daily knowledge: Weird Al's Jurassic Park is a parody of Jimmy Webb's MacArthur Park. on top of Jimmy Webb simply loving the parody, Al has stated that there were multiple times where he attended one of Webb's concerts, and Webb began singing MacArthur Park, pretended to forget the lyrics, and invited Al on stage to finish the song by singing Jurassic Park instead.
There is a 2000 disaster film called Vertical Limit in which a bunch of people have to climb a mountain while carrying giant canisters of nitroglycerin, for some reason. So if they ever slip and fall, or if they, like, get exposed to the sunlight for a while, they explode. It was very badly received, and the only things I remember about it are the contrived premise, and a scene where two of the characters are climbing, and one of them is singing "MacArthur Park", and the other asserts, "That's not a real song." And the first character says something like "It's a good song. A winning song, by the sound of it." This scene haunts my waking thoughts constantly.
If memory serves they call back to it later, in one of those tense moments where someone defuses it by making a reference to the lighthearted banter they were doing earlier?
