Talk:They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

Pop culture references?

I've removed the section on pop culture references because I seriously doubt they are referring to this film:

• In Season 5 of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David utters the words "Call me Mister Tibbs" while in bed with his wife.
• The film is occasionally referenced and quoted in the 1990s comedy show Mystery Science Theater 3000. An example can be observed in the episode 0301 (Cave Dwellers) when Tom Servo, upon being asked what name he would choose for himself, if given the chance, one of his answers is "They call me Mister Tibbs".

These are more likely references to the very well-known quote from the very well-known film In the Heat of the Night, and not its much less known sequel. --Ddawn23 07:20, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

IIRC, I think there was a scene near the end of The Lion King, where Pumbaa say something like that (may have been a direct quote) before charging at a group of hyenas. WAVY 10 Fan (talk) 19:50, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: Moved. The emphasis can be indicated in the article. (non-admin closure) Apteva (talk) 07:25, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! → They Call Me Mister Tibbs! – Mister should not all be in capital letters per MOS:CT. The references and the external links in the article all use "Mister". Aspects (talk) 06:49, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

• Comment: I'm not saying this is wrong, but maybe there's some kind of emphasis involved here; as a reaction of someone calling him just "Tibbs" – I don't know, I haven't seen the film. Judging from the poster, that seems to be the case, as "mister" is underlined. If so, there should normally be italics, but since a film title generally is in italics already, how do we do that? Maybe that problem is the explanation for the allcaps. HandsomeFella (talk) 21:27, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

• Support per MOS:CT and secondary sources not usually capitalizing "Mister" (based on search results in Google Books). Erik (talk | contribs) 21:41, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

  Yes but those hits are for the line in the first film, not the title of the second film. See below. In ictu oculi (talk) 01:43, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

  In ictu oculi, I see what you mean, and I redid the search with "1970" (the release year). I now see both uses in play. I still think it makes sense to have titlecase for the article body, but we can devote a passage to explaining the emphasis on "Mister". Erik (talk | contribs) 15:54, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

• Hesitate - the caps looks well supported in sources and a deliberate contrast with the famous line from the first film In the Heat of the Night. The Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture p311 contrasts the uncapitalised line in the film, and the capitalised word in the sequel title. Likewise I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History 2008 -- Page 313 "We had done reasonably well with They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! and we still had another option for a Virgil Tibbs picture with Sidney Poitier." In ictu oculi (talk) 01:43, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

And I see the caps MISTER are underlined on the poster. In ictu oculi (talk) 01:47, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

How do we convey emphasis in a context, such as a film title, which is already in italics? Is it possibly by un-italicizing? HandsomeFella (talk) 09:55, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

• Support. No real need for the capitalisation and it's not our standard practice. How it appears on promotional material is not really relevant. -- Necrothesp (talk) 23:04, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
• Comment: MOS:CT only deals with initial capitalization (not words in ALL CAPS), but WP:TITLETM says: "Items in full or partial uppercase (such as Invader ZIM) should have standard capitalization (Invader Zim); however, if the name is ambiguous, and one meaning is usually capitalized, this is one possible method of disambiguation." Is capitalization here a mere stylization, or disambiguation? Wilhelm Meis (☎ Diskuss | ✍ Beiträge) 02:47, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
• Support – there is no evidence in sources that all caps would be required here for any reason, and WP preference is to not do that when it's not necessary. Dicklyon (talk) 23:36, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

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