Plebian:
"A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination."
Erudite:
"Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream."
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In "Battle Of The Planets", Casey Kasem's character would yell out "TransssMUTE!", causing him to morph into the leader of G-Force.
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The erudite line is from "The Candy Man" - Sammy D., or whoever.
My instinct for the plebian is "The Twilight Zone", but "wondrous" sounds wrong somehow; I don't think TTZ is right.
Those are indeed the correct quote identifications, but the Connection is slightly more concrete than that. It's an interesting one.
The Candy Man was a song in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". That book was written by Roald Dahl.
Mr. Dahl ALSO wrote the story that "Murder at 20,000 Feet" (or whatever that one involving the plane and the little monster that eats components of the plane) was based on. I believe it was called "The Gremlins."
Was "Candy Man" in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Not what we're looking for, though. Still, I had no idea that Roald Dahl wrote the story that became "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet"--IF THAT IS INDEED TRUE, MR. BIRKEN!
Here's a post-noon hint for you: Ethan Kaye would find this Connection intriguing. It concerns one of his favourite subjects.
In fact, "The Candy Man" was NOT in Charlie and the Chocolate factory, but it was in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Subtle, meester Hobgood.
The real connection is this:
The composer of the Twilight zone theme was Marius Constant. Constant = everlasting. The macguffin in WWatCF was the "Everlasting Gobstopper", and as we know by now, TCM was composed for WWatCF.
Hoo-ah.
Ah, what a tangled web you weave, Mr. Hunley. I like your wild, outrageous, MacGuyver-like thinking.
But no.
No, the Candy Man song was not in Mr. Dahl's book. But "The Gremlins" was, supposedly, the inspiration for Murder at 20,000 feet.
Umm...does it have anything to do with Dahl hosting "Way Out," the companion show of The Twilight Zone?
If you say no, then you're a liar. Don't be a liar, Ted.
Mr. Birken: "Nein."
(I didn't say no!)
Let's say that Sammy D is a GOD of music and Rod Serling is a GOD of television, but they're both DIFFERENT TYPES of guys.
Jews?
Ben, you are SO close. You have half of it...
Well, then, that gives it away:
Serling = Jew who converted to Christianity
Davis = Christian who converted to Judaism.
Boom shacka-lacka. You are correct, sir.
Hobgood, you astound me. How do you find these things? Is all this stuff really spinning around in your head, and if so, how is there room, in there with all the porn?
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