So I just watched Honey, I Shrunk the Kids with my daughter. In the last scene, after Wayne gets the kids all back to their normal size and they’re all talking and hugging, in the background you can hear someone say “I got better”
What’s odd though, is that on screen it happens while the neighbor kids are talking to their dad, the voice, I’m almost positive is one of those two brothers, so they must have added it in later. I have to wonder if that line was on purpose, if they just let them all talk for a while and then combined the audio to make it sound a bit busier or if one of the audio guys caught that and stuck it in in the background.
Either way, I thought it was pretty funny.
Anyone else ever notice that, or care pull our their DVD and confirm that I’m not crazy?
I’m not familiar with “I got better” as a Monty Python reference. Could you explain?
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
“She turned me into a newt!”
“A newt?”
“I got better”
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It may be worth noting that just a few years after making Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Rick Moranis costarred with Eric Idle in Splitting Heirs, which also featured John Cleese. Extremely funny movie, by the way.
I liked the movie…I just didn’t watch it seventy times and memorize it!
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Of course I’m just joking, but I have to say, it was a pretty memorably line, up there with “a shrubbery”, “ni” and “It’s just a flesh wound”
Not really a Python fan, then, eh?
I had no idea “I got better” was a MP reference. I always assumed it came from a comic–a response when a character comes back from death sans explanation.
I also didn’t know “That word doesn’t mean what you think it means” was a Princess Bride quote for the longest. I wondered why people found it so hilarious.
Where’s Shibboleth when you need him? 
Freak.
And, Eric Idle appears in the Disney World 3D attraction “Honey, I Shrunk the Audience,” which also features the cast of the film.
With the right quote, and the right context, it becomes hilarious. “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Great comedy is almost like a great song; the phrasing and timing become a part of it. It’s not just the words or the idea that’s funny, but I can recall it in my head with every breath and inflection, almost the same way you can remember a song. There’s something about Monty Python that makes that kind of impression very strongly.