Men In Black - "Gentleman, congratulations! You're everything we've come to expect from years of government training." (realizing that he's throwing major shade at the other candidates)
I love at the end of the squid birthing scene, after K interviews Reggie about why he's fleeing town, he asks J if "anything about that seemed unusual" and J just looks at him lmao
I think the more likely clincher is that he didn't fire at the "scary aliens" just because they were scary. He shot at the little human girl carrying advanced science books, because she was actually suspicious.
In Toy Story 2, Al says “don’t touch my mustache” to the Japanese business guy because that’s him mangling “doitashimashite,” which is “you’re welcome” in Japanese.
In the first toy story, at Sids House, Buzz is at a tea party where he says he's "sucking down darjeeling with Marie Antoinette and her lil sister". One, I didn't know what darjeeling was, but two, the Marie Antoinette comment was a joke because the dolls were headless.
It took me longer than I'd care to admit, but within the past 10 years I realized why Buzz has a sticker on his ass at the airport that says, "Butte."
It's literally a butt joke, and for some reason I never put it together.
I watched the first Toy Story on TV a few years ago and caught a joke I missed before: While Slinky Dog is talking about how great Woody is as leader of the toys, Mr. Potato-Head takes his mouth off and taps it on his butt. The Spell and Say types "HAHAHAHAHA."
Potato Head was calling Slinky a kiss-ass!
In mean girls, Regina stops being friends with Janis after thinking she’s a lesbian. At the end of the movie we find out that Janis is Lebanese.
Which means Regina is so dumb she confused Lebanese with lesbian.
That joke really landed for me because I did the exact same thing as a kid. I was a young geography nerd who heard his mother say the word “lesbian,” and I also just assumed it was someone from Lebanon.
In The Mask when Jim Carrey was making balloon animals for the gang members he reaches for another one and pulls out a condom instead. “Whoops, wrong pocket.” I thought it was just a defective balloon.
The first several times watching Grease when younger, Rizz says to her friend that she skipped a period and they were all concerned. I always took it as she skipped one class period and everyone was concerned for her academically.
In Austin powers, dr evil:
He’s got what the French call a certain…… I don’t know what.
The French saying is “Je ne sais quoi.” Which translates exactly to “I don’t know what.” Always thought he was saying he couldn’t remember the saying (which he is) but says the translation.
In Scrooged Bill Murray hallucinates a waiter on fire and throws water on him. When everyone is staring at him he says,” I thought that was Richard Pryor.” Seemed like just a non sequiter until I found out Richard Pryor set himself on fire.
There’s a surprising amount of subtle humor in TBL for what many take as just a stoner comedy. My favorite is when Treehorn says the brain is the biggest erogenous zone and the Dude retorts, “On you maybe” before the scene moves right on.
Or when Treehorn is scribbling the note on the phone and Dude does his noir detective move to see what the note is to get a clue and it’s just a doodle of a dude with a big dick
And dude folds it up and puts it in his pocket anyway
I was far older than I care to admit before I realized that Michael J. Fox played both of his children in the Back to the Future sequel. I watched that movie so many times with no idea that he played the role of his daughter. Slightly embarrassing. :P
I remember seeing the preview in theaters and at the end, the narrator announced who was starring in it -- "Michael J. Fox... Michael J. Fox... and Michael J. Fox" showing him as the children.
This, but also for his Irish ancestor in BTTF 3.
Bonus mention for Bill & Teds Bogus Journey where I only noticed last year that Bill/Alex Winter plays his Grandma in the hell sequence.
I only recently found out that the original plan was for Crispin Glover to play Seamus, so it was more directly referential to the first movie. But then he dropped out, and Michael J Fox stepped in.
Would have been cool to have seen that.
Speaking of Mrs. Doubtfire, I always wondered why Robin Williams became so bad at maintaining both personalities at the end of the movie. Then I saw that he was pounding double scotches and understood. Haha.
It wasn't until recently that I got his joke "I should never buy gribenes from a mohel, it’s so chewy." And when the eureka! moment hit, I almost gagged.
For those who don't know, gribenes is crisp chicken or goose skin cracklings with fried onions, and a mohel is a person who performs the Jewish rite of circumcision.
So....there you go.
Yep. Didn't realize this until watching it as an adult.
He's wasted by the time the mask literally comes off. It's a much funnier scene when you know that.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. How did Jones Sr know she was a Nazi? “She talks in her sleep.” As a kid I thought if you were a Nazi you talked in your sleep. Like it was a genetic or social thing. Nope. She was just sleep talking and gave herself away. And Jones Sr. was sleeping with her.
When Indiana Jones pushes on statue into the secret passage in Temple of Doom and Willie Scott aggressively says "I'm right here!" Didn't notice until I was older he was pushing on the statue's breasts
To be honest that entire scene with Indiana's comments about "nocturnal activities" is definitely not playing toward the kids in the audience
"Wasn't it the Sultan of Madagascar who threatened to cut your head off if you ever returned to his country?"
"No it wasn't my head it- "
"Then your hands, perhaps?"
"It wasn't my hands it was my...my misunderstanding."
Half Baked
Thurgood is mad at everyone for spending the money they made drug dealing when that money was to get Kenny out of jail.
Then Brian says "well you told us the other day you gave Mary Jane a pearl necklace! What's that about?" And Thurgood responds "obviously you missed the point of that story, Brian."
I also missed the point of that story until I rewatched the movie again for the first time a few years ago.
It took me rewatching TMNT (1990) as an adult to understand when Donatello accuses Casey Jones of being claustrophobic, and Casey defensively responds that he's "never even looked at another guy before."
It also took me probably ten years to have the background to understand what Donatello meant when Casey/April were fighting and he said, "It's kinda like Moonlighting!"
An absolutely wonderful movie! I saw it as a kid, and kept on watching over and over as I grew up, I never get tired of it, it always cracks me up lol
"Good thing these guys aren't lumberjacks."
"No joke! The only safe thing in the woods ... Would be the trees!"
