“I didn’t choose that one because it was going to give me pimples so I choosed, um… Another scary one…”¹²

So, I really needed something light-hearted after last night’s post. So I decided to steal my wife’s idea and write about my family’s excessive need to quote movies. What a lesson for [her] I hope [she] will profit from it.³ It is so bad my brother calls it “The Deardeuff Brain Damage,” and I say “I-Am-DB” (in reference to IMDB.com - a publication which I have enjoyed for many years⁴).

We have seen a lot of movies in our day. But the thing is, I think we have seen less than the average American Joe. We were raised on the classics. I am talking about Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers (”BEE! THE STINGING INSECT! BZZZZ,”⁵ “Your wife is safe with Tonetti: He prefer spaghetti”,⁶ “I am a fool - take a chance,”⁶ “Pining? Men don’t pine. Girls pine. Men just… suffer.” ⁶), Gene Kelly (”See your dentist twice a year!”⁷ “Big people have little humor and little people have no humor at all”⁸), Cary Grant (ooh, he has a lot like “Heroine! Peppermint flavored heroine!,”⁹ “The last person to say that to me was Archy Leach before he died”¹⁰ “She’s old isn’t she?”¹⁰ “Mellow greetings, yookie dookie.”¹¹), and Abbott and Costello (”Ca-lubhouse!”¹², “Pretty soon she’ll pass me up!”¹² “Third base”¹³).

We have also branched out to the modern world: Lion King (”Who’s got a scar?”¹⁴), National Treasure (”Albuquerque!”¹⁵ hey! I spelled it right!), Chicken Little (”I’m a gutless flip-flopper”¹⁶), and Meet the Robinsons (”Dude, I can’t take you seriously in that hat,”² “Little Doris now sleeps with the fishes,”² “Excellent”²).

Oh and another thing, we don’t let on that we’re quoting, we just put the quote into a normal paragraph and allow our audience to pinpoint the reference. Yeah, weird.¹⁷ My brother, the brain damage one, is really good at it and he talks really fast too. I wonder what he does around the less cultured.

I am excessively fond of a cottage.¹⁸ There I wanted to put that one in the post, but I didn’t know how to fit it in. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ‘em.¹⁹

If there is tension at home, I’ll say to my wife “Short-roots”² and she’ll respond back with “Evergreen”² and the tension is gone.

I should stop. But I don’t really know how to do that. And… I don’t really need a duck…²

Footnotes

1. (Title) Star Wars [↩]
2. Meet the Robinsons [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩]
3. The Importance of Being Earnest [↩]
4. Hudsucker Proxy [↩]
5. Shall we dance [↩]
6. The Gay Divorcee [↩] [↩] [↩]
7. Summer Stock [↩]
8. Singing in the rain [↩]
9. Charade [↩]
10. His Girl Friday [↩] [↩]
11. Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer [↩]
12. Buck Privates [↩] [↩]
13. This is from their famous “Who’s on First” routine [↩]
14. Lion King [↩]
15. National Treasure [↩]
16. Chicken Little [↩]
17. Emperor’s New Groove [↩]
18. Sense and Sensability [↩]
19. Dodgeball (not my favorite). [↩]

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 @ 11:23 am Uncategorized
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