I was thinking about the Indiana Jones movies

[xiphias]

A couple days ago, someone on my friends list was talking about showing his young daughter RAIDERS for the first time, and I started thinking about the series -- specifically the second movie, generally considered to be the worst of the lot.

Now, there are a lot of problems with it, most obviously the female lead, and second-most obviously, the kid sidekick, and third-most obviously, the really grim subject matter (human sacrifice is fine -- famine and starving children? Not so much for a two-fisted pulp adventurer).

But another thing that bugged people, if you'll pardon the expression, was the gross-out-for-gross-out's-sake bits. The dinner scene, most obviously, with things like live snakes and eyeball soup.

But the bit that REALLY got people was the "chilled monkey brains," served in an actual monkey's head.

But I think I know what Spielberg was thinking with that, and I don't see why people were so upset.

After all, there's no wrong way to eat a rhesus.

(Alternative: "After all, in ET, Spielberg had already shown characters eating rhesus pieces.")

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[navrins]

Ouch. Groan.

[smacaski.livejournal.com]

Ditto. I might even throw in an eyeroll.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

*holds nose, flees screaming into the night*

[biancasotyf.livejournal.com]

[Ben] The acme of pun acknowledgement (I hesitate to use the term "approbation according to Spider Robinson, is for everyone to hold their nose and flee screaming into the night.

[badgerthorazine.livejournal.com]

Ow! Ow! Ow!

*groans*

(now I want chocolate. You're evil. ;)

[happybat.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

You see, I worked out the strange foreign chocolate reference, so feel all smug and multi-cultural.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Did the alternative punchline help? I thought it was possible that there were people who had heard about "Reese's Peanut Butter Cups" or "Reese's Pieces", but would have never encountered the "There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's" ad campaign.

[ailbhe]

I had to wait for this comment to get that reference. I've never actually heard of Reese's Pieces or There's No Wrong Way.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are little disks of mostly-peanut butter (with some sugar and other flavorings) coated in chocolate. They're perhaps 2cm in diameter, and shaped somewhat like the part of the cupcake that is inside the cup, but shorter. Like, if you took a cupcake, and sliced off the very bottom half-centimeter or so, that would be the shape. They are sold in a package with two of these little disks, and they are one of my favorite candies.

Reese's Pieces are lenticular candies, like Smarties/M&M's, with a candy shell, again, like Smarties/M&M's, but with a peanut-buttery-type filling. They are also very good.

In the movie ET, Eliot lures ET out of hiding by leaving a trail of Reese's Pieces from the shed to the house.

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

I et Reece's peanut butter cups fairly often in th eUS.

Portable, protein, no refrigeration required...

[lilysywad.livejournal.com]

My other favorite is Goober's peanut butter and grape jelly, Hershey Chocolate Kisses plus various other choccie bars and Reece's peanut butter and chocolate cups.

Wow, what a combination!

[shane.curcuru.name (from livejournal.com)]

This thread is almost better than putting peanut butter into chocolate itself!

Where else can you combine classic (and fairly delicious) candy, truly painfully punishing humor, classic television advertising, and the word "lenticular" all in one page? To completely mix my social references, as Darth Vader would say - "IM-pressive".

"Hey - your peanut butter got on my chocolate!" ...

Wow, I must be more of a child of television than many, since I remember all of those jingles.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

2 cm? More like 2 inches! The Reece's Peanut Butter Cups I used to eat (and we're talking over 10 years ago here) were about 5 or 6 cm in diameter. They're about 2 cm deep.

Apparently someone makes dairy-free peanut butter cups, but since Veganstore.co.uk died I haven't been able to find a stock of them :/

[ron_newman]

I'd heard of Resse's Pieces ever since E.T., but not the advertising slogan.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

It showed people's idiosyncratic ways of eating Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, like nibbing around the edges, or dunking them in milk, or a vampire sucking out the peanut butter . . . my favorite was the little kid who ate the center out of them without disturbing the edges. I actually spent time figuring out if that was even POSSIBLE. It is, and I now do that sometimes. With the tag line, at the end of the ad, being, "There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's."

[happybat.livejournal.com]

It helped greatly, actually.

Incidentally, you might be amused to learn that the only place I have ever seen those things on sale is in the hip hip chic chic deli round the corner from my old flat.... they are gourmet, dontyewknew, dahling?

[aprilolute.livejournal.com]

" She used to work there too, but she worked out in front. She always cashiered. " Valencia Munoz smiled and shook her head.

[sarianna.livejournal.com]

Heh. That was so bad, I felt the need to repeat it (citing you, naturally) to my boyfriend.

[ceo]

 

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

That, sir, is a thing of beauty. So much so I had to inflict upon my husband. I salute you.

[erin-c-1978.livejournal.com]

I think I literally facepalmed when I read this. Excellent job, sir.

[querldox.livejournal.com]

So, are you going to order this t-shirt?

OK, so it's a slightly different, but more animal friendly, version of the punchline.

[madfilkentist]

Oww!

But just imagine Indiana Jones singing "All we want to do is eat your brains."

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Ow. ow ow ow ow ow.

[bimmer1200.livejournal.com]

I bow before your superior pun ability, sir. I am in awe.

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

You've been doing this since you were a child - telling me long stories that ended with a complicated and clever pun. Do you remember the shaggy dog jokes you created? Dad reminded me of the one about the spar-tangled tanner... Any others?