Episodes Season Five
501 Deja Vu All Over
Again: From the famous Yogi Berra quote, "It's deja vu all over again". Also the
title of a Charmed (22) and Xena (90, 1999) episodes, both prior to the LFN 501.
502 A Girl Who Wasn't There: The episode name comes
from a poem by Hughes Mearns (1875 - 1965) best known as the Psychoed
(alternative name the Antigonish):
As I was going up the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today...
I wish, I wish he'd stay away!
It is also a nursery rhyme listed in "The New Oxford Book of
Children's Verse" as "The Little Man".
The poem is modified by Kessler in Gambit who recites it to Madeline:
"Yesterday, I saw up on a stair, a little girl who was not there. She
was not there again today, gee, I wish she'd go away" in reference to
Madeline's sister that was killed in an accident for which Madeline
feels responsible, falling down the stair as they were fighting for a
doll. The girls who isn't there is obviously Madeline in this
episode.
The poem also inspired the title of a book, The Man Who Wasn't There,
by R. MacLeish, 1976, adapted as a movie in 1983 starring Steve
Guttenberg, and again by the Coen brothers in 2001, starring Billy Bob
Thornton.
503 In Through the Out
Door: An album by Led Zeppelin, 1979.
504 All the World's a
Stage: A quote from "As You Like It" by Shakespeare. Also the title of a live album by Rush, 1976.
505 The Man Behind the
Curtain: The Wizard of Oz (from the book with the same title
by L. Frank Baum) is also known as the man behind the curtain.
506 The Evil That Men Do:
A 1984 movie starring Charles Bronson. A more recent book (2000) with the same title by Stephen G. Michaud and Roy Hazelwood.
Also a song by Iron Maiden (Adrian Smith, Bruce Dickinson, Steve Harris), from the album Seventh Son of a
Seventh Son, 1988.
507 Let No Man Put
Asunder: From the Christian marriage ceremony. 'What God hath joined together,
let not man put asunder.' The Bible, Matthew 19:6. Also a song by First Choice, album "Delusions", 1977.
508 A Time for Every
Purpose: A quotation from the Bible, Ecclesiastes,
Chapter 3, 3:1: "For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: ...". Also a 1972
movie from the director J. Florea, starring Jack Albertson, Lesley Ann Warren, and Martin Sheen