Zeke reveealed!!!

Dontwalk

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Jan 19, 2006, 4:46:48 PM1/19/06

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The Zeke reference is to a bearded banjo playing Pirate Muppet created and
played by Jim Henson. here is a link, towards the bottom on the left....

http://www.kermitage.com/html/characterindex/tms/characterwxyz.html

Craig Riekena

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Jan 19, 2006, 5:29:14 PM1/19/06

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And here I was thinking it was the Doonesbury character:

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/thecast/zeke.html

Speedmaster

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Jan 19, 2006, 5:29:31 PM1/19/06

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Ha, jackpot! ;-)

Johnn...@webtv.net

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Jan 20, 2006, 4:18:54 AM1/20/06

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dont...@aol.com (Dontwalk) wrote:
>The Zeke reference is to a bearded banjo
> playing Pirate Muppet created and played by
> Jim Henson. here is a link, towards the
> bottom on the left....
>

I think it highly likely that Sawyer named the whiskery guy Zeke, 'cause
he looks just like all the old Biblical illustrations of Ezekiel, from
the old Testament. ...Especially the one painted by Michaelangelo in the
Sistine Chapel. ...Jon

tdciago

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Jan 20, 2006, 9:48:42 AM1/20/06

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Johnn...@webtv.net wrote:
> I think it highly likely that Sawyer named the whiskery guy Zeke, 'cause
> he looks just like all the old Biblical illustrations of Ezekiel, from
> the old Testament. ...Especially the one painted by Michaelangelo in the
> Sistine Chapel.

I have a feeling that Sawyer's more familiar with Muppets than
Michelangelo. A lot of his nicknames are pop culture references (Mr.
Clean, Chewie, Kato, etc.).

Johnn...@webtv.net

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Jan 20, 2006, 12:02:43 PM1/20/06

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tdc...@aol.com (tdciago) wrote:
>
>I have a feeling that Sawyer's more familiar
> with Muppets than Michelangelo. A lot of his
> nicknames are pop culture references (Mr.
> Clean, Chewie, Kato, etc.).
>

Could be. I know if I was in Sawyer's place, I would probably call him
"Heston". ..Jon

Rex

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Jan 20, 2006, 12:23:21 PM1/20/06

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http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0276033/Ss/0276033/03CT-10618.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Gainey,%20M.C.

Look at the bus.

Teacher Gal

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Jan 20, 2006, 1:01:08 PM1/20/06

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Rex wrote:

> http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0276033/Ss/0276033/03CT-10618.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Gainey,%20M.C.
>
> Look at the bus.

LMAO! That's rich!

Anastasia

tdciago

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Jan 20, 2006, 1:09:34 PM1/20/06

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Johnn...@webtv.net wrote:
>I know if I was in Sawyer's place, I would probably call him
> "Heston".

Well, if he shows up in next week's Moses episode and breaks some stone
tablets and has a conversation with the burning bush, maybe Sawyer will
do just that. :)

(I'd say he probably has enough weapons now to qualify as Heston, too.)

Herb Levy

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Jan 24, 2006, 10:00:37 AM1/24/06

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Highly likely? Yeah, if anything characterizes MY sense of Sawyer it's
that he obviously had a deep interest in art history prior to being on
the island. If I recall correctly, in his back story he was working on a
doctorate on the Quartrocento, yes?

Sawyer may have some vague sense that "Zeke" looks sort of biblical, but
there's no reason to assume this is based on some specific image that's
not extremely well-known. & the image of Ezekiel from the Sistine Chapel
is simply not a very common cultural reference (10,000 Google hits for
"ezekiel sistine" compared with 148,000 Google hits for "adam sistine").
The image of God reaching out to Adam is well enough known that it is
often parodied in magazine illustrations, greeting cards, etc. This is
not the case with the image of Ezekiel.

The Ezekiel image may be particularly important to you for whatever
reason, but it's not very well known.

The Muppet reference seems much more likely to me or, as other posters
have mentioned, Sawyer may just be playing with the name in response to
the cliched image of a hillbilly.