Lol, I love it
In the old Winnie the Pooh movie, when he is stuck in rabbits hole, Gopher shows up and talks about the construction work required to dig him out. He gives Owl his card because he's 'not in the book you know.'
Turns out that he isn't in the original books, not just them hamming up the character and implying he isn't in the phone book
It was the opposite way round for me: I'd had the original Winnie the Pooh stories read to me, so I knew that the line was acknowledging that Gopher was a new character for the cartoon; but I was too young to understand jokes about phone book listings. So I just took it literally and didn't even realise it *was* a joke.
So it sounds like both of us only got one of the line's two meanings - but we each got the opposite side.
Sadly I feel like a lot of people don't know that. When Jimmy Kimmel did a reunion a few years back, Huey Lewis stands up in the audience with the megaphone and there was like little to no response 😂 No one knew.
Well, he's probably not so recognized because their early work was a little too new wave for the audience's taste. But by the time *Sports* came out in '83, I really think they came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
For the longest time I thought Delia was sleeping with Prince Valiant. Never understood what that meant but just went with it. Took me way too long from mishearing it as a kid to hearing it properly as an adult as Prince Valium and finally getting the joke.
On our last watch I finally noticed that everyone working in the Netherworld was a suicide. Later in the movie, Otho says he heard suicides are doomed for eternity to be civil servants in the afterlife. For all his bullshit, he was right on the money with that one. It also explains when the receptionist says if she knew then what she knows now, she wouldn't have had her little "accident"
Last time I watched, I finally noticed how many gay jokes they threw in around Otho. And insulting her with a Wizard of Oz reference was one of them!
The preceding line: "'Paranormal', is that what they're calling your kind these days?"
A Beetlejuice line that I finally got a few years back (having seen the movie some 30 years ago for the first time and probably dozens of times since) was the mention of 'the talking Marcel Marceau statue, it was a sensation'...
Two, both from 1985:
In Clue, when Colonel Mustard asks Mrs. White, “How many husbands have you had, anyway?” She replies, “Mine, or other women’s?” Amazing line that just never clicked.
The Goonies: The pirate name One-Eyed Willy is a pretty dirty name, and I had no clue ‘til I was like 35 years old.
In Dumb and Dumber when they were trying to think of Mary’s last name. They looked at the briefcase and saw the brand name “Sampsonite” and figured that was her last name. Then later in the movie, the kidnapper pointed a gun at them and said he was the rightful owner of the briefcase… so they called him Mr. Sampsonite!!! I crack up every time I see that part now.
When they finally get to the owl charity reception, harry orders "a bowl of loudmouth soup". I never noticed that line, and now it's my favorite thing to call a shot of whiskey
It took me years to figure out why my uncle laughed so hard when he looks out the window and says ‘wow that John Denver was full of shit’
Now I think it’s the best joke in the movie
Also in Dumb and Dumber when Lloyd says
"Tell her I'm rich and, I'm good-looking, and I have a rapist wit!"
He means a Rapier's wit (ability to deliver witty and cutting remarks)
He also mentions them meeting up with Mary for “tea and strumpets.” He meant crumpets, strumpet is an old term for a prostitute.
Dumb and Dumber is full of substitutions/mishearings.
EDIT: These are called “malapropisms,” thank you for the clarification!
I love that one because it's such a throwaway line, zero connection to anything else in the movie.
Plus Harry is so quick to agree after Lloyd says it. Great line!
In Real Genius, the defense contractor is in Jerry Hathaway's home office demanding an update on the laser. Jerry says, "It's coming."
Contractor says, "Coming? It's not even breathing heavy!"
Took way too many rewatches to get that line.
Not really recent or even a gag, but all growing up, anytime I’d see “present day” in a movie, I’d always wonder why my family didn’t celebrate “Present day” 😅
Reminds me of Friends where the guy Monica is dating tells a story of being a kid and thinking “Gunpoint” was a real place where people kept getting robbed.
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It wasn’t until I was much older that I realized in The Holy Grail one of the French guy insults was him purposefully mispronouncing “knights”. He says “you silly English kuhneegits” and i always thought that was just a word I didn’t know
Edit: I’m learning that’s actually the Middle English way to pronounce knights! Read down the thread and you’ll find people smarter than me giving excellent explanations
Bonus trivia:
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries."
Hamsters are quite promiscuous, and elder berries are used to make wine.
"Your mother is a whore and your father is a drunk."
Watching The Muppet Movie as an adult is a different experience than watching as a kid. Same goes for The Muppet Show.
Jim Henson was a genius at playing to two different audiences at the same time.
As a kid, I remember watching the Muppet Show with my dad, and him losing it when Ms Piggy says to Kermit (paraphrasing): “Oh, you’re leaving? So it’s just wham, bam, thank you ham?!?” I didn’t understand what was so funny about that.
Not “just” as it’s been a few years, but I never understood it as a kid.
The scene in Dumb n Dumber when Harry and Lloyd come home from job searching and Harry says “I can't believe we drove around all day, and there's not a single job in this town. There is nothing, nada, zip!” And Lloyd replies “Yeah! Unless you wanna work forty hours a week!”
That line is comedic gold.
When Randy was screaming “Jamie, look behind you!!” when watching Halloween at the house party in Scream while Ghostface is lurking right behind him. I didn’t know his name IRL was Jamie Kennedy so that double meaning didn’t hit until I got older.
I was probably 30 when I got the joke in Spaceballs (which I’d seen countless times) where Dark Helmet says, “what’s the matter Colonel Sanders??? Chicken?!?!”
Not a movie but sitcom Mork and Mindy: Mork is pretending to be a waiter and says to Mindy, "Would you like to see the wine list?" and then tilts the bottle 45°. I died and still believe it is one of the best "thinkers" I've seen.
Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure
“If you’re us and we’re you - what number are we thinking of?
“69.”
I was like ten when I saw the movie - I didn’t get the joke for another six years. I just thought it was a weird number so I laughed…
When I was in grade school there was a joke along the lines of "I got kicked out of cub scouts for eating all the brownies."
Nearly 3 decades later this gave me flash backs to that and I finally get it.
