I think BB actually says, “Tell him yes and no.”
The communications tech turns back to his console, and then turns aounrd and stammers, “Uh… so was that yes on one and no on two?”
Superman Returns:
*Kitty Kowalski: [Looking at a dog chewing on bones surrounded by dog fur] “Weren’t there two of those?” *
Funny, I’d never assumed it was the clap. I’d figured Scotty had (nearly) succumbed to alcohol poisoning but McCoy “pulled him through.”
There’s a current series of TV commercials for Burger King’s chicken sandwiches, “So good, you’ll cheat on beef”, featuring people furtively eating them and being attacked by hostile rejected cows. This makes no sense, of course, but one ad shows a guy eating his sandwich in a cheap motel. The neon sign out front says DEVONSHIRE INN but the H is burnt out.
Nice one. In the Janice Rule line, they could’ve changed “doesn’t know” to “knows” and it would still be funny.
From A Man for All Seasons:
The middle line might not qualify, because almost all of the court got the humor.
A more subtle moment before that. They are waiting the the hotel lobby as Ian tries to get their one suite turned into several.
In comes a “currently famous” rocker with Howard Hessman as his manager. There is a funny exchange regarding venue sizes and as Ian arrives and tries to buddy up with Hessman.
Hessman politely says. “Hey its been great seeing you again. We have to go… and wait in the lobby”
That’s the one that I was going to mention; I do believe that the line is “…we have to go to the lobby and wait for the limo.”
Harold and Maude has many. Maude is speeding in a stolen car and gets pulled over by a motorcycle cop. He asks her a few questions which she answers; he then says,
“Let me get this straight, lady…”
Maude then interrupts with “Alright, then” and drives off
Another - Harold’s mother has set up for him a blind date which he wants no part of, other than to sabotage it. Mother is chatting with the girl inside the house, and they an see Harold through the window in the yard preparing some stunt, he’s got some sort of cloak wrapped around his body, and he’s carrying a container that looks like it would be used for gas. He waves hello and walks away from the window to the middle of the yard where he has a chair set up - mother turns away from the window to face the girl (so that only the girl and the audience can see the yard). The girl tells the mother about her brother, a real cut up, who placed himself behind a shell of a tv in front of the family and began to read the evening news - well it was the funniest thing ever to this girl. While this is happening, we can see through the window that Harold has emptied the container’s contents on himself and (appears to) light himself on fire.
The girl sees this starts screaming “Arhhhh, Harold!”
Enter Harold.
The mother calmy says, “Ah, yes, here’s Harold now”
The girl turns to see Harold and runs from the room in a shrieking panic while the mother is saying,
“Harold, say hello to ____, she was just telling us the funniest story about…(trailing off as she runs out) Walter Cronkite…”
Best ever “Gerald Ford is Clumsy” joke is featured in Hot Shots!: Part Deux.
The Set-up:
Lloyd Bridges plays the President of the United States.
At the groundbreaking ceremony for his Presidential Library, he is joined by the five living former Presidents: George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and Richard Nixon.
The film uses archival newsreel footage from an event that did feature Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, and Nixon (bonus points for any Doper who can say what real event the footage came from- I don’t know). The camera pans across the former Presidents with Lloyd Bridges inserted into the footage at the end.
Then there is a cut to a wide shot. Lloyd Bridges walks out in front with the five former POTUSs lined up behind him. At this point we are out of the archival footage and have actors standing in for the former POTUSs. The stand-ins work just fine because the shot is too wide to see their faces.
The Gag:
With the five Presidents lined up standingbehind him, Bridges digs a shovel into the ground ceremoniously starting construction of the library. In very over-the-top slapstick fashion, Bridges accidentally throws dirt into the Presidents’ faces or hits them by swinging the shovel behind him over his shoulder.
Bush, Reagan, Carter, and Nixon are all hit with either the shovel and/or the dirt. Each of them falls down from their sustained slapstick injuries.
At the end of the gag, with the other Presidents lying on the ground, Ford is the only one left untouched- not hit with shovel nor dirt, physically undisturbed in any visible way. Ford falls on his ass.
The shot is far too wide to tell which President is which once the slapstick ensues. You have to remember the order in which the Presidents were lined up from the previous close-up pan in order to get that having one of them fall down for no reason was a “Gerald Ford is Clumsy” joke.
The contrast of the subtle joke amidst the very broad slapstick is brilliant.
There’s Something About Mary
While I don’t think it was meant to be subtle, it was said in such a throwaway manner that it was really easy to miss.
Ted says to Woogie that Woogie’s married with children lifestyle must be very happy and fulfilling. Woogie’s response is “Oh yeah, each day is better than the next.”
I thought it was just that Scotty hated to be seperated from his beloved engines, but was forced to take shore leave and Dr Mccoy helped him through it.
I’m not sure how subtle it was, but I certainly could relate to it - I hate to be subjected to incessant chattering.
In the western Dead Man, a couple of bounty hunters are on someone’s trail. The lead guy is a very taciturn, dangerous man, rumored to have practiced cannibalism. The following guy is an incessant chatterer. He goes on and on and on in a stream of consciousness blathering, completely missing the lead guy’s subtle body English signifying growing annoyance.
Quick cut to the next scene. Taciturn lead guy is sitting by a campfire, completely alone, gnawing on a roasted human arm. He radiates content and relief.
Sometimes when co-workers at my office natter on and on about nothing, I flash on this scene. Not seriously, of course. Maybe.
Wow, you guys read an awful lot into that scene. I always figured it was just a hangover.
And don’t forget the set-up, when the Secretary pulls out the paperwork for the President, and the folder reads “Declaration of War - Short Form.”
The real joke is that Dreyfuss and Estevez used to play this when they weren’t filming and it actually happened like that. They recreated the scene for the movie.
It was almost certainly the opening of Reagan’s Presidential Library: November 4, 1991.
Certainly how I took it.
Different strokes, I guess. From the first time I saw that movie at the age of 13 or 14, I took it to mean Scotty had caught a little 23rd-century VD. Something about the sheepishness of Scott’s looking away and the boy’s-club chuckle they all share when McCoy explains. Besides, “shore leave” connotes sex for sailors, no?
No.
I always figured a hangover, too. You’ve got an active imagination.
The mind boggles at the forms VD would take in alien environments.
In the Todd Solondz film, *Happiness *there’s a scene where the eldest male character, the father of most of the women in the film visits the doctor. The doctor tells him he’s got a heart like an ox and if he just cuts out salt he’ll live to 100.
In the final scene of the movie you see the old man at dinner sprinkling loads of salt on his plate.
You need to look up the lyrics in Banned from Argo.
Men in Black. K and J are interviewing Edgar-wife and she offers a glass of lemonaide. J takes a sip, makes a face, and puts the glass down to ignore it for the rest of the scene – there’s no sugar in the house.