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Time Bandits (1981)
Vermin, will you please stop eating?
At the end of the school year, my son's World History teacher gave the class a list of movie lines and the above line was one of the ones on the 'quiz'----my son was the only person in the teacher's seven years of using the quiz to know the answer. His teacher asked how he knew it. My son explained that his parents had liked the movie so much they had named him after one of the characters---Kevin. I think the combination of Terry Gilliam and Craig Warnock made such an impression on me---I remember watching the movie, turning to my husband and saying, "Let's have a little boy and name him Kevin." ---so I guess there is something to the idea of 'movie magic', whatever it is Time Bandits definitely has it.
Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection (1985)
this lettuce has gone bad!
It was a great show. My fave was "Night of the Living Dead"---Darlene was having a party and Dwayne, her cousin, was trying to help her by putting together some snacks. She told him there was a head of lettuce upstairs, it was a mutilated human head and he said, "this lettuce has gone bad". There was also a Sherlock Holmes movie with totally absurd dialogue: "This is Paper? It's so thin!" and I think in the same movie, an artist was painting and said, "All the threes are brown and the fives are gray", I thought that was so funny because in the Mamas and the Papas song, "California Dreamin'", the first line is "All the trees are brown and the skies are gray". The dialogue was usually so funny because it was so totally unexpected. Does anyone remember the scene from "A star is born" when Stormin' Norman is drinking eggs (hangover remedy) and you hear "cheep, cheep"? Funny, funny show. I would love for it to be released on DVD or something.