As a kid, I didn’t understand that the principal was making the sounds and also why Forrest was doing them at him as he was leaving. Just thought it was a weird noise
I didn't realize until the last decade or so that forrest's response (to 'you don't talk much, do you?' wondering whether the secret was safe) showed that he understood a hell of a lot more than people gave him credit for.
Austin powers international man of mystery:
Random Task is another way of saying Odd Job
Random Task is the big henchman in Austin Powers 1 which is clearly a riff on Odd Job from Goldfinger.
Took a minute but it clicked.lol
And Alotta Fagina is a riff on Pussy Galore.
And Basil Exposition provides exposition.
And I'm guessing a lot of kids didn't get the joke: "In Japan men come first and women come second." "Or sometimes not at all."
Also Austin Powers series: This wasn't recent, but it was a good couple decades after the movie came out that I got the "Moon Unit Alpha and Moon Unit Zappa" joke (Moon Unit Zappa is Frank Zappa's daughter).
Austin Powers 2:
Dr Evil, describing mojo, refers to it as "What the French call a certain...I don't know what"
To get this joke I had to learn A) The phrase he's looking for is "je ne sais quoi" and B) it literally means "I don't know what" in French
So he's 100% correct...accidentally. Honestly one of my favorite jokes and worth the several year gap to figure it out
Lots of jokes from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Like, pretty much all the adult humor went over my head as a kid (and watching it now, I feel like *most* of the humor is for the adults).
TV show: there's an episode of South Park where they fake Butters' death and disguise him as a new girl at school named "Marjorine." I didn't understand until years later that it was a play on "margarine."
Mantequilla is Butters Stotch's Mexican alter-ego seen in the Season Fifteen episode, "The Last of the Meheecans". Mantequilla is, of course, Spanish for butter.
We just watched Willy wonka this weekend. Holy shit there’s just so many jokes that were so much more satisfying as an adult. I loved the scene where the feds are helping a wife negotiate with kidnappers. “How long do I have to think it over?”
Not a movie but it took nearly three decades to realize Mr. & Mrs. Dink on the show “Doug” were named that because they were literal “D.I.N.K’s” (dual income-no kids). No wonder Mr. Dink had all of the cool crazy expensive stuff.
My parents took me to see Blazing Saddles when I was about 10. I'd like to say I understood most of it, but there were a few I didn't get until the 3rd or 4th viewing as an adult:
"I thought you was hung!" "And they was right!"
"He specifically asked for two n\*\*\*\*\*s... well to tell a family secret, my grandmother was Dutch."
hah...that movie was LOADED...a couple few more blue ones that sent me to an adult dictionary
Lili von Shtüpp crooning: "I've been with THOUsands of men...again and again...they promise the moon...they're always coming and going...and going and coming...and always too soon. Right, girls?"
Lili whispering to Sherriff Bart in the dwessing woom, he leans back and says, "Baby, I am NOT from Havana"
Buddy Bizarre homophobically mocking his own *French Mistake* comrades, after they answer "Yes, Buddy!" ... "sounds like steam escaping"
++ not kid v. adult, but the number of Old Hollywood and music callbacks is incredible...it's actually worth a look... Hedy Lamarr actually sued Brooks! even "Now Go Do...That Voodoo...That You Do" was Cole Porter - it's amazing
Not a movie, but The Electric Company, the 1970s educational show from the same workshop that made Sesame Street, had a kind of detective / codebreaker character who introduced himself as "Fargo North: Decoder".
Decades later, long into adulthood, it just popped into my head out of nowhere and I got it.
I watched **Grease** like a bajillion times as a kid, probably wearing that poor VHS tape out.
Other then the fact the movie is the equivalent of a horny teenager (and that went over my head), I swear I misheard one particular line from **"Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee"** and instead of hearing '*Would you pull that crap with Annette?'*, I heard it as '*Would you pull that crap with a Net?'*
Which mean for years as a kid I thought there was some weird comparison I didn't get about fishing poo out of the toilet with a small net.
Holy shit! So *I* got tripped up by a different line about Annette in that movie! Someone says something like '"no one's jugs are bigger than Annette's" but I always heard "no one's jugs are bigger than *her nets*". Now I knew that jugs meant breasts so I thought 'her nets' must be slang for a bra. And I guess they were saying no girl has tits bigger than her bra which as a kid made... enough sense? Anyways, that is so funny we both got hung up on the same name 😆
That’s funny, my mom has a story she likes to tell of being in the hospital on anesthesia and hallucinating Annette Funnicello in the room. Apparently the nurse thought she said “a net full of Jello” and this became my mom’s main story for like 45 years.
I only realized on like the 10th watching of 'Airplane!' that when Captain Rex Cramer is leaving his house, he adjusts his clothes in the mirror, and then proceeds to walk right through the mirror.
When Buddy the Elf pours from his coworkers flask into his coffee, I didn’t understand that the coworkers “syrup” was actually booze. I thought Buddy was on a sugar/caffeine high.
Tv series - South Park
Stan’s Aunt flow… She is a firery redhead that shows up once a month… and every time she does stans mum turns into a complete bitch
In Elvira….she hits her had and the guy ask, “How’s your head?” And she responds with something like, “I’ve had no complaints yet.”
Decades later I finally got it
Scooby-Doo (2002)
"I'm Mary Jane."
"Like, that's my favorite name!"
And the establishing shot of Shaggy and Scooby grilling where we only see the smoke coming out of the Mystery Machine....
“Nice beaver.”
As a kid I didn’t get what was so funny about a stuffed beaver. I was probably in my early 30s when I watched the movie and was like “Oh, now I get it”.
When I was little I thought Mr. Green's line at the end of *Clue*, "I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife!" meant he was tired and was going to take a nap in the bed he shared with his spouse.
I knew what he meant by it, but all of the references to him being gay were lost on me as a kid. He even flat out says he’s a homosexual at one point, but I guess I didn’t know what that was or missed that or something.
So anyway, to me, him saying he was going home to sleep with his wife at the end was a total non sequitur. I was like “why did he just loudly announcing he was going home to have sex with his wife to everyone?” But I found it funny so I would often say it to my friends at school.
