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TBS movie[edit]

I remember watching a movie on TBS, but I can't quite remember the name. It was a romance/comedy/drama with two men and a woman. One of the men is a businessman who closes an important deal with an Asian-looking business group. He goes to a celebration (I think it was for the birth of his child) with his wife, who he's having disputes with. The second man starts dating a woman and they go to baseball games, restaurants, etc. I remember one scene where she makes him pull her boots off but he runs out, goes to the first man's celebration, and kisses his wife. The ending was that the two men wake up, finally in their own bodies. I was just wondering if anyone knows which movie this is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.0.150.146 (talk) 03:43, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your penultimate line is the important one here - you probably should have led with that. :-) That gimmick is known as a body swap. We actually have an (incomplete) list of movies featuring body swaps here. Have a look and see if anything strikes a memory with you. TV shows are just further down. Going by that list, most body swap movies centre on the contrast of having differing personalities switch bodies; having two grown men swap bodies seems rather uncommon, to the point where it looks like that movie is not on our list and/or suggestive that maybe you're confused about what actually happened. Matt Deres (talk) 13:22, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Why does Rey have a posh accent in Star Wars?[edit]

I don’t think it’s that interesting to look for in-Universe explanations why Star Wars characters sound American and some sound British, But j Am interested in why the filmmakers either allowed or encouraged the actress Daisy Ridley to speak all her lines using the Queen’s English.

I think that accent worked in previous films for characers like Obi Wan kenobi (a highly educated monk) and Grand Moff Tarkin (a cruel patrician ruler), Rey is a scavenger from an extremely humble background. So even though there’s no upper class England in Star Wars, it makes sense to our ears as an audience why Kenobi or Tarkin would talk that way.

Can there be any justification for Rey’s accent? Again, not looking for reasons why some Star Wars characters talk American and others talk British—I’m just asking about that particular dialect.

I’ve never seen any other movies or TV shows with Ridley.Can she do a more working class accent? She seems like a capable actress--69.121.235.11 (talk) 15:04, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There is one very good justification: she is English. She may have been directed "Talk like you talk". Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:09, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if there's a Star Wars canon on which groups of people have which english accents. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:12, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

See: Rey's English accent in Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a clue about her parents,

also: Star Wars Accents Primer: How Rey's Voice Is The Biggest Clue To Who She Is. Alansplodge (talk) 15:29, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What music played on SNL March 10?[edit]

A man on the street interviewed people to ask whether they liked rock or rap better. During much of this time, really loud rock music was playing.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:05, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Can you find a youtube link? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:10, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'll do that later this week. Doesn't the entire SNL episode appear online? This was one of the last things they did.

I've still got "viewer discretion advised" with "The Mick" on a DVR if there's a way to send the entire video.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:08, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand this comment. Do you have the part of the show in question on DVR or not? If you do, just do what everyone else will do and Shazam or otherwise reverse lookup the music. Matt Deres (talk) 01:43, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The SNL episode I deleted. I still have "The Mick" but don't know how I would use Shazam or anything else with a DVR.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:48, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you have an Android capable phone, you type in the Google box "What is this song". Then it listens to the song and tells you the name. I don't know if Apple products have a similar feature, but I suspect they do. --Jayron 32 23:05, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

They do. Siri can be summoned to listen to songs and identify them. However, I still don't understand the comment. User:Vchimpanzee, do you have access to the song or do you not? Your references to "The Mick" mean nothing to me. If you have access to the song, play it and have your cell phone identify it. Matt Deres (talk) 03:31, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify further, Soundhound and Shazam are both on iOS and Android. So if you're willing and able to install apps on your smart phone and have either of these OSes then you should be able to use them. They're usage is fairly obvious when you try them. You click the button and then it listens to the music. So you open the app, start the music and push the button. As mentioned, its likely default apps can also do this. (If the music is very short, push the button then start the music.) As for whether it will work with the Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2018 February 28#What is the Viewer Discretion Advised music on "The Mick"? I don't know. It could be this is just a minor piece of music either composed for the purpose or obtained from one of the many royalty free music services. And I suspect the part may also be very short and the voiceover isn't likely to help. But it can't hurt to try. Nil Einne (talk) 11:11, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Me have phone have buttons on it. Plug into wall. Jane wash clothes in river. Tarzan hunt. Find clip.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 13:54, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]