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The Time I Invented A Wall

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 Listen up, let me tell you a story The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - 4 A story that you think you've heard before The Simpsons Movie - 4 We know you know our names Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back - 4, 8 And our fame Fight Club - 4 And our faces Aladdin - 4, 5 All about the glories Ferris Beuller's Day Off - 4 And the disgraces Monty Python and the Holy Grail - 5 I'm done, 'cos all this time Spongebob Squarepants - 5 I've been just one word in a stupid rhyme Looney Tunes - 4  So  I picked up a pen Deadpool - 4 And a microphone The Holy mountain - 4, 5 History's about to get overthrown Robin Hood: Men in Tights - 4 Just thought I'd diversify my audience a bit. Granted, it could be considered false advertising; this post is not about musicals and is even less about Six . Most of the above screenshots came from this video . Preface: For the record, I came up with this idea completely independently, but I've since discovered that at least one person has come up w

My thoughts on Ratatousical

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This is an offshoot of another post; my brief history of Ratatouille: The Musical . This post replaces Part 5 but is its own post because it is best to divide it into its own separate sections. There are multiple references in this post to the full version of the Ratatouille musical including timestamps. They refer to this video . Disclaimer: This is not a review, but it does contain some (constructive) criticism. Remy is not a ratatouille So firstly, re the  Remy, the ratatouille, Controversy - The way they get around this is  not  what Emily suggested ( see the other blog ). They instead use it to reference (SPOILER ALERT) Remy's restaurant at the end,  La Ratatouille . This is one way around it, but IMO it doesn't matter.  Most people won't care, just like they don't care that the list of colours in  Joseph and the unnecessarily long title   contains FIVE different shades of brown (brown, ochre, fawn, chocolate, russet), FOUR shades of red (red, scarlet, ruby, crimso