Silver Streak (1976)

• the politically incorrect scene in a train-station bathroom in which fast-talking professional criminal Grover Muldoon (Richard Pryor) taught book editor George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) how to 'walk and act black' (with a radio boom box up to his ear), in order to get onto the train, with a terrible blackface disguise: ("We got to make them cops think you're black") - although both were unsure (George: "I can't pass for black", and Grover: "Why you whiteys got such a tight ass, man?")
• also, a black man's critique of George's act when he be-bopped to a radio held to his ear: "You must be in pretty big trouble, fella. But for God's sake, learn to keep time," and Grover's second assessment: "We'll make it past the cops. I just hope we don't see no Muslims"
• and the numerous times in a running gag of George being thrown off (or pushed off) the "Silver Streak" train - each time yelling: "Son of a bitch!"
• the scene when George turned the tables on Sheriff Chauncey (Clifton James) with a gun: ("You stupid, ignorant son of a bitch, dumb bastard. Jesus Christ. I've met some dumb bastards in my time, but you outdo them all")

The Simpsons Movie (2007)

• the sequence of a naked Bart Simpson riding around the town of Springfield naked on his skateboard, with conveniently-placed objects (trees, shrubs, birds, etc.) often (but not always) blocking his genital area
• at one point, the animators - for fun - reversed things; Bart skated behind a large hedge fence with a small strip where ONLY his penis was visible - mocking the convention of cleverly hiding a character's privates behind objects
• after being startled as a naked Bart was catapulted toward the window of the local Krusty Burger fast food restaurant where devoutly religious Ned Flanders was giving thanks, he told his kids Rod and Todd to repeat after him: "Don't forget to thank the Lord for this bountiful -- PENIS"; everyone dutifully repeated: "Bountiful penis"

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

• the sequence of Cosmo Brown's (Donald O'Connor) acrobatic, slapstick musical number Make 'Em Laugh
• and the playfully subversive song Moses by Cosmo and Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) in which they rebelled against their diction coach (Bobby Watson) - culminating in them holding up a diction placard to sing sarcastically "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!"
• Lina Lamont's (Jean Hagen) grating voice and one-liners, such as: "Well, of course we talk, don't everybody?", and "Why, I make more money than, than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!"
• the final sequence revealing that ingenue Kathy Selden's (Debbie Reynolds) voice was substituted for Lina's

Slap Shot (1977)

• director George Roy Hill's irreverently funny, R-rated, brutal, raunchy and bloody sports film - and comedy (with a screenplay by Nancy Dowd) - one of the best ever made
• the film's rampant profanity, adolescent behavior, and nudity
• the character of aging, hockey star Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) who was appointed player/coach of The Charlestown Chiefs of the Federal Hockey League, a failing minor league team in a Pennsylvania steel-mill town
• the scene of the Chiefs' fashion show for publicity's sake, when Johnny Upton (Allan Nicholls) threatened team manager Joe McGrath (Strother Martin) that he would show everything: "I'm gonna flash' em, Joe!...I'm gonna walk down that stinkin' aisle, I'm gonna open this faggot robe and wiggle my dick at 'em!...Yes, I am Joe, and you know why? Because I want you to have a heart attack and die so that we never have to do this s--t again! You and your f--kin' fashion shows!...I'm gonna wiggle it at 'em, you cheap bastard. I'm tellin' ya. You'd better be prepared, because when I yank it out, everybody in that audience, with the exception of my wife, is gonna be runnin' for the exits."
• the train station scene of Reggie meeting up with new team recruits from the Iron League - the Hanson Bros (Jeff, Steve, and Jack, played by Jeff & Steve Carlson and David Hanson), cheaply acquired by team manager Joe McGrath; the boys were caught in the act of loudly vandalizing a Coke machine: ("F--kin' machine took my quarter...It took my quarter"); shortly later, Dunlop complained to McGrath that the boys were infantile (with toy model cars in their luggage) - "You cheap son of a bitch. Are you crazy? Those guys are retards!...They brought their f--kin' toys with 'em!...They're too dumb to play with themselves"; McGrath recalled a memory from his coaching past: ("I was coachin' in Omaha in 1948 and Eddie Shore sends me this guy that's a terrible masturbator. You know, couldn't control himself, but he would get deliberate penalties so he could get into the penalty box all by himself, and damned if he wouldn't, you know...")
• the hockey action with the ruthless Hanson Brothers trio who wore black-framed coke-bottle glasses, tapied foil to their knuckles, and frequently beat up and brawled with their opponents, even during pre-game warm-ups; during the playing of the National Anthem in one game after one such brawl, the Peterboro Referee skated up to a bloodied Steve Hanson and threatened: "I got my eye on the three of you guys. You pull one thing, you're out of this game. I run a clean game here. I have any trouble, I'll suspend ya" - Steve shouted back: "I'm listening to the f--kin' song!"
• the scene of Jim Carr's (Andrew Duncan) live-TV interview about the "finer points of hockey" with player Denis Lemieux (Yvon Barrette) who was asked: "What is high-sticking?" and the player demonstrated by almost choking the questioner: ("High-sticking happen when the guy take the stick, you know, and he go like that"); he also demonstrated slashing, tripping, hooking, and spearing: ("All bad. You do that, you go to the box, you know. Two minutes, by yourself, and you feel shame, you know. And then you get free")
• the teams' mooning out the windows of a school bus
• the many dirty, rough-house violent tactics on the ice by the Hansons to save the franchise ("These guys are a f--kin' disgrace!"), including Dunlop's taunting of the opposing Long Island goalie Tommy Hanrahan (Christopher Murney) about his wife Suzanne (Melinda Dillon): "Hanrahan - Suzanne sucks pussy! Hey, Hanrahan, she's a dyke! I know, I know! She's a lesbian, a lesbian, a lesbian!"; the tactic won the game, but afterwards, Dunlop was beaten up; later in the locker room, he told his teammates: "I told him his wife was a dyke...His wife is a dyke!"
• Dunlop's insult after disinterested team owner Anita McCambridge (Kathryn Walker), a wealthy widow, told him that she was not going to sell the team, but would end everything for a tax write-off: "You know, your son looks like a fag to me. You'd better get married again, 'cause he's gonna wind up with somebody's cock in his mouth before you can say Jack Robinson"
• the sequence of straight-playing, top-scoring team member Ned Braden's (Michael Ontkean) on-ice strip tease (broadcaster Carr called it "a lascivious display") to distract the crowd and players from their brawling, when he lowered his uniform, and the arena's band began playing "The Stripper"; this culminated in the team's championship league victory (via a forfeiture penalty against the opposing team) and a parade on the ice (with Braden wearing only a jock-strap) (and one reaction: "He's gonna catch his death out there")

