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Silver Streak (1976)
- the politically incorrect scene in a train-station
bathroom in which fast-talking professional criminal Grover Muldoon
(Richard Pryor) taught book editor George Caldwell (Gene Wilder)
how to 'walk and act black' (with a radio boom box up to his
ear), in order to get onto the train, with a terrible blackface
disguise: ("We got to make them cops think you're black")
- although both were unsure (George: "I can't pass for black",
and Grover: "Why you whiteys got such a tight ass, man?")
- also, a black man's critique of George's act
when he be-bopped to a radio held to his ear: "You must
be in pretty big trouble, fella. But for God's sake, learn to
keep time,"
and Grover's second assessment: "We'll make it past the cops.
I just hope we don't see no Muslims"
- and the numerous times in a running gag of George
being thrown off (or pushed off) the
"Silver Streak" train - each time yelling: "Son
of a bitch!"
- the scene when George turned the tables on Sheriff
Chauncey (Clifton James) with a gun: ("You stupid, ignorant
son of a bitch, dumb bastard. Jesus Christ. I've met some dumb
bastards in my time, but you outdo them all")
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The Simpsons Movie (2007)
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the sequence of a naked Bart Simpson riding
around the town of Springfield naked on his skateboard, with conveniently-placed
objects (trees, shrubs, birds, etc.) often (but not always) blocking
his genital area
- at one point, the animators
- for fun - reversed things; Bart skated behind a large hedge
fence with a small strip where ONLY his penis was visible - mocking
the convention of cleverly hiding a character's privates behind
objects
- after
being startled as a naked Bart was catapulted toward the window
of the local Krusty Burger fast food restaurant where devoutly
religious Ned Flanders was giving thanks, he told his kids Rod
and Todd to repeat after him: "Don't forget
to thank the Lord for this bountiful -- PENIS"; everyone
dutifully repeated: "Bountiful penis"
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Singin'
in the Rain (1952)
- the sequence of Cosmo Brown's (Donald O'Connor)
acrobatic, slapstick musical number Make 'Em Laugh
- and the playfully subversive song Moses by Cosmo
and Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) in which they rebelled against
their diction coach (Bobby Watson) - culminating in them holding
up a diction placard to sing sarcastically "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!"
- Lina Lamont's (Jean Hagen)
grating voice and one-liners, such as:
"Well, of course we talk, don't everybody?", and "Why,
I make more money than, than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!"
- the final sequence revealing that ingenue Kathy
Selden's (Debbie Reynolds) voice was substituted for Lina's
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Slap Shot (1977)
- director George Roy Hill's irreverently funny, R-rated,
brutal, raunchy and bloody sports film - and comedy (with a screenplay
by Nancy Dowd) - one of the best ever made
- the film's rampant profanity, adolescent behavior,
and nudity
- the character of aging, hockey star Reggie
Dunlop (Paul Newman) who was appointed player/coach of The Charlestown
Chiefs of the Federal Hockey League, a failing minor league team
in a Pennsylvania steel-mill town
- the scene of the Chiefs' fashion show for publicity's
sake, when Johnny Upton (Allan Nicholls) threatened team manager
Joe McGrath (Strother Martin) that he would show everything: "I'm
gonna flash' em, Joe!...I'm gonna walk down that stinkin' aisle,
I'm gonna open this faggot robe and wiggle my dick at 'em!...Yes,
I am Joe, and you know why? Because I want you to have a heart
attack and die so that we never have to do this s--t again! You
and your f--kin' fashion shows!...I'm gonna wiggle it at 'em, you
cheap bastard. I'm tellin' ya. You'd better be prepared, because
when I yank it out, everybody in that audience, with the exception
of my wife, is gonna be runnin' for the exits."
- the train station scene of Reggie meeting up with
new team recruits from the Iron League - the Hanson Bros (Jeff,
Steve, and Jack, played by Jeff & Steve Carlson and David Hanson),
cheaply acquired by team manager Joe McGrath; the boys were caught
in the act of loudly vandalizing a Coke machine: ("F--kin'
machine took my quarter...It took my quarter"); shortly later,
Dunlop complained to McGrath that the boys were
infantile (with toy model cars in their luggage) - "You cheap
son of a bitch. Are you crazy? Those guys are retards!...They brought
their f--kin' toys with 'em!...They're too dumb to play with themselves";
McGrath recalled a memory from his coaching past: ("I was
coachin' in Omaha in 1948 and Eddie Shore sends me this guy that's
a terrible masturbator. You know, couldn't control himself, but
he would get deliberate penalties so he could get into the penalty
box all by himself, and damned if he wouldn't, you know...")
- the hockey action with the ruthless Hanson Brothers
trio who wore black-framed coke-bottle glasses, tapied
foil to their knuckles, and frequently beat up and brawled with
their opponents, even during pre-game warm-ups; during the playing
of the National Anthem in one game after one such brawl, the Peterboro
Referee skated up to a bloodied Steve Hanson and threatened: "I
got my eye on the three of you guys. You pull one thing, you're
out of this game. I run a clean game here. I have any trouble,
I'll suspend ya" - Steve shouted back: "I'm listening
to the f--kin' song!"
