The People Vs Larry Flynt

While perusing Tumblr, I came across this screenshot.

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LOST (TV EXCEPTION #1)

I usually stick straight to the movies, but LOST, aka the best show in the world, showcases 23 in a billion ways. The magic numbers, so to speak, are 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42, and there is a blog here on blogspot dedicated to showcasing referencing EACH NUMBER individually. I haven't looked at it in depth yet, but this web page sums up the 23s nicely.

Lost knows whats up.

• the last two digits of the license plate of the pickup that young Kate and Tom stood by when they decided Kate would steal from the store. (Ep: 5x16, The Incident)
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• years on the front of the Sports Illustrated Miles looks at. It says, "After 23 Years New Boss in L.A." (Ep: 5x13, Some Like it Hoth)
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• what Charles says to dial if Locke needs to get ahold of him (two, three). (Ep: 5x7, The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham)
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• the slip at the marina where Ben told Jack to meet him. (Ep: 5x4, The Little Prince)
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• one of the kids' jersey's at Hurley's birthday party. (Ep: 4x12, There's No Place Like Home Part 1)
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• the taxi cab license plate: 2369. (Ep: 4x7, Ji Yeon)
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• seconds on the clock Daniel takes from the rocket. (Ep: 4x3, The Economist)
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• part of the code to activate the security fence (1623). (Ep: 3x15, Left Behind)
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• the room where Karl was kept. (Ep: 3x7, Not in Portland)
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• the storage unit where the money is kept. (Ep: 3x4, Every Man For Himself)
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• clips that flipped by in Eko's dream. (Ep: 2x21, ?)
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• one of the cop cars parked in the police station parking lot. (Ep: 2x20, Two for the Road)
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• years Isaac had been healing. (Ep: 2x19, S.O.S.)
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• people on the deck that was meant to hold eight. When Hurley walked on it, it collapsed, killing two people.(Ep: 2x18, Dave)
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• Dave tells Hurley about Leonard, "What's he going to do, call you a 23?" (Ep: 2x18, Dave)
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• the total of the numbers of Henry Gale's zip code when added together: 55391. (Ep: 2x17, Lockdown)
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• years in age that Sayid was when the Americans came to his country. (Ep: 2x14, One of Them)
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• the episode title in "The 23rd Psalm". (Ep: 2x10, The 23rd Psalm)

• Locke's stumble when he quickly enters the code into the computer. (Ep: 2x9, What Kate Did)
• the timer setting in seconds when Jack and Locke return to find Kate has left the hatch after she thought Sawyer was Wayne. (Ep: 2x9, What Kate Did)
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• days after the crash that Goodwin killed Nathan. (Ep: 2x7, The Other 48 Days)
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• survivors of the tail section crash. (Ep: 2x4, Everybody Hates Hugo)
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• one of the numbers on the countdown clock when it resets. (Ep: 2x2, Adrift)
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• the day that the Apollo candy bar expires. (Ep: 2x2, Adrift)
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• the spin dial lock setting. (Ep: 2x1, Man of Science, Man of Faith)
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• Hurley and Kate's discussion topic. (Ep: 1x24, Exodus Part 2)
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• the gate that passengers entered to board Flight 815 in Australia. (Ep: 1x24, Exodus Part 2)
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• minutes past 5 a.m. that Walt wakes up Michael in the hotel. Episode 1x24, Exodus Part 2
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• Hurley looks up at a sign in the airport that says gates 14 thru 23. (Ep: 1x24, Exodus Part 2)
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• the floor where Hurley stayed in the hotel. (Ep: 1x24, Exodus Part 2)
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• the hotel room that Hurley stayed in (2342). (Ep: 1x24, Exodus Part 2)
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• minutes past 5:00 when Michael looked at the clock in the hotel room. (Ep: 1x24, Exodus Part 2)
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• the seat that Jack sat in. (Ep: 1x23, Exodus Part 1)
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• white keys on the piano magnet in Tom's house. (Ep: 1x22, Born to Run)
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• The game Mousetrap that Locke set up had the number 23 on it. (Ep: 1x19, Deus Ex Machina)
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• one of the digits that appeared on the license plate of the car that hit Locke. (Ep: 1x19, Deus Ex Machina)
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• the street that Michael told Walt that the Flatiron building was on in New York. (Ep: 1x17, In Translation)
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• the minute hand on the watch on Sun's father's wrist when he signed the document. (Ep: 1x17, In Translation)
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• the minute hand on the watch on Jack's wrist when he signed the papers his father had given him. (Ep: 1x11, All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues)
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• times Jack hit Charlie's chest to try and revive him. He finally stopped, then started again and Charlie began to breathe. (Ep: 1x11, All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues)
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• gallons of water a day that Jack estimated that 46 people were drinking. (Ep: 1x6, House of the Rising Sun)
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• the minute hand when Michael gave Jin the watch back. (Ep: 1x6, House of the Rising Sun)
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• the seat that Howard was in. Claire mentioned Howard and his seat, number 23C, in the ceremony for those who died. (Ep: 1x4, Walkabout)
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• dollars times 1000 that Kate asks the Marshal if Ray ever got. (Ep: 1x3, Tabula Rasa)