Sleeper (1973)

• the many slapstick sequences and sight gags
• the scene of Greenwich Village health food store owner and ex-clarinet player Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) - now waking up 200 years later - transported into the future year of 2173 - his quips upon hearing he'd been frozen for 200 years: ("Like spending a weekend in Beverly Hills" and "I haven't seen my analyst in 200 years. He was a strict Freudian. If I'd been going all this time, I'd probably almost be cured by now")
• his attempts to hide from the government, first by impersonating a personal domestic servant-robot (with comedy slapstick reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton)
• his servanthood in the house of eccentric, vain, and talentless poetess Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton) during a party
• his creation of a giant-sized pudding that attacked and must be beaten down with a broom
• the scene of the passing of the silver metal orgasm-inducing "Orb" from guest to guest
• the riotous scene at the robot factory where Miles was threatened with having his head screwed off
• the reprogramming-brainwashing scene in which Miles was given new clothes, an apartment, and an electronic robotic pet dog named Rags
• the contented look on Miles' face as he exited the cylindrical Orgasmatron
• the shot of a 22nd-century McDonalds sign (with 795 trillions of hamburgers sold)
• the scene that was a parody of A Streetcar Named Desire
• the scene of the kidnapping of the Great Leader's giant disembodied nose, which was flattened by a steamroller
• the classic closing line by Miles when Luna asked what he believed in: "Sex and death. Two things that come once in a lifetime -- but at least after death you're not nauseous" - followed by a passionate kiss

Some Like It Hot (1959)

• the funniest and often regarded as the best-loved comedy of all time
• the first shocking glimpse of drag-dressed musicians joining an all-girl band: Jerry/Daphne (Oscar-nominated Jack Lemmon) and saxophone-playing cad Joe/Josephine (Tony Curtis), as they walked toward the train to flee from gangsters to Florida
• the first view of a voluptuous band singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe) ("a whole different sex") walking to the Florida-bound train and moving "just like Jell-O on springs" when she was squirted by a jet of steam
• Sugar's sneaking of a drink and her depression: ("I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop")
• the hilarious wild upper berth train party scene in the close-quarters train bunk when boozy yet soft-hearted singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), in her seductive black nightgown, cuddled affectionately next to cross-dressed Jerry; when she noticed: "You've got cold feet" she suggested rubbing them: "Here, let me warm them up a little...There, isn't that better?"; Jerry kept repeating to himself: "I'm a girl, I'm a girl!"
• all of Sugar's songs (particularly 'Runnin' Wild')
• Josephine's impersonation of a Cary Grant-like, impotent Shell Oil heir
• the yacht seduction scene aboard lustful and eccentric old tycoon Osgood Fielding III's (Joe E. Brown) yacht between Joe and Sugar -- cross cut with Jerry and Osgood dancing the tango all-night long
• Jerry's joyful squeal: "I'm engaged" - he explained: "Osgood proposed to me, we're planning a June wedding"; and his reason for getting hitched was accompanied by shaking maracas: ("Why would a guy want to marry a guy?" -- "Security")
• the famous closing line in which nothing could diminish millionaire Osgood's love for the cross-dressed Jerry who tactfully attempted to break their engagement, even when he ripped off his wig and admitted: "I'm a man!", to which love-struck Osgood blithely and unflappably replied with the film's memorable last line: "Well, nobody's perfect!"

