# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/21 "2004-08-09T18:39:18Z")
“Simba, I am your father. Join me and together we will rule the Pridelands as father and son.” (whispered to me during what was supposed to be a serious moment of “The Lion King.”) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/22 "2004-08-09T19:09:25Z")
One that happened: In _The Santa Clause,_ Tim Allen’s character is being shown through the tool shop. He picks up a toy tool belt and holds it up like he’s trying it on, and goes “Urrrh?”, just like the theme song for _Home Improvement_. One that should happen: In the next Bond flick, have some emergency lights or a neon sign or something like that light up Eric Bana’s face so it looks like he’s green… ---
**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, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/23 "2004-08-09T19:57:44Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > One that happened: In _The Santa Clause,_ Tim Allen’s character is being shown through the tool shop. He picks up a toy tool belt and holds it up like he’s trying it on, and goes “Urrrh?”, just like the theme song for _Home Improvement_ Did you notice that in _Toy Story_, the toolbox in Sid’s room is a Binford Tools toolbox? Another _Home Improvement_ reference. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/24 "2004-08-09T20:05:31Z")
I’ve like to see somebody, just once, in a movie or TV show, go up to a character being played by a celebrity and say “Has anyone ever told you that you look like \?” Or show the actual existance of a movie that the actor has previously been in. Say, show Tony Montana in **Scarface** watching one of “The Godfather” movies, if only for a second. ---
**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, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/25 "2004-08-09T20:52:26Z")
> [@Kilt-wearin' man](#): > > Did you notice that in _Toy Story_, the toolbox in Sid’s room is a Binford Tools toolbox? Another _Home Improvement_ reference. TS-2 had a similar “Allen-ism”, Buzz comes upon the display of the _new_ Buzz Lightyear action figures, he spies a logo on the box that says “New Improved Utility Belt!”, he whistles appreciatively, and says in a very Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor-esque voice “I gotta get me one of those” ---
**Author:** ![Jenny\_Haniver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Jenny\_Haniver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenny_Haniver)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/26 "2004-08-09T20:56:35Z")
Another one from Pixar - in **Monsters, Inc** , in Boo’s room there is a cowgirl doll that looks just like Jesse from **Toy Story 2** , and a stuffed clownfish - I presume **Finding Nemo** would already be in production at that point. I was waiting for **Pirates of the Caribbean** to have some joke about Orlando Bloom’s work in the LotR movies in it, since it was all light hearted and funny. I was really surprised when it didn’t have one, but “we cast Brad Pitt but want to be taken seriously anyway” **Troy** did. Whoda thunk? ---
**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, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/27 "2004-08-09T21:03:16Z")
> [@Jenny Haniver](#): > > I was waiting for **Pirates of the Caribbean** to have some joke about Orlando Bloom’s work in the LotR movies in it, since it was all light hearted and funny. I was really surprised when it didn’t have one, but “we cast Brad Pitt but want to be taken seriously anyway” **Troy** did. Whoda thunk? What was the reference in _Troy_? ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/28 "2004-08-09T21:10:50Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > I’ve like to see somebody, just once, in a movie or TV show, go up to a character being played by a celebrity and say “Has anyone ever told you that you look like \?” Go rent _His Girl Friday_, which was made in 1940. (No really, go see it – it’s a damn good movie.) There are two. One is when Cary Grant talks about some guy he met once, named Archie Leach (which was Grant’s real name). Another is when he’s describing the character played by Ralph Bellamy to someone else, and says, “He looks like that actor, Ralph Bellamy.” ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/29 "2004-08-09T21:16:47Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > Go rent _His Girl Friday_, which was made in 1940. (No really, go see it – it’s a damn good movie.) It’s a GREAT movie. I’ve known about the Archie Leach reference, but missed the Ralph Bellamy line. (which is actually the more obvious “joke”) Sounds like a good excuse to watch it again. ---
