Sorry, late to the party re To Rome With Love; nobody remembers this:
S4, Ep6
Oct. 24, 1963
The Flintstone Canaries
The barbershop quartet Fred organizes to advertise "Soft Soap" is a bathtub quartet, because Barney can carry a tune only when he's in the tub.
You're joking, right? You can't be that dumb.
shareThe theory (or joke, if you prefer) that most people can only carry a tune while in the shower or while in the tub has been around for as long as there have been showers and tubs. Hardly a rip-off by Woody or anyone else for that matter.
You've done some bad things, sweetie.
I thought of the Flintstones Softsoap episode throughout the entire film. It was the same situation with the same resolution!
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There are only so many plot devices in movies, plays, books etc. unless you want to be utterly ridiculous. Ergo, "Ten Things I hate About You, a teenage movie is "The Taming of the Shrew."
Think how many times Shakespeare has been recycled. And even Shakespeare got material from earlier Italian plays and books.
I don't know everything. Neither do you.
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absolutely correct! barney was rejected because of his normally bad singing voice until fred hears him sing in the shower, where the little guy does a virtuoso performance.
Think this plot twist goes back even farther to some 40's short subject of similar theme.