Something Wild (1986)

• the character of free-spirited, kooky, black-wigged Audrey Hankel (Melanie Griffith), nicknamed Lulu after actress Louise Brooks' femme fatale (from Pandora's Box (1929)), who took off with staid and married, yuppie, NYC tax consultant and bond trader Charles Driggs (Jeff Daniels) from a Manhattan diner (where he had skipped out on the check) to New Jersey
• the scene in a motel where she engaged in kinky sex with him - handcuffing him to a motel bed and making love to him while forcing him to call in sick to his boss
• their attendance at her 10 year high school reunion in Pennsylvania and introducing him as her husband to her square mother Peaches (Dana Preu) - and Peaches' warning to Charlie: "That girl's got some strange ideas about life", and as Audrey (now a blonde) and Charlie were dancing and kissing, another couple suddenly slid behind them, and Ray leaned over to speak to her: "Hi, baby. Surprise!"
• the crowd-pleasing conclusion when Audrey reappeared in Charlie's life after he had quit his job, and told him: "I never wanted to say goodbye"

Something's Gotta Give (2003)

• the scene in which 63 year-old Viagra-taking record-company mogul Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) - who dated younger women as girlfriends (including young daughter Marin Barry (Amanda Peet)), announced to her mother Erica (57 year-old Oscar-nominated Diane Keaton): "I'm dating your daughter, Marin"
• Harry's sudden entrance into a room in a Hamptons beach house when he came upon a naked and embarrassed Erica, Marin's mother - a sexy, mid-50s, divorced, successful playwright, and his half-hearted apology after partially covering his eyes: ("I'm sorry! I didn't see anything. Except maybe a few tits!")
• his ensuing interest in the more age-appropriate woman after suffering a mild heart attack
• the sex scene between Erica and Harry (three days after he suffered a heart attack), when he cut off her white "damn turtleneck" with a pair of scissors and then offered oral sex, when she became overwhelmed and exclaimed: ("I think we should take your blood pressure...I think it's irresponsible not to...120/80...Oh, my God, I do like sex!...Wow, oh, God! So this is what you're supposed to do on a rainy afternoon, huh?"); she was amazed by her own responsiveness: ("I really thought I was sort of closed up for business. I never expected this")

Sons of the Desert (1933)

• Laurel (Stan Laurel) and Hardy's (Oliver Hardy) great sight gags and childish innocence
• the scene of thin, dim-witted, and shy Stan consuming an ornamental waxed apple in the Hardy living room with gusto - and being scolded by Oliver: "What are you eating?...Where did you get it?...Why that's not real fruit! It's imitation. It's made of wax!"; Mrs. Hardy (Mae Busch) also added when she heard what was happening to her phony fruit: "Oh, so that's where it's been going. That's the third apple I've missed this week"
• the madcap sequence with the scalding hot water iron tub - when fat and short-tempered Oliver feigned illness so that the doctor (a veterinarian) would prescribe a short ocean cruise to Honolulu (they would thereby fool their wives by faking a trip to Hawaii, and instead attend the annual 'Sons of the Desert' enclave lodge meeting in Chicago)
• the sequence of their return home (after being in Chicago) from "Hawaii" (wearing leis and carrying pineapples and ukeleles, and singing "Honolulu Baby") - and their reading of newspaper headlines: "HONOLULU LINER SINKING! FLOUNDERING IN TYPHOON"; when they learned about their cruise ship disaster, Stan delivered an hilarious line about being thankful that they didn't go to Honolulu: ("Can you beat that? I'm sure glad we didn't go. If we'd have... ")
• the scene of the two hiding out in the attic, awaiting the proper time to return home, due to the reported ship disaster, but caught out in the rain and accosted by a police officer who brought them back inside, as Oliver reprimanded Stan: "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into"
• the shocking discovery by the grieving wives during a movie newsreel that their two husbands had deceived them - and had gone to Chicago to attend a Sons of the Desert lodge meeting
• after being confronted by their wives, Oliver told lies to Lottie, and was forced to wear a pot on his head to protect himself from the barrage of dishes thrown by her, while a bawling and wimpering Stan received forgiveness and rewards from his wife Betty (Dorothy Christy) for ultimately confessing the truth about what had really happened
• in the conclusion, Stan affirmed to Oliver: "Betty said that honesty was the best politics. Look! (he held up a cigarette and took a deep drag, then coughed) (singing) Honolulu baby, won't you close those eyes" - as Oliver hurled a pot at his head

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999)