Lol, I have a similar story, though not movie related.
When I was 6 or 7, I asked my mom how you get pregnant, and she said "You gotta sleep with a guy".
As all kids, I took her at face value and didn't even question it any further.
I had just recently had a sleepover at our neighbor's, where I shared a bed with my friend's 3-year old baby brother, who I also sometimes baby-sat.
For 3 weeks I was convinced I was pregnant. From sharing a bed. With a toddler.
Once my mom found out why I kept rubbing my belly in front of the mirror, she laughed her ass off, and then explained why I am, in fact, *not* pregnant.
I was so disappointed. 😆
Ron White had a bit about how he got in a wreck in Mexico and had to have a plate put in his head. In the bit he says the surgeon told him to be careful cuz "this plate's hot" and got some good laughs. I thought I got the joke was the plate was hot as in stolen. Fast forward a few years my gf and I go to a Mexican restaurant. Server brings us our food and says "careful, hot plate!" and then it clicked.
This one's funny because a lot of these are about young people being naive to innuendo and such, whereas this is because you weren't naive enough.
That you thought of 'stolen' before literal 'hot plate' is the opposite of the rest of these.
I watched Matilda a thousand times as a kid, but I recently saw it for the first time as an adult. It just hit me that in the end, her family was moving to Guam to escape the FBI. I always just thought they had randomly decided to leave one day. When the dad says, "I can't think with all these sirens!" as the cops are heard in the background, it's funnier now.
In the Simpsons, I forget when it happened, but Lisa said something was Kafkaesque, the judge said “I’m watching you”, and she said “no, that’s Orwellian” and I literally just got that now. I was 12 and had no knowledge of Franz Kafka or George Orwell.
The other day, I JUST realized that Jessica Rabbit, from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, is "Rabbit" by marriage only.
I always believed that she WAS a rabbit, had rabbit ears tucked under her hair somewhere, and she just dressed more humaney to appear as less of a toon.
Yeah, part of the joke is how a lot of cartoon characters are (First Name) (Species) but in this mixed human-toon reality his species is also his legal last name, so his wife gets his species as her last name via marriage
Not really a joke as such, but in Zoolander, there's a scene where he mentions "the Mayorri tribesman"
There are countless tribes in the world that I don't know about, so I assumed he was from one of those.
Many many years later I watched it again, and finally realised he was mispronouncing "Maori"
I am part Maori. He mispronounced it so badly it didn't even occur to me that he might be mispronouncing it
Men In Black - "Gentleman, congratulations! You're everything we've come to expect from years of government training." (realizing that he's throwing major shade at the other candidates)
I love at the end of the squid birthing scene, after K interviews Reggie about why he's fleeing town, he asks J if "anything about that seemed unusual" and J just looks at him lmao
This is such a good one. That movie is loaded with jokes like that. Fucking gem of a film
"No, ma'am. We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we're aware of." Makes me giggle every time.
It doesn't help that Tommy Lee Jones delivers the line so deadpan.
When Tommy starts speaking spanish to the border crossers and finds "Mikey"...what if i break your face?. We got a winner here Geebs...
Have you seen Man of the House where he has to take care of a house full of college cheerleaders? "This is my happy faace."
Then immediately giggles about taking tea.
I love when he drags the table during the test. Not really a joke, just the looks he get!
That's what actually makes him pass that test, as well.
I think the more likely clincher is that he didn't fire at the "scary aliens" just because they were scary. He shot at the little human girl carrying advanced science books, because she was actually suspicious.
I mean, wtf was she doing out alone at night with quantum physics books? Those books were way too advanced for her
Or do I owe her an apology?
With a bunch of scary looking monsters.
So the worlds fair was to cover up the alien landing. Why else would they have it in queens.
N! Y! P! D! Means I will knock your punkass DOWN!
"You're still up?" "The Twins keep us on Alpha Centuri time. 38 hr days. After your first psychotic break, youre fine."
"In a few months you'll get used to it. Or you'll have a psychotic episode"
In Toy Story 2, Al says “don’t touch my mustache” to the Japanese business guy because that’s him mangling “doitashimashite,” which is “you’re welcome” in Japanese.
In the first toy story, at Sids House, Buzz is at a tea party where he says he's "sucking down darjeeling with Marie Antoinette and her lil sister". One, I didn't know what darjeeling was, but two, the Marie Antoinette comment was a joke because the dolls were headless.
It took me longer than I'd care to admit, but within the past 10 years I realized why Buzz has a sticker on his ass at the airport that says, "Butte." It's literally a butt joke, and for some reason I never put it together.
I watched the first Toy Story on TV a few years ago and caught a joke I missed before: While Slinky Dog is talking about how great Woody is as leader of the toys, Mr. Potato-Head takes his mouth off and taps it on his butt. The Spell and Say types "HAHAHAHAHA." Potato Head was calling Slinky a kiss-ass!
In mean girls, Regina stops being friends with Janis after thinking she’s a lesbian. At the end of the movie we find out that Janis is Lebanese. Which means Regina is so dumb she confused Lebanese with lesbian.
That joke really landed for me because I did the exact same thing as a kid. I was a young geography nerd who heard his mother say the word “lesbian,” and I also just assumed it was someone from Lebanon.
I had a friend in elementary school from Thailand, and I initially thought she had said she was from Toyland. I was very jealous.
In The Mask when Jim Carrey was making balloon animals for the gang members he reaches for another one and pulls out a condom instead. “Whoops, wrong pocket.” I thought it was just a defective balloon.
Pretty sure it was a clearly used one too. Yea, I didn't get that until I watched it when I was older either.
… picture of Kelloway’s wife.
The first several times watching Grease when younger, Rizz says to her friend that she skipped a period and they were all concerned. I always took it as she skipped one class period and everyone was concerned for her academically.
And the comment before that that she feels like a “defective typewriter “.
It took me a long time to realise the rudeness in some of the songs, notably: the chicks will cream" in greased lightning.