- the scene of Jim Carr's (Andrew Duncan) live-TV
interview about the "finer points of hockey" with player
Denis Lemieux (Yvon Barrette) who was asked: "What is high-sticking?"
and the player demonstrated by almost choking the questioner: ("High-sticking
happen when the guy take the stick, you know, and he go like that");
he also demonstrated slashing, tripping, hooking, and spearing:
("All bad. You do that, you go to the box, you know. Two minutes,
by yourself, and you feel shame, you know. And then you get free")
- the teams' mooning out the windows of a school bus
- the many dirty, rough-house violent tactics on
the ice by the Hansons to save the franchise ("These guys are a
f--kin' disgrace!"), including Dunlop's taunting of the opposing
Long Island goalie Tommy Hanrahan (Christopher Murney) about his
wife Suzanne (Melinda Dillon): "Hanrahan
- Suzanne sucks pussy! Hey, Hanrahan, she's a dyke! I know, I know!
She's a lesbian, a lesbian, a lesbian!"; the tactic won the
game, but afterwards, Dunlop was beaten up; later in the locker
room, he told his teammates: "I told him his wife was a dyke...His
wife is a dyke!"
- Dunlop's insult after disinterested team owner Anita
McCambridge (Kathryn Walker), a wealthy widow, told him that she
was not going to sell the team, but would end everything for a
tax write-off:
"You know, your son looks like a fag to me. You'd better get
married again, 'cause he's gonna wind up with somebody's cock in
his mouth before you can say Jack Robinson"
- the sequence of straight-playing, top-scoring team
member Ned Braden's (Michael Ontkean) on-ice strip tease (broadcaster
Carr called it "a lascivious display") to distract the
crowd and players from their brawling, when he lowered his uniform,
and the arena's band began playing "The Stripper"; this
culminated in the team's championship league victory (via a forfeiture
penalty against the opposing team) and a parade on the ice (with
Braden wearing only a jock-strap) (and one reaction: "He's
gonna catch his death out there")
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Sleeper
(1973)
- the many slapstick sequences and sight gags
- the scene of Greenwich Village health food store
owner and ex-clarinet player Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) - now
waking up 200 years later - transported into the future year
of 2173 - his quips upon hearing he'd been frozen for 200 years:
("Like spending a weekend in Beverly Hills" and "I
haven't seen my analyst in 200 years. He was a strict Freudian.
If I'd been going all this time, I'd probably almost be cured
by now")
- his attempts to hide from the government, first
by impersonating a personal domestic servant-robot (with comedy
slapstick reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton)
- his servanthood in the house of eccentric, vain,
and talentless poetess Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton) during a
party
- his creation of a giant-sized pudding that attacked
and must be beaten down with a broom
- the scene of the passing of the silver metal
orgasm-inducing "Orb" from guest to guest
- the riotous scene at the robot factory where
Miles was threatened with having his head screwed off
- the reprogramming-brainwashing scene in which
Miles was given new clothes, an apartment, and an electronic
robotic pet dog named Rags
- the contented look on Miles' face as he exited
the cylindrical Orgasmatron
- the shot of a 22nd-century McDonalds sign (with
795 trillions of hamburgers sold)
- the scene that was a parody of A
Streetcar Named Desire
- the scene of the kidnapping of the Great Leader's
giant disembodied nose, which was flattened by a
steamroller
- the classic closing line by Miles when Luna asked
what he believed in: "Sex and death. Two things that come
once in a lifetime -- but at least after death you're not nauseous" -
followed by a passionate kiss
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Some
Like It Hot (1959)
- the funniest and often regarded as the best-loved
comedy of all time
- the first shocking glimpse of drag-dressed musicians
joining an all-girl band: Jerry/Daphne (Oscar-nominated Jack
Lemmon) and saxophone-playing cad Joe/Josephine (Tony Curtis),
as they walked toward the train to flee from gangsters to Florida
- the first view of a voluptuous band singer Sugar
Kane (Marilyn Monroe) ("a whole different sex") walking
to the Florida-bound train and moving "just like Jell-O
on springs" when she was squirted by a jet of steam
- Sugar's sneaking of a drink and her depression:
("I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop")
- the hilarious wild upper berth train party scene
in the close-quarters train bunk when boozy yet soft-hearted
singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), in her seductive black nightgown,
cuddled affectionately next to cross-dressed Jerry; when she
noticed: "You've got cold feet" she suggested rubbing
them: "Here,
let me warm them up a little...There, isn't that better?";
Jerry kept repeating to himself: "I'm a girl, I'm a girl!"
- all of Sugar's songs (particularly 'Runnin' Wild')
- Josephine's impersonation of a Cary Grant-like,
impotent Shell Oil heir
- the yacht seduction scene aboard lustful and eccentric
old tycoon Osgood Fielding III's (Joe E. Brown) yacht between
Joe and Sugar -- cross cut with Jerry and Osgood dancing the
tango all-night long
- Jerry's joyful squeal: "I'm engaged"
- he explained: "Osgood proposed to me, we're planning a June wedding";
and his reason for getting hitched was accompanied by shaking
maracas: ("Why
would a guy want to marry a guy?" -- "Security")
- the famous closing line in which nothing could
diminish millionaire Osgood's love for the cross-dressed Jerry
who tactfully attempted to break their engagement, even when
he ripped off his wig and admitted: "I'm a man!", to
which love-struck Osgood blithely and unflappably replied with
the film's memorable last line: "Well, nobody's perfect!"
