Another bit from Animal Crackers:
Chandler: “I confess. I was…I was Abie the peddler.”
Ravelli: “Well, how did you get to be Roscoe W. Chandler?”
Chandler: “Say! How did you get to be an Italian?”
Ravelli: “Nevermind. Whose confession is this?”
OK, fair enough. I haven’t seen half of those movies.
What part of Ocean’s Twelve referenced itself?
They used this gag in the Jerry Lewis movie The Geisha Boy, too. The mountain in this case was Mt. Fuji.
Lots of cases where former co-stars showed up. I believe Tommy Chong showed up in one of Cheech Marin’s flicks (or was it vice-versa?) And Danny Glover showed up opposite Mel Gibson in Maverik.
The Last Action Hero is a goldmine of movie self-references.
"Get him! He killed Mozart!
(Murray Abraham:)Who’s Moe Zart?"
Ocean’s Twelve had the whole she-looks-like-Julia-Roberts thing
They also had an episode with Bobbie Fleckman, who was played in the movie Spinal Tap by (you guessed it) Fran Drescher.
Fran Drescher also mets a CBS executive on a plane and starts talking about how great a show her life would make. The show was actually initially pitched to CBS when Fran Drescher met CBS executive Jeff Sparksky on a plane.
Another self-referential Cary Grant movie is “Arsenic and Old Lace” - one of the tombstones bears the name Archie Leach.
A Very Brady Sequel sort of did that as well, though not as blatently. Indana Jones and the Temple of Doom, too.
Well, not in the same way. In all three Indiana Jones movies the Paramount logo blends into a Mountain or sonmething like one (In South America in the first, on a gong for the second, and for what’s basically a spire at Courthouse Towers at Arches National Park in the third – I’d just been hiking there before the picture came out). It doesn’t really intrude on the film proper.
In the Geisha Boy, he’s looking at Mt. Fuji and suddenly a ring of stars flashes around it, a la the logo. I think that’s the way it is in the Hope movie, too. Definitely special effects stepping into the movie.
Bob Hope made a very similar comment in one of the Road movies just before Crosby starts a song.
As far as movies go, there is Wes Cravens New Nightmare. It is the actors and Wes playing themselves as the actors and directors of the prior Nightmare on Elm Street movies.
Yes, certainly different.
Was it in that same movie where Lewis was speaking English and had English subtitles, While a Japanese person spoke with Japanese subtitles? And Lewis made some comment about the subtitles being messed up?
There was a similar moment in It’s Pat, where a Japanese chef said he knew Pat’s gender. Pat is definitely a…
…and right then, someone walked in front of the subtitles.
This is really pointless without specifics and not really exactly on topic, but there is definitely a Bogart film where his character goes to the movies, and the name of the movie on the marquee is a previous Bogart film.
In Johnny Dangerously a car runs over the subtitles and either the tires or the subtitles explode.
There have been quite a few films that fool around with the subtitles in one way or another.
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back doesn’t even need to be mentioned. The movie is about Jay and Silent Bob traveling to Hollywood to either prevent or cash in on the Jay and Silent Bob movie, while spouting dumbass catch-phrases like a third rate “Cheech and Chong” or “Bill and Ted”. Fuck Jay and Silent Bob. Fuck them up their stupid asses.
In the Bert I. Gordon flick, “Earth Vs the Spider,” the hero works at a movie theater that only seems to play previous Bert I. Gordon movies. The hero even mentions the “cool” new Bert I. Gordon movie over the phone that the theater just got.
In Stakeout Emilio Estevez’s and Richard Dreyfuss’s characters have a movie line trivia contest and Emilio throws out: “That was no boating accident!” Dreyfuss’s character said he didn’t know the line. It was something he said in Jaws.
Inadvertantly self-referential, and only if you go backwards in time (which is appropriate):
In 12 Monkeys, Bruce Willis says, “All the people I see are dead.” This sounds very much like a catchphrase for a later Bruce Willis film.
Growing Pains did it a few times. One time one of the Seaver kids observed that their dad looked like a talk show host (Alan Thicke first became well known for hosting an incredibly low rated talk show) and another sibling responded by noting that their mom looked like sportscaster/Olympic medalist Donna DeVarona (Joanna Kern’s sister).
Of course, an earlier tv show that did that was the Honeymooners, with an episode about Ralph unsuccessfully trying to meet his idol, Jackie Gleason (Ed manages to). The episode also contains an argument between Ralph and Ed about whether Gleason or Art Carney is the better actor.
All you motherfuckers are gonna pay, You are the ones who are the ball-lickers. We’re gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who are making that movie, we’re gonna make 'em eat our shit, then shit out our shit, then eat their shit which is made up of our shit that we made 'em eat. Then you’re all fucking next.
Love,
Jay and Silent Bob
Well, damn, I hoped I was going to get to mention Moonlighting having just finished the fourth season on DVD.
Murphy Brown had the whole Dan Quayle single mother thing happen.