Talk:Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold

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Mister Beatles

We have two warring versions of which song Homestar is referring to with his first line, and thing is... both are correct. Both "Broken Wings" and "Blackbird" contain the phrase Homestar says ("take these broken wings and learn to fly") in their lyrics. Now, given the other two lines, obviously he is referring to a song. But which do we report? The Beatles did come first, but Mr. Mister is more contemporary of the other two... --Jay (Talk) 07:47, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Literally nobody knows who Mr. Mister is. --50.175.128.158 08:57, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

I don't see why we can't mention both. For the record, I was thinking of only the Mr. Mister song (it's right in the title) and had to give the Beatles song a fresh listen to remember that that lyric was in it too. — It's dot com 09:11, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

If I had to choose one, I'd choose "Blackbird" because the Mr. Mister lyric is "and learn to fly again" whereas the Beatles song goes straight to the next line after "fly". I'd probably prefer to have both, though. DEI DAT VM^┌_{datvm center}\^{super contra}_┘ 15:12, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Agreed. As that lyric is structured in "Broken Wings", it's very hard to omit the last word from it. What Homestar says is verbatim from "Blackbird" with nothing omitted. But I do see the possibility that it was supposed to be from "Broken Wings"; I also thought of that song first.

You know, things might have been different if "Blackbird" had actually been released as a single... Lots of people know "Broken Wings" but, as Anonny said, haven't heard of Mr. Mister. That artist-song divide on the radio never happened with artists as huge as The Beatles. -- ■■   PURPLE  WRENCH   ■■ 15:20, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

If we're going by personal anecdotes now, I do, in fact, literally not know who Mr. Mister is. I am vaguely aware of the group name but I've never heard "Broken Wings" before seeing the name on this wiki, while I am intimately familiar with the White Album and immediately recognized the lyric as a Beatles reference. Luckily we have other resources to fall back on than personal experience of wiki editors, and I can note that "Blackbird" is one of the most famous songs of all time, despite having never been released as a single. I'm not averse to keeping a mention of Mr. Mister on the page but an edit war over whether or not this is a Beatles lyric is ludicrous. --50.175.128.158 16:26, 25 December 2016 (UTC)