# Movie inside jokes you'd like to see **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994 "2004-08-09T05:49:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/1 "2004-08-09T05:49:42Z")
i was watching my copy of Dracula 2000 (hey, i like cheesy films, okay? 😉 ) and thought to myself that it would have been amusing if Jeri Ryan’s vampire character used the phrase “resistance is futile” before dispatching one of her victims alternatively, i would have liked to see Claudia Black slip in at least one “'Scaperism” into Pitch Black before her character became Dinobird Chow™, maybe slip in a frell, or dren, or hezmana, or refer to time in arns what little in-jokes would you have liked to see in movies? ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/2 "2004-08-09T07:15:46Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > i was watching my copy of Dracula 2000 (hey, i like cheesy films, okay? 😉 ) and thought to myself that it would have been amusing if Jeri Ryan’s vampire character used the phrase “resistance is futile” before dispatching one of her victims And here I thought she had, or at least something similar. She had some line that was over the top stupid like that. Personally I dislike most inside jokes unless they are particularly clever. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/3 "2004-08-09T07:19:53Z")
> [@Dan Norder](#): > > And here I thought she had, or at least something similar. She had some line that was over the top stupid like that. > > Personally I dislike most inside jokes unless they are particularly clever. Like the best one evar: in **Maverick** when Danny Glover has a cameo as a bank robber and he and Mel Gibson have a quick confused shared look before the movie continues. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/4 "2004-08-09T11:51:08Z")
One of my favorites was in the last James Bond flick. Pierce Brosnan is seen leafing through a book called “Birds of the West Indies,” which was Ian Fleming’s favorite birdwatching guide, and which was written by an ornithologist named… James Bond. ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/5 "2004-08-09T13:46:08Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > Like the best one evar: in **Maverick** when Danny Glover has a cameo as a bank robber and he and Mel Gibson have a quick confused shared look before the movie continues. That bit also featured a quiet flourish of the _Lethal Weapon_ theme music in the background. This is my favorite kind of movie in-joke. Like the Duke brothers from _Trading Places_ showing up in _Coming to America_ as beggars who benefit from Prince Akeem’s generosity (“We’re back, Mortimer, WE’RE BACK!”) What would I love to see? Michael Keaton as a low-level Waynetech employee caught daydreaming on the job in _Batman Begins_ - although they probably want to cut all possible ties with the previous franchise. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/6 "2004-08-09T14:32:13Z")
Not a movie, but my recurring fantasy for the final episode of _Law & Order: Criminal Intent_: Goren has the killer (R. Lee Ermey) in the interrogation room for the big psychological showdown. Ermey’s elderly parents were murdered earlier on and though it may have seemed like a double mercy-killing, the motivation was actually about inheritances. Goren: Yes, well, there’s one thing about cases like this, isn’t there, Detective Eames? Eames: Yep. Goren: [to Ermey] See, there are many crimes like this , and ineveitably there’s an element of the parents not showing enough affection. Ermey: You’re in a world of crap! [grapples with Goren, takes his gun and shoots him with it] There are many crimes like it, but this one is mine! [shoots himself] ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/7 "2004-08-09T14:35:42Z")
[QUOTE=Kilt-wearin’ man] That bit also featured a quiet flourish of the _Lethal Weapon_ theme music in the background. This is my favorite kind of movie in-joke. A similar musical joke happens in the Looney Tunes back In Action film, the scene when daffy and brendan fraser are looking at the AMC Gremlin in the gararge, you hear the theme from “Gremlins” playing softly in the background… ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/8 "2004-08-09T14:47:10Z")
[QUOTE=Kilt-wearin’ man] That bit also featured a quiet flourish of the _Lethal Weapon_ theme music in the background. This is my favorite kind of movie in-joke. A similar musical joke happens in the Looney Tunes back In Action film, the scene when daffy and brendan fraser are looking at the AMC Gremlin in the gararge, you hear the theme from “Gremlins” playing softly in the background… ---
**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:** [August 9, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/9 "2004-08-09T15:00:21Z")
I really wish someone had shouted “It’s a Cookbook” to Richard Dreyfus as he entered the spaceship in **Close Encounters of the Third Kind**. A real missed opportunity. Best in-joke: Lots of choices, but I’ll go with Margaret Hamilton in **Brewster McCloud** wearing ruby slippers. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/10 "2004-08-09T15:06:53Z")
