Are there places that you simply cannot go without a movie springing to mind? Like you’re constitutionally incapable of not muttering a line of dialogue to yourself when you’re in that particular place?
Cuz I sure have ’em.
What location, specific or general, inevitably makes you think of a line of movie dialogue?
I’ll give you one of each of mine. I cannot be in the frozen-food aisle in a supermarket without thinking of My Blue Heaven, in which Steve Martin’s mobster hits on Carol Kane by the frozen pizza with (the paraphrase in my head): “You shouldn’t be in here, cuz you could melt all dis stuff.”
And I absolutely can never be on a bus going around Parliament Square in London — a trip I regularly do — without echoing under my breath Chevy Chase in National Lampoon’s European Vacation, pointing out the sites: “Big Ben, kids… Parliament.”
The joke is that he keeps telling them this over and over again, because he’s unable to maneuver their car out of the roundabout. (Ironically, looking at that clip again just now, after not having seen it for decades, I realize that I’ve misremembered the location. They’re not going in circles around Parliament Square itself, but the roundabout on Lambeth Bridge on the other side of the Thames. So now I’ll also think about Chevy Chase when I’m on a bus going around that roundabout, too.)
Your turn…
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Any time I’m at an airport: “The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.”
LOL, same.