Humor requires both smart and talent
December 21st, 2005I’m watching a movie that I’ve seen only once before. I paused it to come do a post here because the first time I saw this movie was a long time ago when I was far too young and “inexperienced” to get it. Now, all these years later, I’m only ten or fifteen minutes into it and I’ve already got at least 6 or 8 quotable lines and a promising night of movie entertainment.
I’m not gonna tell you what it is. I’m really interested to find out if anyone can name it from a line or five.
“If you want me to investigate your father’s death, I get ten dollars a day. Plus expenses.”
“Will two hundred dollars be enough in advance, Mr. Reardon?”
“Two hundred, I’ll shoot my grandmother.”
“That won’t be necessary.”
“Never can tell. Last case, I had to throw my own brother out of an airplane. The poor sap. Where’d your father keep his papers and correspondence?”
That was only one of many and, as I said, I’m only a few minutes in. It works both ways, ya know… Genius is as genius does.
Google turned up the answer, but I won’t spoil it. I saw that movie a long time ago. I’m going to have to look in to it again.
Google can do anything and almost always do it quickly.
I respect your decision not to cheat that way. But at the same time, I must ask why your need to know overwhelmed your obvious decency and caused you to whore yourself.
I looked it up on google too. Just to spite you, DC. =D Now what insults are you going to trot out for me?
In all fairness, there’s no chance in hell I would have figured it out. I’ve never seen the movie before. (But I’ll have to see it now.)
I have no insults for you, Arielle. My fight with Dif is a very personal and specific one.
You’ve always been nothing but beautiful in the time I’ve been acquainted with you.
But Dif? Dif is evil and must be mercilessly hunted like the dog he is. Be grateful that I’m on the job, because he’d victimize you too, given half the chance.
I’d disagree, but we all know that serial killer = victimizer.
Right.
And who knows him better than his mama?
Now do you see why I do this?
I have no idea where these came from. Funny. Fill me in though, I’d really like to watch the movie.
Oh, heidi. I’m no where near that easy.
If you’re too busy or too lazy to Google, ask Arielle or DIf. They’re both cheaters.
It’s even one that you might could watch with the family if your boys are old enough that you don’t mind them being exposed to language about breasts.
(I’m gonna keep believing that it is the former. When you finally ruin your magical image with me, I don’t want it to be at Christmas time.)
For those still hanging on…
KNOCK IT OFF AND SPEND SOME TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY! IT’S ALMOST CHRISTMAS!
But here’s another line or three…
My boys are not old enough for breast conversations… They just figured out “breasts” are something to point at. We try to discourage it.
And I am not too lazy… Busy and perhaps not seriously motivated to figure out the movie.
Ok, now I am in the “know” but I had to google it to find out…
Here’s a quote you didn’t put in the list.
“If you need me, just call. You know how to dial, don’t you? You just put your finger in the hole and make tiny little circles. ”
There’s something about that which is a bit naughty…
True, doll face, but nearly the entire script is quotable. I’ve had to wrestle with very important decisions each time I picked a quote to post here.
I was sadly too unlearned to know what I was looking at the first time I saw this one. But that time was a couple of decades ago. I’ve watched it close to three times in the last 24 hours and wondered each time what I was thinking all those years before.
Yesterday if you mentioned the title, I would’ve said, “Yeah. I saw that a long time ago. It sucked.”
Today, I’m wondering how many other classics it will displace on its climb up my list of best comedy movies ever. It will almost definitely be first on the satire/parody list.
As for your boys… good luck with the breast thing. When you think you’ve won that fight, they’ll still be secretly pointing at them just like your husband still does.
You can train a dog but you can neither explain nor take away his most basic nature.
But what I was getting at, is that the movie’s rated PG. The worst thing in it are “booby” references. And even those are few. It’s probably safe for your boys, proven by the fact that they’ll also hate it.
As for your boys… good luck with the breast thing. When you think you’ve won that fight, they’ll still be secretly pointing at them just like your husband still does.
Hopefully her husband has moved beyond pointing at them. I never point at them. Sometimes though it seems they are pointing at me.
You obviously overlooked the word “secretly,” Dif.
In the process, you proved my point. Was it because I was too vague?
My husband is not subtle. Ever. He notices, we discuss. Most of the time I notice the pointers before he does. Our latest debate is the fake v. real debate. I’m not insecure over whether or not my husband notices beautiful women or beautiful parts on women. :) I know who he wakes up next to.
You obviously overlooked the word “secretly,” Dif.
Err….no, I didn’t overlook it. I took it to mean he pointed when no one else is looking (or at least no one else that might take offense to it). If by ‘secretly pointing’ you mean just pointing with your mind, then I suppose I did overlook it.
Humor requires both smart and talent
I say this all the time to myself, then I pat myself on the back.
OK., I haven’t Googled. It sounds like an old Humphrey Bogart movie, one with Lauren Bacall, but I can’t remember the title.
“You know how to whistle, don’t you? ….”
That was To Have and Have Not, IM. I love that one enough to have once done some editing of my own on the clip you referenced and used it as a video thank you note.
It’s quite quotable. In fact, it gave us as least as many lines as Casablanca, but got slighted. I doubt that there was ever a more under-appreciated movie made.
But, you’re thinking of originals when we’re discussing parodies.
Bogart was in the movie we’re discussing here but it was made after he was dead.