Indeed.
Hey, I’m right here!
I am sorely tempted to mention a certain English delicacy and wonder if they would have spotted it.
Nzinga, Seated:
That’s why you need a gorilla detector.
Or possibly a Don Martin Gorilla Suiit Detector:
Dear Og! That gorilla head looks suspiciously like the one from Robo-Kong in King Kong Escapes!:
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I thought you meant tell King Kong (the creature) to count the number of times the basketball is passed. I imagined King Kong sitting in a room watching a basketball game; I couldn’t figure out what the psychologist was going to do to ruin it while King Kong was counting passes.
About a half hour later, it hit me: you meant to say “How do you ruin King Kong when it’s about to be watched by a cognitive psychologist who hasn’t seen the movie before.”
I can’t decide whether I should be mad at myself for being slow or mad at the OP for not italicising the movie title.
Dear Og indeed! I had a bunch of those Don Martin books, way back in my larval days! Don Martin Steps Out, Don Martin Bounces Back, The Adventures of Captain Klutz, etc.
CalMeacham, we’re just showing our age here.
So, I just watched King Kong. The basketball gets passed zero times. In fact, I never even saw a basketball. What a ridiculous exercise.
It wouldn’t have been so bad, if at least I got to watch a decent movie while I was counting nothing. But, the movie was really stupid. Everybody talked about finding some giant ape on an island, but then they got there and all I saw were a bunch of dancing natives, with no basketballs. I was watching closely.
Truly, what a waste of time.
See, you just made the whole point. While you were so focused on watching the Big Daddy Gorilla, you completely missed the entire basketball tournament scene.
:smack:
Gorilla my dreams!
I saw the Threadspotting tag, and I thought I knew what this thread was about. Then I saw the thread title (or at least, the first few words that showed up on the tab at top of the screen), and thought “Nah, it’s just something about King Kong”. Then I read the OP, and it turns out I was right after all. Well done, CalMeacham.
I make no apologies. Brevity is indeed the soul of wit. If I used as a title “How do you ruin King Kong when it’s about to be watched by a cognitive psychologist who hasn’t seen the movie before” it wouldn’t work, it’d be too damned long for the space, and I’d be accused of being unfunny. I’ll take the chance of confusing a handful of readers (you’re the only complainer) over ruining the joke.
Besides, when I try to put italics in the thread title, it never works.
You quoted from the wrong thread entry!
But it’s the thought thsat counts…
Neigh.
(Yes, I do like to go for the low-hanging fruit.)
In the movie Altered States, after William Hurt comes out of one of his trips, they take an X-ray of his throat and note something unusual. They take it to the radiologist on duty and the following exchange takes place:
Mason Parrish: It looks to me like the architecture is slightly abnormal.
Dr. Wissenschaft: Somewhat? This guy’s a f**king gorilla!
He noticed! Clearly, yet another thing that Hollywood got wrong.
Well, in their defense, he wasn’t looking for a gorilla hidden in an x-ray. It was an x-ray of a quasi-gorilla.
I mean, if gorillas by themselves were invisible in x-rays there’d be no point in x-raying them, right?
Clearly, further researsch is needed.
Do gorillas have reflections when they stand in front of mirrors? Could they be vampires?
Vampire Gorillas. The mind boggles.
It’s kinda like Queen of the Black Coast.