Old, New, Borrowed and Blue: Difference between revisions

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Manga series ''The Embalmer'' refers to this tradition in its opening episode. The embalmer's client's fiancé is killed in a car accident shortly before the wedding - the embalmer conceals the stitching of the woman's reattached leg with a blue garter (an item also ''borrowed'' from a friend), so that when the body is displayed during her funeral it completes a symbolic wedding to offer the client some solace.

** ''[[Wedding Peach Abridged]]'' spoofed this in an [[Omake]], with Momoko thinking it was the penny in the shoe, and telling all the girls to check their footwear.

 

* In an episode of ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'', Liz reluctantly agrees to be one of Cerie's bridesmaids. Cerie then hugs her and cheerfully says "Now I have my something old!"

* On ''[[Roseanne]]'' she and Darlene argued about whether Darlene should bother with it- Jackie's failure to adhere to the superstition and subsequent marriage implosion is used as evidence.

{{quote|'''Gracie:''' "Fran you're choking her!"

'''Fran:''' "Well then at least I'll have something blue won't I?" }}

* Played with in a ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' episode in which Sally almost got married. Harry ends up getting her an '''old''' guy whom he '''borrowed''' from the tip top club. This guy played the '''blues''' and was Harry's '''new''' friend.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode ''The Big Bang,'' {{spoiler|Amy Pond at her wedding to Rory Williams}} quotes "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" {{spoiler|in regards to the TARDIS, which is all of them.}}

* An episode of ''[[Top Chef]]'' was based around 4 teams, each having to make food based on one of the four categories for a wedding reception.

* In ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'''s season 5 finale, when Meredith and Derek decide to get married, Cristina gives her an old grocery list, a new post-it, and her favorite blue pen (which also counts as borrowed, since she wants it back).

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Referenced in ''[[Animal Crossing]]'', of all things; occasionally the "Perky" animals will ask girl players if they've chosen theirs yet.

** Following a similar scheme in rhyme and purpose (in ''Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge''), in order to make a voodoo doll, you need Something of the Head (dandruff, hair, lice, what have you), Something of the Thread (a thread or cloth sample from the victim's clothing), Something of the Body (spit, phlegm, blood...whatever), and Something of the Dead (a bone or something from a dead relative).

* While not quite a wedding ceremony, a magical ritual in [[City of Heroes]] calls for the participation of a ''old'' mage, a ''young'' witch, a powerful psychic in a ''borrowed'' body and somebody whose name is ''Cerulean''.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[PvP]]'' had Skull the Troll as the blue thing.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* On ''[[The Simpsons]]'', in the flashforward episode where Lisa marries Hugh {{spoiler|(almost)}}, Lisa's pearls are old, her dress is new, she borrows a locket from Hugh's mother, and a lock of Marge's hair is blue.

** There's also an episode' where Bart has to marry Cletus' daughter, who brings the four things to her wedding, although instead of something blue, she has 'something stew.'

* In one episode of ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine|Thomas And Friends]]'', Percy is asked to help find the "Good Luck Package" at the last minute for the wedding of Mrs Kindly's daughter. I forget what was Borrowed, but the Old Slow Coach was Something Old, a set of buffers right from the factory was Something New, and Thomas of course made an appearance as Something Blue.

** The something borrowed was the flat truck the new buffers were on.

 

== Other ==

{{quote|"There's your Something Blue... here's your Something Borrowed."}}

* Veteran comic Bob Monkhouse was once dismissed as a comedian in possession of a stage routine that was "mainly old, seldom new, often borrowed and sometimes blue"

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