Hazel Motes

someone will bring up a past personal experience and will describe in detail, but what they are describing will be some sort of movie or pop culture reference.

I.E someone will say "you know what I wasn't afraid, I grabbed that golden relic and when that huge giant bolder was rolling towards me I ran like my life depended on it and all I had was my whip and my lucky fedora, and I survived, and you guys can survive this" Then someone will say "I'm pretty sure thats the plot to Raiders of the Lost Ark".

I can't recall all the specific times this joke has been made, but I know I've seen it what feels like quite a few times.

They did it with "The Notebook" in Blockers.

Vince Vaughn did it with "Flash Dance" in The Internship.

Can anyone else cite this joke or a variation of it in a movie?

Brack

From Scrooged

Frank: Check the records. I did some stuff. I played baseball. One year, I hit the home-run that won the big game—

Ghost of Christmas Past: That was the kid on The Courtship of Eddie's Father.

Frank: There was another time, though. I was on a hill covered with flowers, and there was a beautiful girl with pigtails—

Ghost of Christmas Past: Pathetic! You are so pathetic! That was Little House on the Prairie!

Frank: Was it the the homecoming episode?

Ghost of Christmas Past: Yes, it was the homecoming episode of Little House.

Mabuse

I was going to say Scrogged as well. Of course in that movie it made perfect sense since the guy was a tv obsessed television executive.

fujishig

I know this is off topic because it's not a movie, but this is basically the basis of Keenan's "scared straight" convict character Lorenzo Mckintosh on SNL, ie:

orangerunner

Another example was in Office Space where a character comes-up with the scheme of shaving-off fractions of a cent off thousands of accounts and putting it in a separate account. The other guy replies "Yeah, they did that in Superman III"

GoldenJCJ

I’ve seen this as well. I can’t think of any movie I’ve seen it in but I thought of an episode of Big Bang Theory where Sheldon describes a hypothetical letter that Howard’s dad wrote to him as a kid only to have Raj call him out as describing the plot to The Goonies.

Abob Teff

A trend I’ve noticed in recent comedies ... they aren’t funny. Just hoping I am not still saying that after this weekend ...

tanman

Nick Danger

I'm pretty sure The Simpsons did it in an early season. "Homer, that was Happy Days!"

Michael Corvin

Something I watched recently had that trope. I cant recall specifically, but I want to say Jumanji.

E Unit

Not a comedy, but when Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War was talking about that “old movie” Empire Strikes Back when taking down Ant-Man.

JimRochester

My first thought when I saw the thread title.