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[edit] April 17

[edit] Another Simpsons episode

Does anyone know what episode had a fill in the blanks type gameshow? Someone said, "Duff Beer, pure taste from a mountain-", then some girl cuts in with "GOAT". Then, Homer drank his beer and said, "Mmm, you can almost taste the mountain goat." Or something like that. Mibluvr13 00:49, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Pygmoelian. Anchoress 01:42, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nora Jones

"Collaboration" with Ray Charles in 2005??? Two great entertainers one dead, one alive with a beautifully blended duet.

If Natalie Cole and Nat King Cole can sing a duet, why not ? Dying can actually increase your musical output these days. StuRat 03:02, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Indeed. Arthur Honegger said "The first requirement for a composer is to be dead", which can apply to performers too. JackofOz 05:50, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
It can, but it's risky art. As with every musical form, perhaps even more so here, recorded musical revivals can also smell funky, in the non-musical sense, to listeners. See this criticism, for instance. (The song was What a Wonderful World. Thanks to your question, it just got included in the article.) ---Sluzzelin talk 10:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Six Million Dollar Man/Andre the Giant

I am trying to find out when the episodes were shot and aired in which Andre the Giant played Sasquash. sent by KR

According to this page, he starred in "The Secret of Bigfoot", pts 1 and 2, which aired in 1976. Follow the episode links for exact air dates, but it doesn't say anything about when they were filmed. --Richardrj talk email 08:37, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] If it's not called a sequel, what is it called?

I once watched a show named A Child's Hope. It was about a doctor and social worker trying to brighten the lives of several chronically ill children.

A year later, A Child's Hope 2 was released.

If it had the same characters, and continued where the original show left off, it would be called a sequel.

However, although A Child's Hope 2 had a similar plot - doctor and social worker trying to brighten the lives of chronically ill children - the characters were not the same. They did not use the same doctor, social worker or children from the original show.

I have seen other cases of shows which have a similar title to a previous show produced by the same company, but have different characters, although the theme is the same.

My friend says these are not sequels, because they have different characters. Is he right? If so, what are they called, instead of sequels? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.189.60.105 (talk) 12:43, 17 April 2007 (UTC).

The closest term I can think of would be spin-off. --Richardrj talk email 12:52, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
What you seem to have described is one of two things -
  1. A series with two episodes where the episodes are a year apart.
  2. A series with two seasons with each season only being one episode long.
I don't think there is a term for either of these. But if the concept is the same for both the shows, it's no different, or so it seems, than all the reality shows that are all the rage nowadays. They have the same concept from season to season but different casts with the lone exception being the host. Dismas|(talk) 12:59, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Just thought of a different, possibly better, example. The television show Cops. Each episode has different "characters" because the show visits a different police department with every show (though I'm sure they've hit the same city a couple times by now) and the officers only appear in one episode. Dismas|(talk) 13:02, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

From the WP article on Sequels, 'It usually continues elements of the original story, often with the same characters and settings, although this is not always the case.' So I don't see why it shouldn't be called a sequel. --Alex16zx 15:04, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Maybe "spriritual sequel"? A lot of issues around sequels and prequels were covered in the article narratology until a couple of weeks ago when someone deleted it on grounds of not being "academic". --Mathew5000 19:54, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
I'd just call the thing a "follow-up". --Anon, April 18, 01:00 (UTC).
I'd just call it a "sequel." For example, 28 Days Later is a horror movie about zombies spread by virus in England; 28 Weeks Later is its sequel with none of the same characters but the same concept. (There are many other movies that could be examples as well.) zafiroblue05 | Talk 06:59, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
I hate to nitpick, but they weren't zombies. Zombies are re-animated corpses, and the people infected with "rage" in 28 Days Later didn't die and come back. --LarryMac 13:20, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
I'd call it a "rehash". -88.110.7.7 13:07, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reality TV Show - Survivor

I wanted to know if there were lyrics or any meaning to the theme song from the Reality Tv Show "Survivor, produced by Mark Burnett and airs on CBS on Thursday nights.

The Name of the Song is Ancient Voices and it is the number 1 and number 19 tracks on the official first season soundtrack.


72.51.110.107 15:47, 17 April 2007 (UTC) Israel.

[edit] how to?

How do you create a link in a page or an effect where you type in The Rock and get different rock reference pages. Kinda like the SEE ALSO pages.

I type in Dykstra and brings up every person with dykstra in their name. How do I get that sort of effect with the page i am creating? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kj102586 (talk • contribs) 18:15, 17 April 2007 (UTC).

Kj102586 18:16, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

It's unclear exactly what you are asking. Do you want the "What links here" function? It is generally under "toolbox" in the leftmost column of any page. Also within the wiki source you can type [[Special:Whatlinkshere/The Rock]]. --Mathew5000 19:59, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
I think he wants to make a disambiguation page. See Wikipedia:Disambiguation. Splintercellguy 22:14, 17 April 2007 (UTC)