The word "pascal" is actually a scientific measure of pressure. I think this may be a reference to the fact that Lt. Pascal was always "pressuring" the crew.
Funny, huh?
Brother Maynard, bring forth the holy hand grenade!
Not to mention the added meaning of the pressure Dodge was under to do the job right.
As well as the water pressure the sub was constantly under, especially on the deep dives.
...or the pressure that Marty himself displayed at every opportunity....the guy was ready to blow at any moment.
"Why don't you come back to my house and I'll show you my man-sized manicotti?"
I've watched this flick a few times, and I just now got around to looking it up on IMDB and Rob Schnieder plays Lt. Pascoe, not 'Pascal'. I wondered about the name each time I've seen the film, and now we all know.
shareWell, I know what the Board says, but my closed captioning just adds fuel to the fire. In every instance after the mid-point of the movie (that's when I remembered to turn it on) when his name was said (before the plank scene) it came up as 'Pascal'.
Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.
The closed captions and my ears said "Pascal" very clearly throughout the movie.
So much TV, so little time!
Just watched it again (one of my favorite comedies). His name is clearly Pascoe in the first third of the film, but seems to become Pascal for the final two thirds. Don't know why this occurs, somebody fire the continuity people.
shareJust slipped the movie into the dvd and fast forwarded it to the credits at the end. Credits list Rob Schneider as "Marty Pascal".
shareUnits of measurement are often named after real people, such as ohm (Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist), volt (Count Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist), etc. The unit of pressure, the pascal, is named after Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician. (Ah, I love Dictionary.com!) But that's not to say that the writers of the movie didn't choose that name for the reasons mentioned above.
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