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Subject: Hawaii 5-0 and Underdog
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Date: Tue, 30-Aug-83 12:21:23 EDT
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  The Hawaii 5-0 theme was done by the Ventures, who have the distinction
of having sold more albums than any other musical group ever.  Or so I heard
a year ago.

  Laura mentions the villain Simon Bar Sinister from Underdog.  "Bar Sinister"
is a term from heraldry that refers to a bar across the shield from upper
right to lower left, and was used in medieval times as an indication of
bastardry (you took the coat of arms of your father with a bar sinister).
So we can translate Simon Bar Sinister into Simon the Bastard, which I always
thought was a pretty clever thing to slip past the censors.

  Any other examples of "inside" jokes in cartoons/old shows?


					-- Scott Turner
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