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I have two. The first is in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels where they keep calling Tom, who is thin as a rail, fat. “My God Tom, what have you been eating?” The second one is in The Other Guys where Michael Keaton’s character keeps quoting TLC Lyrics “Do me a favor, don’t go chasing water falls.”
What are some other examples of this?
Subtle one, but every time Indiana Jones beats up a guy and steals the clothes, they are always too small.
"Nine million terrorists in the world and I kill the one with feet smaller than my sister."
"these are very bad for you"
That one's a twofer, because it's a great example of Indy's habit of things not going exactly as he planned, but it's also a great meta gag on the movie trope of heroes always finding uniforms that fit perfectly.
Looking at you, Jack Reacher...
Yes! In this last season it just annoyed me to no end. He’s such a large guy there’s no way he’s able to walk into a thrift store and find perfectly fitting clothes. My husband has hard time at an actual big and tall store!
Also from The Other Guys, that the bad guys keep stealing their shoes when they‘re unconscious.
Ha I actually love in other guys how Mark Wahlberg is obsessed with drug cartels and how this totally unrelated conspiracy must tie back to cartels.
Will Ferrell: “I found they have scaffolding violations”
Mark Wahlberg: “So they’re dealing drugs?!”
Marky mark learning sensible artsy things to laugh at nerds and sissys.
“You learned to dance like that sarcastically?”
I AM A PEACOCK YOU GOTTA LET ME FLY!
Also Will Ferrell with hot ladies “Even that Brazilian security chick threw you a do me vibe”
The Will Ferrel beautiful women thing is such an amazing bit.
“You come in here looking like a hobo…”
Look, they can't all be first round draft picks.
YOU COME BACK HERE AND YOU MAKE LOVE TO MY WIFE
"I know you're working. I'm so sorry."
Eva Mendes with half her thangs out
"That's my wife. The old ball and chain."
"Are you seriously not gonna tell me who that is?"
Honey, it’s a workstation
Will Farrell’s perception of his wife. “You come in here, dressed like a hobo, it's distracting.” “Theyre not all first round picks, okay.”
"There's no need to be polite, Terry. She looks kinda shitty."
Terry constantly hitting on Sheila after that is hilarious too
“Good night Terry!”
“Good night, Sheila!”
“I don’t think he heard me right, Good Night Terry!”
…”Good night, Sheila!”
He then asks her to be his best man
Keeps asking Allen to let Sheila know he’ll take care of her if anything happens to him.
Also in the other guys Dirty Mike and the Boys keep trying to fuck in the Prius.
Also the wooden gun xD
When it comes back sanded and lacquered I lose my shit
Might want to use a linseed oil on it.
It will happen again!
Thanks for the f-shack.
Also that Terry thinks everything is somehow connected to Columbian drug lords
Love it!
Will Ferrell talking about scaffolding violations. Wahlberg: “So they’re dealing drugs?!”
They get attacked by unknown assailants on motorcycles. Wahlberg: “Get back...It’s Colombian drug lords!”
Ferrel: “Where are you getting that from?”
Also the extravagant waters at David ershons office
The cucumber accents the water in such a way
Michael Keaton quoting tlc lyrics and pretending not to know who they are is also a great one from that movie
“I don’t want no scrubs”.
“Don’t go chasing waterfalls.”
No one says creep creep…
Hot tub time machine, Crispin Glover's arm
"You're gonna lose that arm..." "hahaha and you're gonna lose your arm!"
Swan in Hot Fuzz. It is not maybe "lowkey" as the swan beats the bad guy at the end of the movie but the way they keep meeting the swan through the movie but never had time to catch it because there was always something else, more important to do...only for the swan to do the most important job at the end...that was hilarious
"No luck catching them swans, then?" "It's just the one swan, actually"
My god that is such a great movie! It really is a masterpiece.
"When's your birthday?"
"22nd of February."
"What year?"
"Every year."
That line was just damn perfect and the kid delivers it deadpan.
No luck catching them killers then?
Unravels the whole game
Oh, now I get it...wow, I am freakin stupid, never realized it was actually refering to the multiple killers thing. Damn, and I have seen that movie dozen times :D
There goes my pride with the "I read many detective stories, I can guess the killer!" :D
and the best part about that line is that it mirrors the big twist of the movie. and shows how the townspeople know more than the cop
Maybe more lowkey in that one would be the quip about farmers and farmers' mums having guns and the first to attack Angel upon his return being a farmer and his mum. But every running gag, lowkey and high, is an absolute fucking delight in that movie.
So many good running gags in Hot Fuzz.
This movie is flawless
Everything in that movie is either a steadily building running joke or a setup for a later callback/brick joke.
Not a single line wasted, and it’s a long movie with a lot of dialogue. It’s nuts how the writers could keep so many proverbial plates spinning throughout.
That is so true. The door alarm in the shop where it is so noteable with the "no more than one school kid at the time", where they later use it by multiple kids running into the shop with the alarm ringing with every single kid...
In the middle of a gun fight she has to go enforce the shop rules.
In Robin Hood Men In Tights, Prince John's mole keeps moving around his face from scene to scene.
"I have a mole?"
And Young Frankenstein.
“What hump?”
The horses neighing every time Frau Bluecher's (sp?) name is mentioned
Blücher probably
NEIGH!
I've heard that the hump moving around was unscripted, and the actor was just doing it on his own and didnt tell anybody. The scene where it was referenced was ad-libbed because they had just noticed
Marty Feldman is a treasure.
HAY ABBOT!!!
I hate that guy
I HATE that guy!
Every detail in this movie is a running gag, and absolutely perfect.
You can probably say that for pretty much every movie Mel Brooks has made.
"It's Hedley!"
“…Almost certainly winning an award for best supporting actor”
RIP Richard Lewis
The guy who wants to fight Vinny in My Cousin Vinny.
And the various things keeping them awake.
And finally gets a good night's sleep during the jail riot
I love how quickly it ends too, all the build up and Vinny just decks the guy and takes the money
In the director's commentary, he said that he had something much simpler planned, I think it was Vinny punching JT in the face. But Joe Pesci "felt very strongly" that he should leap onto him like that, lol
Everyone remembers the opening of Eurotrip where the band plays "Scotty Doesn't Know". But the song keeps popping up throughout the movie. One of the characters use it as a ring tone and they hear a techno version playing at a night club. It's even Scotty is like "suck i got cheated on, but it is a catchy song"
He's right, it IS a catchy as hell song.
Still my absolute favorite Matt Damon role.
What's crazy is that Matt Damon has not just one but two songs about fucking somebody else's girlfriend.