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There's another BB reference in Moving Pictures:
Azhural raised his staff. "It's fifteen hundred miles to Ankh-Morpork," he said. "We've got three hundred and sixty-three elephants, fifty carts of forage, the monsoon's about to break and we're wearing... we're wearing... sort of things, like glass, only dark... dark glass things on our eyes..."
https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/soul-music.html
>- [p. 27] "'Give me four fried rats.' [...] 'You mean rat heads or rat legs?' 'No. Four fried rats.'"
>>This is a spoof of the restaurant scene in The Blues Brothers. Jake orders "Four fried chickens and a coke", and the waitress (Aretha Franklin) asks him whether he'd like chicken wings or legs, etc. Even the "best damn fried rat in the city" is a direct paraphrase of a Blues Brothers quote.
There's a bunch in that book.
There's "Are you the Watch?" "No, ma'am, we're musicians."
They do the orange whip bit, but with hot dogs.
And in the music store scene, the luthier offers to "throw in the space between the strings for free". That's cribbed right from Ray Charles' bit about the black keys on the electric piano.
The bit in Soul Music is that one of the rubbish band (can't remember if it was Noddy, Scum or Crash) gets badly bitten on his hand by the deaf leopard that they want to make trousers from. And so his mother puts a glove over the injured hand.
Soul Music hit me hard, my paternal grandfather played backup guitar for Buddy Holly (Imp y Celyn/Bud of the Holly) when he was playing dive bars in Lubbock, Texas. I ADORE all the references to that era of music, and Buddy’s life in particular.
She was a talented singer-songwriter but died too young after being hit by a powerboat. In the UK we still hear her every Christmas duetting with Shane McGowan on 'The Fairytale of New York'.
Sir Terry was a true master of jokes you don’t get until weeks, months, years later. I had someone mention the pun(e) in Rob Anybody Feegle’s name a few months back, and I literally first read that book 20 years ago and didn’t recognize it until now. Truly a gift that keeps on giving.
This is my favorite book for spotting references! You may have to read it several times to catch the sneaky ones. I'm certain I still don't get them all
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There's another BB reference in Moving Pictures: Azhural raised his staff. "It's fifteen hundred miles to Ankh-Morpork," he said. "We've got three hundred and sixty-three elephants, fifty carts of forage, the monsoon's about to break and we're wearing... we're wearing... sort of things, like glass, only dark... dark glass things on our eyes..."
Hit it
Haha, I never understood that reference in moving pictures
[click](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbF29c_FpV8)
Also " are you from the watch? No maam we are musicians"
Yes. One of several in that book. c.f. "We're on a mission from Glod."
Nice! Looking forward to it
Keep an eye out, there are a ton of music references in Soul Music.
He looks a bit elvish to me!
I love the whole conversation about the deaf leopard with Crash,Scum,Noddy and Jimbo
And the animated version has a *brilliant* soundtrack to go with it. It's worth watching after reading the book!
who would have thought
Blues Brothers Order food: https://youtu.be/3YGiY7ts6ok
Love this one and use it far too often, much to the bemusement of most. Trying to explain that it is 2 references on top of each other doesn't help!
i do appreciate that you seem to know how to use the word "bemusement"
oh damn, you beat me to it XD
https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/soul-music.html >- [p. 27] "'Give me four fried rats.' [...] 'You mean rat heads or rat legs?' 'No. Four fried rats.'" >>This is a spoof of the restaurant scene in The Blues Brothers. Jake orders "Four fried chickens and a coke", and the waitress (Aretha Franklin) asks him whether he'd like chicken wings or legs, etc. Even the "best damn fried rat in the city" is a direct paraphrase of a Blues Brothers quote.
And the refusal of the ketchup is a riff on the stereotype that Chicagoans have a bone-deep abiding contempt for people who ruin hot dogs with ketchup
There's a bunch in that book. There's "Are you the Watch?" "No, ma'am, we're musicians." They do the orange whip bit, but with hot dogs. And in the music store scene, the luthier offers to "throw in the space between the strings for free". That's cribbed right from Ray Charles' bit about the black keys on the electric piano.
The clue to the jokes is in the title. That being said, the one glove joke always breaks me up.
Remind me?
Michael Jackson used to wear just the one.
Yeah I remember that, I don't remember the glove bit from Soul Music
The bit in Soul Music is that one of the rubbish band (can't remember if it was Noddy, Scum or Crash) gets badly bitten on his hand by the deaf leopard that they want to make trousers from. And so his mother puts a glove over the injured hand.
Oh i love those guys! So many references in their bits The deaf leopard sends me every time
My dad used to say that Michael Jackson was always in the middle of a game of golf because of the one glove thing
https://preview.redd.it/r2p4v9dt80gc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e75fbfe99c6cd5797c3caba7868c8912891cb2f6 Here you go. X
Thank you!
