Talk:The Way, Way Back

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Black List

2007 Blacklist "The Way Back" by Nat Faxon & Jim Rash. -- 109.76.238.157 (talk) 16:24, 24 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Who is Joan?

"At a Fourth of July cookout, Duncan witnesses Trent and Joan kissing by the side of the house, but does not reveal what he saw." Who is Joan? --Beatriceblue (talk) 17:39, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Amanda Peet's character. She isn't mentioned prior to that, good spot. I'll add a brief descriptor of her. Corvoe (speak to me) 20:06, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Movie Title's Origin

Can someone contribute any information as to the reason why the movie is called The Way Way Back? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.31.242.174 (talk) 11:46, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'd imagine it's to do with the fact that the main character sits in the 'way way back', in Carell's station wagon. --98.247.122.32 (talk) 17:37, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The comment above is correct but for the sake of the "favour / colour / whilst" audience and any North American younger than fifty, the phrase descends from the WABAC machine, a fixture of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (itself a feature segment of Jay Ward's The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (1959 -- 1964)) through its usage as a description of the thule region of an estate vehicle or "station wagon" to which annoying and/or sullen minor children might be exiled or to which they might exile themselves on lengthy family excursions of more than a few miles. The colloquialism combines built-in nostalgia for a ground-breaking icon of adult-friendly satyrical animated television with the post-WWII baby boom holiday-making class and the emergence of youth culture. Some time during the ensuing fifty years the superlative "way way back" came to be used with particular reference to the rear-most part of ever larger, heavier and more imposing suburban assault vehicles in which an actual intercom or other electronic device might be necessary in order for the helm to communicate with the poop. Rt3368 (talk) 06:18, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Title correction

Hey, fellow obsessives! I've taken the bold (thanks, Jimmy) move of correcting this article's title by removing the comma (from "The Way, Way Back"). Every source I've found—including IMDB's page for the film—indicates it's comma-less. I've also corrected the title incidences in the article itself.
I was a bit dismayed when, during the process, I was told that links to this page would not be changed—and then visited the "What Links Here" page and found dozens and dozens of—you guessed it—linked pages. However, when I checked a few, either WP had automatically corrected their links, or they'd had the movie's correct title to begin with (those I checked, at least!). And so, optimistically – AndyFielding (talk) 06:22, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]