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Mine is in "Cannonball Run", the part where Mel Tillis and Terry Bradshaw are driving and the hood pops open. Mel Tillis (who stutters in real life), sings "I can't see sh*t can you?". . . the reason he does this, is because people who stutter do not stutter when they sing. It is said that if you stutter, and in an emergency need to say something, you sing it, especially since the excitement of an emergency sometimes amplifies a person's stutter. Sounds funny, but it's true, I have several family members that stutter. Anyways, I always laugh at that part, and have explained it to people I watched it with. . I've yet to meet anyone that understood this joke. What's yours?

I've heard that before about stutterers not stuttering when they sing.  Scatman John (a singer), stuttered, but was able to sing and mentioned it in one of his songs. 

As far as things in movies I get and others don't, there's quite a few, but I can't think of them right now.

A lot of the movies I watch, people just throw their hands up in the air.  I mean, I like Ed Wood, and nobody else likes it. 

A lot of people I know said they didn't get V for Vendetta.  I'm not sure what about it they didn't get, they only said the film was confusing, but I do live in a redneck town, so that might explain a little. 

Monsters Inc. I'm in the theatre with my family when Mike Wazowski boasts that he's got reservations to "Harry Hausen's!"

My lonely laughter rang out in an otherwise quiet theatre...

:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :thumbup:

I'm one of the ones that needs to be explained to. .  :buggedout:

It's a reference to Ray Harryhausen, stop-motion monster maker extraordinaire.

Katie and I had a similar moment when we saw "Shrek 2" in the theater.  At one point Shrek utters a frustrated oath similar to "What in the name of Grimm?"  The place was pretty full, but it was only us and one other guy laughing.  Everyone else was completely quiet.

That's because they were kind of groaners :bouncegiggle:

I'm not following the "What in the name of Grimm" one either, , ,  :buggedout:

Grimm.  As in "Grimm's Fairy Tales."

This just may not be the right thread for you, Ghouck.  :teddyr:

Lol, booted out of a thread I started, , , Can't a guy get some love around here???

I've always liked seeins movies and shows with cultural references in them. One of my favorite shows, Sealab 2021 does it all the time, all kinds of star wars/Apocalypse Now/Aliens references, and a bunch of others. They always screw it up in the end. I especially liked one where they re-enact the "Why do they want you to terminate my command?" conversation of Apocalypse now, and it ends with "You're a delivery boy, sent by grocery clerks to collect the bill. . so. . . WET WILLIE!!!!"
Anyways, , funny show. .

In Scary Movie 3 where Leslie Nielsen knocks the girl into the well and says "I just want to tell you both good luck, we're all counting on you..." 

I was the only guy in the a theater full of people laughing at that comment. 

This one was in a TV show, but it referenced a movie. It was one of those guest spots William Shatner did on Third Rock From The Sun as another one of the aliens. He was telling Dick, played by John Lithgow, of a plane flight he just took, saying that he kept seeing a man on the wing of the plane. Dick looked at him aghast and exclaimed, "That happened to me once, too!!"

Damn, I nearly rolled out of the room I was laughing so hard. Everyone around me just looked puzzled.

Airplane. . ..


Twilight Zone I believe, JL played the guy that saw the creature on the wing of the plane (NOOOOOO SMOKING. . .N-O-S-M-O-K-I-N-G, , ,, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO SMOKING!) I've been known to quote that. .

See, I'm not a total loss here. . .

Not a movie, but rather a tv show. 

SpongeBob SquarePants had an episode, and Orlock from Nosferatu made an appearance.  He was playing tricks and making the lights go on and off, and SpongeBob was just like, "Nosferatu!" and started laughing. 

Everyone looked at me weird as I laughed my butt off.

this has happened to me a bunch of times though i cant recall and specific times.

Twilight Zone I believe, JL played the guy that saw the creature on the wing of the plane (NOOOOOO SMOKING. . .N-O-S-M-O-K-I-N-G, , ,, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO SMOKING!) I've been known to quote that. .

See, I'm not a total loss here. . .

John Lithgow played that part in the Twilight Zone movie.  However, that scene was a remake of an old TZ episode, where William Shatner played the same role of the guy on the airplane.

 :smile:

When I saw Hot Fuzz, I was the only one in a half-full theatre who got the "Cornetto" reference.

SERENITY the movie.
Anyone else notice the crashed shuttle with the numbers C-57D in the background?

What part of a movie do you "get", but don't think others do. .

Honestly? Pretty much all of STARSHIP TROOPERS.  :question:

I have only one friend who appreciates the satire this film is..everyone else can't get beyond the two-dimensional criticism of the 'prettiness' of the cast.  Jesus, didn't they ever see a war film from the 40s!?! :lookingup:

"The only good bug is a DEAD bug!"