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Something Wild (1986)
- the character of free-spirited, kooky, black-wigged
Audrey Hankel (Melanie Griffith), nicknamed Lulu after actress
Louise Brooks' femme fatale (from Pandora's Box (1929)),
who took off with staid and married, yuppie, NYC tax consultant
and bond trader Charles Driggs (Jeff Daniels) from a Manhattan
diner (where he had skipped out on the check) to New Jersey
- the scene in a motel where she engaged in kinky
sex with him - handcuffing him to a motel bed and making love
to him while forcing him to call in sick to his boss
- their attendance at her 10 year high school reunion
in Pennsylvania and introducing him as her husband to her square
mother Peaches (Dana Preu) - and Peaches' warning to Charlie: "That
girl's got some strange ideas about life", and as Audrey
(now a blonde) and Charlie were dancing and kissing, another
couple suddenly slid behind them, and Ray leaned over to speak
to her: "Hi, baby. Surprise!"
- the crowd-pleasing conclusion when Audrey reappeared
in Charlie's life after he had quit his job, and told him: "I
never wanted to say goodbye"
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Something's Gotta Give (2003)
- the scene in which 63 year-old Viagra-taking
record-company mogul Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) - who dated
younger women as girlfriends (including young daughter Marin
Barry (Amanda Peet)), announced to her mother Erica (57 year-old
Oscar-nominated Diane Keaton): "I'm dating your daughter,
Marin"
- Harry's sudden entrance into a room in a Hamptons
beach house when he came upon a naked and embarrassed Erica,
Marin's mother - a sexy, mid-50s, divorced, successful playwright,
and his half-hearted apology after partially covering his eyes:
("I'm sorry! I didn't see anything. Except maybe a few tits!")
- his ensuing interest in the more age-appropriate
woman after suffering a mild heart attack
- the sex scene between Erica and Harry (three days
after he suffered a heart attack), when he cut off her white "damn
turtleneck" with a pair of scissors and then offered oral
sex, when she became overwhelmed and exclaimed: ("I think
we should take your blood pressure...I think it's irresponsible
not to...120/80...Oh, my God, I do like sex!...Wow, oh, God!
So this is what you're supposed to do on a rainy afternoon, huh?");
she was amazed by her own responsiveness: ("I really thought
I was sort of closed up for business. I never expected this")
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Sons
of the Desert (1933)
- Laurel (Stan Laurel) and Hardy's (Oliver Hardy)
great sight gags and childish innocence
- the scene of thin, dim-witted, and shy Stan consuming
an ornamental waxed apple in the Hardy living room with gusto
- and being scolded by Oliver: "What
are you eating?...Where did you get it?...Why that's not real
fruit! It's imitation. It's made of wax!";
Mrs. Hardy (Mae Busch) also added when she heard what was happening
to her phony fruit: "Oh,
so that's where it's been going. That's the third apple I've
missed this week"
- the madcap sequence with the scalding hot water
iron tub - when fat and short-tempered Oliver feigned illness
so that the doctor (a veterinarian) would prescribe a short ocean
cruise to Honolulu (they would thereby fool their wives by faking
a trip to Hawaii, and instead attend the annual 'Sons of the Desert'
enclave lodge meeting in Chicago)
- the sequence of their return home (after being
in Chicago) from "Hawaii" (wearing leis and carrying
pineapples and ukeleles, and singing "Honolulu Baby")
- and their reading of newspaper headlines: "HONOLULU LINER
SINKING! FLOUNDERING IN TYPHOON"; when they learned about
their cruise ship disaster, Stan delivered an hilarious line
about being thankful that they didn't go to Honolulu: ("Can
you beat that? I'm sure glad we didn't go. If we'd have... ")
- the scene of the two hiding out in the attic,
awaiting the proper time to return home, due to the reported
ship disaster, but caught out in the rain and accosted by a police
officer who brought them back inside, as Oliver reprimanded Stan: "Well,
here's another nice mess you've gotten me into"
- the shocking discovery by the grieving wives during
a movie newsreel that their two husbands had deceived them -
and had gone to Chicago to attend a Sons of the Desert lodge
meeting
- after being confronted by their wives, Oliver
told lies to Lottie, and was forced to wear a pot on his head
to protect himself from the barrage of dishes thrown by her,
while a bawling and wimpering Stan received forgiveness and rewards
from his wife Betty (Dorothy Christy) for ultimately confessing
the truth about what had really happened
- in the conclusion, Stan affirmed to Oliver:
"Betty said that honesty was the best politics. Look! (he
held up a cigarette and took a deep drag, then coughed) (singing)
Honolulu baby, won't you close those eyes" - as Oliver hurled
a pot at his head
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South Park: Bigger, Longer
and Uncut (1999)
- in the tale, four young boys (Stan Marsh, Kyle
Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick) were able to sneak
into the showing of an R-rated Canadian feature movie; it was
the viewing of a film within a film ("Asses of Fire")
by the group of third-grade boys from the sleepy town of South
Park, Colorado - featuring Canadians Terrance (voice of Matt
Stone)
& Phillip (voice of Trey Parker), about lighting farts on fire.
The duo also performed the vulgar song "Uncle F--ka"
on-screen in "Asses of Fire."
