November 17, 2009
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Pranksgiving!
I love Thanksgiving. Each year I have at least 3 Thanksgivings, one in October for Canadian Thanksgiving, one with all of my friends the Saturday before the real Thanksgiving and of course, the real Thanksgiving. I still don’t know why Thanksgiving is overshadowed so much by Christmas, early on I wrote a post about it. As far as I know there aren’t any or many Thanksgiving movies or songs. Of course many of you may know about The Thanksgiving Song by Adam Sandler if not check out this nifty video somebody did on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z27FKwupds
The only Thanksgiving movie that comes to mind is not even a real Thanksgiving movie in the sense that the plot does not revolve around Thanksgiving. It is a great movie though, Planes Trains & Automobiles. I’ve always loved this movie, it very well might be my favorite John Hughes (who died just a few months ago, by the way) movie. Then again I really like National Lampoon’s Vacation and Christmas Vacation. And of course, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is great too. Ok, so maybe its my favorite John Candy movie. Wait, then again, I love Spaceballs too. Maybe its my favorite Steve Martin movie. Yes. I’ve looked, it IS my favorite Steve Martin movie.
Anywho, one of my favorite scenes is when Steve Martin’s character rents a car and shows up at the lot to find out its not there. He goes back to dealer just a tad bit upset. Maybe not even a tad bit. Just slightly mad. A little bit. Little bit. The interaction with the worker is classic and she ends the scene with a memorable line. Anybody in customer service can relate to dealing with a customer like that and we all wish that we could say something like that to a customer. Anywho, check out the clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4CgLRcYN74
Wow. I gave you two links in one post. Shouldn’t I get a cookie or something for that?
Comments (5)
For some reason, cinematography from the 70′s and 80′s and early 90′s gives me awful headaches. Just watching movies / shows from that time period makes me.. ugh. So I don’t like any of those movies.
And I just hate Steve Martin in general. Not funny. Seems like he’d be a major asshole in real life.
I can’t think of a movie that I enjoy that involves Thanksgiving. Lemme do a Google on it. *Googles* I guess the only movie I can think of is Spider-Man. Eek.
Canada stole thanksgiving?! Thats just low…
For some reason, a lot of people think Steve Martin is an asshole or at least that is their impression of him. I dunno, I’ve never been a huge fan of his but he doesn’t come off as an asshole to me. I know he has had some really funny stuff on Letterman. I can agree, there are some really bad movies from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, but on the other hand, there are some really good ones too.
Can you blame Canada? They know a good thing when they see it; I mean after all Thanksgiving is so great that I couldn’t blame anybody for stealing it.
Actually, I think they have had their Thanksgiving for a long time. According to Wikipedia, only since-shit-1957? Is that right? Well shit, that ain’t long at all.
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Kathy Griffin’s latest tell-all confirmed my suspicions. The jokes and stuff he does on guest appearances are completely scripted.