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July 13, 2005
Once More, With Feeling...
From Lani, who can't resist a Buffy reference...
Well, here we are again. Sorry for the prolonged absence, but our webhost has assured us that when we come here and write an entire blog, we'll actually be able to post it, so yay us!
I was chatting with a good friend of mine the other day about pop culture references. It appears, and this is just a layman's diagnosis, that I watch way too much television. And movies, but most of my "Huh?" inducing references come from television.
As a for instance, a little while back, I was working on something with my editor and, at the end of the process in which I'd whipped something she was very happy with out in the matter of about fifteen minutes, I wrote, "Now who's your huckleberry?"***
And she wrote back, "Huh?"
And then I had to explain that in the movie Tombstone, there's a point where Doc Holliday (played by the alternately cute and creepy Val Kilmer) wins a poker game and says, "Now who's your huckleberry?" I don't know what it means, but it seemed cute, and Adam and I use those references all the time, so it seems like normal interaction for me.
So, anyway, my good friend gave me a "Huh?" on a reference in my current WIP, and I thought I'd throw it out to the Literary Chicks Court of Opinion to see if anyone gets it. Leave your opinion in the comments section.
I have a feeling I'll have to weed it out of the WIP. I may very well be the only person to get this reference. Anyway, here's the reference; let me know if it makes sense to you:
"Izzy, I assume you're home pretending to be sick and not answering the phone. Continue to do so, because when I get home tonight, you and I are gonna have a very special episode of Blossom, kid."
All right. Who gets it?
Anybody?
***Okay. After having checked out the link to Tombstone, I discovered why my editor didn't get it - because Doc Holliday never said that. He said, "I'm your huckleberry," and somehow, in my family, it got perverted into "Now who's your huckleberrry?" Well. That explains a lot.
I stand by the Blossom thing, though.
Posted by Lani at 8:17 AM | Comments (4)
Comments
I get it Lani! I hated that show, almost every episode was a very special episode. Have fun in Reno!
Posted by: elizabeth ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.literarychicks.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 13, 2005 10:25 AM
Lani-
LOL! I sooo get it. My brother always refers to "A very special Blossom" - and I don't think he ever watched the show.
Just butting in univited here- but IMHO it only works IF two thirty somethings are joking around with each other. If Izzy is a teenager as it seems- this would have to be an ongoing joke between them, because most teenagers probably wouldn't get the whole Blossom reference (which might be okay, seeing as how most tennagers don't get their parents). It might be more effective to use a reference to something like E! True Hollywood or even the "Afterschool Special" still has some mileage (albeit cliché).
Posted by: cas at July 13, 2005 3:32 PM
I get it and I'm in the UK. (LOVED Blossom!)
I recently paid for an edit on my ms and one of the things he (yep, he) mentioned was that he didn't know who Colin Firth or Mr Darcy were and so the whole 'scene in the lake with the shirt' bit meant nothing to him.
I'm thinking ALL women would that reference, yes?
Posted by: Keris Stainton at July 14, 2005 9:17 AM
OH OH.....I so get it too!!!!
(and a big rasberry to Keris's guy who DIDN"T know who Colin Firth was....Hello... is he new to the planet??? This woman says yes to THAT reference!)
Posted by: rileymom at July 15, 2005 12:36 PM
