Hi everyone!!!!! Thank you so much for your welcome, I'm so excited and really honored to be here!!! As Gabe said, please keep all those gem tips and submissions coming. Oh, and you are exactly right about my face when I got the job! This was also my face: http://i48.tinypic.com/302rr4l.gif
Thanks to Bailee I might have just decided my future kids will not be allowed to say the word 'amazing' until they're 25. They will also be forced to call films 'movies' until college and I'm weighing an outright ban on the word 'and.'
I have always thought that Samantha Morton's house being on fire was a nod to the Tennesee Williams quote from the play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (it also became a film called Boom! starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton): “We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
Other places in culture where this reference has popped up (at least in my mind that WANTS to see it pop up everywhere...) are in the movie Shutter Island, the Modest Mouse song "Blame It On the Tetons," and the Talking Heads song "Love—>Building on Fire." Thank you for giving me the opportunity to put this theory into a paragraph. I liked this movie.
Monsters, I'm glad you brought this up. So as I was watching this guy JohNNy SiZZle's stuff last night, I was almost sure he must have partially inspired Wayne Campbell. And he's Canadian like Mike Myers! Look at his hat and watch his monologue in this video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4575731134496003639#
I was ready to launch an all-out investigation, but if someone could tell me how to somehow get this question to Mike Myers directly that would be very helpful.
Incidentally, this post made my day!
My chief complaint about GP is that she makes too many appreciative noises when she eats, much like Bill Murray in "What About Bob?". But hey, you stage your witch hunt and I'll stage mine.
Also:
Simpsons Safari
Flight Attendant: Please prepare for our landing in Tanzania...
I'm sorry, it is now called "New Zanzibar"
Excuse me. It is now called "Pepsi presents New Zanzibar."
Simpsons Tall Tales
Nelson: I'm considerable hungry, we got any food left?
Bart: Hmm, looks like we're out of corn pone, fat back, hard tack, fat pone, corn tack…
Nelson: Any tack back?
Bart: Tack back!?
Nelson: I mean…back tack.
Bart: All out.
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