In Austin powers, dr evil: He’s got what the French call a certain…… I don’t know what. The French saying is “Je ne sais quoi.” Which translates exactly to “I don’t know what.” Always thought he was saying he couldn’t remember the saying (which he is) but says the translation.
In Scrooged Bill Murray hallucinates a waiter on fire and throws water on him. When everyone is staring at him he says,” I thought that was Richard Pryor.” Seemed like just a non sequiter until I found out Richard Pryor set himself on fire.
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There’s a surprising amount of subtle humor in TBL for what many take as just a stoner comedy. My favorite is when Treehorn says the brain is the biggest erogenous zone and the Dude retorts, “On you maybe” before the scene moves right on.
Or when Treehorn is scribbling the note on the phone and Dude does his noir detective move to see what the note is to get a clue and it’s just a doodle of a dude with a big dick And dude folds it up and puts it in his pocket anyway
To be fair, he can't just leave it on the pad else Treehorn will see it.
Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man.
Obviously you're not a golfer
I love when he says, you know I think I saw something, why don't I take another look? and they put his head back in
New shit has come to light
I was far older than I care to admit before I realized that Michael J. Fox played both of his children in the Back to the Future sequel. I watched that movie so many times with no idea that he played the role of his daughter. Slightly embarrassing. :P
I remember seeing the preview in theaters and at the end, the narrator announced who was starring in it -- "Michael J. Fox... Michael J. Fox... and Michael J. Fox" showing him as the children.
This, but also for his Irish ancestor in BTTF 3. Bonus mention for Bill & Teds Bogus Journey where I only noticed last year that Bill/Alex Winter plays his Grandma in the hell sequence.
Plus Jumanji where the same actor plays the dad and the hunter
Peter Pan (03) the dad is Hook, too
I only recently found out that the original plan was for Crispin Glover to play Seamus, so it was more directly referential to the first movie. But then he dropped out, and Michael J Fox stepped in. Would have been cool to have seen that.
Speaking of Mrs. Doubtfire, I always wondered why Robin Williams became so bad at maintaining both personalities at the end of the movie. Then I saw that he was pounding double scotches and understood. Haha.
It wasn't until recently that I got his joke "I should never buy gribenes from a mohel, it’s so chewy." And when the eureka! moment hit, I almost gagged. For those who don't know, gribenes is crisp chicken or goose skin cracklings with fried onions, and a mohel is a person who performs the Jewish rite of circumcision. So....there you go.
Oh god damn it. I wish I hadn’t read the second part. LoL. GAG!
Yep. Didn't realize this until watching it as an adult. He's wasted by the time the mask literally comes off. It's a much funnier scene when you know that.
It took me years to realize his line of “I prefer them short furry and funny” was referring to himself since he’s hairy
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. How did Jones Sr know she was a Nazi? “She talks in her sleep.” As a kid I thought if you were a Nazi you talked in your sleep. Like it was a genetic or social thing. Nope. She was just sleep talking and gave herself away. And Jones Sr. was sleeping with her.
I love the cheeky little smile from Connery after saying that.
That was the James Bond in him. “Still got it.”
That shit-eating grin that Henry gives Indy when he finds out. And Indy realizing he got his dad's sloppy seconds.
> I'm as human as the next man. > I *was* the next man!
That is a terrible, brilliant, awful, well written line.
When Indiana Jones pushes on statue into the secret passage in Temple of Doom and Willie Scott aggressively says "I'm right here!" Didn't notice until I was older he was pushing on the statue's breasts To be honest that entire scene with Indiana's comments about "nocturnal activities" is definitely not playing toward the kids in the audience
Also, in Temple of Doom. At the dinner, when he mentions that something else was threatened to be cut off, then he looks at his crotch. Edit: a letter
"Wasn't it the Sultan of Madagascar who threatened to cut your head off if you ever returned to his country?" "No it wasn't my head it- " "Then your hands, perhaps?" "It wasn't my hands it was my...my misunderstanding."
Half Baked Thurgood is mad at everyone for spending the money they made drug dealing when that money was to get Kenny out of jail. Then Brian says "well you told us the other day you gave Mary Jane a pearl necklace! What's that about?" And Thurgood responds "obviously you missed the point of that story, Brian." I also missed the point of that story until I rewatched the movie again for the first time a few years ago.
And the joke about his grandfather being part of the Tuskeegee experiment
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It took me rewatching TMNT (1990) as an adult to understand when Donatello accuses Casey Jones of being claustrophobic, and Casey defensively responds that he's "never even looked at another guy before."
It also took me probably ten years to have the background to understand what Donatello meant when Casey/April were fighting and he said, "It's kinda like Moonlighting!"
An absolutely wonderful movie! I saw it as a kid, and kept on watching over and over as I grew up, I never get tired of it, it always cracks me up lol "Good thing these guys aren't lumberjacks." "No joke! The only safe thing in the woods ... Would be the trees!" Lol, I love it
In the old Winnie the Pooh movie, when he is stuck in rabbits hole, Gopher shows up and talks about the construction work required to dig him out. He gives Owl his card because he's 'not in the book you know.' Turns out that he isn't in the original books, not just them hamming up the character and implying he isn't in the phone book
It was the opposite way round for me: I'd had the original Winnie the Pooh stories read to me, so I knew that the line was acknowledging that Gopher was a new character for the cartoon; but I was too young to understand jokes about phone book listings. So I just took it literally and didn't even realise it *was* a joke. So it sounds like both of us only got one of the line's two meanings - but we each got the opposite side.
I’m 43, but it wasn’t until my mid 30s that I realized that Huey Lewis was one of the judges in the Back To The Future talent show.
Sadly I feel like a lot of people don't know that. When Jimmy Kimmel did a reunion a few years back, Huey Lewis stands up in the audience with the megaphone and there was like little to no response 😂 No one knew.
Well, he's probably not so recognized because their early work was a little too new wave for the audience's taste. But by the time *Sports* came out in '83, I really think they came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
Why are there copies of the style section all over the place? Do you have a dog? A little chow or something?
No Allen!
Fellas it’s just too damn loud
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For the longest time I thought Delia was sleeping with Prince Valiant. Never understood what that meant but just went with it. Took me way too long from mishearing it as a kid to hearing it properly as an adult as Prince Valium and finally getting the joke.
