# Gags that you missed the first 20x seeing the episode(spoilers)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 20, 2006, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-that-you-missed-the-first-20x-seeing-the-episode-spoilers/373383 "2006-09-20T05:57:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-that-you-missed-the-first-20x-seeing-the-episode-spoilers/373383/41 "2006-09-21T16:14:34Z")

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[QUOTE=Colophon]  
Well actually you’re both wrong. It’s more like “Mawm”, to rhyme with “lawn”. Or “Vaughan”, but certainly not “mom”.  
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Chris pronounces “Mom” in a normal way, but with Peter’s New England accent, it does sound like “Mawm.” So I guess it doesn’t make sense, but on Family Guy, not much does.

In the Marx Brothers movie _Animal Crackers_, Groucho asks Chico to play a song about Montreal. Chico asks what the title is, and Groucho says, “I’m a Dreamer, Montreal.” After some years and many viewings, my brother finally realized it’s a pun on “I’m a Dreamer, Aren’t We All?” I guess it helps that it’s the worst joke in the scene - the jokes about the song about the Irish chiropodist (“My Fate is in Your Hands”) and ‘“Somewhere My Love Lies Sleeping,” with a male chorus’ are much better.

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**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-that-you-missed-the-first-20x-seeing-the-episode-spoilers/373383/42 "2006-09-21T16:37:02Z")

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[QUOTE=Colophon]  
Well actually you’re both wrong. It’s more like “Mawm”, to rhyme with “lawn”. Or “Vaughan”, but certainly not “mom”.  
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Well actually, _lawn_ and _mom_ have the same vowel in many North American dialects. It’s called the “cot-caught merger”.

Personally, I pronounce “Maugham” with two syllables, so it only resembles “mom” for me.

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-that-you-missed-the-first-20x-seeing-the-episode-spoilers/373383/43 "2006-09-21T17:04:50Z")

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[QUOTE=mobo85]  
_ **STUPID! YOU SO STUPID!!** _

Sorry, but I figured someone was going to say it sooner or later. 😉  
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I used to have that quote as the “critical stop” sound on my computer. My coworkers forced me to change it.

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