Dan Ackroyd in Ghostbusters when they are in the library "Listen.......do you smell something?" i have had to explain that to so many people  :bouncegiggle:

Another Spongebob was the one where Squidward moved to the all Squid community and when Sponge went to visit Squidward ran by and Sponge said to Patrick "Look! There goes Squidward!" and when the rest of the squids run by Sponge remarks, "Look there goes Squidward in angry mob form!" thats just one of many situations where Sponge says something off the wall like that, and most folks don't catch it.


In Return of the Living Dead right after Frank and Freddie discover the gas from the canister revived the fresh cadaver, Frank takes a sip of coffee, fixes his hair and straightens his clothes before talking to his boss on the phone, it seems when James Karen was growing up his father would comb his hair and tidy himself up before talking to anyone on the phone so James sort of picked that habit up too :bouncegiggle: i laugh about that everytime i see that movie.

I got that joke too, but none of my friends did.

I agree on that one. I saw this with a group of friends back in 1997 when it was in theaters.  They thought it was terrible and it was clear that they just didn't get what they were trying to do with this movie.

I had also already read the book as well so I guess I might have had a leg up on them but I honestly can't see how someone could watch Starship Troopers and not get it.

The opening number of the movie Spy Hard.

It's a musical number performed by Weird Al Yankovic, and it's a spoof of all the James Bond movies.  At the end of the song, Al holds the note so long that his head blows up.  It's a reference to the urban legend of when Tom Jones sang the theme of Thunderball.  Allegedly, Tom held the note long enough to pass out.

Well, I was the only one who cracked up laughing when I saw a preview for the live-action Transformers movie where, amidst general confusion and seizure-inducing rapid-fire scene changes, someone says of the transformers, "Maybe they were made by the Japanese."

(In fact, the original cartoon was made by the Japanese, not something anyone else in that theater was aware of, evidently.)

I had the same "missed the satire" problem with the people I saw Starship Troopers with. They took it for a straight up action/scifi flick with a few dark comic laughs.

I was also the only one who knew the song played during the prom scene was a recycled David Bowie song with new lyrics sung by someone else, not important, but odd and it took , me out of the movie for minute.

I'm surprised how few people seem to notice or comment on the riffs on the old Hitchcock themes of mistaken identity and "an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances" that make up the structure of The Big Lebowski. I've always thought the film was meant as a satire of his films.

In Top Secret there is a scene in which the Nazi commander is giving orders to one of his underlings. When he is finished said underling snaps to attention, salutes and shouts "Ich liebe dich mein schatz." (might have misspelled that). I got some strange looks from friends when I started laughing at that.

They didn't know that he just said "I love you"

Oh, totally, I was howling at that part. I actually got some friends to watch Airplane before watching Scary Movie 3 just so they'd appreciate that.

I don't think that was something to 'get'.  I mean, even if it were a movie, I can imagine them putting that in.  Personally I think it's just a lame line...

Or maybe I just don't 'get' it.   :twirl:

Actually the original cartoon was American. It was created and written in America and then animated in China. Hasbro had contracted for the cartoon and the comics to be produced after buying the rights to market Transformers in the US from Takara. The Japanese were not yet believers in the 30 min toy commercials. The 3 episode arc called "The Rebirth" was the last American made episodes of the original show but the Japanese continued it on for another 3 series (Headmasters, Masterforce, and Victory). You can see a major change and a lot of anime influence in these latter series as they were a major departure from the style of everything that came before them.

You wanna know a real fun little bit of trivia.. Transformers evolved from a failed attempt by Takara to market GI Joe in Japan in the early 70's

Another one, in "History of the World, Part 1 during the "Roman Empire" section. Comicus (Mel brooks) is announced as a comic that cam all the way from Vesuvius, and Ceaser (Dom DeLuise), sayd "Great, I like a mountan comic", , ,but it meant "I like a-mountin' comic" (a reference to hedonism and homosexuality). Watch it, and the expression on Ceaser's face says it all. .

When I was a little kid, all of my friends disputed my observation of Kermit's reference to Gone With The Wind when his bicycle is destroyed by an asphalt layer, in The Muppet Movie.

I believe there's another GWTW reference in that movie, can't remember what though.

2 come to mind right off the top.

First in History of The World: Part !. When Josephus and Comicus are running from the Romans, they see the blind man on the street, chanting "Give to Oedipus." When they get near him, its "Hey Josephus!!."   "Hey Mother F***er."

Second, in Twister. When the big tornado comes through, one guy in the truck says, "Thats no moon, its a space station!" I was the only one in the theater to cheer that one.

Really? He said that? I don't remember that quote.

Of course, it was a pretty silly film. I probably just wasn't paying attention.

The most unintentionally hilarious quote from Twister I remember was "Maybe we should get off this road." I wonder how many people laughed at that in the theaters. (My folks and I were cracking up pretty hard when we saw it at home.)

I remember that, and growing up a star-wars geek, I thought EVERYONE got that one.

BTW, when I say "Star Wars Geek", I DON'T mean the convention-attending, argue with the Star-Trek geeks kind of person, it's just that I REALLY liked the movies.