# Favorite "little" jokes in movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 15, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688 "2024-12-15T22:51:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/281 "2025-01-02T23:13:11Z")
> [@rsat3acr](#): > > And also in Young Frankenstein. Inspector Kemp wears a monocle over his eyepatch. I love the scene where he is playing darts against Dr. Frankenstein, and keeps emphasizing words just as Dr. Frankenstein is throwing, causing the darts to fly everywhere, including out the window, As the scene ends, the Inspector gets into his car and all the darts he caused to fly off target are sticking in his tires. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/282 "2025-01-03T13:50:29Z")
The Wallace and Gromit movies have some sly gags they don’t draw attention t, but are there for the eagle-eyed to spot (though I must admit they may only work for Brits): I forget which movie, but in one there’s a kitchen with a huge fridge looking just like a Smeg - only the letters spell SMUG. In others we’re shown that Gromit’s record collection includes Puppy Love, and music by Poochini; and that he reads a comic that looks exactly like the old comic Eagle - only this one’s the Beagle In _Chicken Run_, the only chicken to “go on holiday” as a poor layer is called Edwina (coincidentally the name of a government minister who had to resign when her accurate linking of a salmonella outbreak to egg production nearly collapsed the market). Also in that movie, when their escape "plane " takes off, the villain goes with it, clutching on to something, leading one of the characters to say “Cling-on on the port bow, Cap’n” In the latest, there’s an advertising slogan for Madame Butterpies ([butter pies](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_pie) are a thing in Lancashire) Is it just me, or was it a sly dig, in _Curse of the Were-Rabbit_ to get (of all actresses) Helena Bonham Carter to voice the line “Just call me Totty!”? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/283 "2025-01-03T14:02:37Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > Also in that movie, when their escape "plane " takes off, the villain goes with it, clutching on to something, leading one of the characters to say “Cling-on on the port bow, Cap’n” In a Scottish accent. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/284 "2025-01-03T14:53:37Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > a huge fridge looking just like a Smeg I had to google that. To me, ‘Smeg!’ is an exclamation. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/285 "2025-01-03T16:18:03Z")
In **The Road to Bali** a man wearing hunting gear comes out of the jungle and shoots his rifle in the air and then leaves. Bing says " That’s my brother Bob, I promised him a shot in the picture." ---
**Author:** ![raspberry\_hunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@raspberry\_hunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raspberry_hunter)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/286 "2025-01-03T21:02:14Z")
My spouse’s and my favorite line from _Chicken Run_ is when the chickens stage a rebellion, and the farmers react as follows: Mr Tweedy: The chickens are revolting! Mrs Tweedy: Finally, something we agree on. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/287 "2025-01-03T22:33:49Z")
> [@raspberry\_hunter](#): > > My spouse’s and my favorite line from _Chicken Run_ is when the chickens stage a rebellion, and the farmers react as follows: When they throw one of the chickens in solitary, doesn’t she play atch by bouncing a ball off the floor and the wall? That’s a direct reference to _The Great Escape_. There was a little-seen film from Aardman called _The Pirates! Band of Misfits_ (it had a different title in the UK). There’s a scene at a pirate award ceremony where one of the awards is for roaring. IIRC, the levels are “soft”, “medium”, “loud”, and “Brian Blessed”. I really should see that again. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/288 "2025-01-03T22:48:22Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > ([butter pies](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_pie) are a thing in Lancashire) Doesn’t Paul McCartney reference them in _Band on the Run_? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/289 "2025-01-03T22:58:11Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > When they throw one of the chickens in solitary, doesn’t she play atch by bouncing a ball off the floor and the wall? That’s a direct reference to _The Great Escape_. More than that. The tunnels themselves, with the carts on ropes and pulleys were a direct steal from **The Great Escape** (not to mention from real life – they’re pictured that way in Paul Brickhill’s book **The Great Escape** ), not mentionthe design of the “camp” and “barracks”. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/290 "2025-01-03T23:47:34Z")
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/291 "2025-01-03T23:49:21Z")