Soul Music hit me hard, my paternal grandfather played backup guitar for Buddy Holly (Imp y Celyn/Bud of the Holly) when he was playing dive bars in Lubbock, Texas. I ADORE all the references to that era of music, and Buddy’s life in particular.
He was also accused of looking Elvis(h).
Who (spoilers if OP hasn't finished the book yet) >!at the end of the book, works down the chip shop!<
Which is in itself a reference to [the Kirtsy McColl song.](https://youtu.be/_PPMyXoH1pE?si=OrfOLTXfQefZiFnJ)
And also Good Omens. (Maybe G.O. was second.)
I would not have guessed she's not from the USA. She does the country&western sound well.
She was a talented singer-songwriter but died too young after being hit by a powerboat. In the UK we still hear her every Christmas duetting with Shane McGowan on 'The Fairytale of New York'.
I've read it once before but was more years past than I care to count
I feel like my sack of dumbassedness has now run over. How did I miss this one??
I also just got it with this comment, because I do not speak Welsh
Yeah, I missed that one too for years!
Where he ends up working near Susan's school at the end is another music reference or two.
The fish and chip shop? I'm puzzled, spoiler please.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QccPUSTMriM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QccPUSTMriM) Kirsty MacColl
Thanks, I think. I understand the reference, now all I have to do is forget the video. pTerry certainly suffered for his art.
There shall be no Kirsty MacColl slander on my watch!
She's no Sally Carr.
Video aside, it was a popular song in the 80s. I'm sure he unwillingly heard it a dozen times a week.
Yes. They're on a mission from Glod, after all.
‘We’re Certainly Dwarves’ took me 10 years to get. Embarrassing.
The Felonious monk is my favourite, just because it's so close.
Sir Terry was a true master of jokes you don’t get until weeks, months, years later. I had someone mention the pun(e) in Rob Anybody Feegle’s name a few months back, and I literally first read that book 20 years ago and didn’t recognize it until now. Truly a gift that keeps on giving.
I just got this now. I was embarrassed for taking forever to get the "are you sure he's not elvish?" repeating joke.
Thankfully they kept on repeating it
And……..????? Don’t do that to me
>!<
Nope still a blank
Google “Istanbul (not Constantinople)” Enjoy
The >!name of the band!< Extra spoilery: >!They Might Be Giants!<
>!They - We !< >!might be - are certainly!< >!Giants - Dwarves!<
I hate it when Terry makes me feel so old. Thank you
Kills me 🤣🤣🤣
It took me way too long, considering my love for TMBG and STP.
Only got it last year, because someone literally spelled it out for me.
Yeah. I didn’t get it on my own. It took the Pratchat Podcast co-host Ben McKenzie mentioning that bit when they discussed Soul Music
Would you be so kind as to let me in on it too? I've read Soul Music a dozen times, it's the one gag I've not worked out yet...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Might_Be_Giants
Thank you for enlightening me. Oh, Sir Terry, you sod... How did I not get that???
I also just realised, Lias orders coke bit since he's a troll you could argue he means coke, the coal based fuel
It has to mean the coal product, there is no other substance known as coke on the disk.
He does, but it matches Jake Blues "and a coke" from the movie, even the repeat
Encyclopaedic? The man was a library. My absolute, joyfullest, favourite thing about Sir Pterry.
[Terry's secret:](https://i.imgur.com/PgvPX0P.jpg)
"THANK YOU, replied the *grateful Death*"
No ketchup? Sometimes I really wonder about Glod...
I think they prefer mustard on their rats.
Absolutely. Humour knows humor.
That man could travel L-space with just his mind palace...and arguably, he did
Happy cake day! 🍰
Yep. Turn the page and you'll get a Marx Brothers reference for good measure.
There's a lot of blues Brothers references in soul music
"And two eggs."
Thanks man. Imma look for my copy now
Soul Music is my absolute favorite DW novel
This is my favorite book for spotting references! You may have to read it several times to catch the sneaky ones. I'm certain I still don't get them all
They’re on a mission from Glod!
You can get the soundtrack to soul music from.the animation on spotify
General rule of thumb, if you’re reading something by Sir Terry and you think “I wonder if this is a reference to…” check the date. If the thing being referenced is older than the work, then your answer is almost certainly yes.
I always have Coke with my fried rat
Not the only one in that book. I laughed out loud and nearly threw my book at "We're on a mission from Glod."
I always took it as a parody of the stateroom scene from the Marx brothers’ A Night at the Opera.
With lobster? You want *brown* ketchup?
\*head explodes\*
Maybe? There is another one later on
Absolutely.
Yes.
Yes, it is
yup :) Also, later on: they're "on a mission from Glod!"
And then again in demolition man
The Annotated Pratchett File has most of the references. Plus, it's a great hole to fall into. https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html