OK, so there's probably been a thread for this already. Sue me. And there are lots of famous examples out there, only a few of which currently spring to mind, but how about some of the lesser or less obvious ones.
I was watching Die Hard with a Vengeance earlier. There's the scene in the subway station where Samuel L. Jackson has leapt the barriers and yelled at a guy to get off of the public payphone which "Simon" is going to call as part of his lethal game. A cop confronts Jackson and levels his gun at him with trembling hands. The 'phone rings and Jackson says, very slowly and deliberately, that he has to pick it up. This is obviously the inspiration for the scene in The Incredibles where Jackson-voiced Frozone, faced by a nervous gun-wielding cop, says very slowly and deliberately that he has to get a drink of water.
There must be tons of such references. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is from What's Up, Doc? when the Barbara Streisand character says to the Ryan O'Neill one, "Love means never having to say you're sorry," (O'Neill's famous/infamous line from Love Story), and bats her eyelashes furiously, to which O'Neill replies, "That's the dumbest thing I ever heard".
Come on. Some others?
I was watching Die Hard with a Vengeance earlier. There's the scene in the subway station where Samuel L. Jackson has leapt the barriers and yelled at a guy to get off of the public payphone which "Simon" is going to call as part of his lethal game. A cop confronts Jackson and levels his gun at him with trembling hands. The 'phone rings and Jackson says, very slowly and deliberately, that he has to pick it up. This is obviously the inspiration for the scene in The Incredibles where Jackson-voiced Frozone, faced by a nervous gun-wielding cop, says very slowly and deliberately that he has to get a drink of water.
There must be tons of such references. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is from What's Up, Doc? when the Barbara Streisand character says to the Ryan O'Neill one, "Love means never having to say you're sorry," (O'Neill's famous/infamous line from Love Story), and bats her eyelashes furiously, to which O'Neill replies, "That's the dumbest thing I ever heard".
Come on. Some others?
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