I’d like to see Christopher Walken appear as an ambassador on _The West Wing_ and have a brief meeting (including the typical handshake) with Jed Bartlett. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/11 "2004-08-09T15:08:36Z")
**Pepper Mill** , a big fan of various SF shows, was _really_ diappointed at the end of the first episode of **Star Trek: Enterprise**. IIt stars Scott Bakula, one-time **Quantum-Leap** er. It was a major plot point in that first episode when they finally got the transporter to work for the first time, and rescued Bakula’s character. Pepper thought that, upon arriving aboard the Enterprise, he should’ve said “Hoo, Boy!”, his character’s trademark expression on QL after each “jump”. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/12 "2004-08-09T15:59:44Z")
In **Spiderman 2** I think I was one of the only ones in the theatre that apprecited director **Sam Rami** using his direction style similar to the Evil Dead series in the scene where Doc Ock came alive in the hospital and attacked all the the doctors. The first person monster attacking views and the sped up camera work made me laugh. They even had the mini-chainsaw! And of course Bruce Campbells cameo (star of the Evil Deads). ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/13 "2004-08-09T16:12:10Z")
It would be cool if someone from _Silence of the Lambs_ guest starred on the TV show _Monk_, and an inside joke between the guest star and Ted Levine (Stottlemeyer) happened. The best guest star would be Brooke Smith, who played Buffalo Bill’s (Ted Levine) victim, Catherine Martin. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/14 "2004-08-09T16:12:42Z")
And I think some Evil Dead music was playing in the background of that scene. I love those musical jokes. A Marlon Brando cameo on the West Wing (starring Martin Sheen) would’ve had some amusing possibilities. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/15 "2004-08-09T16:54:33Z")
In a couple of his more acclaimed action movies, Bruce Willis mentions “reindeer goat cheese pizza.” Who knew all those viewings of _Hudson Hawk_ would pay off? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/16 "2004-08-09T17:05:24Z")
> [@](#): > > It would be cool if someone from Silence of the Lambs guest starred on the TV show Monk, and an inside joke between the guest star and Ted Levine (Stottlemeyer) happened. The best guest star would be Brooke Smith, who played Buffalo Bill’s (Ted Levine) victim, Catherine Martin. **Monk** has already had an inside joke. In one episode, one of the guys from the TV series **Wings** (which “Monk” star Tony Shaloub had also been in) shows up as a “TV star”. ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/17 "2004-08-09T17:40:52Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > I’d like to see Christopher Walken appear as an ambassador on _The West Wing_ and have a brief meeting (including the typical handshake) with Jed Bartlett. “Nice to meet you President Stil…uh, I mean Bartlett.” _stiffen_ “There’s gonna be another season! The writing’s not gonna get any better! You gotta do something! There’s still time!” Martin Sheen has already done at least one good one. In _Hot Shots! Part Deux_ Charlie Sheen is riding down a river in a gunboat and spots his father on one going the other direction. They both yell, “I LOVED YOU IN WALL STREET!” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/18 "2004-08-09T18:02:25Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **Monk** has already had an inside joke. In one episode, one of the guys from the TV series **Wings** (which “Monk” star Tony Shaloub had also been in) shows up as a “TV star”. That was Tim Daly. In that same episode, a flight attendant with a short fuse for the phobias of Monk is played by Sheloub’s wife IRL, Brooke Adams. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/19 "2004-08-09T18:10:01Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I really wish someone had shouted “It’s a Cookbook” to Richard Dreyfus as he entered the spaceship in **Close Encounters of the Third Kind**. A real missed opportunity. On the other hand, I think I was the only person in the theater for **Naked Gun 2 1/2** , who got the joke when the panic about the bomb report sends someone screaming up to the camera: “It’s a cookbook! It’s a cookbook!” ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/20 "2004-08-09T18:32:35Z")
> [@Number](#): > > Martin Sheen has already done at least one good one. In _Hot Shots! Part Deux_ Charlie Sheen is riding down a river in a gunboat and spots his father on one going the other direction. They both yell, “I LOVED YOU IN WALL STREET!” And they were both reenacting scenes from their respective Vietnam movies on the boats as they approached one another. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994.md?page=2)