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.
In Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, the titular characters are pursued by Marshal Willenholly.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
[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.