'd ask in the hope that someone else can do it. :) EVula 21:09, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Article moved/renamed. EVula 19:39, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Getting desperate now
I'm sorry, but I can't see any resemblance between "Payback is a bitch" and "The lollypop guild" which couldn't also be applied to any musical number in "Scrubs" and any musical number in any other musical film. I also think the presence of a cow in the cyclone has nothing whatsoever to do with the manatee. We could play this game all day (Turk is keen to assist in a *transplant* operation, just as Dorothy was *transplanted* to Oz...) but I think it should be at least reasonable to assume that the references were deliberate choices by the writers and production team. If no-one objects, I will delete these two allusions. Tomsalinsky 15:02, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
- I agree that "pyaback is a bitch" is an incredibly weak reference. The manatee one almost makes sense, after thinking about it, but I certainly didn't catch it at first. Go ahead and delete both. EVula 18:37, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] more perhaps?
the first patient eliot displays her knowledge of endocrinology on is named Mr. Baum - L. Frank Baum is author of the Wizard of Oz.
The psychologist who was originally supposed to give the lecture that eliot must do now is named Dr. Burke - Billie Burke played Glinda the Good witch of the North
Eliot assumes Dr. Burke backed out of the lecture on fear of public speaking because he's afraid of public speaking, Dr. Kelso reveals that his depression got the better of him and he hung himself - There's a urban legend about the Wizard of Oz that a munchkin became overly depressed during filming and hung himself. It is however, merely a bird in the background (for info about the urban legend, go to http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/ozsuicid.htm)
Cox, befuddled as to where Eliot is getting her seemingly miraculous answers to all things endocrinological, comments as if the answers "are falling out of the sky" - Dorothy gets to Oz when her house falls out of the sky
EVula, you dog, I've found you in a random article! Mindule 02:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