- in school the next day,
the boys were profusely swearing at their teacher - corruptive
after-effects of the film; parents (mothers) were summoned and
the school counselor Mr. Mackey (Trey Parker) led the anti-profanity
sing-along song: "It's Easy, M'Kay," stressing through
rehabilitation that one had to get "back in touch" and
stop cursing or using bad words
- later after watching the forbidden film a second
time, the scene of muffled-voiced, parka-clad third-grader Kenny
(voice of Matt Stone) lighting his flatulence on fire during
a $100 bet with Eric (voice of Trey Parker), dying (as usual)
in the hospital, and being sent to Heaven (with lots of nude
females awaiting entry), where he was rejected, and then to Hell
where Satan was portrayed as the homosexual lover of recently-deceased
Saddam Hussein
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Kenny's Flatulence Lit on Fire
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Females Awaiting Entry Into Heaven
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Dead Kenny Denied Access to Heaven
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Kenny Entering Hell
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Saddam Hussein with Satan in Hell
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Saddam Hussein with Satan in Hell
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- the declaration of war against Canada by the South
Park PTA (led by Kyle's mother Sheila Broflovski) formed "Mothers
Against Canada" (M.A.C.). They pushed for censorship efforts
against Terrance and Phillip, as well as the whole nation of
Canada - to blame it for the ensuing corruption and misbehavior
of the children - with the song "Blame Canada"
- the scene of Terrance and Phillip appearing on
TV - on the Conan O'Brien Show (Brent Spiner), a talk show, where
they were arrested and jailed as war criminals after being set
up by M.A.C., while Conan committed suicide (although later revived).
When the US refused to release the duo, the US was ultimately
pressured into waging war against Canada.
- to retaliate against corpulent foul-mouthed Eric,
Sheila (now appointed U.S. Secretary of Offense) compelled Dr.
Vosknocker (voice of Eric Idle) to implant a V-chip into Eric's
brain to stop him from uttering profanities by delivering an
electric shock: ("Now I want you to say 'big floppy donkey
dick'")
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The Conan O'Brien Show
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Demonstration of V-Chip Implantation
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"What Would Brian Boitano Do?"
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- the boys attempted to save their two Canadian
idols from being executed by electrocution (in an electric chair)
during a USO show, by forming a children's underground resistance
force, known as La Resistance, after singing: "What Would
Brian Boitano Do?", and offering punch and pie to those
who joined their effort
- during the chaos of the USO show, the boys freed
Terrance and Phillip. Ultimately, a war against Satan and Saddam
(who planned to rule the Earth) ended with their defeat and return
to Hell, as everything returned to normal, and self-sacrificing
Kenny entered Heaven, where he was greeted by two nude angels
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Film Within a Film ("Asses of Fire")
"Uncle F--ka"
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"It's Easy, M'Kay"
"Blame Canada"
USO Show
La Resistance
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Kenny Entering Heaven, With Nude Angels
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Spaceballs (1987)
- the many sight gags, wisecracks, anachronisms,
and science-fiction genre spoofs and parodies in this uneven
film about a "galaxy far away" (the planet Spaceballs),
i.e.: the opening Star Wars type
scrawl: "If you can read this, you don't need glasses" and the massive
rumbling space ship Spaceball One with a minute and a
half of screen time (and its bumper sticker: "WE BRAKE FOR
NOBODY")
- the Alien (1979) spoof
in which John Hurt reprised his famous scene - he appeared in
an inter-galactic diner and muttered annoyedly: "Oh, no.
Not again!" when a chestburster popped out of his chest
- and then sang: Hello, My Baby - recreating Michigan
J. Frog's performance in the classic animated short "One
Froggy Evening"
- the sidekick character of half-dog and half-man
Barf the Mawg (John Candy), mercenary Lone Starr's (Bill Pullman)
co-pilot
- the character of robot chaperone and Droid of
Honor Dot Matrix (voice of Joan Rivers) who accompanied Druidia
Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga)
- the two villains: evil and vile Lord Dark Helmet
(Rick Moranis) (a Darth Vader-like wannabe who often fantasy-played
with dolls of the film's characters, and complained about his
helmeted costume: "I can't breathe in this thing")
and Colonel Sandurz (George Wyner), who foolishly ordered their
spacecraft to go to "Ludicrous
Speed"
- the "I'm Surrounded by Assholes" scene, when Dark
Helmet realized that his entire crew was composed of men with
the surname of Asshole, and that they were all cross-eyed idiots:
"How many assholes do we have on this ship, anyway?...I knew
it. I'm surrounded by assholes! Keep firing, assholes!"
- the viewing of a real-time
home videocassette (VHS) version of Spaceballs (breaking
the 'fourth wall') by Dark Helmet and Colonel Sandurz, to ingeniously
locate the good-guy heroes and Princess Vespa; after fast-forwarding
through the FBI warning and other parts, they watched themselves
in real-time, with funny word-play: ("You're
looking at 'now', sir. Everything that happens 'now' is happening
'now.'" "What
happened to 'then'?" "We passed 'then'" "When?" "Just
now. We're at 'now' now!" "Go back to 'then'" "'When'?"
"'Now'" "Now?" "'Now'" "I can't" "Why?" "We
missed it" "When?"
"Just now" "When will 'then' be 'now'?",
"Soon" etc.)
- wise old man Yogurt's (Brooks again, who identified
himself: "I'm just plain Yogurt") boasting: "I am the keeper
of a greater magic, a power known throughout the universe as
the..." - and his repeated phrase about a metaphysical
power known as the Schwartz (not the Force): "May
the Schwartz be with you"
- Yogurt's demonstration of the lucrative merchandising
campaign and tie-in products for the film (including a squeezable
mini-Yogurt doll that spoke his catchphrase): "We
put the picture's name on everything! Merchandising! Merchandising!
