# 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:** 16
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/301 "2025-01-04T14:30:54Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > 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) It’s a brussels sprout, and a coal box. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/302 "2025-01-04T18:39:56Z")
In _Chicken Run_ I missed the 'Engines can’t take any more of this" the first time I watched it. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/303 "2025-01-04T19:25:54Z")
I remember HBO doing a promo video at one point that showed each malaprop–funniest video. Little Carmine had the best. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/304 "2025-01-04T21:04:51Z")
More from **Chicken Run** : - When the aircraft is about to take off, there is a cry of “Chocks away!” as the wheel chocks are pulled away. Which are triangular [Toblerone](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toblerone) boxes - literal chocs. - At one point the chickens are using a produce crate labelled “Stephenson’s Roquette” as a test vehicle on rails. Roquette/rocket is another name for arugula, but [Stephenson’s Rocket](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenson's_Rocket) was something else entirely. ---
**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 4, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/305 "2025-01-04T21:04:53Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > 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.” Being a compulsive reader of end credits, I caught this one when I saw it on its initial release. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/306 "2025-01-05T00:19:07Z")
Speaking of credits the Naked Gun 33 1/3 has many jokes in their credits but the one that always made me laugh is: > YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE: WILL THE OWNER OF A BLUE HONDA ACCORD, LIC.# Z2W435, PLEASE REPORT TO THE PARKING LOT. YOUR LIGHTS ARE ON. THANK YOU. `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/307 "2025-01-05T00:23:46Z")
I don’t get it? ---
**Author:** ![KCB615](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@KCB615](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KCB615)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/308 "2025-01-05T01:35:33Z")
> [@icon](#): > > Speaking of credits the Naked Gun 33 1/3 has many jokes in their credits but the one that always made me laugh is: That’s a hallmark of the ZAZ movies - Airplane, Top Secret, the three Naked Gun movies, etc. all have some wacky stuff scattered in the credits. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/309 "2025-01-05T02:46:10Z")
In the definitely not ZAZ _Airplane II_ while trying to guide the crippled moon shuttle, Ted is dismayed to find out he’ll be talking with Buck Murdock. Elaine asks him who Buck Murdock is. “He was in my squad at Macho Grande.” Elaine, surprised: “And he survived?” ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/310 "2025-01-05T05:19:55Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I don’t get it? That notice appeared in every single showing of the movie everywhere in the country. How many of them do you figure there was an Accord in the parking lot with its lights on? ---
**Author:** ![moes\_lotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@moes\_lotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moes_lotion)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/311 "2025-01-05T05:31:30Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > 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): Don’t remember which film this was, possibly “The Wrong Trousers” but there is a jar on a shelf in W & G’s kitchen labelled “Middle Aged Spread” ---
**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 5, 2025, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/312 "2025-01-05T08:23:19Z")
Another one in the latest W&G (_Vengeance Most Fowl_) that won’t mean anything outside the UK - there’s a TV newsreader called Anton Deck (there’s a duo of light entertainment presenters called Ant and Dec; the movie also has a pushy reporter called Onya Doorstep) And if memory serves, when the getaway canal barge (! - maximum speed 4mph) crosses the border between Lancashire and Yorkshire there’s a sign saying “No [Parkin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkin_(cake))” ---
**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 5, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/313 "2025-01-05T12:28:19Z")
And yet more: Gromit’s vinyl collection now includes Walkies On The Wild Side, and his bedside reading is A Room Of One’s Own by Virginia Woof. ---
**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 5, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/314 "2025-01-05T13:18:15Z")
Aardman continues with the subtle jokes: in their latest _Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl_, there a quick shot of a magazine cover: _Gardening of the Galaxy._ ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/315 "2025-01-05T13:24:52Z")
Another from Wallace and Gromit, A close shave: [https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/ejd4pe/in\_wallace\_and\_gromit\_a\_close\_shave\_1995\_gromit/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/ejd4pe/in_wallace_and_gromit_a_close_shave_1995_gromit/) Gromit is framed and sentenced to Prison. > Gromit is reading Crime and Punishment by Fido Dogstoyevsky as opposed to Fyodor Dostoevsky. Also: Feathers, the evil penguin from “The Wrong Trousers” left his name engraved on the cell wall, and it is a “Penguin classic” book with a small image of Feathers in the book spine. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/316 "2025-01-05T18:44:45Z")
_…butter pie??_ 🧈 🥧 “The butter wouldn’t melt, so I put it in the pie” Favorite “little jokes” in rock-‘n’-roll ---
**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 5, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/317 "2025-01-05T19:28:17Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > Another one in the latest W&G (_Vengeance Most Fowl_) that won’t mean anything outside the UK - there’s a TV newsreader called Anton Deck (there’s a duo of light entertainment presenters called Ant and Dec; the movie also has a pushy reporter called Onya Doorstep) There was an Australian series called _the Games_ that had an investigative journalist in one episode named Jack Hughes. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/318 "2025-01-05T19:44:55Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > That notice appeared in every single showing of the movie everywhere in the country. How many of them do you figure there was an Accord in the parking lot with its lights on? If they were kind, Z2W435 wouldn’t have matched the format for licenses when the movie came out. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/319 "2025-01-05T20:04:49Z")
Virtually **every** format exists somewhere on the planet. If it was obviously fake it wouldn’t be near as funny. For the next four years, every phone number in a TV show or a movie should be 202-456-1414. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/320 "2025-01-05T20:19:51Z")
Well, any blue Honda Accord owners who didn’t remember their license numbers would have to wonder, just a little. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688.md?page=17)