# Help me identify these movie snippets that keep running through my head! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-movie-snippets-that-keep-running-through-my-head/347949 "2006-03-11T16:40:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-movie-snippets-that-keep-running-through-my-head/347949/1 "2006-03-11T16:40:19Z")
I’ve got snippets of two movies that keep popping into my head, and I can’t remember what movies they’re from. **Number 1.** The Baseball Snippet. I keep writing down my son’s baseball practice schedule, and whenever I write or read the word ‘baseball’ I hear this bit of a guy saying, “Baseball has been very, very good to me.” It’s an older black guy and he has an unidentifiable accent, so it comes out, “Base-a-ball has beeen berry, berry goot to me.” My husband insists it’s from _Major League_, that it must be Pedro Cerrano (or as **ivylass** called him in another thread, President Allstate Palmer 😃 ), the voodoo-practicing player from Haiti (?) who sacrified live chickens in the locker room (and once a bucket of KFC chicken). I’m almost positive that’s not it. **Number 2.** I teach preschool and have an afternoon enrichment program with three-year-olds. Some of them still nap, and are tired when they skip their naps and come to this program. One little girl lays on the floor and insists she’s tired (which I don’t doubt), but she still needs to get up and participate. I keep getting this image of kids in school with one kid sleeping with his or her head down on the desk ( I can’t even remember if it’s a boy or a girl) and the teacher slamming his hand on the desk and saying, “Wake up! This is no rest home!” I just can’t place it at all. Help! They’re both making me crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-movie-snippets-that-keep-running-through-my-head/347949/2 "2006-03-11T16:51:51Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > I’ve got snippets of two movies that keep popping into my head, and I can’t remember what movies they’re from. > > **Number 1.** The Baseball Snippet. I keep writing down my son’s baseball practice schedule, and whenever I write or read the word ‘baseball’ I hear this bit of a guy saying, “Baseball has been very, very good to me.” It’s an older black guy and he has an unidentifiable accent, so it comes out, “Base-a-ball has beeen berry, berry goot to me.” > My husband insists it’s from _Major League_, that it must be Pedro Cerrano (or as **ivylass** called him in another thread, President Allstate Palmer 😃 ), the voodoo-practicing player from Haiti (?) who sacrified live chickens in the locker room (and once a bucket of KFC chicken). I’m almost positive that’s not it. This on is [this guy](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0606541/) who played a baseball player named (I think) Chico Esquala on the old _Saturday Night Live_ TV show. That was his catch phrase. I’m no help on number 2. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-movie-snippets-that-keep-running-through-my-head/347949/3 "2006-03-11T16:53:01Z")
The first is real life Cuban immigrant Minnie Minoso, parodied many times. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-movie-snippets-that-keep-running-through-my-head/347949/4 "2006-03-11T16:59:07Z")
> [@Bill Door](#): > > This on is [this guy](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0606541/) who played a baseball player named (I think) Chico Esquala on the old _Saturday Night Live_ TV show. That was his catch phrase. I’m no help on number 2. THAT’S IT! As soon as I read “SNL” I remembered Garrett Morris. :smack: Jeez. Thanks, **Bill Door**. I didn’t remember who he was supposed to be, but now I remember Garrett Morris playing the old baseball player. One down, one to go. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-movie-snippets-that-keep-running-through-my-head/347949/5 "2006-03-11T17:02:51Z")
Also, Sammy Sosa used that as a sort of catchphrase in 1998. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-movie-snippets-that-keep-running-through-my-head/347949/6 "2006-03-11T18:22:50Z")
[Chico Esquala] Tom Seaver…he take up two parking place! [/Chico Esquala] ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-movie-snippets-that-keep-running-through-my-head/347949/7 "2006-03-11T18:31:23Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > I keep getting this image of kids in school with one kid sleeping with his or her head down on the desk ( I can’t even remember if it’s a boy or a girl) and the teacher slamming his hand on the desk and saying, “Wake up! This is no rest home!” > I just can’t place it at all. That’s from _The Breakfast Club_. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-movie-snippets-that-keep-running-through-my-head/347949/8 "2006-03-11T18:37:42Z")
Oh, and the sleepyhead is Ally Sheedy. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-movie-snippets-that-keep-running-through-my-head/347949/9 "2006-03-12T00:51:38Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > That’s from _The Breakfast Club_. YES! That’s it! Ally Sheedy sleeping in the back. :smack: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Damn, the odd stuff that gets stuck in your head and then dredged up at weird times… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-movie-snippets-that-keep-running-through-my-head/347949/10 "2006-03-12T04:15:04Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > Damn, the odd stuff that gets stuck in your head and then dredged up at weird times… Indeed. It’s probably been about twenty years since I saw that movie. How ironic is it that I’ve had _Don’t You Forget About Me_ stuck in my head pretty much all day since I opened this thread? (In spite of not knowing the lyrics.) _Na na na na na Hey, hey, hey, hey! Will you walk on by… Or will you call my name… Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t Na na na na na Hey, hey, hey, hey! Forget about me Na na na na na Hey, hey, hey, hey!_ I just know I’m going to get caught humming it. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-movie-snippets-that-keep-running-through-my-head/347949/11 "2006-03-12T13:45:59Z")
[nitpick]Chico Escuela[nitpick]