This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

If it's a sequel to part 2, then why is it not part 3?

FWIW the first Breakin' movie is important to me because when it came out, my family ran a dance school and needed to be hip to all the trends.

Also we watched every dance movie. There is a whole camon of these,, with persistent conventions. like the "training montage." Sports and martial arts movies all hd training montages, but I submit that those are derivative of dance movie training montages.

By law, every dance movie has a big audition scene that starts off with skeptical and stuffy judges who are gradually won over by the sheer street RAWNESS of the edgy maverick protagonist dancer(s), who subvert the judges' classicism preconceptions of what dance can be.

Fame has this scene, so does Breakin'. The cliche reaches its zenith with Save the Last Dance for Me, effectively satirized in the Onion here:

https://entertainment.theonion.com/dancer-risks-everything-1819569738/amp

Like, this is literally the plot of at least ten movies:

school administrators are still baffled as to where such a talented ballet dancer could have learned a second form of dancing, some speculate Lisbon may have ventured out into the rough but vibrant neighborhoods surrounding the private academy.

"I can only assume that Cassie must have visited one of the local nightclub establishments where teens hang out and perform spontaneous, elaborately choreographed one-on-one dance competitions to the music of a young gentleman named Soulja Boy, among others," head instructor James Tillingford said. "Of course, there's no way Cassie could have infiltrated this subculture, unless she entered a biracial relationship with a young man who wanted a better life for himself than stealing cars and playing ball, someone who could teach her how to let go of her formal training—along with the pain of her mother's untimely death—and just let it flow so she could, in turn, convince his hardened, cynical friends that she was 'not bad for a white girl.'"

The only student in the history of the form to realize that ballet is incapable of expressing a whole range of different but equally true emotions, Lisbon said the road to popping and locking onstage wasn't an easy one. At times, Lisbon admitted, she felt like giving up and just performing the highly technical routine of graceful leaps and spins she had been training for over the last decade.

If it's a sequel to part 2, then why is it not part 3?

"Rappin' has a plot unconnected to the previous two films and features different lead characters and locations" is a pretty good reason. Also, it appears to be more about rappin', and less about breakin'.

Makes more sense than:

First Blood
Rambo
Rambo 3
Rambo
Rambo: Last Blood

Um, can we discuss the term "boogalee," because that is definitely the weirdest thing about that film's title, y'all.

That was the main detail I believe warrants no citation, inasmuch as someone has put it into the wikipedia to be funny.

The DVDs being sold of it use the term, too.

dammit I said no citations!

looks like that is only on one budget-price UK licensor's DVD release, and almost nothing in their catalogue uses key art or official logos, so imo it's safe to shift to "someone at the office, or the bloke who photoshops their sleeves for beer money, thought it was funny"

It's often deemed a racist slur!

ohhh yikes

Cy Curnin is dancing in a classy navy blue double-breasted suit and open-necked white shirt. He is then in a bright tube, wearing a gray sleeveless shirt with his arms and shoulders exposed. Then, in a blue tunnel, he is running with a dog.

In May 2007, Sandy Smith had launched an essay writing competition, asking entrants to attempt to prove that Junior could be considered the greatest film of all time. He obsessively started collecting copies of the film in November 2005, and eventually collected 24 copies. In February 2008, despite Sunday Herald covering the story,[11] the competition received fewer entries than there were prizes offered.

Was the prize a copy of Junior?

the criterion collection version

Originally named "Theo's Zoo bar" after the head bouncer and before the reputation of an underage venue the Zoo bar was one of the first "indie" clubs in halifax. It was classed as an alternative club where people classed the customers as slightly weird. The Djs played classics like "light my fire" the Doors_ "sympathy for the devil" the stones. Etc. later filling the dancefloor to tunes by the latest indie gods such as Suede, pulp etc. Characters always filled the club. There was "roller guy" who wore roller boots and took photos all night, "daddy Acid" who used to walk around with a bowl of fruit (apparently laced with Acid tabs). It was a real hive and buzzing place of individual clubbers.

Yorkshire or Nova Scotia?

I’m now imagining this Cat Marnell character there, spraypainting away

#onethread

Deans died of congestive heart failure in Cleveland, Ohio on July 11, 2003 at the age of 68. Rather than being interred with Garland, his body was cremated and his ashes were sent to an unidentified person in Florida.[citation needed]

Wilfred Brimley:

Prior to a career in acting, he dropped out of high school at age 14 and worked as a cowboy in Idaho, Nevada and Arizona. He joined the Marines during the Korean War and served in the Aleutian Islands for three years. He also worked as a bodyguard for businessman Howard Hughes

It sold at auction in 2004 for £744,800, which was the record at the time for any Scottish painting, and for any painting ever sold in Scotland.

Just so we're clear

Walter died on August 21, 2020, at the age of 71, from complications arising from liver and lung cancer. Despite some publications incorrectly reporting Walter's death as the 22nd, he actually died on August 21st, 2020.

between 1970 and 1972, Li worked at an army horse farm; from 1972 to 1978, was a trumpet player in a forest police unit in Jilin Province

The album was almost titled "Pink Champagne" with cover art of a pink galaxy, but they thought it sounded too much like Drake.