**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, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/30 "2004-08-09T21:22:49Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > There are two. One is when Cary Grant talks about some guy he met once, named Archie Leach (which was Grant’s real name). He says “The last man to say that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat.” Kind of weirdly disturbing. In _A Fish Called Wanda_, another movie everybody should see, John Cleese’s character is named Archie Leach. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/31 "2004-08-09T21:23:44Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > There are two. One is when Cary Grant talks about some guy he met once, named Archie Leach (which was Grant’s real name). Wasn’t that the name of the straight man/solicitor in _A Fish called Wanda_? did Grant have any connection with that film? ---
**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, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/32 "2004-08-09T21:28:35Z")
I think it was just a reference. The movie came out in 1988, two years after Grant died. ---
**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, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/33 "2004-08-09T21:30:53Z")
…To go a little further with it, you could say it was a part Cary Grant could have played in his heyday. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/34 "2004-08-09T21:38:26Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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”. They did have him say ‘Hooo, boy…’ elsewhere. Something goes funky with the gravity, then when it comes back and he hits the floor - there it is. On the ‘you look like…’ bit: There’s a great running gag on the SpikeTV cartoon Stripperella (created by, and starring Pamela Anderson). People frequently tell Stripperella she looks like someone - Stripperella always cuts them off, assuming it’s Pam Anderson. The inevetable response ‘No, not really.’ Usually followed by being told she looks like a stripper (ie: her civilian identity - Erotica Jones). ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/35 "2004-08-09T21:45:48Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > I’ve like to see somebody, just once, in a movie or TV show, go up to a character being played by a celebrity and say “Has anyone ever told you that you look like \?” I think they did that with Tom Selleck on Friends… ---
**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, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/36 "2004-08-09T23:26:47Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > Go rent _His Girl Friday_, which was made in 1940. (No really, go see it – it’s a damn good movie.) _Arsenic and Old Lace_ has a similar reference. The villain has had a botched plastic surgery and everyone mentions how much he looks like Boris Karloff in _Frankenstein_. Karloff actually did play the part in the stage production. Raymond Massey played it in the movie, so the joke doesn’t work quite as well. Oh, and apparently one of the headstones in the graveyard reads “Archie Leach”. I guess Cary Grant didn’t like the name since bad things kept happening to it. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/37 "2004-08-09T23:38:11Z")
Not in a movie, but refers to movies, so here goes: on the first episode of _Third Rock From the Sun_ guest starring William Shatner, Shatner meets them at the airport and says that his flight was fine but “I looked out the window… And there was something on the wing!” Dick (John Lithgow) exclaims “That happened to me, too!” Shatner starred in the episode of _The Twilight Zone_ “Terror at 20,000 feet” in which he played a man who saw a gremlin destroying his plane’s engine. Lithgow played the same character in the movie adaptation. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/38 "2004-08-09T23:54:11Z")
> [@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”. Yes, Tim Daly played himself. Sharona (played by Bitty Schram) was gushing about how much she liked him in _Wings_, to which Monk replied that he’d never seen it. Also on that episode was Gary Marshall, who was in _A League Of Their Own_ with Bitty Schram (“Are you crying? There’s no crying in basball!”). They also did a little homage to _Silence Of The Lambs_ in a recent episode, in which they were passing things back and forth in a basket to a guy in a tree (rather than a girl in a pit), and in another scene, Monk was using night-vision goggles to find the killer in his apartment after the lights were shut off, like when Levine chased Jodie Foster around in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/39 "2004-08-09T23:54:55Z")
My favorite whas when William Shatner guest starred as “The Big Giant Head” on an episode of Third Rock From the Sun, he gets off a a plane and is met by Dick, played by John Lithgow Lithgow: How was your flight? Shatner: Terrible…there was this…thing… on the wing of the plane. Lithgow: The same thing happened to me! ``` Lithgow had been in the Twilight Zone movie remaking the original series gremlin episode starring Shatner. ``` ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994/40 "2004-08-09T23:55:03Z")
John Cleese and Cary Grant both grew up around Bristol, and John Cleese named his character Archie Leach because he figured the role in \*Wanda \* was the closest he was ever going to get to being Cary Grant (as the funny romantic lead who gets the girl). I bet I could come up with a bunch more movie in-jokes if I weren’t so high on sinus headache meds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see/258994.md?page=3)