Tweedledum and Tweedledee Tweedledum and Tweedledee Tweedledum and Tweedledee are fictional characters in an English nursery rhyme and in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There". Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom. The nursery rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19800. The names have since become synonymous in western popular culture slang for any two people who look and act in identical ways, generally in a derogatory context. Common versions of the nursery rhyme include: The words "Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee" make their first appearance in print in "one of
First Men in the Moon (1964 film) from Cavor in the Moon appears in H. G. Wells's novel. The spacesuit worn by the UN Astronauts is actually the Windak high-altitude pressure suit, developed for the Royal Air Force (here each fitted with a 1960s-type aqualung cylinder worn backpack). These pressure suits would also be used in two "Doctor Who" stories: William Hartnell's final story "The Tenth Planet" and the Patrick Troughton-era "The Wheel in Space". They also appear in the original "Star Wars" trilogy as the costumes for Bossk and Bo Shek. Among contemporary reviews, "Variety" wrote, "Ray Harryhausen and his special effects men have another high