And then the follow-up:
Guy/Husband: Hello? … You don’t say… You don’t say! … You don’t say! … OK, goodbye.
Other person/Wife: Who was it?
Guy/Husband: Same guy.
A meta-variation from The Simpsons: Krusty is represented by Dewey, Cheatem, Howe, and Weissman.
We rewatched Gremlins the other night. I had to rewind the Time Machine joke when my wife asked me what was so funny. I had to rewind it several times until she finally saw it.
Commissioner Gordon does that bit in one of the King Tut episodes of the 1960s BATMAN show.
Speaking of Batman, I’ve always remembered the part where Batman and Robin were going to be lowered into a giant, boiling vat. A Russian chef was stirring the pot, singing ♫ The Volga Batman! The Volga Batman! ♫
In Stardust, we see Prince Primus’ throat slashed while he’s in the tub. His blood is bright blue, and nobody comments on it or explains it.
Well, of course he had blue blood. He was a royal.
The joke being it’s a western thing?
Forbidden Planet robot. Easy to get them confused.
And then picks it up again at the 2:47 mark.
I have The Spike Jones Anthology: Musical Depreciation Revue, and that’s on it. But I’m sure I’ve seen it in a movie or TV show.
I’m sure it’s an old vaudeville routine so it’s probably trickled down to a least a couple of movies. I seem to remember that bit in a Stooges short, and there was a version of it in Brain Donors.
Not a movie, but a episode of Futurama:
Bender is having his Bot-mitzvah. There’s a scene where they are at the party, and he is surrounded by robots celebrating, and there is a banner with Hebrew on it.
I told my friend “WAIT!, Go back and pause on the banner!”
Even with my terrible Hebrew skills, I could see it said “Today you are a Robot.”
Ha! Though (1) the mem at the end of hayom should be a mem sofit, and (2) the last letter of robot should be tet, not taf. (Unless the spelling changed over 1000 years…)
From the Clooney/Pitt remake of Ocean’s Eleven:
Danny: “Why do they paint hallways that color?”
Rusty: “They say taupe is very soothing.”
Completely glossed over and forgotten, but my wife and I use it ALL THE TIME when referencing color,
There many in from Ocean’s Eleven but one that I always like is when Yen asks a question in Mandarin and Rusty replies right away in English. No one questions it except for Basher who has a bemused look on his face. It is not a big moment but it always makes me laugh.
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From The Big Lebowski.
During a phone call, Jackie Treehorn writes a note down in a message pad. He then rips off the top page and leaves the room for a moment. The Dude — actually showing some initiative — rushes over to the message pad to do the ol’ pencil rubbing trick to see what Jackie Treehorn wrote down and, well…
If we’ve moved on to including TV shows, The Sopranos is filled with little pointless jokes.
• 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.”
• Junior Soprano walking over to his closet, putting on his cardigan sweater and musing, “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.”
• 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.
Didn’t MASH (TV show) do this? Maybe Hawkeye?
Little help with this one?
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That’s actually an old Three Stooges joke. And probably predates even them.
There has for years been a window in Harvard Square in Cambridge that bears the names of Mssr. Dewey Cheatem and Howe, vcourtesy of the Car Talk guys:
Not really a joke, but a touching scene that makes me smile whenever I think of it. In Pineapple Express, James Franco plays Saul, a weed dealer who visits his grandmother at the nursing home. The chief bad guy (Gary Cole) sends his goons to capture Saul. A big fracas breaks out, and Saul escapes. Later scenes have cops investigating the incident, and one of them tries to get answers from Saul’s grandmother, but she’s no help as she and her friend start fussing over the cop like he’s a lapdog and feed him while stroking his hair. Grandmothers gotta grandmother.