• in the tale, four young boys (Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick) were able to sneak into the showing of an R-rated Canadian feature movie; it was the viewing of a film within a film ("Asses of Fire") by the group of third-grade boys from the sleepy town of South Park, Colorado - featuring Canadians Terrance (voice of Matt Stone) & Phillip (voice of Trey Parker), about lighting farts on fire. The duo also performed the vulgar song "Uncle F--ka" on-screen in "Asses of Fire."
• in school the next day, the boys were profusely swearing at their teacher - corruptive after-effects of the film; parents (mothers) were summoned and the school counselor Mr. Mackey (Trey Parker) led the anti-profanity sing-along song: "It's Easy, M'Kay," stressing through rehabilitation that one had to get "back in touch" and stop cursing or using bad words
• later after watching the forbidden film a second time, the scene of muffled-voiced, parka-clad third-grader Kenny (voice of Matt Stone) lighting his flatulence on fire during a $100 bet with Eric (voice of Trey Parker), dying (as usual) in the hospital, and being sent to Heaven (with lots of nude females awaiting entry), where he was rejected, and then to Hell where Satan was portrayed as the homosexual lover of recently-deceased Saddam Hussein

Kenny's Flatulence Lit on Fire	Females Awaiting Entry Into Heaven	Dead Kenny Denied Access to Heaven
Kenny Entering Hell	Saddam Hussein with Satan in Hell	Saddam Hussein with Satan in Hell

• the declaration of war against Canada by the South Park PTA (led by Kyle's mother Sheila Broflovski) formed "Mothers Against Canada" (M.A.C.). They pushed for censorship efforts against Terrance and Phillip, as well as the whole nation of Canada - to blame it for the ensuing corruption and misbehavior of the children - with the song "Blame Canada"
• the scene of Terrance and Phillip appearing on TV - on the Conan O'Brien Show (Brent Spiner), a talk show, where they were arrested and jailed as war criminals after being set up by M.A.C., while Conan committed suicide (although later revived). When the US refused to release the duo, the US was ultimately pressured into waging war against Canada.
• to retaliate against corpulent foul-mouthed Eric, Sheila (now appointed U.S. Secretary of Offense) compelled Dr. Vosknocker (voice of Eric Idle) to implant a V-chip into Eric's brain to stop him from uttering profanities by delivering an electric shock: ("Now I want you to say 'big floppy donkey dick'")

The Conan O'Brien Show

Demonstration of V-Chip Implantation

"What Would Brian Boitano Do?"

• the boys attempted to save their two Canadian idols from being executed by electrocution (in an electric chair) during a USO show, by forming a children's underground resistance force, known as La Resistance, after singing: "What Would Brian Boitano Do?", and offering punch and pie to those who joined their effort
• during the chaos of the USO show, the boys freed Terrance and Phillip. Ultimately, a war against Satan and Saddam (who planned to rule the Earth) ended with their defeat and return to Hell, as everything returned to normal, and self-sacrificing Kenny entered Heaven, where he was greeted by two nude angels

Spaceballs (1987)

• the many sight gags, wisecracks, anachronisms, and science-fiction genre spoofs and parodies in this uneven film about a "galaxy far away" (the planet Spaceballs), i.e.: the opening Star Wars type scrawl: "If you can read this, you don't need glasses" and the massive rumbling space ship Spaceball One with a minute and a half of screen time (and its bumper sticker: "WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY")
• the Alien (1979) spoof in which John Hurt reprised his famous scene - he appeared in an inter-galactic diner and muttered annoyedly: "Oh, no. Not again!" when a chestburster popped out of his chest - and then sang: Hello, My Baby - recreating Michigan J. Frog's performance in the classic animated short "One Froggy Evening"
• the sidekick character of half-dog and half-man Barf the Mawg (John Candy), mercenary Lone Starr's (Bill Pullman) co-pilot
• the character of robot chaperone and Droid of Honor Dot Matrix (voice of Joan Rivers) who accompanied Druidia Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga)
• the two villains: evil and vile Lord Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) (a Darth Vader-like wannabe who often fantasy-played with dolls of the film's characters, and complained about his helmeted costume: "I can't breathe in this thing") and Colonel Sandurz (George Wyner), who foolishly ordered their spacecraft to go to "Ludicrous Speed"
• the "I'm Surrounded by Assholes" scene, when Dark Helmet realized that his entire crew was composed of men with the surname of Asshole, and that they were all cross-eyed idiots: "How many assholes do we have on this ship, anyway?...I knew it. I'm surrounded by assholes! Keep firing, assholes!"
• the viewing of a real-time home videocassette (VHS) version of Spaceballs (breaking the 'fourth wall') by Dark Helmet and Colonel Sandurz, to ingeniously locate the good-guy heroes and Princess Vespa; after fast-forwarding through the FBI warning and other parts, they watched themselves in real-time, with funny word-play: ("You're looking at 'now', sir. Everything that happens 'now' is happening 'now.'" "What happened to 'then'?" "We passed 'then'" "When?" "Just now. We're at 'now' now!" "Go back to 'then'" "'When'?" "'Now'" "Now?" "'Now'" "I can't" "Why?" "We missed it" "When?" "Just now" "When will 'then' be 'now'?", "Soon" etc.)
• wise old man Yogurt's (Brooks again, who identified himself: "I'm just plain Yogurt") boasting: "I am the keeper of a greater magic, a power known throughout the universe as the..." - and his repeated phrase about a metaphysical power known as the Schwartz (not the Force): "May the Schwartz be with you"
• Yogurt's demonstration of the lucrative merchandising campaign and tie-in products for the film (including a squeezable mini-Yogurt doll that spoke his catchphrase): "We put the picture's name on everything! Merchandising! Merchandising! Where the real money from the movie is made. 'Spaceballs' - the T-shirt. 'Spaceballs' - the coloring book. 'Spaceballs' - the lunchbox. 'Spaceballs' - the breakfast cereal. 'Spaceballs' - the flame thrower! The kids love this one. Last, but not least. 'Spaceballs' - the doll. Me. Adorable"; there was also a quick view of 'Spaceballs' toilet paper!
• the sight gag of "combing the desert" in the sands of Vega to locate the Princess: ("We're following orders. We were told to comb the desert, so we're combing it")
• the great visual gag of the creature Pizza the Hutt (Dom DeLuise)
• also the Planet of the Apes (1968) 'money shot' spoof in which two apes came riding up on horseback to view the crashed head of the Mega Maid, a giant robotic maid (and their comment about Spaceballs): ("Dear me, what are those things coming out of her nose?" "Spaceballs?" "Oh s--t, there goes the planet")