David was also active in extreme blues maniacs[citation needed] Dubplate Connection

I removed the anagrams of her name, which were neither relevant, remarkable, nor deliberate. There are endless anagrams of people's names, and there are websites dedicated to such anagrams should anyone really be interested. --Shantavira 17:52, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

And the anagrams in question:

Allegra Coleman anagrams include "real gal, lame con", "a lamer clone gal", and "gal all a mere con".

Don Henley of the Eagles played drums for the band during the 1989 AMA show while Adler was in rehab.

Welcome to the jungle
We got fun
Well, yeah

Lonely Hend
Needy Lohn
“En”holy End
need LY, hon?

When SSB discovered that semen made a good invisible ink, his agents adopted the motto "Every man his own stylo". However, the use of semen as invisible ink was ceased because of the smell it produced for the eventual receiver. It also raised questions over the masturbatory habits of the agents.

^from State Street Bank article - hope u didn't cash any checks from them

"I'm going to need to void this."

Towers of London are an English punk rock band, who formed in 2004. Their music mixes elements of rock and glam metal music with 1977 style British punk. The band have divided the opinions of the British music press since their emergence in early 2004, gaining positive reviews from some music news media[citation needed] and extremely negative from others.[1]

Seemingly generated from a Mad Libs.

Hmm, I love that nobody could find any positive reviews in all those years...

The 2010 United States Census[4] reported that Little Grass Valley had a population of 2. The population density was 0.2 people per square mile (0.1/km2). The racial makeup of Little Grass Valley was 2 (100.0%) White, 0 (0.0%) African American, 0 (0.0%) Native American, 0 (0.0%) Asian, 0 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 0 (0.0%) from other races, and 0 (0.0%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0 persons (0.0%).
The Census reported that 2 people (100% of the population) lived in households, 0 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.
There were 1 households, out of which 0 (0%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 1 (100%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 0 (0%) had a female householder with no husband present, 0 (0%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 0 (0%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 0 (0%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 0 households (0%) were made up of individuals, and 0 (0%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.00. There were 1 families (100% of all households); the average family size was 2.00.
The population was spread out, with 0 people (0%) under the age of 18, 0 people (0%) aged 18 to 24, 0 people (0%) aged 25 to 44, 2 people (100%) aged 45 to 64, and 0 people (0%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 55.5 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.0 males.
There were 159 housing units at an average density of 15.9 per square mile (6.1/km2), of which 1 (100%) were owner-occupied, and 0 (0%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0%; the rental vacancy rate was 0%. 2 people (100% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 0 people (0%) lived in rental housing units.

finally the kind of finely graded individual building meter data wikipedia has been sorely lacking

Resident #1: Bosko Balaban

the Sexart article is surprisingly detailed for a band whose only claim to fame was having Jonathan Davis in it at one point. hell, they didn't ever get signed to a record label, and only had 15 songs!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexart

(MacLean's late-in-life claims that he was captured by the Japanese after blowing up bridges, and tortured by having his teeth pulled out, have been dismissed by both his son and his biographer as drunken ravings)

Sexart was never signed to a record label, although creating around 15 songs.

damn that should have been enough for a record deal.

one short if I remember the rules correctly

Stephen Hayward, the original Music Man, performs this song doing a tremendous 17 hour version for which he won the world record for longest song in 1997, including instruments in this rendition including the Timpani, The Fluba, The Theramin and The Cross Grainger Kangaroo Pouch Tone Tool, without repeating a single instrument in this extravagant 1432 instrument long version of the song.[citation needed]

McGiver was married to Ruth Schmigelsky from 1947 until his death; they had ten children: Brigit, Maria, Terry, Basil, Clare, Oliver, Ian, Clemens, Boris, and Cornelia.[8] Boris, the eighth child in the McGivers' large family, followed in his father's footsteps, working as a professional actor in films and on television since 1987.[9]

McGiver was born in Manhattan, New York City, the son of Irish immigrants

He remembers playing "Let It Be" with his friend Mike Jordan, during which Dickinson discovered his singing voice while encouraging Jordan to sing the high-notes.[14] Shortly afterwards Dickinson was expelled from Oundle for participating in a prank in which he urinated in the headmaster's dinner.[14]

George Currie (born 1950) is a Scottish musician and amateur archaeologist. In the late 1970s and early 1980s Currie was the lead guitarist with the band Darts, and as an amateur archaeologist has discovered some 680 of the 3,000 known prehistoric rock carvings in Scotland.

Good one.

McGiver was born in Manhattan, New York City, the son of Irish immigrants

lol

While playing football with his brother in the park, he was discovered by theatrical agent June Collins, mother of Phil Collins. Collins enrolled both Jack and Arthur at the Barbara Speake Stage School, an independent school in Acton, west London.

She last appeared in public "fasting in a barrel" at a fun-fair in Tottenham Court Road, in the same barrel once occupied by the defrocked Rector of Stiffkey, who was in a similar desperate financial situation. She graduated to a small raised dais where she would strike artistic poses when a sufficient crowd had gathered.

Iseult's mother Maud Gonne had conceived a child, Georges, with her French Boulangist lover Lucien Millevoye. When the baby died, possibly by meningitis, Gonne was distraught, and buried him in a large memorial chapel built for him with money she had inherited. Gonne separated from Millevoye after Georges' death, but in late 1893 she arranged to meet him at the mausoleum in Samois-sur-Seine and, next to the coffin, they had sexual intercourse. Her purpose was to conceive a baby with the same father, to whom the soul of Georges would transmigrate in metempsychosis.[2]