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Old film award and film festival[edit]

the Academy Award and Venice Film Festival are respectively the oldest film award and film festival still are there, there was the older film awards and film festivals, but that no longer are there?--87.10.182.88 (talk) 10:45, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

See film festival. 209.149.113.4 (talk) 17:38, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

there say "The Venice Film Festival in Italy began in 1932, and is the oldest film festival still running", but It does not specify if venice festival is also the oldest ever, instead about film award?--87.10.182.88 (talk) 09:59, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I also says, "Venice held the first major film festival in 1932." 209.149.113.4 (talk) 11:31, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

major does not mean the fist ever, but the fist inportant film festival.--79.32.198.13 (talk) 09:37, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Town makeover show[edit]

I am trying to find info on a show about a town makeover. It was about 10 years ago or more. I remember out being on HGTV. I remember the name being Extreme Makeover Town Edition. I remember the host being Genevieve from Trading Spaces. I remember it being a town near Greenville SC. I know my memories are wrong because I can't find the show using those memories. Can anyone find something similar? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.190.149.73 (talk) 10:57, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Very close. It was Town Haul, which was hosted by Genevieve Gorder, aired in 2006 (10 years ago), and did a town makeover for Laurens, South Carolina. However, it was on TLC, not HGTV. 209.149.113.4 (talk) 12:43, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Approximately how much would it cost to be like Larry's cousin George from VeggieTales In The House?[edit]

George has went to the moon twelve times and to Mars twice, maybe a lower bound (cheapest) and an upper bound (expensivest) estimation would be okay. If anyone with access to Netflix would go to the episode with George in it and then try to research, look up or to figure out the costs of the things he had and had been doing. I was inspired by the The Costs of Being Superman/Batman/Spiderman infographics. — Darth Tacker (talk • contribs) 23:16, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I just read the thing on the top and I'm not sure if my question falls into debate or opinion or neither. I think this may seem like a ridiculous question. — Darth Tacker (talk • contribs) 23:31, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A manned trip to the moon would cost about 1.5 billion dollars as of 2012. A manned trip to mars would cost about 6 billion dollars. --Jayron 32 01:55, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There is no reason to believe either of those estimates. -- BenRG (talk) 16:08, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There's no reason to believe anything, but would I be wrong to then assume that you have published estimates that contradict those? --Jayron 32 00:46, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The first estimate is from the Golden Spike Company, which after announcing a budget of $7–8 billion tried to raise 0.003% of that on Indiegogo and got 0.0003% (which they kept), and whose website currently just says it's under construction. The second estimate is from Mars One, which is if not an outright scam at least horribly managed. I don't have better estimates; I just don't understand why you'd think that these ones have any credibility whatsoever.

For what it's worth, Apollo program says NASA estimated that the Apollo program cost roughly $170 billion in 2005 dollars, and Human mission to Mars#Logistical says "The estimated cost of sending humans to the red planet is roughly 500 billion U.S. dollars, though the actual costs are likely to be more". (Of course those are total costs, not the marginal cost of one mission or passenger.) -- BenRG (talk) 18:40, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comedy film ID request: Kissing with both legs raised[edit]

Which comedy movie has the famous scene where a man and a woman are standing and kissing, the woman raises one leg behind her, and then the man raises both of his legs, leaving the woman to support them both on one leg? My google-fu is failing me, but I suspect that if it wasn't a Steve Martin film, it was in the same vein. -- ToE 23:20, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What does google-fu mean? I've heard of Google. Are you trying to say it to parody the term kung fu? — Darth Tacker (talk • contribs) 23:30, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

See Google-fu. ---Sluzzelin talk 23:53, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

An early spoof of the kind you described happened in Son of Paleface, back in 1952. TV Tropes' article on Foot Popping also mentions later films such Loaded Weapon 1, one of The Naked Guns, and Date Movie. --Sluzzelin talk 23:52, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ha! It's Son of Paleface I was thinking of. I sure missed the era. Thanks, Sluzzelin. If I'd thought to add "tvtropes" to my search, Foot Popping would have popped up on top of several of them. -- ToE 02:39, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Three TV questions;[edit]

What is the name of that short animation from years ago that aired on HBO Family that showed a character singing a short song about pencils, ending the song by saying "my Number 2 pencil" and a background character in their desk saying "My pencil."?
What was it called when the boxy VHS TV had this GIF-like (~3 FPS) monochrome animation of a dolphin leaping in the water in which I think the animation seemed to behave sort of like a screensaver?
What was the short animated feature that aired on Nickelodeon just a year or two ago that featured a couple going out on a picnic and have funny things coming at them? (one of the things headed towards them was the Titanic (it was on land), in which the woman held up two ice cubes and said "Oh, Titanic!" and then the Titanic turned away from them)

Multiple people can answer my question. Thanks. — Darth Tacker (talk • contribs) 23:27, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]