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

• the "Dark Peter" sequences in which Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) was transformed (after coming into contact and becoming influenced by a strange, extraterrestrial spidery-black symbiote entity) into a detestable character with a dark side personality; he had been told that the symbiote "amplifies characteristics of its host, especially aggression - this could be dangerous"
• Peter performed an unusual, 'evil' strutting street dance-walk before entering a clothing store to buy a new outfit; also in the offices of the Daily Bugle, he had a sexy conversation with co-worker-receptionist Miss Betty Brant (Elizabeth Banks) who complimented him on his photography: "Your shots are so good" - he replied: "I'd love to shoot you sometime"; in the presence of his boss J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons), Peter brashly put his feet up on the desk and demanded higher pay
• later, in the Jazz Room nightclub display of obnoxious behavior, Peter realized that his despicable, show-offy moves to impress ex-girlfriend Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) (as a singing waitress) in front of his pretty blonde lab partner Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard) were not sustainable when Mary Jane was knocked down and she asked him: "What's wrong with you?...Who are you?"

Spring Time Saps (1929) (short)

• in this silent short comedy, the suggestive image of a taxi with a pair of female legs extended out each of the cab's rear windows; a young lady selling womens' stockings (with two false-prosthetic legs for display purposes) had stuck the two artificial legs out the two opposite windows, giving the impression of a woman with her legs wide open (a vulgar yet clever joke for the time)

Step Brothers (2008)

• the scene of two middle-aged, unemployed slacker-losers, Brennan Huff (Will Ferrell) and Dale Doback (John C. Reilly), still living at home in Los Angeles, who were forced against their will to become roommates when Brennan's mom Nancy (Mary Steenburgen) and Dale's dad Robert (Richard Jenkins) were married, making them step brothers; they decided to turn their twin beds into bunkbeds - a disaster when the top bunk collapsed onto the bottom bunk, with Brennan underneath
• the tense dinner scene of the foursome eating together, and Brennan's reluctant sharing of his "fancy sauce" (made especially by his mother with catsup and mayonnaise) with a confrontational Dale
• the "Nuts on a Tom" scene between the two step brothers when Dale accused Brennan of touching his drums (because there was a chip in the left one); although he denied it, Brennan became enraged and threatened to really go and violate the drum set: "I'm goin' upstairs 'cause I'm gonna put my nutsack on your drumset! Okay?"; Dale became equally furious: "If you do that - I am warning you, right now! If you touch my drums, I will stab you in the neck with a knife! If you even go in the room, I will go ape-s--t, do you hear me?"; meanwhile Brennan was at the drum set where he had whipped out his testicles and was rubbing them on the top of a snare drum ("Don't wanna miss a spot. John Bonham's playing 'Moby Dick' for real!"); they both attacked each other and got into a major brawl that destroyed the drums and part of the house, as Dale yelled back: "There's one rule in the house and you broke it...You f--king f--ker! I'm gonna rub my balls on your mom's face"; the two emerged onto the front lawn where they continued to wrestle as Brennan taunted: "Your drum set's a whore! I teabagged your f--kin' drum set!"; Dale quipped: "Well, my drum set's a guy, so that makes you gay, you f--ker!"; the fight ended when they simultaneously knocked each other out with a baseball bat and a golf club; Nancy exclaimed: "What the f--kin' f--k?"