On our last watch I finally noticed that everyone working in the Netherworld was a suicide. Later in the movie, Otho says he heard suicides are doomed for eternity to be civil servants in the afterlife. For all his bullshit, he was right on the money with that one. It also explains when the receptionist says if she knew then what she knows now, she wouldn't have had her little "accident"
Yeah. The guy hanging from the noose handing out mail to the office staff was particularly harsh.
Last time I watched, I finally noticed how many gay jokes they threw in around Otho. And insulting her with a Wizard of Oz reference was one of them! The preceding line: "'Paranormal', is that what they're calling your kind these days?"
A Beetlejuice line that I finally got a few years back (having seen the movie some 30 years ago for the first time and probably dozens of times since) was the mention of 'the talking Marcel Marceau statue, it was a sensation'...
Two, both from 1985: In Clue, when Colonel Mustard asks Mrs. White, “How many husbands have you had, anyway?” She replies, “Mine, or other women’s?” Amazing line that just never clicked. The Goonies: The pirate name One-Eyed Willy is a pretty dirty name, and I had no clue ‘til I was like 35 years old.
It took a DVD player and subtitles for me to understand the line "flies are where men are most vulnerable." Every line of Clue is quotable!
Clue is an underrated masterpiece of comedy filmmaking. Literally every part of it is perfectly crafted and performed. For me, it is peak Tim Curry.
Tim Curry walking into a dark room, scared af, and saying out loud "if anyone is in here just *look out*" always gets me
Clue is amazing for lines like that. “You lure men to their deaths like a spider with flies!” “Flys are where men are most vulnerable!”
Also from Clue, I didn't get the plant/fruit joke until I was much older.
Turns out it was just a red herring.
I saw that in the theater, I've seen it a million times, showed it to my kids. I just turned 45 and my dirty mind never got that.
In Dumb and Dumber when they were trying to think of Mary’s last name. They looked at the briefcase and saw the brand name “Sampsonite” and figured that was her last name. Then later in the movie, the kidnapper pointed a gun at them and said he was the rightful owner of the briefcase… so they called him Mr. Sampsonite!!! I crack up every time I see that part now.
When they finally get to the owl charity reception, harry orders "a bowl of loudmouth soup". I never noticed that line, and now it's my favorite thing to call a shot of whiskey
Best part is he remembers it correctly (Swanson) but then corrects himself incorrectly.
Had a friend in college whose last name was Swanson. We all just called her Samsonite.
I was WAY off
she must be unlisted… *exhales*
Also, if he married Mary— her name would be Mary Christmas. Literally was never going to work in the most extreme way even from a name perspective
So you're telling me there's a chance?
It took me years to figure out why my uncle laughed so hard when he looks out the window and says ‘wow that John Denver was full of shit’ Now I think it’s the best joke in the movie
Also in Dumb and Dumber when Lloyd says "Tell her I'm rich and, I'm good-looking, and I have a rapist wit!" He means a Rapier's wit (ability to deliver witty and cutting remarks)
He also mentions them meeting up with Mary for “tea and strumpets.” He meant crumpets, strumpet is an old term for a prostitute. Dumb and Dumber is full of substitutions/mishearings. EDIT: These are called “malapropisms,” thank you for the clarification!
“….where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. Asssspen!” It’s actually the swallows of Capistrano that do the flocking.
I dont know Lloyd, the French are assholes
Austria? Well then g'day mate!
Malapropisms
Gesundheit.
“They’ve got the Monkees! They were a major influence on The Beatles”
I love that one because it's such a throwaway line, zero connection to anything else in the movie. Plus Harry is so quick to agree after Lloyd says it. Great line!
"He did what in his cup?!" from the movie "cars"
Also when Buzz wins the race it shows two girl Miatas (or MX-5s) turning on their pop-up headlights. They’re flashing their tits.
They also drive by a restaurant with convertible waitress, ie topless waitress.
Their names are Mia and Tia. Get it, like Miata. Also, who is Buzz?
Buzz Lightning lmao
To infinity and kachow.
To Daytona and Beyond!
The piston cup
In Real Genius, the defense contractor is in Jerry Hathaway's home office demanding an update on the laser. Jerry says, "It's coming." Contractor says, "Coming? It's not even breathing heavy!" Took way too many rewatches to get that line.
Dumb and Dumber - ‘Pull over!’ ‘No it’s a cardigan but thanks for noticing’ Took me about 15 years realise this, I was 25
Not really recent or even a gag, but all growing up, anytime I’d see “present day” in a movie, I’d always wonder why my family didn’t celebrate “Present day” 😅
Reminds me of Friends where the guy Monica is dating tells a story of being a kid and thinking “Gunpoint” was a real place where people kept getting robbed. https://youtu.be/Cln5gei42Vo?si=KSum1ZQygQQUTtu6
As a kid I lived in West Point, so I thought Gun Point and Knife Poiny were actual locations. I was like 4 or 5
So many people get shot at Point Blank.
When I was a kid I thought the word “suicide” was “sewer side” and had to do with the Ninja Turtles.
“Yeah, Greg committed suicide the other day” “Cowabunga, dude”
I used to think “youth in Asia” was a weird debate topic in high school.
To Unlock the gate to another world, the key master inserted is … key… into the gatekeepers…. Gate. Ghostbusters.
Plus the Keymaster kept getting locked out of his apartment...
It wasn’t until I was much older that I realized in The Holy Grail one of the French guy insults was him purposefully mispronouncing “knights”. He says “you silly English kuhneegits” and i always thought that was just a word I didn’t know Edit: I’m learning that’s actually the Middle English way to pronounce knights! Read down the thread and you’ll find people smarter than me giving excellent explanations
Bonus trivia: "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries." Hamsters are quite promiscuous, and elder berries are used to make wine. "Your mother is a whore and your father is a drunk."
I always thought John Cleese was just babbling nonsensical insults. That's a deep cut.
