# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/101 "2024-12-18T13:50:59Z")
> [@zbuzz](#): > > • An FBI guy is working a door lock so they can break into the building to plant a bug and one of the other FBI guys tells him to, “Pick it, Wilson.” I think they stole that from Neil Young. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/102 "2024-12-18T14:13:10Z")
Never mind. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/103 "2024-12-18T14:27:07Z")
_Hundreds of Beavers_ in a film of very broad slapstick, but there’s a small joke that made me laugh. Our hero has been injured and taken in by a trapper, who nurses him back to health while travelling with his pack of five sled dogs. (The dogs, like all the animals in the movie, are human actors in dog costumes.) Hero and the trapper are bedding down for the night while the five dogs stay up playing poker. The next night looks exactly the same, except there are four dogs playing bridge. The next night there are two remaining dogs playing war. Then there’s one dog playing solitaire. > [@zbuzz](#): > > • Junior gets a visit in the hospital from a US Marshal named Michael McLuhan who reattaches his electronic ankle bracelet and the nurse is like, “Wait, so that makes you Marshal McLuhan?” And after a mostly deadpan response from everyone, the scene just carries on. In _Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back_, the titular characters are pursued by Marshal Willenholly. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/104 "2024-12-18T14:31:49Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > I’ve seen the “Smith, Smith, and Smith” joke reprinted in Jewish humor compilations, with the law firm’s name as “Cohen, Cohen, and Cohen.” It probably goes back to the vaudeville era. Yeah, that’s an old one. I also saw it used on _The Avengers_ (the British spy show), where Steed visits the law firm of Dickens, Dickens, Dickens, and Dickens. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/105 "2024-12-18T14:37:53Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > [@Mahaloth](#): > > > > Dewey, Cheatem, & How. > > > > Do we cheat 'em? And how! > > That’s actually an old Three Stooges joke. And probably predates even them. I’ve always wished someone would have thought to add ‘Boyd’: Boyd, Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/106 "2024-12-18T16:02:28Z")
I’m just now remembering that Oscar Wilde used a similar joke in _The Importance of Being Earnest_ (1895): > JACK: Miss Cardew’s family solicitors are Messrs. Markby, Markby, and Markby. > LADY BRACKNELL: Markby, Markby, and Markby? A firm of the very highest position in their profession. Indeed I am told that one of the Mr. Markbys is occasionally to be seen at dinner parties. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/107 "2024-12-18T16:57:10Z")
Let’s go for a holiday favorite - \*It’s a Wonderful Life \*, after the school dance; they’re walking home, and Mary loses her robe and id hiding in a bush: Mary: Ouch! Oh! George: Gehsundheit. ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/108 "2024-12-18T17:32:18Z")
> [@raspberry\_hunter](#): > > My absolute favorite part of Casablanca: > > Renault: This cafe is closed until further notice! Clear the room at once! > Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?! > Renault: I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. > Croupier: Your winnings, sir. > Renault: Oh, thank you very much. > [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > My favorite from the movie (paraphrased here) > > Renault: I’m shutting this place down! > Rick: On what grounds? > Renault: I am shocked! Shocked that there is gambling going on here! > Croupier: Your winnings, sir. > Renault: Thank you. Is it Groundhog Day already? Okay one from me. Buckaroo Banzai. New Jersey: “Why is there a watermelon there?” Reno: “I’ll tell you later.” No, no he doesn’t tell him later. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/109 "2024-12-18T17:36:24Z")
In the movie “There’s Something About Mary” Woogie (Dom) was asked how things are going and he responds, “Aww, you know, each day is better than the next.” Takes a beat for your brain to catch up to that one. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/110 "2024-12-18T17:46:07Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I did see the Lost In Space robot. > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Forbidden Planet robot. Easy to get them confused. However, Robbie also appeared in [2 episodes of Lost in Space](https://lostinspace.fandom.com/wiki/Robby_the_Robot). 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 18, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/111 "2024-12-18T18:07:15Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > However, Robbie also appeared in [2 episodes of Lost in Space](https://lostinspace.fandom.com/wiki/Robby_the_Robot). 🙂 They were also both designed by the same guy, Robert Kinoshita. > **[Robert Kinoshita](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kinoshita)** > > Robert Kinoshita (February 24, 1914 – December 9, 2014) was an American artist, art director, set and production designer who worked in the American film and television industries from the 1950s through the early 1980s. > Kinoshita was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Boyle Heights neighborhood. After graduating from Roosevelt High School, he went to the University of Southern California to study architecture. Kinoshita graduated from USC in 1940 with a bachelor's degree in architecture and de... ---
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Another one from _Casablanca_, buried inside a very dramatic moment. Rick and Ilsa are talking having their first actual conversation in the movie. Ilsa says something like, “I haven’t seen you since that last day in Paris.” Rick responds with his cynical tone. “I remember everything about that day. The Germans wore gray. You wore blue.” I don’t think it was supposed to be a “joke” but I still laugh every time I watch the scene. ---
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Just riffling through IMDB, the Stooges liked making up names besides Dewey, Cheatham & Howe: I. Doolittle, Hammond Egger, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/114 "2024-12-18T20:01:25Z")
Little Shop of Horrors 1960. After Seymore tells Audrey that he named the plant Audrey II. Audrey - “That’s the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to me.” Dick Miller (forgot the characters name) - “I’m so sorry.” ---
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> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Just riffling through IMDB, the Stooges liked making up names besides Dewey, Cheatham & Howe: I. Doolittle, Hammond Egger, etc. The _Car Talk_ guys made an art form of that. My favorites may be the Payne-Diaz family. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2024, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/116 "2024-12-18T20:32:57Z")
> [@Cumberdale](#): > > After Seymore tells Audrey that he named the plant Audrey II. In the 1960 movie he named the plant “Audrey, Jr.” It was in the stage musical (and later movie) where he called it “Audrey II” ---
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From A Bug’s Life, when Flik is looking for help at the insect restaurant. A fly can be heard to say, “Waiter, I’m in my soup!” ---
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From the movie _Volcano_ which came out in 1997: [_Museum personnel are moving paintings from art museum threatened by erupting volcano_] 1st. Guard: Man, this Hieronymus Bosch is heavy! 2nd. Guard: That’s because he deals with man’s inclination towards sin, in defiance of God’s will. 1st. Guard: I didn’t mean it like that. 2nd. Guard: Oh. ---
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_Lake Placid_ (1999) [_Upon finding a decaying toe_]: [Hector](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001624/?ref_=ttqu_qu): Is this the man that was killed? [Sheriff Hank Keough](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322407/?ref_=ttqu_qu): He seemed… taller. ---
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> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > (Recall as well the law firm in the title of the Marx Brothers’ radio program: “Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel.”) What with the Shyster part they got two jokes in one. This is not really a joke, as written, but I love Christopher Reeve’s delivery of the final line: > [@](#): > > Perry White: [upon Clark entering his office] Kent, I need a background story for the page three sidebar. Get me everything you can on this terrorist group. > Clark Kent: Right! > [is about to leave but stops] > Clark Kent: Uh, sorry. T… terrorists? > Perry White: Get your head out of the clouds, Kent! Where’ve you been for the past twelve hours? > Clark Kent: Uh, Home. > Perry White: Well, don’t you watch television? > Clark Kent: Frankly, Mr. White, I really don’t enjoy television. Too much violence. I was just reading Dickens. He was a funnier guy than he’s generally given credit for. (I also like his performance in _Noises Off._) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688.md?page=7)