Well, that’s certainly a relief! For a while there I was afraid my quiz had fallen in the Forum without making a sound. And I, too, was distressed that apparently only Tatia could identify a line of dialogue I find so powerful and memorable. You are all hereby sentenced to remedial Warlord watching.
For those of you who are playing along at home, here are the “official” answers.
1. What does Kelly sing while burning ropes from his wrists with lit incense sticks in Now You See Her, Now You Don’t?
“You live in the zoo,” part of a children’s parody of “Happy Birthday to You.” In my neighborhood the lyrics went like this:
Happy birthday to you
You belong in the zoo
You look like a monkey
And act like one too.
2. Who says “I am a thousand years old”?
Everybody’s favorite warlord, Chuang-Tzu.
3. What character(s) celebrate(s) a birthday during an
I Spy episode?
Alan Loden, feeling neglected on his 13th birthday, steals an important device from his father’s lab and heads for the amusement park; little does he know the bad guys are hot on his trail (Little Boy Lost).
Paul Mathews is so excited about his birthday piñata that he can’t sleep; little does he know it contains a vial of nitroglycerin placed there by ex-con Frank Hunter (Happy Birthday Everybody).
Papa Charley’s sons-in-law, hoping to get on his good side, present him with a birthday cake; little do they know its Chinese inscription reads “To the honorable Shen Fong, on the occasion of the opening of his new tailoring establishment, with the best wishes of the Hong Kong Merchants Association” (Carry Me Back to Old Tsing Tao).
And the baby Angela delivers is having its literal birth day; little does she know it will soon fall into the clutches of the evil Tiba (My Mother the Spy).
Birthday jacket, birthday slacks
Birthday party, birthday whacks
Birthday cake around the world
Happy birthday—it’s a girl!
Regards—