Stripes (1981)

• the enlistment scene in the Army's recruiting office when quick-witted misfit recruit John Winger (Bill Murray) and his buddy Russell Ziskey (Harold Ramis) were asked a series of supposedly "standard" questions by the Recruiter (William Lucking):
  - "Have you ever been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor? That's robbery, rape, car theft, that sort of" - John answered: "Convicted?...No," and Russell said: "Never convicted"
  - "Now, are either of you homosexuals?"; John responded first: "You mean, like, flaming, or...", with Russell adding: "No, we are not homosexual, but we are willing to learn"; John noted: "Yeah, would they send us someplace special?" - a response that caused some discomfort in the questioner; the two offered their momentous autographs

Sullivan's Travels (1941)

• writer/director Preston Sturges' brilliant satire about movie-making, starring Joel McCrea as Hollywood comedy director John L. Sullivan, who felt he must experience first-hand what it was like to be poor and downtrodden before making his next film
• butler Burrows' (Robert Greig) speech to Sullivan about poverty: ("Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study. It is to be shunned")
• the classic chase scene of the studio's entourage trailing Sullivan
• Sullivan's first meeting and pairing with The Girl (Veronica Lake) in a diner
• The Girl dressed as a male hobo and their wanderings as hoboes traveling across America to experience poverty for themselves: ("I don't know where I'm going, but I'm not coming back until I know what trouble is")
• the scene of a presumed-dead and incarcerated Sullivan in a prison farm watching a screening of a Pluto/Mickey Mouse cartoon - and laughing along with his fellow, hardened Georgia chain-gang prisoners
• Sullivan's inspired return to making film comedies: ("There's a lot to be said for making people laugh! Did you know that's all some people have? It isn't much but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan! Boy!")

The Sunshine Boys (1975)

• a Neil Simon stage comedy adapted for the screen
• the two leads who had been together for 43 years: aging vaudevillian Al Lewis (George Burns) and his grumpy comedy act partner Willie Clark (Walter Matthau) ("73 year-old putz") - who were now reunited after 11 years for a nostalgic ABC-TV special variety show, and still despising each other
• the "Doctor Sketch" scene that instigated the comedy team's long-standing feuding over a single line: ("What's wrong with saying "enter" instead of "come in?")
• the character of the buxom Nurse in the Sketch (Miss McIntosh) (Lee Meredith), who described her name: "Miss McIntosh, you know, like the apple"; the Doctor (Willie) responded while looking down at her bounteous cleavage: "I forgot the name, but the apples I remember. Look in my appointment book and see who's next"; and then when he leaned over her, she cautioned: "Please doctor, you're standing too close" - he replied: "With you, it's not possible"; and when she coughed and complained of a chest cold, he quipped: "Looks more like an epidemic to me"

Superbad (2007)

• this Greg Mottola-directed raunchy teen, coming-of-age, sex comedy (from producer Judd Apatow, and with a semi-autobiographical script written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg when they were teens themselves) was regarded as the Millennium's new American Pie (1999). It paid homage to American Graffiti (1973) and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982); it was a tremendously funny and popular hit during the summer of 2007 (but without the requisite nudity of this genre)
• the film was similarly obsessed with male teen anxieties and sexual obsessions, including being genitalia-focused, vulgar and sex-crazed about getting laid before leaving for college
• the two main characters-buddies were two outcast, nerdy, inseparable, socially-awkward, best-friend high-school seniors at Clark County's Secondary School, with only two weeks left in school until graduation, who were still awkwardly growing-up:
  • Seth (Jonah Hill), chubby, talkative and assertive, overweight, porn-lover, with an obsession about drawing penises or telling dirty jokes
  • Evan (Michael Cera), slim and tall, more serious, intellectual, and rational
• throughout much of the film, both Seth and Evan were on a quest to give up their virginity to two female students, Jules (Emma Stone) and Becca (Martha MacIsaac) respectively, to impress them and get them drunk by providing the booze at Jules' underaged graduation party
• in the opening sequence, the two talked with Evan's mother Jane (Stacy Edwards), as she leaned forward and revealed her chest to speak to them through the car window, about how they would really miss each other next year by being split up. Evan had been accepted to Dartmouth, while Seth would be attending the local Junior college. As they drove off, Seth boldly noted to Evan: "I am truly jealous that you got to suck on those tits when you were a baby."
• the two unpopular guys often talked about scoring with girls, and dreamed of sexual experiences in their future, while usually going without dates, party invites or relationships
• in class, Evan was caught absent-mindedly staring at classmate Becca's breasts - he was obviously infatuated with her, but awkwardly avoided her questions about why he never seemed to attend any parties

In Class - Evan Caught Staring at Classmate Becca's Breasts

• in Seth's home economics class, when he was paired up with Jules (Emma Stone), she invited Seth and Evan to her graduation party that night at her house. When their nerdy and dorky friend Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) met with them shortly later and bragged about going to obtain a false identification card, Seth was pleased: "You could buy us booze now."
• at the school lunch table, Seth explained to Evan why he didn't have a good opinion of Evan's 'crush' Becca. In a flashback to describe how he was traumatized at a young age, he embarrassingly divulged to Evan his obsessive childhood habit of artfully drawing male genitalia: "Here it comes. When I was a little kid, I kinda had this problem. And it's not even that big of a deal. Something like 8 percent of kids do it, but whatever. For some reason, I don't know why, I would just kinda sit around all day and draw pictures of dicks."