Where the real money from the movie is made. 'Spaceballs' - the
T-shirt. 'Spaceballs' - the coloring book. 'Spaceballs' - the
lunchbox. 'Spaceballs' - the breakfast cereal. 'Spaceballs' -
the flame thrower! The kids love this one. Last, but not least.
'Spaceballs' - the doll. Me. Adorable"; there was also a
quick view of 'Spaceballs' toilet paper!
- the sight gag of "combing the desert" in
the sands of Vega to locate the Princess: ("We're following orders.
We were told to comb the desert, so we're combing it")
- the great visual gag of the creature Pizza the
Hutt (Dom DeLuise)
- also the Planet of the Apes (1968) 'money
shot' spoof in which two apes came riding up on horseback to
view the crashed head of the Mega Maid, a giant robotic maid
(and their comment about Spaceballs): ("Dear me, what are
those things coming out of her nose?" "Spaceballs?"
"Oh s--t, there goes the planet")
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Spider-Man 3 (2007)
- the "Dark Peter" sequences in which Peter Parker/Spider-Man
(Tobey Maguire) was transformed (after coming into contact and
becoming influenced by a strange, extraterrestrial spidery-black
symbiote entity) into a detestable
character with a dark side personality; he had been told that the
symbiote "amplifies characteristics of its host, especially aggression
- this could be dangerous"
- Peter
performed an unusual, 'evil' strutting street dance-walk before entering
a clothing store to buy a new outfit; also in the offices of the
Daily Bugle, he had a sexy conversation with co-worker-receptionist
Miss Betty Brant (Elizabeth Banks) who complimented him on his
photography: "Your shots are so good" - he replied: "I'd love to
shoot you sometime"; in the presence of his boss J. Jonah Jameson
(J.K. Simmons), Peter brashly put his feet up on the desk and demanded
higher pay
- later, in the Jazz Room nightclub display of obnoxious
behavior, Peter realized that his despicable, show-offy moves
to impress ex-girlfriend Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) (as a
singing waitress) in front of his pretty blonde lab partner Gwen
Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard) were not sustainable when Mary Jane
was knocked down and she asked him: "What's wrong with you?...Who
are you?"
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Spring Time Saps (1929) (short)
- in this silent short comedy, the suggestive image
of a taxi with a pair of female legs extended out each of the
cab's rear windows; a young lady selling womens' stockings (with
two false-prosthetic legs for display purposes) had stuck the two
artificial legs out the two opposite windows, giving the impression
of a woman with her legs wide open (a vulgar yet clever joke for
the time)
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Step Brothers (2008)
- the scene of two middle-aged, unemployed slacker-losers,
Brennan Huff (Will Ferrell) and Dale Doback (John C. Reilly), still
living at home in Los Angeles, who were forced against their will
to become roommates when Brennan's mom Nancy (Mary Steenburgen)
and Dale's dad Robert (Richard Jenkins) were married, making them
step brothers; they decided to turn their twin beds into bunkbeds
- a disaster when the top bunk collapsed onto the bottom bunk, with
Brennan underneath
- the tense dinner scene of the foursome eating
together, and Brennan's reluctant sharing of his "fancy sauce" (made
especially by his mother with catsup and mayonnaise)
with a confrontational Dale
- the "Nuts on a Tom" scene between the
two step brothers when Dale accused Brennan of touching his drums
(because there was a chip in the left one); although he denied
it, Brennan became enraged and threatened to really go and violate
the drum set: "I'm goin'
upstairs 'cause I'm gonna put my nutsack on your drumset! Okay?";
Dale became equally furious: "If you do that - I am warning
you, right now! If you touch my drums, I will stab you in the neck
with a knife! If you even go in the room, I will go ape-s--t,
do you hear me?"; meanwhile Brennan was at the drum set where
he had whipped out his testicles and was rubbing them on the top
of a snare drum ("Don't wanna miss a spot. John Bonham's playing
'Moby Dick' for real!"); they both attacked each other and
got into a major brawl that destroyed the drums and part of the
house, as Dale yelled back:
"There's one rule in the house and you broke it...You f--king
f--ker! I'm gonna rub my balls on your mom's face"; the two
emerged onto the front lawn where they continued to wrestle as
Brennan taunted:
"Your drum set's a whore! I teabagged your f--kin' drum set!";
Dale quipped: "Well, my drum set's a guy, so that makes you
gay, you f--ker!"; the fight ended when they simultaneously
knocked each other out with a baseball bat and a golf club; Nancy
exclaimed: "What the f--kin' f--k?"
