"Weird Al" Effect: Difference between revisions

** Actually, when Elizabeth Taylor first walks into the house, and her character spontaneously says "What a dump," her delivery is just like Bette Davis's. It's only after she asks her husband where the line is from, and repeats it several times that she exaggerates it. She escalates both her nagging and her delivery, and in fact, isn't really attempting to accurately imitate Bette Davis in the first place.

*** Taylor and Richard Burton have a long and meaningless discussion where they try to remember the name of the movie. They remember every other detail, including plot minutiae, the stars, Bette Davis and Joseph Cotten, quotes from the movie, but not the title. They even remember that it was a Warner Bros. picture. ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' is also a Warner Bros. film.

* ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'': Mention the name "Gomer Pyle" to someone. A younger person will probably think of " {{spoiler|the fat Marine recruit who blows his brains out}}" instead of "the gas station worker from ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' who got a spin off sitcom where he was in the Marines" (Which is where the name came from and why Gunny Hartman gives it to him).

* How many people remember "I Can't Turn You Loose" or the ''[[Peter Gunn]]'' Theme as anything other than the wacky chase music and walking around music (respectively) from ''[[The Blues Brothers]]''?

** Moreover, people tend to recognize the latter from the classic arcade game ''[[Spy Hunter]]'' then from the show itself.

*** Sopranos fans recognize it as a song mixed with "Every Breath You Take".

{{quote|"Scarlett, you do like me, don't you?"

That was more like what she was expecting.