Seth as An Overweight 4th Grader Drawing Genitalia Pictures

• Seth told about how in 4th grade as a 10 year-old young boy (Casey Margolis), his neighboring seatmate Becca (Laura Marano) happened to see one of his pictures (a "real big, veiny triumphant bastard" he called it) that he was finishing up, when the drawing was knocked onto the floor (Evan was astonished by the story: "You hit Becca's foot with your dick?"). She screamed, ran from her desk and out of the classroom, and reported him to the school principal. The incident traumatized him with the added revelation that his Ghostbusters lunch box was a "treasure chest" full of a variety of dick drawings. Seth recalled being disciplined by the school: "They literally made me stop eating food that was shaped like dicks. No hot dogs, no popsicles. Do you know how many foods are shaped like dicks? The best kinds."
• Evan called Seth's obsession "really messed up...super gay!" and left the table. In the school hallway, Seth bragged to Jules about how he was getting a fake ID, and went ahead to promise that he would bring alcohol to her party. Jules was pleased and half-joked: "You scratch our backs, we'll scratch yours." Seth inappropriately joked back: "Well, Jules, the funny thing about my back is that it's located on my cock." Seth felt he had scored and was already anticipating sleeping and having sex with Jules. Following Seth's lead, Evan further boasted to Becca that he could provide her with a bottle of Goldslick Vodka (with gold flakes in it) at the party
• that afternoon, after Fogell acquired a fake ID (for Hawaii) to purchase alcohol, he explained to his pals why he had changed his name to "McLovin", and they derided him about how awful his ID was: "It was between that or Muhammed.... Muhammed is the most commonly used name on Earth"; Seth vehemently complained: "You look like a future pedophile in this picture, number 1. Number 2: it doesn't even have a first name, it just says McLovin!...Fogell, this ID says that you're 25 years old. Why wouldn't you just put 21, man?...No one's McLovin. McLovin's never existed because that's a made up dumb F--KIN' FAIRY TALE NAME, YOU F--K!"

Fogell's Fake Hawaii ID

• Seth believed that Fogell would fail to be able to buy liquor for the party with his fake ID, so he determinedly took drastic measures by entering a Good Shopper Store to steal bottles of booze. He experienced a number of fantasy scenarios (success when posing as 22 years old to buy $80 dollars worth of liquor, help from an elderly lady, and a confrontation with a security guard who slashed his throat) before leaving empty-handed. It was now Fogell's turn to enter TJ's Liquor Store and test out his false ID.
• outside as they waited, Seth chastised Evan for being prepared by bringing a condom and spermicidal lube ("That wasn't the plan! We had a plan! I can't believe you did that without even consulting me about it!"). They also spotted a classmate Carey Hutchins who had switched schools. Reportedly, she had breast reduction surgery, to Seth's amazement: "What?! Making her tits smaller? That's like slapping God across the face for giving you a gorgeous gift"; Evan explained: "She had back problems, man. And it's not just making them smaller. They completely reshape them. They make 'em more supple and symmetrical... now that she can jog comfortably, she's in the best shape she's ever..."
• meanwhile, Fogell/McLovin succeeded in illegally purchasing alcohol from clerk Mindy (Erica Vittina Phillips), but became involved in a store hold-up and was punched in the face by the hooded robber, who grabbed cash from the register and fled. When a pair of humorous but inept and talkative cops arrived: Officer Slater (Bill Hader) and Officer Michaels (Seth Rogen), Seth and Even feared that Fogell was going to be arrested. They were unaware that the cops agreed to drive him to the party - and proceeded for much of the evening to do a "ride-along" while blasting the police siren to barrel through red lights, drinking after a call to Bailey's Bar & Grill, taking breathalyzer tests, and practice target-shooting at a stop sign
• in the store's parking lot, Seth panicked with Evan about their lost money and was hit (but uninjured) by a car backing up and driven by Francis (Joe Lo Truglio). In exchange for not reporting the accident to the police, they agreed to be taken to another house party with alcohol, where the angry home owner Mark (Kevin Corrigan) beat up Francis outdoors. Seth ended up 'dirty dancing' with Mark's drunken, menstruating fiancee Jacinda (Carla Gallo), causing a "period blood" stain on his pants, while Evan was cornered in a room with frightening cocaine-snorting thugs, where he was forced to sing The Guess Who's "These Eyes." Before Seth could escape with two laundry detergent jugs from the basement filled with beer, the jealous Mark confronted him with the blood stain, and a brawl broke out.
• as the two ran from the party, Seth accused Evan of "bailing" on him. They experienced an intense falling out when Seth complained about how they weren't going to the same college together. Evan hurt Seth's feelings by accusing him of wasting his time for three years: "I'm not going to let you slow me down any more, Seth....I've wasted the last three years of my life sitting around talking bulls--t with you, man. Instead of chasing girls and making friends, I've just sat around wasting all my time with you. And now, because of you, I'm going to college a f--king friendless virgin." And then coincidentally as they argued on a deserted street, the cruiser with the two officers and McLovin' drove by and Seth was hit again. When McLovin' recognized his two friends, they all took off on foot, ended up on a bus, but were thrown out by the bus driver after accidentally shattering the bottle on Goldslick Vodka on the floor of the bus