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Stripes (1981)
- the enlistment scene in the Army's recruiting
office when quick-witted misfit recruit John Winger (Bill Murray)
and his buddy Russell Ziskey (Harold Ramis) were asked a series
of supposedly "standard" questions by the Recruiter (William Lucking):
- "Have you ever been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor? That's
robbery, rape, car theft, that sort of" - John answered:
"Convicted?...No," and Russell said: "Never convicted"
-
"Now, are either of you homosexuals?";
John responded first: "You mean, like, flaming, or...", with Russell
adding: "No, we are not homosexual, but we are willing to learn"; John
noted: "Yeah, would they send us someplace special?" - a response
that caused some discomfort in the questioner; the two offered
their momentous autographs
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Sullivan's
Travels (1941)
- writer/director Preston Sturges' brilliant satire
about movie-making, starring Joel McCrea as Hollywood
comedy director John L. Sullivan, who felt he must experience
first-hand what it was like to be poor and downtrodden before
making his next film
- butler Burrows' (Robert Greig) speech
to Sullivan about
poverty: ("Poverty
is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent
in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice
and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed
away from, even for purposes of study. It is to be shunned")
- the classic chase scene of the studio's entourage
trailing Sullivan
- Sullivan's first meeting and pairing with The Girl
(Veronica Lake) in a diner
- The Girl dressed as a male hobo and their wanderings
as hoboes traveling across America to experience poverty for themselves:
("I don't know where I'm going, but I'm not coming back until I
know what trouble is")
- the scene of a presumed-dead and incarcerated Sullivan
in a prison farm watching a screening of a Pluto/Mickey Mouse cartoon
- and laughing along with his fellow, hardened Georgia chain-gang
prisoners
- Sullivan's inspired return to making film comedies:
("There's a lot to be said for making people laugh! Did you
know that's all some people have? It isn't much but it's better
than nothing in this cockeyed caravan! Boy!")
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The Sunshine Boys (1975)
- a Neil Simon stage comedy adapted for the screen
- the two leads who had been together for 43 years:
aging vaudevillian Al Lewis (George Burns) and his grumpy comedy
act partner Willie Clark (Walter Matthau) ("73 year-old
putz") - who were now reunited after 11 years for a nostalgic
ABC-TV special variety show, and still despising each other
- the "Doctor Sketch" scene that instigated
the comedy team's long-standing feuding over a single line: ("What's
wrong with saying "enter" instead of "come in?")
- the character of the buxom Nurse in the Sketch
(Miss McIntosh) (Lee Meredith), who described her name: "Miss
McIntosh, you know, like the apple"; the Doctor (Willie)
responded while looking down at her bounteous cleavage: "I
forgot the name, but the apples I remember. Look in my appointment
book and see who's next"; and then when he leaned over her,
she cautioned: "Please doctor, you're standing too close" -
he replied: "With you, it's not possible"; and when
she coughed and complained of a chest cold, he quipped: "Looks
more like an epidemic to me"
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Superbad (2007)
- this Greg Mottola-directed
raunchy teen, coming-of-age, sex comedy (from producer Judd Apatow,
and with a semi-autobiographical script written by Seth Rogen and
Evan Goldberg when they were teens themselves) was regarded as
the Millennium's new American Pie
(1999). It paid homage to American Graffiti (1973) and Fast
Times at Ridgemont High (1982); it was a tremendously funny and
popular hit during the summer of 2007 (but without the requisite
nudity of this genre)
- the film was similarly obsessed
with male teen anxieties and sexual obsessions, including being
genitalia-focused, vulgar and sex-crazed about getting laid before
leaving for college
- the two main characters-buddies were two outcast,
nerdy, inseparable, socially-awkward, best-friend high-school seniors
at Clark County's Secondary School, with only two weeks left
in school until graduation, who were still awkwardly growing-up:
- Seth (Jonah Hill), chubby, talkative and assertive,
overweight, porn-lover, with an obsession about drawing penises
or telling dirty jokes
- Evan (Michael Cera), slim and tall, more serious,
intellectual, and rational
- throughout much of the film, both Seth and Evan
were on a quest to give up their virginity to two female students,
Jules (Emma Stone) and Becca (Martha MacIsaac) respectively, to
impress them and get them drunk by providing the booze at Jules'
underaged graduation party
- in the opening sequence, the two talked with Evan's
mother Jane (Stacy Edwards), as she leaned forward and revealed
her chest to speak to them through the car window, about how they
would really miss each other next year by being split up. Evan
had been accepted to Dartmouth, while Seth would be attending the
local Junior college. As they drove off, Seth boldly noted to Evan: "I
am truly jealous that you got to suck on those tits when you were
a baby."
- the two unpopular guys often talked
about scoring with girls, and dreamed of sexual experiences in their
future, while usually going without dates, party invites or relationships
- in
class, Evan was caught absent-mindedly staring at classmate Becca's
breasts - he was obviously infatuated with her, but awkwardly avoided
her questions about why he never seemed to attend any parties
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In Class - Evan Caught Staring at Classmate Becca's
Breasts
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- in Seth's home economics class, when he was paired
up with Jules (Emma Stone), she invited Seth and Evan to her graduation
party that night at her house. When their nerdy and dorky friend
Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) met with them shortly later and
bragged about going to obtain a false identification card, Seth
was pleased:
"You could buy us booze now."
- at the school lunch table, Seth explained to Evan
why he didn't have a good opinion of Evan's 'crush' Becca. In
a flashback to describe how he was traumatized at a young age,
he embarrassingly divulged to Evan his obsessive childhood habit
of artfully drawing male genitalia: "Here
it comes. When I was a little kid, I kinda had this problem.
And it's not even that big of a deal. Something like 8 percent
of kids do it, but whatever. For some reason, I don't know why,
I would just kinda sit around all day and draw pictures of dicks."
