Where (and what) are the Easter Eggs on the Special Edition
DVD?
This content was originally collated and submitted to Warner
Brothers by BBI Mojo, who created and produced the special
features for the Buckaroo Banzai Special Edition DVD. All of the
DVD material was written by W.D. Richter and Earl Mac
Rauch. All of the DVD menus and bios were also written by
Earl Mac Rauch. You can purchase the Buckaroo
Banzai DVD or the Buckaroo
Banzai Blu-ray on Amazon.
Special Edition DVD Easter Eggs
There are five Easter Eggs on the Buckaroo Banzai Special
Edition DVD.
1) If you select the middle Jet Car image on the first menu screen, you will be able to scroll through a selection of quotes from Doctor Banzai.
These are all the quotes on the DVD:
"No Matter where you go, there you are." -B. Banzai
"Nothing real can defeat us. Nothing unreal exists. " -B. Banzai
"Nobody is nobody. Everyone has something to offer." -B. Banzai
"If all wishes were granted, what would be left to dream?" - B. Banzai
"Nothing is ever what it seems, but everything is exactly what it is." - B. Banzai
"Mystery is the source of all true art and science." - Masado Banzai
"Hope is A Dream by One Who is Awake" - Aristotle
"The Roots of Education Are Bitter, but the Fruit Is Sweet" - Aristotle
"Every year we pass the anniversary of our death" - B. Banzai
"Sometimes verbal ingenuity is not enough" - B. Banzai
2) If you select the yellow circle in the top left corner of
the first menu screen, you will be able to scroll through 36
alternate DVD menu designs.
3) If you select the Banzai Institute logo on the Banzai
Institute Archive Menu screen, you will be able to scroll
through two alternate DVD cover designs.
4) If you select the watermelon image on the first Deleted
Scenes Menu screen, you will be taken to an article called "Food
from the Skies?" which discusses why the Banzai Institute was
putting watermelons in high gauges.
Food from the Skies?
New Jersey Times- October 28, 1985
It wasn't exactly manna from Heaven, but residents of New Brunswick were treated to a rare sight yesterday. A helicopter hovering above an abandoned industrial park dropped watermelons 10,000 feet to the concrete below.
Miraculously, many did not break.
The somewhat bizarre experiment is part of an on-going research project by the Banzai Institute. The ultimate goal is to drop the melons over famine stricken areas as a means of delivering much-needed food.
In a statement issued by the Institute, project coordinator Perfect Tommy said, "If we can grow these, instead of collecting food and wrapping it for dropping, it should shorten emergency response time, as well as lessen the costs of such endeavors."
Early tests included compression of the specially enhanced watermelons between two industrial strain gauges.
"We learned a lot from those tests," Tommy said. "Mostly we learned to cover the lab in plastic tarps before we begin."
5) If you select the BB logo on the second screen of the "Food
from the Skies?" article, you will be taken to a video clip of
W.D. Richter called "Why?" where he discusses watermelons and
shows a recipe for Chicken in a Watermelon.
This is the recipe that is revealed in the Easter egg.
Chicken in a Watermelon Recipe
Total time : 5 hours
1 very large watermelon
1 roaster chicken, about 5 to 6 pounds
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1 lemon
1/2 cup soy sauce
1 teaspoon five-spice powder
2 tablespoons chilled butter.
- Cut a 1/4-inch-thick horizontal slice off bottom of watermelon, so it won't roll. Discard. Cut off the top third of the melon horizontally, then scoop out seeds and enough of the pulp from both remain parts to make room for the chicken.
- Season cavity of chicken with salt and pepper. Insert lemon pricked with fork, along with 1 tablespoon of the soy sauce. Brush outside of chicken with remaining soy sauce, and sprinkle with five-spice powder,
- Place chicken in the larger part of the melon, and position the other piece of melon on top, securing with long skewers.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees, and bake 2 hours. Then, reduce heat to 300 degrees and bake 2 1/2 hours longer.
- Place watermelon on a tray and show it to guests. Return it to kitchen: remove chicken and carve. With a ladle, remove juices from watermelon and reduce in skillet until thickened; whisk in cold butter and spoon over chicken before serving.
Yield: 8 servings.
Approximate nutritional analysis per serving: 520 calories, 25 grams fat, 140 milligrams cholesterol, 1,185 milligrams sodium, 45 grams protein, 30 grams carbohydrate.
After 20 years of painstaking research, endless
experimentation, and numerous moppings of the lab, Blue Blaze
Irregular Big Shoulders reports that Phase 2 of the Watermelon
Airlift Delivery Project is a complete success.
As many of you no doubt remember, Phase 1 was to develop a food
source that could be dropped from a low-altitude aircraft into
remote areas of the world. The watermelon was chosen and
ultimately proved sucessful. Phase 2 included the introduction
of a protein source. In this case, a cleaned, raw chicken was
inserted into the watermelon prior to egress. After delivery,
the watermelon could be heated whole, providing a perfectly
cooked chicken in every green-skinned pot.
Observed Big Shoulders, "The tricky part was getting through the
rind testing trials. Dynamic pressures within a watermelon
really build up once the 'lid' seals in the chicken and the oven
heats up. We got to see a chicken fly a few times before
figuring things out. You could say the situation was explosive!"
For the skeptical, Big Shoulders assures us the chicken was quite edible, despite photographic evidence to the contrary.
"And the verdict is a very pleasant surprise! I can say up front that this doesn't taste remotely like chicken infused with essence of watermelon. That's probably the first reaction for many people as they read the recipe, but it just isn't the case. The chicken mostly takes on the flavor of five-spice powder, but not overwhelmingly so. The taste is very mellow overall, and the chicken is so tender that it actually pulls apart at the middle as I try to remove it from the melon. The sauce doesn't taste like watermelon juice either. There is a hint of sweet and spice, with the chicken and butter flavors in just the right proportions. It goes perfectly with the meat. If a day comes when you have time to put Chicken in a Watermelon together for dinner, give it a try. It's pretty darn tasty. Bon Appetite!"
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