For those of you planning your trips to San Diego for Comic-Con, you should know they have a very big car theft problem there. It’s true. They bump you, and when you stop, they mutilate you and then take your car. Now, before you cancel your travel plans, let me reassure you. I was just making use of this week’s Quote of the Week.
Flirting with Disaster is one of my all-time favorite movies. It’s one of those movies that I saw by myself on DVD, laughed like a crazy person, then spent the past decade making everyone I know watch it. Starring Ben Stiller before he became, you know, BEN STILLER, it’s got a dream cast: Patricia Arquette, Tea Leoni, Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal, Lily Tomlin, Alan Alda and Josh Brolin (as a bi cop). If you’ve never seen it, please do so immediately. In a nutshell, it’s about a guy (Stiller) on a road trip to meet his biological parents.
I could quote the whole movie to you right now, but the quote I’m using for QOTW is from an early scene in the movie where Ben Stiller’s father (played by George Segal) warns him about the dangers of San Diego:
“They bump you, and when you stop, they mutilate you and then take your car.”
-Ed Coplin (George Segal), Flirting with Disaster
Yes, har har, very funny. But before you click away, let me explain something. To me a truly successful Quote of the Week must transcend its context and be applicable in everyday life. In my household, “They bump you, and when you stop, they mutilate you and then take your car” is shorthand for any sort of sensational warning. Like in the movie, most of these warnings come from parents who have perhaps opened too many emails from well-meaning friends. This shorthand has actually gotten shorter over the years, and now all I or Long-Suffering Boyfriend or friends in the know have to say is “First, they bump you” and the rest just fall over. Yeah, we might be a little annoying.
So, why am I overexplaining all of this? Well, for the first time ever, I’m opening up the selection of the Quote of the Week to all of you. If you look up above, in the spiffy new header, right under the QOTW title, is a link where you can submit your very own quote. It can be from a movie or a song or a TV show or a book or from a fellow member here on the board. And more than being hilarious or poignant or whatever, I want to know how you use it in your life and vocabulary.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, “I’m seeing colors I don’t want to see.”
Maybe we’ll make this the first selection in the FBOTU Movie Club! It is fantastic from start to finish.
Hardbody 06/22/2009 11:40 am
OMG! This is one of my all-time favorite movies and I use this quote a lot (not that anyone ever gets it). Each member of the cast is BRILLIANT and there is not a wasted scene in the movie.
A bit of fanboy geekiness: When the gang arrives in Michigan and passes by the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International airport sign, the direction of the camera passes by as if you were EXITING the airport. The problem with this is that we’ve already seen them driving through the Michigan landscape. Did they forget a bag?
My other favorite line comes from the always genius Lily Tomlin: “Shut the fuck up, I am trying to help you”!
Quote of the Week: Bump and Run
By Chance
June 21, 2009 at 11:43PM EDT
For those of you planning your trips to San Diego for Comic-Con, you should know they have a very big car theft problem there. It’s true. They bump you, and when you stop, they mutilate you and then take your car. Now, before you cancel your travel plans, let me reassure you. I was just making use of this week’s Quote of the Week.
Flirting with Disaster is one of my all-time favorite movies. It’s one of those movies that I saw by myself on DVD, laughed like a crazy person, then spent the past decade making everyone I know watch it. Starring Ben Stiller before he became, you know, BEN STILLER, it’s got a dream cast: Patricia Arquette, Tea Leoni, Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal, Lily Tomlin, Alan Alda and Josh Brolin (as a bi cop). If you’ve never seen it, please do so immediately. In a nutshell, it’s about a guy (Stiller) on a road trip to meet his biological parents.
I could quote the whole movie to you right now, but the quote I’m using for QOTW is from an early scene in the movie where Ben Stiller’s father (played by George Segal) warns him about the dangers of San Diego:
“They bump you, and when you stop, they mutilate you and then take your car.”
-Ed Coplin (George Segal), Flirting with Disaster
Yes, har har, very funny. But before you click away, let me explain something. To me a truly successful Quote of the Week must transcend its context and be applicable in everyday life. In my household, “They bump you, and when you stop, they mutilate you and then take your car” is shorthand for any sort of sensational warning. Like in the movie, most of these warnings come from parents who have perhaps opened too many emails from well-meaning friends. This shorthand has actually gotten shorter over the years, and now all I or Long-Suffering Boyfriend or friends in the know have to say is “First, they bump you” and the rest just fall over. Yeah, we might be a little annoying.
So, why am I overexplaining all of this? Well, for the first time ever, I’m opening up the selection of the Quote of the Week to all of you. If you look up above, in the spiffy new header, right under the QOTW title, is a link where you can submit your very own quote. It can be from a movie or a song or a TV show or a book or from a fellow member here on the board. And more than being hilarious or poignant or whatever, I want to know how you use it in your life and vocabulary.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, “I’m seeing colors I don’t want to see.”
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Maybe we’ll make this the first selection in the FBOTU Movie Club! It is fantastic from start to finish.
OMG! This is one of my all-time favorite movies and I use this quote a lot (not that anyone ever gets it). Each member of the cast is BRILLIANT and there is not a wasted scene in the movie.
A bit of fanboy geekiness: When the gang arrives in Michigan and passes by the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International airport sign, the direction of the camera passes by as if you were EXITING the airport. The problem with this is that we’ve already seen them driving through the Michigan landscape. Did they forget a bag?
My other favorite line comes from the always genius Lily Tomlin: “Shut the fuck up, I am trying to help you”!
I give this movie 5 out of 5 laced quails!
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