stuff in movies you didn't get as a kid, but do now?
04-10-11, 06:06 PM
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Re: stuff in movies you didn't get as a kid, but do now?
Not movies but on the Benny Hill show there is this skit where Benny plays an Irish version of Kojak called O'Jack. They're up in this building when the bottom floors catch on fire. His assisstant Krocker says he can't take it any more and is going to jump.
Benny says:"But Krocker, we're on the 13th floor."
and Krocker says: "I'm not superstitious!"
I didn't get that joke for about 10 years.
Benny says:"But Krocker, we're on the 13th floor."
and Krocker says: "I'm not superstitious!"
I didn't get that joke for about 10 years.
04-10-11, 06:15 PM
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Re: stuff in movies you didn't get as a kid, but do now?
I've got a Zod quote that confused me as a child too, only this one was from the first film. When Zod and the two other Kryptonians are being sentenced by Jor-El and the council, Zod threatens that he will get back at Jor-El, and one day, "your heirs." As a child, though, I had no concept of what an heir was, so I assumed for many years he said "your ass." Damn that accent on Terrance Stamp.
04-10-11, 09:29 PM
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Re: stuff in movies you didn't get as a kid, but do now?
I really don't understand what's wrong with bumping threads. I mean, is this topic no longer valid or something?
Anyway, technically it's a five-year bump, on a thread that had legs already.
But I guess I'm not a cool forum member.
(That said, the reason for the bump WAS a little odd ...)
/rant
At any rate, not really about not getting something as a kid, but having my mother take me to see Porky's when I was 12 basically scarred me for life.
Anyway, technically it's a five-year bump, on a thread that had legs already.
But I guess I'm not a cool forum member.
(That said, the reason for the bump WAS a little odd ...)
/rant
At any rate, not really about not getting something as a kid, but having my mother take me to see Porky's when I was 12 basically scarred me for life.
04-10-11, 09:41 PM
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Re: stuff in movies you didn't get as a kid, but do now?
Not a movie, but I'm perpetually finding new stuff to laugh at when I go back to early seasons of The Simpsons on DVD.
Mostly just references I had no context for when I first viewed the episodes upon airing when I was a little kid. Hell, the first time I saw the monorail episode I had no concept of what The Music Man was, so the entire parody was lost on me. I just loved the song and laughed at the shallow-level humor.
Sadly, at/around Season 10 and beyond, all there is w/The Simpsons is shallow-level humor...yet, I didn't find myself laughing at it.
Mostly just references I had no context for when I first viewed the episodes upon airing when I was a little kid. Hell, the first time I saw the monorail episode I had no concept of what The Music Man was, so the entire parody was lost on me. I just loved the song and laughed at the shallow-level humor.
Sadly, at/around Season 10 and beyond, all there is w/The Simpsons is shallow-level humor...yet, I didn't find myself laughing at it.
04-10-11, 10:02 PM
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Re: stuff in movies you didn't get as a kid, but do now?
^ I'm with you there. Early Simpsons continue to pay dividends as you learn ...
04-10-11, 10:04 PM
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Re: stuff in movies you didn't get as a kid, but do now?
Airplane! for me. When I was young I just thought all the lines by the pilot to the young boy were just random meaningless lines.
Then I learned what sexual innuendo is...
"Joey, have you ever been in a... in a Turkish prison? "
Then I learned what sexual innuendo is...
"Joey, have you ever been in a... in a Turkish prison? "
04-11-11, 02:08 AM
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Re: stuff in movies you didn't get as a kid, but do now?
The Falcon and the Snowman
Saw it as a kid, didn't understand anything about it. I had no concept of the cold war.
I remember wondering what the lead character did that was so wrong
Magnum Force
Watched this with my parents when it came on TV. I thought Clint Eastwood was the bad guy because he was shooting policemen.
Saw it as a kid, didn't understand anything about it. I had no concept of the cold war.
I remember wondering what the lead character did that was so wrong
Magnum Force
Watched this with my parents when it came on TV. I thought Clint Eastwood was the bad guy because he was shooting policemen.
04-11-11, 02:59 AM
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Re: stuff in movies you didn't get as a kid, but do now?
Lethal Weapon 3. Murtagh gets cut shaving. Riggs sees the cut and asks "old razor"? Murtagh replies "old face". I THOUGHT it went like this... Riggs: "all razor"? Murtagh: "all face". I thought it was some kind of reference to shaving that I didn't understand (I was around 16 when I saw it).
Another one is Down and Out in Beverly Hills. I was watching this with my mother and Bette Midler got a massage by Nick Nolte and says "that was the first orgasm I've had in years." I asked my mother what an orgasm was... she wouldn't tell me.
Another one is Down and Out in Beverly Hills. I was watching this with my mother and Bette Midler got a massage by Nick Nolte and says "that was the first orgasm I've had in years." I asked my mother what an orgasm was... she wouldn't tell me.
04-12-11, 02:44 PM
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Re: stuff in movies you didn't get as a kid, but do now?
Not a movie, but during the end-credits of The Flintstones, I never understood that big conch shell that waitress lady puts on the Flintstone car to cause it to fall over, and why Fred was licking his chops and rubbing his hands together when she was arriving with it.
Now (I think), it's a "speaker" for the drive-in movie they're in. lol.
Now (I think), it's a "speaker" for the drive-in movie they're in. lol.
04-12-11, 03:34 PM
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Re: stuff in movies you didn't get as a kid, but do now?
Not a movie, but during the end-credits of The Flintstones, I never understood that big conch shell that waitress lady puts on the Flintstone car to cause it to fall over, and why Fred was licking his chops and rubbing his hands together when she was arriving with it.
Now (I think), it's a "speaker" for the drive-in movie they're in. lol.
Now (I think), it's a "speaker" for the drive-in movie they're in. lol.
04-12-11, 03:39 PM
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Guess they're actually a rack of ribs. Learned this today. Scary. I told my 8-year old son the other day it was a big drive-in speaker. Yikes.
04-12-11, 03:57 PM
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The "french class" line in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. The "suicide" line never bothered me when I was younger but Han has a line about "see you in hell" always bothered me... long long time ago in a galaxy far, far away still had Christianity? Yep, I thought about those things when I was little.
04-12-11, 04:13 PM
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Same here. Speaking of which, before I saw a trailer for the sequel, all I knew was that the title was "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid." I must have been about 10 years old, and I mistakenly understood it to be literal. It probably would've been a better movie, too.
04-12-11, 05:13 PM
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Re: stuff in movies you didn't get as a kid, but do now?
They're brontosaurus ribs.
04-12-11, 05:45 PM
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Buttmunker and logic parted ways long ago.
04-13-11, 08:46 AM
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04-13-11, 11:39 PM
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Re: stuff in movies you didn't get as a kid, but do now?
A lot of stuff from both of the Ace Ventura movies. A lot of kids movies I watched when I was little, I see them again when my little sister watches them and I catch little jokes adults are supposed to get.
Seinfeld is also a big recource of these. I used to watch it with my parents and just laughed along.
Simpsons also I get a lot of jokes now I hadn't when I was little.
Seinfeld is also a big recource of these. I used to watch it with my parents and just laughed along.
Simpsons also I get a lot of jokes now I hadn't when I was little.
I also didn't get several Seinfeld jokes, especially the episode in which Jerry was trying to find out his girlfriend's name.