Seth as An Overweight 4th Grader Drawing Genitalia
Pictures
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- Seth told about how in 4th grade as a 10 year-old
young boy (Casey Margolis), his neighboring seatmate Becca (Laura
Marano) happened to see one of his pictures (a "real big,
veiny triumphant bastard" he called it) that he was finishing
up, when the drawing was knocked onto the floor (Evan was astonished
by the story: "You hit Becca's foot with your dick?").
She screamed, ran from her desk and out of the classroom, and reported
him to the school principal. The incident traumatized him with
the added revelation that his Ghostbusters lunch box was
a "treasure chest" full of a variety of dick drawings.
Seth recalled being disciplined by the school: "They literally
made me stop eating food that was shaped like dicks. No hot dogs,
no popsicles. Do you know how many foods are shaped like dicks?
The best kinds."
- Evan called Seth's obsession "really messed
up...super gay!" and left the table. In the school hallway,
Seth bragged to Jules about how he was getting a fake ID,
and went ahead to promise that he would bring alcohol to her party.
Jules was pleased and half-joked:
"You scratch our backs, we'll scratch yours." Seth inappropriately
joked back: "Well, Jules, the funny thing about my back is that
it's located on my cock." Seth felt he had scored and was already
anticipating sleeping and having sex with Jules. Following Seth's lead,
Evan further boasted to Becca that he could provide her with a bottle
of Goldslick Vodka (with gold flakes in it) at the party
- that afternoon, after Fogell acquired a fake ID
(for Hawaii) to purchase alcohol, he explained to his pals why
he had changed his name to "McLovin", and they derided
him about how awful his ID was: "It was between that or
Muhammed.... Muhammed is the most commonly used name on Earth";
Seth vehemently complained: "You look like a future pedophile
in this picture, number 1. Number 2: it doesn't even have a first
name, it just says McLovin!...Fogell, this ID says that you're
25 years old. Why wouldn't you just put 21, man?...No one's McLovin.
McLovin's never existed because that's a made up dumb F--KIN'
FAIRY TALE NAME, YOU F--K!"
-
Seth believed that Fogell would fail to be able to
buy liquor for the party with his fake ID, so he determinedly took
drastic measures by entering a Good Shopper Store to steal bottles
of booze. He experienced a number of fantasy scenarios (success
when posing as 22 years old to buy $80 dollars worth of liquor,
help from an elderly lady, and a confrontation with a security
guard who slashed his throat) before leaving empty-handed. It was
now Fogell's turn to enter TJ's Liquor Store and test out his false
ID.
-
outside as they waited, Seth chastised
Evan for being prepared by bringing a condom and spermicidal lube
("That wasn't the plan! We had a plan! I can't believe you
did that without even consulting me about it!"). They also
spotted a classmate Carey Hutchins who had switched schools. Reportedly,
she had breast reduction surgery, to Seth's amazement: "What?!
Making her tits smaller? That's like slapping God across the face
for giving you a gorgeous gift"; Evan explained: "She
had back problems, man. And it's not just making them smaller.
They completely reshape them. They make 'em more supple and symmetrical...
now that she can jog comfortably, she's in the best shape she's ever..."
- meanwhile, Fogell/McLovin
succeeded in illegally purchasing alcohol from clerk Mindy (Erica
Vittina Phillips), but became involved in a store hold-up and was
punched in the face by the hooded robber, who grabbed cash from
the register and fled. When a pair of humorous but inept and talkative
cops arrived: Officer Slater (Bill Hader) and Officer Michaels
(Seth Rogen), Seth and Even feared that Fogell was going to be
arrested. They were unaware that the cops agreed to drive him to
the party - and proceeded for much of the evening to do a "ride-along" while
blasting the police siren to barrel through red lights, drinking
after a call to Bailey's Bar & Grill, taking breathalyzer tests, and practice target-shooting
at a stop sign
- in the store's parking
lot, Seth panicked with Evan about their lost money and was hit (but
uninjured) by a car backing up and driven by Francis (Joe Lo Truglio).
In exchange for not reporting the accident to the police, they agreed
to be taken to another house party with alcohol, where the angry
home owner Mark (Kevin Corrigan) beat up Francis outdoors. Seth ended
up 'dirty dancing' with Mark's drunken, menstruating fiancee Jacinda
(Carla Gallo), causing a "period blood" stain on his
pants, while Evan was cornered in a room with frightening cocaine-snorting
thugs, where he was forced to sing The Guess Who's
"These Eyes." Before Seth could escape with two laundry
detergent jugs from the basement filled with beer, the jealous
Mark confronted him with the blood stain, and a brawl broke out.
- as the two ran from the party, Seth accused Evan of "bailing"
on him. They experienced an intense falling out when Seth complained
about how they weren't going to the same college together. Evan hurt
Seth's feelings by accusing him of wasting his time for three years:
"I'm not going to let you slow me down any more, Seth....I've
wasted the last three years of my life sitting around talking bulls--t
with you, man. Instead of chasing girls and making friends, I've
just sat around wasting all my time with you. And now, because of
you, I'm going to college a f--king friendless virgin." And
then coincidentally as they argued on a deserted street, the cruiser
with the two officers and McLovin' drove by and Seth was hit again.