Intense Falling-Out Between Seth and Evan

Three Guys Reunited With Booze - Heading Toward the Party

• the trio walked three blocks to Jules' party - with some of the stolen beer and the booze purchased by Fogell. As they walked up to the party house, Fogell and Evan admitted to Seth that they were going to be roommates at Dartmouth, upsetting Seth even further: ("...because you're a backstabber and you lied to your best friend, and you only want to hang out with Fogell, and you just don't care anymore?")
• the drunken Seth was the hit of the party-goers with the booze and stories of the night's adventures. He approached non-drinker Jules for kisses and sex, but she rejected him due to his alcoholic stupor. Meanwhile, a "smashed" Becca offered a b-job and sex to Evan in Jules' bedroom ("I want you to be my first, I want you inside me, just go with it"), but he respectfully declined due to her physical condition - and then she threw up. The only one to semi-succeed with a partner was Fogell who spent time with attractive, red-haired foreign exchange student Nicola (Aviva Farber). Later, a saddened Seth confessed to Jules that his dream was to have her as his "girlfriend" in the summer, but he had failed. And then he accidentally passed out, fell forward and head-butted Jules, giving her a black eye.

Drunken Becca's Seduction of Evan Before Throwing Up

• the party ended due to the arrival of Fogell's two cop friends due to a noise complaint about the underage drinking party. To save his passed-out friend Evan, Seth carried him out of the house. Upstairs, the cops interrupted Fogell in a bedroom having sex with Nicola (he was technically no longer a virgin!), and confessed that they had played along with him the entire time - "We know you're not 25, man. We're not idiots, McLovin." They also apologized for 'blocking his c--k' - and to make it up to him, the cops 'fake'-arrested Fogell to increase his 'bad-ass' reputation with his schoolmates, who witnessed him being dragged away. After driving off, they did wheelies and donuts with the cruiser and eventually destroyed the car by crashing it and setting it on fire with a flaming alcohol bottle (Molotov cocktail) - and Fogell was allowed to take gun shots at the burning vehicle. Later, they would claim that a crack-head stole the cruiser.
• Seth and Evan returned to Evan's house, where they had an old-fashioned sleep-over with sleeping bags. Seth admitted that he had actually known three weeks earlier that Evan and Fogell were going to be college roommates. Evan confessed: "I don't wanna live with Fogell. I never wanted to live with him....I'm afraid to live with strangers. I can't do it." The two unabashedly stated their lasting love for each other, and reconciled as best friends.
• the next day, Seth and Evan met up with Jules and Becca at the mall, where they all remained friends and went shopping together. Seth joined Jules to buy cover-up for her black-eye, while Evan and Becca joined up to buy comforters

Swingers (1996)

• the many quotable lines ("You're so money and you don't even know it!" - using money as an adjective meaning 'to be indisputably correct' or 'utterly gorgeous')
• the lounge-hopping and pick-up efforts of five party-animal, show business wannabes in the singles scene - both in LA and Vegas
• the use of the Jaws theme music to identify the predatory 'sharks' at a bar picking up on women
• the discussion about their most favorite moments in movies like GoodFellas (1990) and Reservoir Dogs (1992)
• the in-jokes about how: "Everybody steals from everybody, that’s Hollywood"
• Trent Walker's (Vince Vaughn) advice on how to pick up women: ("All I do is stare at their mouths and wrinkle my nose, and I turn out to be a sweetheart")
• the excruciatingly funny, but agonizing strike-out scene of aspiring, wanna-be NY stand-up comedian Mike Peter's (screenwriter-actor Jon Favreau) repeated phone calls to new LA acquaintance Nikki's (Brooke Langton) answering machine: ("This is Nikki. Leave a message") whom he had just met in a bar, when it cut him off as he left his phone number, and how he excused himself for his repeated phone calls and messages by stating: "I don't want you to think I was weird or desperate..." - and her live retort to his calls: "Don't ever call me again"; the scene covered all the various emotions that come to play in a male/female relationship