Shave and a haircut…

mittensmorgul:

obsessionisaperfume:

…Two

Now I know why the knocking on the door bugged me so much.

Did you feel uncomfortable when “Donatello” knocked on the door, before Sam told him to come in?  Did something itch under your skin?

That’s because the knock was a call and response, and Asmodeus didn’t finish the response.

Anybody remember Roger Rabbit?  There’s a scene in it where the bad guy finds Roger, who’s hiding, by rapping shave and a haircut on the bar, because a Toon is physically incapable of leaving that call unanswered.  I guess a more modern example is the Red Robin jingle– REEEEEEEED Robin! (Yum!)

You hear the first part, the call, and your brain supplies the response automatically.  When you don’t hear it, or it’s incomplete, as the knock on the door was in this episode, something feels off, even if you don’t know what it is.

That’s exactly what this was– silent storyelling (well, not silent, but yannowutimeen) is letting us know that something isn’t right here. 

Dunno if that was scripted or a directing decision or what, but it was BRILLIANT.

I noticed when I rewatched this scene yesterday that Donasmodeus does eventually give the correct “two knocks” response… AFTER he gets the information he’d been fishing for from Sam, he knocks twice on the table. There was your two bits.