Scott and Marty pay an oblique and pointless tribute to the world’s greatest soul-funk supergroup as they continue their deep dive into cinema’s secret continuity.
Core Connections:
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976, Dir. Nicolas Roeg)
A Mighty Wind (2003, Dir. Christopher Guest)
Ball of Fire (1941, Dir. Howard Hawks)
Connective Cameos:
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song
That’s the Way of the World
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Don’t Look Now
Performance
Walkabout
Catch-22
Pork Chop Hill
The Third Man
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
This is Spinal Tap
Waiting for Guffman
Best in Show
Mascots
For Your Consideration
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Get Him to the Greek
Independence Day
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Strange Brew
Big Trouble
Super Mario Bros
Big Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Silver Streak
Idle Hands
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Bringing Up Baby
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Some Like It Hot
Five Graves to Cairo
Sunset Boulevard
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
It’s A Wonderful Life
Intolerance
Go West
Scarface (1932)
The General
Gypsy
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
A Hard Day’s Night
Linked Films to Date: 593
