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Husband is playing Batman: Arkham Asylum and we noted the Joker using the line from the Three Stooges short feature, Men in Black (no relation plotwise!), "Paging Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard..." As you might expect in the Wikipedia article, there's a short section with other pop culture references.
I mused aloud that it probably said something about the US that the Three Stooges were such a big part of our pop culture inheritance, rather than being forgotten in the slag heap of Hollywood, and struggled to think what, if any, would be comparable points in the cultures of Canada and Britian. I mean, the Kids in the Hall and Monty Python immediately come to mind in the skit/slapstick/silly comedy arenas, but those are both much more recent. (And more clever, to my mind, although maybe it's a different kind of cleverness; as I remarked to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cosmiccoz the other day that I couldn't imagine Dr Who lines appearing in any American TV shows, that our screenwriting seemed fundamentally different in character, I suppose the converse? inverse? is true as well.)
So I wonder, and ask the hive mind: what, if the question is sensible (and it may not be; it may be too Americentric, and the focal points are elsewhen elsewhere), are really the blocks which have the same place in respective pop culture piles as the Three Stooges do in that of the US?
I mused aloud that it probably said something about the US that the Three Stooges were such a big part of our pop culture inheritance, rather than being forgotten in the slag heap of Hollywood, and struggled to think what, if any, would be comparable points in the cultures of Canada and Britian. I mean, the Kids in the Hall and Monty Python immediately come to mind in the skit/slapstick/silly comedy arenas, but those are both much more recent. (And more clever, to my mind, although maybe it's a different kind of cleverness; as I remarked to
cosmiccoz the other day that I couldn't imagine Dr Who lines appearing in any American TV shows, that our screenwriting seemed fundamentally different in character, I suppose the converse? inverse? is true as well.)So I wonder, and ask the hive mind: what, if the question is sensible (and it may not be; it may be too Americentric, and the focal points are elsewhen elsewhere), are really the blocks which have the same place in respective pop culture piles as the Three Stooges do in that of the US?