TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

I paid more attention to his explanations than to his ratings.

That is not the Navy way!

[celedhring]

Yesterday I watched "Royal Hearts", an awful Hallmark movie about Hank, a Texas rancher, who inherits the throne of Merania, a fictional central European nation. The plot, besides obvious fish out of water jokes and movie Texans trying to do things like movie Texans do things, revolves around a neighboring country trying to undermine Hank's rule and take over Merania, claiming both nations used to be a single country centuries ago. Also, Hank's daughter meets a hunky European stable boy. The film is directed by and stars James Brolin.

The "American inherits the throne of European nation" subgenre fascinates me.

[Eddie Teach]

Only one I can think of is King Ralph.

[The Larch]

The Princess Diaries comes to mind.

[Gups]

Very impressed by the first episode of the Queen's Gambit on Netflix (book is great too)

[Josquius]

Yesterday I watched "Royal Hearts", an awful Hallmark movie about Hank, a Texas rancher, who inherits the throne of Merania, a fictional central European nation. The plot, besides obvious fish out of water jokes and movie Texans trying to do things like movie Texans do things, revolves around a neighboring country trying to undermine Hank's rule and take over Merania, claiming both nations used to be a single country centuries ago. Also, Hank's daughter meets a hunky European stable boy. The film is directed by and stars James Brolin.

The "American inherits the throne of European nation" subgenre fascinates me.

Do the locals all speak English with posh accents?

[celedhring]

Yesterday I watched "Royal Hearts", an awful Hallmark movie about Hank, a Texas rancher, who inherits the throne of Merania, a fictional central European nation. The plot, besides obvious fish out of water jokes and movie Texans trying to do things like movie Texans do things, revolves around a neighboring country trying to undermine Hank's rule and take over Merania, claiming both nations used to be a single country centuries ago. Also, Hank's daughter meets a hunky European stable boy. The film is directed by and stars James Brolin.

The "American inherits the throne of European nation" subgenre fascinates me.

Do the locals all speak English with posh accents?

Of course they do. In particular the villainous king of the neighboring kingdom.

[The Brain]

What's the deal with neighboring kingdoms anyway? Why are they always jerks?

[Eddie Teach]

What's the deal with neighboring kingdoms anyway? Why are they always jerks?

Just replace the fictional country with Denmark or Norway.

[HVC]

The "American inherits the throne of European nation" subgenre fascinates me.

We're only one plane crash away from making it happen.

[Valmy]

Only one I can think of is King Ralph.

There are actually a weird number of variations on that theme. Not exactly inheriting the crown but getting mixed up in obscure royal family in obscure European English speaking country somehow.

Prisoner of Zenda (which is an Englishman who is coincidentally identical to the king of small European Nation) is kind of the pregenitor I think.

Well then there is also how Albert Fairfax, a Marylander, discovered he was actually a titled Scottish nobleman and returned to the UK and took his place in the House of Lords.  So we do kind of have one example of where that actually happened. Some American discovered that he was in fact the rightful heir to something and went back to do his aristocratic thing late in his life. Not exactly King of Ruritania though.

[Razgovory]

Does Duck Soup count?

[Barrister]

Does Duck Soup count?

That crossed my mind, but Groucho was appointed President, not a hereditary leader.  Besides I don't think it was specified that Groucho wasn't from Freedonia anyways.

[Sheilbh]

Well then there is also how Albert Fairfax, a Marylander, discovered he was actually a titled Scottish nobleman and returned to the UK and took his place in the House of Lords.  So we do kind of have one example of where that actually happened. Some American discovered that he was in fact the rightful heir to something and went back to do his aristocratic thing late in his life. Not exactly King of Ruritania though.

His grandson's back in the House of Lords - won a recent hereditary peers by-election.

[The Brain]

Well then there is also how Albert Fairfax, a Marylander, discovered he was actually a titled Scottish nobleman and returned to the UK and took his place in the House of Lords.  So we do kind of have one example of where that actually happened. Some American discovered that he was in fact the rightful heir to something and went back to do his aristocratic thing late in his life. Not exactly King of Ruritania though.

His grandson's back in the House of Lords - won a recent hereditary peers by-election.

I thought you got a seat automatically if you were a peer. WTF UK.