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I don’t remember the quote exactly but in Cars 2(?) there are two cars talking and one says: she left me for a hybrid, I didn’t even hear it coming.
It’s in the background so if you blink you miss it, but it always gave me a laugh.
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Not quite a joke, but I can’t fail to notice this every single time I watch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, which I did last night.
After his tree has burned up and the “bonus” has arrived, Clark goes outside to get another tree. Ellen follows him out to the porch holding a cup of eggnog in her hand to try to talk sense into him. When she fails, she nonchalantly tosses her cup into the bushes before going back inside.
One I’ve mentioned in a different thread occurs in The Matrix. Morpheus and Neo are off to see the Oracle and when they enter her building, Morpheus nods to the blind man sitting in the lobby. He, of course, nods back.
In Roxanne there’s a lovely throwaway joke. Steve Martin’s character is walking down the sidewalk. He stops to buy a newspaper at a mechanical vendor. lHe walks down the street a bit, reading the paper, then stops dead and starts screaming. He turns and rushes back to the vendor, puts more money in it, opens it up and stuffs the paper back inside, still screaming.
I always got a chuckle out of Austin Powers’ brief aside to the blind restroom attendant:
You didn’t happen to see - [realizes he’s blind] anything at all…
Another from National Lampoon Christmas Vacation that I find hilarious and relatable: When Clark and Cousin Eddie are shopping at Wal~Mart, Eddie throws a few bags of dog foods in the cart (for Snots, the dog). Clark then takes a package of light bulbs off the shelf and sets them on top of the dog food, only for Eddie to put another huge bag of dog food on top. Crunch!
TV shows are okay, right? When the gang have sent Derek to Mindy St. Clare (along with two duffel bags of cocaine), Mindy eventually builds (obtains) a kill switch for those times when she needs a break from him. The “little joke” is that it looks very primitive compared to Janet’s kill switch, like it had been assembled by a couple of eight-year old boys, using scraps left over from when they built their tree house.
In the second Shrek movie Fiona’s mother, the queen, shows how to break a wall by head butting it. But it takes three tries and she’s a little woozy after that and the other princesses lead her aside as she hums to a tune from The Sound of Music. The Queen is voiced by Julie Andrews.
I’m headed over to the “How you know you’re old?” thread, because I have absolutely no idea who Derek, Mindy, or Janet are.
The Good Place is one of my favorite shows. Recommended.
Thank you. I’ve heard of it, but never watched any part.
Seconded. I love The Good Place.
Watched a bunch of movies’ at my Brother’s house, one of them being the 2009 Star Trek reboot, and there is a scene early on when Jim Kirk is being brought up on disciplinary charges and hotly argues with Spock on the merits of the case, when it is interrupted by an emergency. As they turn to go, Kirk turns to (soon to be Doctor) McCoy and says:
Which considering the future history in the original series and movies is a private chuckle for the fans.
I read the sentence as Clare did something on Mindy Street.
No need to apologize. I saw every episode of The Good Place but I still had no idea what @kaylasdad99 was referring to. God forbid people actually include the movie or show title in their posts.
I liked the bit in THOR where the audience maybe needs to get some physics-type exposition: the only person on hand to receive it from the brainy researchers is their college intern Darcy, who — as it happens — does have no idea what the heck they’re talking about.
“I thought you were a science major?”
“Political science.”
Watch “The Good Place.” You’re in for a treat.
Oh, dip! I forgot to mention the name of the show! Sorry!
(The Good Place)
How about in the original when after dinner Ellen scrapes the food off of the dishes and hands them to Clark who dries them and puts them away. The dishes never actually get washed.