Stolen jokes


This mediocre movie stole jokes from various movies, like:

- When Ron Burgundy can't stop saying "black" when he meets the black woman, same thing from Austin Powers with the word "mole" when he meets a guy with a huge mole on his face.

- Steve Carell's character eating lettuce like it was an apple, from the first SNL Digital Short called "Lettuce".

- Kristen Wiig's character is a copy of one of the characters of Kristen Wiig in SNL.

- Will Ferrell ice skating, from 'Blades of Glory'.

And I bet there are many more.

It was so sad watching Will Smith and Liam Neeson on this piece of garbage, what a mediocre movie!

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The Ice skating seen was NOT from Blades of glory. It was from the movie "Ice Castles". Also, if Kristen Wiig is playing one of her own characters, is it really "stealing"?

jeez, if you're gonna insult the movie, at least get the references right.

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I think a couple of those are far reaching in trying to find stolen jokes:

When Ron Burgundy can't stop saying "black" when he meets the black woman, same thing from Austin Powers with the word "mole" when he meets a guy with a huge mole on his face.


That’s not the same. When Powers did it, he was trying not to focus on the guy’s mole while he was talking to him, and by trying so hard not to focus, he kept blurting out “mole” – it was the elephant in the room that was so obvious, but nobody wanted to address it. Kind of like if you’re told not to think of a pink snowman, all you can think of then is a pink snowman. In Burgandy’s case, he was surprised at himself that he was attracted to a black woman, and kept blurting out "black" not because it was obvious that she was black (which he had known from the moment he met her, of course) but because he was trying to grasp and fathom the fact that he was about to get it on with a black woman, whom previously he was never attracted to.

Will Ferrell ice skating, from 'Blades of Glory'.

I don’t see how that was a stolen joke.

I couldn’t agree more about Wiig. She acted the exact way as she did with so many of her SNL characters. She was the worst part of the movie to me, and wish they had cast someone else in her place.



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I can't believe nobody has mentioned when Ron Burgundy said that he sometimes can't control the volume of his voice which is a skit Will Ferrell did on SNL

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I can't believe nobody has mentioned when Ron Burgundy said that he sometimes can't control the volume of his voice which is a skit Will Ferrell did on SNL


Stolen from Family Guy.

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Stolen from Family Guy.


Oh for real? I know that was on SNL quite a while ago but I suppose it's possible Family Guy did it first

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We don't have SNL over here, I know it stands for Saturday Night Live but I remember the joke from one of the early seasons of FG.

I just Googled it and here it is...


[doorbell rings; Peter's boss, Mr. Weed, is coming over for dinner]
Peter Griffin: That must be him. Oh God! I hope that thing doesn't happen where I get nervous and can't control of the volume of my voice.
[answers door]
Mr. Jonathan Weed: Hello Peter. How are you?
Peter Griffin: [yelling] Fine!
Peter Griffin: [quietly] Please come in.

Episode Mr. Saturday Knight (5 Sep. 2001)

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Not trying to practice one-upmanship, but the Will Ferrell sketch (he played "Jacob Silj," a guy whose voice is always blaringly loud) is from 1999 according to Wikipedia.

Jacob Silj

Jacob Silj was a Will Ferrell character who suffered from 'Voice Immodulation Syndrome', a disease which makes him unable to control the volume or inflection of his voice. Jacob begins each segment by reporting on a news item totally unrelated to Voice Immodulation Syndrome, but inevitably gets interrupted by the Weekend Update anchor, who can't stand his loud, relentless monotone. Silj then begins to educate the anchor on Voice Immodulation Syndrome, and describe situations that make the disease particularly unbearable (like praying in church, or soothing a baby to sleep). Depending on which of Silj's segments you believe, the disease affects either 700 or 6 people each year and is apparently caused by a late birth and exposure to gold dust. Debuted December 4, 1999.

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I believe this joke was first done on SNL by Mike Myers. He played some British Hollywood show host who would talk to old actors like Mickey Rooney. He'd just start yelling and say he couldn't control the volume.

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This is the most god awful accusation I have ever heard. You know Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are both distinguished alumni of SNL, right? Some jokes might have been recycled, but that doesn't mean anything. Mel Brooks recycled jokes in his movies. He used the "walk this way" gag in like 5 of them. You're picking out random *beep* and saying that they are stolen. With that logic you could say that American Beauty stole from Citizen Cane because there is a rose on the poster.

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Ech... regardless of the fact that I find most of the accusations in the original post absurd, if Family Guy did the voice immodulation thing before SNL, then they both have most likely been "inspired" by a Monty Python Sketch from the 70's. Thank you.

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I agree that this film is mediocre, but there are still some things to like about it.



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Cruise control being used as autopilot was in the Simpsons episode "Bart on the Road".

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Surprised no one's mentioned the gag from Family Guy where Peter punched the dolphin in the face at Sea World 'cause he thought it was talkin smack.


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