When McLovin' recognized his two friends, they all took off on
foot, ended up on a bus, but were thrown out by the bus driver
after accidentally shattering the bottle on Goldslick Vodka on
the floor of the bus
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Intense Falling-Out Between Seth and Evan
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Three Guys Reunited With Booze - Heading Toward the Party
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- the trio walked three blocks
to Jules' party - with some of the stolen beer and the booze purchased
by Fogell. As they walked up to the party house, Fogell and Evan
admitted to Seth that they were going to be roommates at Dartmouth,
upsetting Seth even further: ("...because you're a backstabber
and you lied to your best friend, and you only want to hang out with
Fogell, and you just don't care anymore?")
- the drunken Seth
was the hit of the party-goers with the booze and stories of the
night's adventures. He approached non-drinker Jules for kisses and
sex, but she rejected him due to his alcoholic stupor. Meanwhile,
a "smashed" Becca offered a b-job and sex to Evan in Jules' bedroom ("I want
you to be my first, I want you inside me, just go with it"),
but he respectfully declined due to her physical condition - and
then she threw up. The only one to semi-succeed with a partner
was Fogell who spent time with attractive, red-haired foreign exchange
student Nicola (Aviva Farber). Later, a saddened Seth confessed
to Jules that his dream was to have her as his "girlfriend" in
the summer, but he had failed. And then he accidentally passed
out, fell forward and head-butted Jules, giving her a black eye.
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Drunken Becca's Seduction of Evan Before Throwing
Up
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- the party ended due to the arrival of Fogell's two
cop friends due to a noise complaint about the underage drinking
party. To save his passed-out friend Evan, Seth carried him out
of the house. Upstairs, the cops interrupted Fogell in a bedroom
having sex with Nicola (he was technically no longer a virgin!),
and confessed that they had played along with him the entire time
- "We know you're not 25, man. We're not idiots, McLovin." They
also apologized for 'blocking his c--k' - and to make it up to
him, the cops 'fake'-arrested Fogell to increase his 'bad-ass'
reputation with his schoolmates, who witnessed him being dragged
away. After driving off, they did wheelies and donuts with the
cruiser and eventually destroyed the car by crashing it and setting
it on fire with a flaming alcohol bottle (Molotov cocktail) - and
Fogell was allowed to take gun shots at the burning vehicle. Later,
they would claim that a crack-head stole the cruiser.
- Seth and Evan returned to Evan's house, where
they had an old-fashioned sleep-over with sleeping bags. Seth
admitted that he had actually known three weeks earlier that
Evan and Fogell were going to be college roommates. Evan confessed: "I
don't wanna live with Fogell. I never wanted to live with him....I'm
afraid to live with strangers. I can't do it." The two unabashedly
stated their lasting love for each other, and reconciled as best
friends.
- the next day, Seth and Evan met up with Jules and
Becca at the mall, where they all remained friends and went shopping
together. Seth joined Jules to buy cover-up for her black-eye,
while Evan and Becca joined up to buy comforters
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(l to r): Evan (Michael Cera) and Seth (Jonah Hill)
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Evan's Mother Jane (Stacy Edwards)
In Home Economics Class, Seth Paired with Classmate
Jules (Emma Stone)
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Seth's Confession to Evan at Lunchtime About Why He Hated Becca - Due to His
Revealed Obsession with Drawing Male Genitalia
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Becca's Shock at Seth's Obsessive Drawings of Male Genitalia
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Dressed Up to Attend Jules' Party
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Seth's Fantasy: A Slashed Throat When Attempting to Steal Booze
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Suspicious Liquor Store Clerk Mindy (Erica Vittina Phillips)
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Fogell's Nervous Purchase of Booze - Showing His ID
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Officers in Liquor Store - Evan and Seth Assumed Fogell Was Being Arrested
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Officers and McLovin/Fogell Drinking at Bar
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House-Party: Seth 'Dirty Dancing' at House Party with Menstruating Jacinda
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House-Party: Evan Cornered in a Room with Cocaine-Snorting Bad Guys - Forced
to Sing "These Eyes"
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Drunken Seth Attempting Kiss with Resistant Jules
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Fogell with Nicola in Bedroom
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Cops With Fogell Admitting They Were Playing Along With Him
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Evan and Seth Professing Their Best-Friend Love For Each Other
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Swingers (1996)
- the many quotable lines ("You're so money
and you don't even know it!" - using money as an adjective
meaning 'to be indisputably correct' or 'utterly gorgeous')
- the lounge-hopping and pick-up efforts of five
party-animal, show business wannabes in the singles scene - both
in LA and Vegas
- the use of the Jaws theme
music to identify the predatory 'sharks' at a bar picking up
on women
- the discussion about their most favorite moments
in movies like GoodFellas (1990) and Reservoir
Dogs (1992)
- the in-jokes about how: "Everybody steals
from everybody, thats Hollywood"
- Trent Walker's (Vince Vaughn) advice on how to
pick up women: ("All I do is stare at their mouths and wrinkle
my nose, and I turn out to be a sweetheart")
- the excruciatingly funny, but agonizing strike-out
scene of aspiring, wanna-be NY stand-up comedian Mike Peter's
(screenwriter-actor Jon Favreau) repeated phone calls to new
LA acquaintance Nikki's (Brooke Langton) answering machine: ("This
is Nikki. Leave a message") whom he had just met in a bar,
when it cut him off as he left his phone number, and how he excused
himself for his repeated phone calls and messages by stating: "I
don't want you to think I was weird or desperate..." - and
her live retort to his calls: "Don't ever call me again";
the scene covered all the various emotions that come to play
in a male/female relationship
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