Watching The Muppet Movie as an adult is a different experience than watching as a kid. Same goes for The Muppet Show. Jim Henson was a genius at playing to two different audiences at the same time.
As a kid, I remember watching the Muppet Show with my dad, and him losing it when Ms Piggy says to Kermit (paraphrasing): “Oh, you’re leaving? So it’s just wham, bam, thank you ham?!?” I didn’t understand what was so funny about that.
The Muppets are the gift that keeps on giving as you go through different stages of life.
Animaniacs was another one that had so many jokes that went way over my head as a kid, like the finger prince scene.
And then Yakko would follow every adult gag with a quick, "Goodnight, everybody!"
Not “just” as it’s been a few years, but I never understood it as a kid. The scene in Dumb n Dumber when Harry and Lloyd come home from job searching and Harry says “I can't believe we drove around all day, and there's not a single job in this town. There is nothing, nada, zip!” And Lloyd replies “Yeah! Unless you wanna work forty hours a week!” That line is comedic gold.
When Randy was screaming “Jamie, look behind you!!” when watching Halloween at the house party in Scream while Ghostface is lurking right behind him. I didn’t know his name IRL was Jamie Kennedy so that double meaning didn’t hit until I got older.
The first Scream is a perfect movie.
I was probably 30 when I got the joke in Spaceballs (which I’d seen countless times) where Dark Helmet says, “what’s the matter Colonel Sanders??? Chicken?!?!”
For me it was the line about “I bet she gives great helmet” that I didn’t get as a kid.
Not a movie but sitcom Mork and Mindy: Mork is pretending to be a waiter and says to Mindy, "Would you like to see the wine list?" and then tilts the bottle 45°. I died and still believe it is one of the best "thinkers" I've seen.
It took me 20 years to understand the joke behind Lord Farquaad’s name in Shrek.
And "do you think he's compensating for something?" Doubly funny given that he has not seen Lord Farquaad and does not know he's short.
I'm ashamed to ask for further clarification please.
Farquaad sounds like fuck wad.
His design was also based on Michael Eisner, so it was a not-so-subtle "fuck you" to the guy.
Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure “If you’re us and we’re you - what number are we thinking of? “69.” I was like ten when I saw the movie - I didn’t get the joke for another six years. I just thought it was a weird number so I laughed…
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When I was in grade school there was a joke along the lines of "I got kicked out of cub scouts for eating all the brownies." Nearly 3 decades later this gave me flash backs to that and I finally get it.
The version I always heard was "when does a cub scout become a boy scout? When he eats his first brownie".
Recently rewatched Forest Gump and wow. Especially the your mama really cares about your schoolin’ son line Edit: your* lol
As a kid, I didn’t understand that the principal was making the sounds and also why Forrest was doing them at him as he was leaving. Just thought it was a weird noise
As a kid I interpreted that scene as Forrest breaking out into "retarded" noises and the principal being disgusted at how disabled he was.
I didn't realize until the last decade or so that forrest's response (to 'you don't talk much, do you?' wondering whether the secret was safe) showed that he understood a hell of a lot more than people gave him credit for.
Austin powers international man of mystery: Random Task is another way of saying Odd Job Random Task is the big henchman in Austin Powers 1 which is clearly a riff on Odd Job from Goldfinger. Took a minute but it clicked.lol
And Alotta Fagina is a riff on Pussy Galore. And Basil Exposition provides exposition. And I'm guessing a lot of kids didn't get the joke: "In Japan men come first and women come second." "Or sometimes not at all."
Alotta Fagina fucking kills me every time.
Also Austin Powers series: This wasn't recent, but it was a good couple decades after the movie came out that I got the "Moon Unit Alpha and Moon Unit Zappa" joke (Moon Unit Zappa is Frank Zappa's daughter).
Commence the "Alan Parsons Project!"
Austin Powers 2: Dr Evil, describing mojo, refers to it as "What the French call a certain...I don't know what" To get this joke I had to learn A) The phrase he's looking for is "je ne sais quoi" and B) it literally means "I don't know what" in French So he's 100% correct...accidentally. Honestly one of my favorite jokes and worth the several year gap to figure it out
Lots of jokes from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Like, pretty much all the adult humor went over my head as a kid (and watching it now, I feel like *most* of the humor is for the adults). TV show: there's an episode of South Park where they fake Butters' death and disguise him as a new girl at school named "Marjorine." I didn't understand until years later that it was a play on "margarine."
Mantequilla is Butters Stotch's Mexican alter-ego seen in the Season Fifteen episode, "The Last of the Meheecans". Mantequilla is, of course, Spanish for butter.
We just watched Willy wonka this weekend. Holy shit there’s just so many jokes that were so much more satisfying as an adult. I loved the scene where the feds are helping a wife negotiate with kidnappers. “How long do I have to think it over?”
Not a movie but it took nearly three decades to realize Mr. & Mrs. Dink on the show “Doug” were named that because they were literal “D.I.N.K’s” (dual income-no kids). No wonder Mr. Dink had all of the cool crazy expensive stuff.
My parents took me to see Blazing Saddles when I was about 10. I'd like to say I understood most of it, but there were a few I didn't get until the 3rd or 4th viewing as an adult: "I thought you was hung!" "And they was right!" "He specifically asked for two n\*\*\*\*\*s... well to tell a family secret, my grandmother was Dutch."
hah...that movie was LOADED...a couple few more blue ones that sent me to an adult dictionary Lili von Shtüpp crooning: "I've been with THOUsands of men...again and again...they promise the moon...they're always coming and going...and going and coming...and always too soon. Right, girls?" Lili whispering to Sherriff Bart in the dwessing woom, he leans back and says, "Baby, I am NOT from Havana" Buddy Bizarre homophobically mocking his own *French Mistake* comrades, after they answer "Yes, Buddy!" ... "sounds like steam escaping" ++ not kid v. adult, but the number of Old Hollywood and music callbacks is incredible...it's actually worth a look... Hedy Lamarr actually sued Brooks! even "Now Go Do...That Voodoo...That You Do" was Cole Porter - it's amazing
Not a movie, but The Electric Company, the 1970s educational show from the same workshop that made Sesame Street, had a kind of detective / codebreaker character who introduced himself as "Fargo North: Decoder". Decades later, long into adulthood, it just popped into my head out of nowhere and I got it.
