# I got to be a movie geek today! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-to-be-a-movie-geek-today/110199 "2002-05-21T23:41:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-to-be-a-movie-geek-today/110199/1 "2002-05-21T23:41:03Z")
My dad called me today, asking if I had read a certain comic strip in our newspaper. The strip is “Born Loser.” He couldn’t figure out the gag and wanted to know if I understood it. The title character has been seated at a restaurant table, and asks the waiter “What comes with today’s liver special?” The waiter replies “Fava beans and a nice chianti!” and is puzzled when the guy bolts for the door. “Was it something I said?” I’m sure you recognize the line spoken by Hannibal Lector in \*Silence of the Lambs, \* but as my dad hadn’t seen the movie he didn’t “get it.” Anybody else ever recognized a gag like this and had to explain it? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-to-be-a-movie-geek-today/110199/2 "2002-05-22T01:08:10Z")
Occasionally. When I first saw “Brewster McCloud” I had to explain why I was laughing uproariously when I noticed Margaret Hamilton was wearing ruby slippers. Or when I had to explain it was funny when Cary Grant in “His Girl Friday” made a reference to Archie Leach and to the mock turtle. Or why it was so hilarious when Tony Randall in “The King of Comedy” turned to the actor playing the TV director and said, “You’re the director. Tell me what to do.” ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-to-be-a-movie-geek-today/110199/3 "2002-05-22T01:37:06Z")
I got to be a movie geek **to** a movie geek recently! A friend of mine and I were watching her copy of _Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back_, and she wondered why I was laughing so hard at the line where the Bluntman movie was described as “The worst decision since having Greedo fire first.” (She’d never seen the Special Edition of _Star Wars_, you see.) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-to-be-a-movie-geek-today/110199/4 "2002-05-22T12:50:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Or why it was so hilarious when Tony Randall in “The King of Comedy” turned to the actor playing the TV director and said, “You’re the director. Tell me what to do.” Would you mind an encore on that one, **Chuck**? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-to-be-a-movie-geek-today/110199/5 "2002-05-22T13:25:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KneadToKnow \* > \*\* > Would you mind an encore on that one, **Chuck**? \*\* Check out the name of the actor listed as [“TV Director”](http://us.imdb.com/Credits?0085794) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-to-be-a-movie-geek-today/110199/6 "2002-05-22T14:12:40Z")
Gotcha! ---
**Author:** ![knarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@knarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knarf)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-to-be-a-movie-geek-today/110199/7 "2002-05-22T16:08:18Z")
When I took my family to see Chicken Run on its opening weekend, I was the only one in the packed theater laughing at all the Great Escape references in the beginning. I had to explain to my wife and son why I wasn’t a lunatic (at least related to that instance).