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen _Chicken Run_, so I’m not surprised I don’t remember all the deliberate similarities with _The Great Escape_. Bouncing the ball in the cell (or was it a corn crib) probably sticks in my head because that was the first giveaway that the filmmakers had done their homework. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/292 "2025-01-04T01:23:39Z")
In _Chicken Run,_ Mel Gibson’s character’s first line is the same as his last line in _Braveheart:_ “FREEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOM!” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/293 "2025-01-04T01:53:40Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > [ > > There was a little-seen film from Aardman called _The Pirates! Band of Misfits_ (it had a different title in the UK). There’s a scene at a pirate award ceremony where one of the awards is for roaring. IIRC, the levels are “soft”, “medium”, “loud”, and “Brian Blessed”. > > I really should see that again. Note that Brian Blessed did the voice of the Pirate King in the movie. Another great subtle joke there is them talking about how sometimes women disguise themselves as men and join a pirate crew. What no one seems to notice is the “surprisingly curvaceous” pirate among them. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/294 "2025-01-04T02:19:19Z")
Maggie Simpson in, “The Great Escape”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fweer3qwxjY/hqdefault.jpg "Maggie Simpson Great Escape") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fweer3qwxjY) Which, of course, morphs into, “The Birds.” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/295 "2025-01-04T05:20:35Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Note that Brian Blessed did the voice of the Pirate King in the movie. > > Another great subtle joke there is them talking about how sometimes women disguise themselves as men and join a pirate crew. What no one seems to notice is the “surprisingly curvaceous” pirate among them. I need to see it again to be sure, but I seem to remember that the closing credits were done with the camera tracking along a brick wall. In addition to the names of cast and crew, there were some bills posted with humorous, Victorian-era advertising on them. One of them was partially missing, but I swear it was an ad for laudanum, and described it as “soothing”. One of those jokes that was slipped in for the adults. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/296 "2025-01-04T05:26:19Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > There was a little-seen film from Aardman called _The Pirates! Band of Misfits_ (it had a different title in the UK). There’s a scene at a pirate award ceremony where one of the awards is for roaring. IIRC, the levels are “soft”, “medium”, “loud”, and “Brian Blessed”. There’s also the list of pirate rules seen in one scene: > 1. The captain is always right. 2. Players must take turns rolling the dice. 3. Don’t use pigs as cannonballs. 4. Don’t over accessorize. 5. Don’t rain on the Pirate Captain’s parade. 6. No Parades. 7. Use your inside voice below decks. 8. No whelk balancing. 9. Don’t throw over empty yoghurt pots - they make excellent containers for small plants. 10. No matter how much they cry, no matter how much they beg, never feed them after midnight. ---
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I found it, pretty much as I remembered. Skip ahead to 5:30. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/snH0Sfkk6uA/maxresdefault.jpg "THE PIRATES:BAND OF MISFITS(2012) END CREDITS.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snH0Sfkk6uA) There’s also a pauper repellant called “Urchin-Be-Gone”. ---
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From IMDb about RoboCop (1987): The standard copyright notice at the end of the film includes a warning that “This motion picture is protected under the laws of the United States and other countries and its unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution by enforcement droids.” ---
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There’s a cartoon version of “Charlotte’s Web” from 1973 with Debbie Reynolds (Charlotte) and Paul Lynde (Templeton) doing the voice acting. We had this on VHS when my kids were little (yeah, I’m old). There’s a scene where Wilbur’s family is at the state fair and they’ve won something and are being called up to the stage to get their prize. The mom is flustered and asks her husband “Does my hair look all right?” He replies hurriedly that sure, it’s fine, whereupon she complains “You didn’t even look at my hair.” That line always made me laugh because it was so clearly written for the moms who had to watch this stuff with their kids. ---
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The Sopranos is full of malapropisms in the dialog. They go by quickly but if you have closed captions on you can spot them. Paulie, Christopher and Tony have the most. Example: Tony complaining to his psychiatrist Dr. Melfi about how his son is taking everything on the news so seriously that he’s getting all upset and depressed about world events. Tony: “He’s making a molehill out of everything!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688.md?page=16)