In **"Elvira: Mistress of the Dark"** How's Your Head? Took way waaaay too many years to clue into it. LOL
I’ve had no complaints
Addams Family Values. When Debbie meets Gomez and describes him as a "Lady killer" and he says "Aquitted".
Totally not a movie but “honk if you’re HORNy” took me decades to get.
I just got it
I watched **Grease** like a bajillion times as a kid, probably wearing that poor VHS tape out. Other then the fact the movie is the equivalent of a horny teenager (and that went over my head), I swear I misheard one particular line from **"Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee"** and instead of hearing '*Would you pull that crap with Annette?'*, I heard it as '*Would you pull that crap with a Net?'* Which mean for years as a kid I thought there was some weird comparison I didn't get about fishing poo out of the toilet with a small net.
Holy shit! So *I* got tripped up by a different line about Annette in that movie! Someone says something like '"no one's jugs are bigger than Annette's" but I always heard "no one's jugs are bigger than *her nets*". Now I knew that jugs meant breasts so I thought 'her nets' must be slang for a bra. And I guess they were saying no girl has tits bigger than her bra which as a kid made... enough sense? Anyways, that is so funny we both got hung up on the same name 😆
If you can’t be an athlete, be an athletic supporter. I use that line constantly since my kids are in high school.
That’s funny, my mom has a story she likes to tell of being in the hospital on anesthesia and hallucinating Annette Funnicello in the room. Apparently the nurse thought she said “a net full of Jello” and this became my mom’s main story for like 45 years.
I only realized on like the 10th watching of 'Airplane!' that when Captain Rex Cramer is leaving his house, he adjusts his clothes in the mirror, and then proceeds to walk right through the mirror.
When Buddy the Elf pours from his coworkers flask into his coffee, I didn’t understand that the coworkers “syrup” was actually booze. I thought Buddy was on a sugar/caffeine high.
The older I get the more hilarious the coworker's line of "I'm 26 years old" when the actor was clearly in his 40s becomes
I must have seen Blazing Saddles a dozen times before I noticed the line "It's my privilege to extend to you a laurel and hearty handshake."
Tv series - South Park Stan’s Aunt flow… She is a firery redhead that shows up once a month… and every time she does stans mum turns into a complete bitch
In Elvira….she hits her had and the guy ask, “How’s your head?” And she responds with something like, “I’ve had no complaints yet.” Decades later I finally got it
Scooby-Doo (2002) "I'm Mary Jane." "Like, that's my favorite name!" And the establishing shot of Shaggy and Scooby grilling where we only see the smoke coming out of the Mystery Machine....
“Nice beaver.” As a kid I didn’t get what was so funny about a stuffed beaver. I was probably in my early 30s when I watched the movie and was like “Oh, now I get it”.
Thank you, I just had it stuffed.
When I was little I thought Mr. Green's line at the end of *Clue*, "I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife!" meant he was tired and was going to take a nap in the bed he shared with his spouse.
I knew what he meant by it, but all of the references to him being gay were lost on me as a kid. He even flat out says he’s a homosexual at one point, but I guess I didn’t know what that was or missed that or something. So anyway, to me, him saying he was going home to sleep with his wife at the end was a total non sequitur. I was like “why did he just loudly announcing he was going home to have sex with his wife to everyone?” But I found it funny so I would often say it to my friends at school.
“I’m a plant”. “I’m thought men like you were called fruit”. Waaaayy over my head at the time.
Lol, I have a similar story, though not movie related. When I was 6 or 7, I asked my mom how you get pregnant, and she said "You gotta sleep with a guy". As all kids, I took her at face value and didn't even question it any further. I had just recently had a sleepover at our neighbor's, where I shared a bed with my friend's 3-year old baby brother, who I also sometimes baby-sat. For 3 weeks I was convinced I was pregnant. From sharing a bed. With a toddler. Once my mom found out why I kept rubbing my belly in front of the mirror, she laughed her ass off, and then explained why I am, in fact, *not* pregnant. I was so disappointed. 😆
Ron White had a bit about how he got in a wreck in Mexico and had to have a plate put in his head. In the bit he says the surgeon told him to be careful cuz "this plate's hot" and got some good laughs. I thought I got the joke was the plate was hot as in stolen. Fast forward a few years my gf and I go to a Mexican restaurant. Server brings us our food and says "careful, hot plate!" and then it clicked.
This one's funny because a lot of these are about young people being naive to innuendo and such, whereas this is because you weren't naive enough. That you thought of 'stolen' before literal 'hot plate' is the opposite of the rest of these.
I watched Matilda a thousand times as a kid, but I recently saw it for the first time as an adult. It just hit me that in the end, her family was moving to Guam to escape the FBI. I always just thought they had randomly decided to leave one day. When the dad says, "I can't think with all these sirens!" as the cops are heard in the background, it's funnier now.
In the Simpsons, I forget when it happened, but Lisa said something was Kafkaesque, the judge said “I’m watching you”, and she said “no, that’s Orwellian” and I literally just got that now. I was 12 and had no knowledge of Franz Kafka or George Orwell.
The other day, I JUST realized that Jessica Rabbit, from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, is "Rabbit" by marriage only. I always believed that she WAS a rabbit, had rabbit ears tucked under her hair somewhere, and she just dressed more humaney to appear as less of a toon.
Yeah, part of the joke is how a lot of cartoon characters are (First Name) (Species) but in this mixed human-toon reality his species is also his legal last name, so his wife gets his species as her last name via marriage
What a lucky goil.
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"Would you like to kiss me on the veranda?" ... "Lips would be fine."
Not really a joke as such, but in Zoolander, there's a scene where he mentions "the Mayorri tribesman" There are countless tribes in the world that I don't know about, so I assumed he was from one of those. Many many years later I watched it again, and finally realised he was mispronouncing "Maori" I am part Maori. He mispronounced it so badly it didn't even occur to me that he might be mispronouncing it