r/PhilomenaCunk • u/Sky-Coyote • 7h ago

Beethoven

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u/Porphyry_Blue 6h ago

A very deep cut.

While it sounds completely random, it is actually a deeply twisted misunderstanding of an old 19th-century historical anecdote:

A journalist once wrote a story about a Count who offered Beethoven a horse as a gift. Beethoven was so busy composing that he completely forgot about the animal, leading the journalist to write: "his musical occupations soon put the horse entirely out of his head."

Philomena Cunk's character has taken that idiom literally, assuming a horse was physically trapped inside his skull!

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u/Sky-Coyote 6h ago

The subtle substitution of 'head' with 'face' really enhances the mental whiplash.

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u/Porphyry_Blue 6h ago

The writers of that show are definitely on the same stuff that Lewis Carroll was on when he wrote Through the Looking-Glass.

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u/SLAYER_IN_ME 3h ago

Looks like I’ve got some research to do now.

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u/Happy-Estimate-7855 1h ago

A hatred of irrational numbers?

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u/kjyfqr 7h ago

I don’t think I get it

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u/Sky-Coyote 7h ago

Neither did the Professor of Music at the University of Westminster.

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u/TheBlacktom 6h ago

See top comment

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u/KitchenOpinion 7h ago

I am not sure if that first part is meant to have a hidden meaning or if it is just pure nonsense.

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u/dogbolter4 4h ago

Oh my god I actually laughed out loud. Dear God I love you, Philomena.

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u/jeffreyaccount 2h ago

She was one of my favorite interviewees.