# Did I dream this? (help me remember this movie) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 29, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-help-me-remember-this-movie/474870 "2008-11-29T01:46:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-help-me-remember-this-movie/474870/1 "2008-11-29T01:46:52Z")
I had an odd memory “flash” today. I recalled a scene in a movie where someone pops a large water-filled bubble (maybe chewing gum) with a hat (maybe a bowler hat?). I can’t remember the movie - was it a Laurel and Hardy movie? Anyone recall this scene? …or did I just dream this? ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-help-me-remember-this-movie/474870/2 "2008-11-29T11:57:04Z")
You may be thinking of a scene from **The Great Race** (Blake Edwards, 1965) where Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon) shows his dastardly moustache-twirling colors by popping a child’s balloon with his cigar. He’s wearing either a top hat or a bowler. No water involved, though. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-help-me-remember-this-movie/474870/3 "2008-11-29T14:32:39Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > You may be thinking of a scene from **The Great Race** (Blake Edwards, 1965) where Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon) shows his dastardly moustache-twirling colors by popping a child’s balloon with his cigar. He’s wearing either a top hat or a bowler. No water involved, though. No, I don’t think that’s it. Could it have been from a “Dennis the Menace” episode? ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-help-me-remember-this-movie/474870/4 "2008-11-29T16:10:41Z")
The Prisoner? They had that big balloony looking thing . I barely remember the show. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-help-me-remember-this-movie/474870/5 "2008-11-29T16:27:35Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > The Prisoner? > > They had that big balloony looking thing . > > I barely remember the show. Oh, “Rover.” No, that’s not it - although I’ve recently re-watched some episodes, so if I did dream this, that could be the cause… I’m thinking that another character put chewing gum over a leak, and it swelled into a huge water-filled balloon, which someone pokes with the brim of a hat, popping it. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-help-me-remember-this-movie/474870/6 "2008-12-04T04:20:02Z")
OK, I’m exercising my mod-given right to a bump. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-help-me-remember-this-movie/474870/7 "2008-12-04T05:41:42Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > The Prisoner? > > They had that big balloony looking thing . > > I barely remember the show. “Why did you think a giant balloon would stop him?” “Shut up!! That’s why!!”