Black Roses

The main house in Black Roses is number 23.

Submitted by Brian. Read the review on Horror Movie a Day.

INGLORIOUS BASTERDS

Eli Roth's characters seat number is 023

submitted by Brian.

TH E FRIGHTENERS

A key event happens at 12:23.

Submitted by Brian. Read the review for this movie at Horror Movie a Day.

Babe

Babe is contestant # 23.

Submitted by Jay.

Enemy of the State

"There are 23 Brills in the phone book!"

Said after an emergency vehicle with the number 23 on it drives by

submitted by Brian

Toy Story 2

Al The Toy Collector lives on the 23rd floor, which is more prominently displayed on the elevator grid than the other numbers.

Submitted by Brian

WELCOME!

A little on the number 23, ganked from Wiki:

The 23 Enigma refers to the belief that most incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23, some permutation of the number 23, or a number related to the number 23.

Origins

William S. Burroughs was cited by Robert Anton Wilson as being the first person to notice the 23 enigma:^[1][2] Wilson, in an article in Fortean Times, related the following story:

I first heard of the 23 enigma from William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark’s ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23.^[3]

Discordianism

The Principia Discordia states that "All things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropritate to 5"^[4] - this is referred to as the Law of Fives. Discordians regard the 23 Enigma as a corollary of this law. It can be seen in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy (therein called the "23/17 phenomenon"), Wilson's Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (therein called "The Law of fives" and "The 23 Enigma"), Arthur Koestler's Challenge of Chance, as well as the Principia Discordia. In these works, 23 is considered lucky, unlucky, sacred to the goddess Eris, sinister, sacred to the unholy gods of the Cthulhu Mythos, or strange.

As with most numerological claims, the 23 enigma can be viewed as an example of apophenia, selection bias, and confirmation bias. In interviews, Wilson acknowledged the self-fulfilling nature of the 23 enigma, implying that the real value of the Laws of Fives and Twenty-threes lies in their demonstration of the mind's power to perceive "truth" in nearly anything.

"When you start looking for something you tend to find it. This wouldn't be like Simon Newcomb, the great astronomer, who wrote a mathematical proof that heavier than air flight was impossible and published it a day before the Wright brothers took off. I'm talking about people who found a pattern in nature and wrote several scientific articles and got it accepted by a large part of the scientific community before it was generally agreed that there was no such pattern, it was all just selective perception."^[5]

In the Illuminatus! Trilogy, he expresses the same view: that one can find a numerological significance to anything, provided "sufficient cleverness."^[6]

WHAT IT MEANS TO THIS BLOG

As a teen my friends and I were obsessed with the number 23. We noticed that it can be found in almost every movie. This blog serves as a master list of every 23 in every movie I watch. If I can screen cap the 23 I will. If you notice a 23 in a movie please submit it to this blog by emailing scooterandjinx@gmail.com.

PREVIOUS FINDINGS (VIA THE INTERNET)

From this site:

In the film Airport, the mad bomber has seat 23.
In the film Airplane II, the name of the spaceship is XR-2300
In Star Wars Princess Leia was held in cell AA-23
In a recent film version of Alice in Wonderland a stuffed Rabbit comes alive and runs away from a case numbered 23.


From this site

• In the movie Jeepers Creepers the creature gets to feed every 23 years for 23 days.

In the movie PROPHECY starring Christopher Walken, it tells of a second war in Heaven as transcribed in an ancient bible in the 23rd chapter of Revelations


And of course I shouldn't even have to mention The Number 23.