I was watching Assassin's Creed and someone in the movie mentioned Torquemada, and I whispered to my husband "Let's face it, you can't Torquemada anything." Later when they were doing the Inquisition, my husband and I started softly singing the song about The Inquisition. Mel has forever ruined me, and I just want to say "Thank you Mel !"
shareA year too late, but BRAVO!! So few women these days can pull a reference from a bad movie and make it work so perfectly. Your husband is truly a lucky man..
shareBad?
shareI didn't mean "bad" in the sense that the movie is unwatchable Hedy, I just mean it's not exactly Shakespeare. Most women don't quote scenes from what I refer to "guy type" movies, or low-brow movies etc. I love History of the World and can quote just about every line from seeing it so many times.
*My* wife however isn't all that thrilled when I sing "I was sittin' flickin' chickens and was lookin' through the pickins', when suddenly these guys break down my walls!!...
THAT'S HEDLEY!!!
Wait, so you're telling me you're wife doesn't go around saying "It's good to be da king?"
THAT'S HEDLEY!!!
Wait, so you're telling me you're wife doesn't go around saying "It's good to be da king?"
Well I'm female and I "got the brilliance " of Mel Brooks since I was a kid.
One of my favorites is the Last Supper scene with Brooks as the frustrated waiter trying to take their orders.
He mutters to himself, "Jesus" and Jesus keeps asking, "What?"
I think there's a line in the French Revolution scene when the king is told, "The peasants are revolting."
His reply is to agree, "Yeah, they stink out loud."
Whenever I hear about crowds 'revolting', I automatically think to myself, "yeah, they stink out loud."
Nice. Still, I think the Mel Brooks style of humor leans more male than female overall.
Example: when my nephew was a child, he had a Woody doll from Toy Story. Cute doll with a pull string that would say Woody's lines: "there's a snake in my boot!" etc. The Christmas he got it, I picked up the doll to examine it, pretended to pull the string as if to try it, and did a perfect (no modesty here) impression of Yogurt from Space Balls: "may the Scwartz be with you!". This was more funny IMO because I'm an older 6'2" black guy with a resonant baritone. All the guys laughed, the women folk looked at me like I was insane.
Now, if you ask my wife, she'd admit Brooks is hilarious, but the problem is that I watch these silly movies *every time* they're on TV. She laughed the first ten times she saw them, chuckled the next 50, smiled the next 100 playings, and now I think she's over it..
His reply is to agree, "Yeah, they stink out loud."
Well... when it comes to humor, I may just be a man trapped in a woman's body. LOL
A totally different genre, but I always laughed (and still laugh) at The Three Stooges!
I find myself laughing at movies which seemed to be aimed at a male audience, like all the Will Smith "Bad Boys" movies.
Maybe the peasants do "stink on ice". That works for me. Now I'll be using THAT expression.