Talk:The Day the Fish Came Out

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Huh?

This article is supposedly about a film called "The Day the Fish Came Out", yet it starts out as if it's about "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold". At first I assumed this was vandalism, but looking back at the edit history it seems to have been that way since day one, and then morphed into a different film at some point. As it reads now it makes no sense. What is the connection between the two films?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.55.215 (talk) 22:40, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that the original author simply copied over their synopsis of The Spy Who Etc as a template, but didn't bother to change any of the details to match this film. Wikipedia has a plague of robo-editors who add categories, remove categories, add notifications, remove notifications etc - anything to bump up their edit count - and in my experience these people visit the article, hit edit, paste in their code and hit save and move on, without actually reading the article. That's why it continued to have The Spy Who Etc at the top of the article, in bold, despite being about a completely different film. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 19:17, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

1967 view of 1972

I've been checking references to this movie all over the internet, but I don't find anyone who mentions my favorite aspect of this movie.

Everyone talks about the wild costumes and the wacky music, but they don't seem to understand that this movie is supposed to take place in the future!

In the opening scenes we see a couple walking into a travel agency with a sign posted prominently on the door, "Let us plan your 1972 vacation." They have the computer set up their vacation.

The music and the costumes are supposed to represent a world five years in the future! Leeeoooooo (talk) 17:21, 28 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's occasionally opined on the Internet that this film destroyed the director's career - after Zorba he was given a shot at directing a mainstream comedy, but it barely had a release and he vanished into relative obscurity thereafter. It's not out on DVD. Unfortunately I can't find a decent source because it's so obscure. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 19:19, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The film was released on DVD on 8 August 2012. — 174.85.69.51 (talk) 16:18, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Which is off on a tangent - I was actually going to say "according to a thread on the IMDB, that shot has apparently been edited to update the date to 2013 - do you know anything about this?" -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 19:29, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]