{"id":1401,"date":"2011-02-15T19:52:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T00:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2011-02-16T13:54:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T18:54:30","slug":"put-another-token-in-the-jukebox-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/02\/put-another-token-in-the-jukebox-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Put Another Token in the Jukebox, Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/D.P.O.\">&#8220;D.P.O.&#8221;<\/a> is a pretty amazing <i>X-Files<\/i> episode, featuring not only an arcade, which is central to the episode, but also a Lenscrafters cameo, glimpses of a Jerry-Springer-like show and a music video, a reference to the land art piece Lightning Field, a rural boy pranking cows, Jack Black, and a Playboy centerfold with at least a passing resemblance to Sarah Michelle Gellar.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly like how Mulder picks out the suspect by locating his initials on the high score screen of a <i>Virtua Fighter<\/i> machine. One thing I&#8217;m wondering about the arcade in this episode, though: It has a jukebox, which is rather instrumental (no pun intended) to the way the episode &#8230; plays out.<\/p>\n<p>Was it really common for arcades to have jukeboxes? In my recollection, which may be rusty, arcades were noisy enough thanks to the games themselves. I suppose one could have turned the games&#8217; volumes down to let other music be heard, but there weren&#8217;t jukeboxes in the arcades I remember, from, say, The Gold Mine up through Le Fun. Did your arcades have other soundtracks, beyond those coming from the cabinets?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;D.P.O.&#8221; is a pretty amazing X-Files episode, featuring not only an arcade, which is central to the episode, but also a Lenscrafters cameo, glimpses of a Jerry-Springer-like show and a music video, a reference to the land art piece Lightning Field, a rural boy pranking cows, Jack Black, and a Playboy centerfold with at least &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/02\/put-another-token-in-the-jukebox-baby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Put Another Token in the Jukebox, Baby&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,11,39,77,19],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-digital","tag-games","tag-playing","tag-television","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}