Here’s a sci-fi plot. If the terrorists really wanted to win, all they would have to do is add a chemical to … not the water supply …but to the ink supplies for Bic. It would have to be some chemical that would have a delayed reaction, so that one day all the pens would dry up simultaneously. Commerce would grind down because no one could endorse checks or sign contracts. We would turn on each other within hours. The economy would collapse. Communicable diseases would run rampant because we’d eventually have to sign everything in blood.
This plot came to me while I was tearing apart my car to find an ink pen that had not been baked to a crisp. Three pens, all dried up, couldn’t endorse a check.
Speaking of Sci-Fi, I just saw an ad for Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I have affection for the Apes genre. The last scene of Planet of the Apes is a scene I always make time for. Say I’m surfing the tube, I see Charlton riding the horse on the beach, I am there until I see the Statue of Liberty.
Other such scenes are: the end of the Usual Suspects, Aretha singing “Think” in the Blues Brothers, Cell Block Tango in Chicago, Bluto’s speech in Animal House, and “No,it’s MY place” in Pillow Talk.
Not to mention when WIzard of Oz goes from black and white into color. What are yours?
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Back in the day when I had channels to surf, I would always stop on any part of “The Blues Brothers” and see it through to “Jailhouse Rock”. I also have an inexplicable love for “Wayne’s World” and will watch it through Alice Cooper’s explanation of the origins of the word “Milwaukee”.
First thing that popped to mind is the “You can’t handle the truth” scene in A Few Good Men.
The only one I can think of is “Dirty Dancing”. If I find it on TV, I watch it for a minimum of 15 minutes. I’ve seen it so many times that my brain can fill in the rest.
I have no idea why, but the scene from Legally Blonde when she is getting a manicure. Actually that movie sucks me in every time I surf to it on cable.
It’s not specific scenes so much as movies. Ferris Bueller, Office Space, Vacation, Legally Blonde, and tons of others that escape me right now. and if I stumble across a marathon of something like Project Runway or America’s Next Top Model on laundry day? I will watch the episode that’s on, try to pick the winner, and check in when I bring each clean load upstairs to see if I’m right.
Any musical number in The Blues Brothers, the shopping scene in Pretty Woman, the part in Apollo 13 where Bill Paxton blows chuncks all over the command module, Star Wars (New Hope, of course), any scene from Sleepless in Seattle.
Sixteen Candles, when the wedding is over, and the cars pull away, and Sam sees Jake Ryan (!) standing there. I have to watch it until the end, when she blows out the candles on the cake.
Hey, you asked.
Becs – Inexplicable? To CNN: “Dudes, it’s a war. Spend some money on your theme song.” That was on SNL though. Did you see the recent Dana Carvey /Mike Meyers reprise? Mare – Oh! Good scene. I can’t remember anything else about that movie, isn’t that odd?Tami – I have never in my life seen Dirty Dancing. I know theres dancing, and someone named Baby is not to be put in a corner. Amy in StL – Is that the scene with the move? It’s something like pop and lock. Or something … and snap! I like that scene.Caroline – Mom got to the point where she’d only watch the first five and the last five minutes of Trading Spaces.Hot Mom – The shopping scene, or the “You made a big mistake” follow up to the shopping scene? That’s my favorite.RockyCat – I don’t think I’ve ever seen any other part of that movie. I know just the scene you mean, though.
As long as you know that nobody puts Baby in the corner, that’s cool, but the scene where Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey (Baby) are dancing to “Love is Strange” is honest-to-goodness classic movie magic.
Tami – Hm. Going to look that up on youtube.