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Jun 30, 2019 · Yippee beans, by the way, are amphetamines. Yippie with an -ie refers to "a member of a group of politically radical hippies, active especially during the late 1960s." The word, which originated in 1968, stands for Youth International Party and was modeled after hippie. Now how about the whole phrase, yippee-ki-yay?
- First time John McClane uses that term in the Die Hard series is when he speaks to Hans on walkie talkie. When Hans was asking him if he was anothe...
- An article on The Week.com broke down each part of the phrase: ...But where does the yippee-ki-yay part come from?...Let's break it down. The yip...
- The phrase "Yippee yi yo ki yay" is from the theme song of an extremely popular TV cartoon in the 1950s ( Quick-draw McGraw ). You have to be an o...
- Yippie ki yay is an exclamation of joy that was popularly used by US cowboys in the mid 19th century
Jul 13, 2017 · In the Die Hard film series, John McClane (Bruce Willis) repeatedly utters the phrase "Yippie Ki Yay" followed by an Oedipal profanity. Needless to say, television broadcast standards in the 1980s required such profanities to be altered before broadcast.
- Most TV edits of McClane's line are changed to "Yippie Ki Yay, my friend", not "melon farmer", though such an edit may exist. But, in Die Hard Wi...
- The video of Samuel L. Jackson saying "melon farmer" in Die Hard with a Vengeance is on LiveLeak . The only version I could find on YouTube (the o...
- It was dubbed “melon farmer” on the British Network ITV in the nineties. It’s been a running joke among my family and friends ever since. I imagine...
Nov 4, 2020 · In the Die Hard film series, John McClane (Bruce Willis) repeatedly utters the phrase "Yippie Ki Yay" followed by an Oedipal profanity. Needless to say, television broadcast standards in the 1980s ...
Jul 21, 2017 · In Die Hard with a Vengeance, John McClane (portrayed by Bruce Willis) quotes a line from the song Flowers on the wall by the Statler Brothers while speaking to Zeus Carver (portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson) Zeus Carver: What am I doing? John McClane: Cheer up. It could be worse. I was working on a nice fat suspension.
The scene where Banning meets the traitor Forbes reminded me very much of the scene in Die Hard where McClane meets "Bill Clay". The finale was very similar to the ending of Under Siege , from the knife fight with the bad guy to the following scene with Banning being instructed how to enter the abort code while the whole command center is ...
Dec 12, 2017 · In Die Hard, at some point, Hans Gruber reveals a part of his plan to John McClane: When you steal six hundred dollars, you can disappear...but when you steal six hundred million, they will find you...unless you play dead. It is unclear to me how Hans is planning to accomplish that. What follows next seems to imply to me that he plans to use ...
Dec 25, 2018 · In the iconic Christmas movie Die Hard John McClane discovers terrorists infiltrating the Nakatomi plaza. In his first encounter with a terrorist, McClane gets the drop on him but the terrorist says something like "you won't shoot me because it is against the rules" (it is clear in context that the terrorist knows McClane is a cop).
