Name that entertainment thingy from this vague reference?

“Close Encounters of the Third kind” CE3K to us geeks

“Potter!”

“Yes sir?”

“Don’t do that.”

My ex-husband was kind and gave me a ride to the laundromat last weekend. He’d just seen a movie again and told me I really needed to see “The Driver”.

Me: “?”
He: “You know the one, with the guy with the suit.”
Me: “The Transporter?”
He: “Yup! That’s the one.”
Me: sigh.

(wipes tears away)

Thank you for that. That was beautiful.

I once said to a friend, “What’s the origin of the line, um, . . .”, and before I had a chance to finish the sentence, he said, “You’re asking about the line, ‘Yngvi is a louse.’ It comes from the Incomplete Enchanter series by Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp.” I had just read one of the stories and encountered the line there. I knew that I had seen it somewhere before. He and I had both been to a science fiction convention where de Camp was guest of honor. Someone had written the line on a blackboard there and I half-remembered seeing it.

It doesn’t do anything. That’s the beauty of it!

What about that film where that girl and that guy were having lunch somewhere and she pretended to do you-know-what?

“I’ll have what she’s having!”

When Harry Met Sally. Rob Reiner’s mother (who uttered that wonderful line) actually died this past Thursday, I believe.

That detective guy who’s always calling his secretary the wrong name.

You know, that actually makes sense. I never had any interest in Ocean’s 11, so it may have been that I only thought Traffic was his most recent film. It would have been thoughtful for the teacher to explain that chain of reasoning though.

Yeesh. And they thought this was a good acting decision?

Sam Spade - Maltese Falcon!

You’re not funny. :slight_smile:

Yep you’re right.

My first thought on your question was Animal House but I’m probably wrong.

No, not that one. The pretty boy.