Saw Star Wars 27 Times: Difference between revisions

A [[Comedy Tropes|Comedy Trope]]. A character is noted to have watched a movie/seen a show/read a book/etc. on a high enough number of occasions for it to sound geeky, obsessive, embarrassing, and possibly even unhealthy.

 

 

In fiction, such information about a character is usually brought up either by ''another'' character, in which the remark is typically intended to be an insult or a put-down, or by the character himself, wherein the character may not show any shame for his devotion for a work, but it's something nobody (be it the audience or other characters) reveres the character for doing all the same.

== [[Film]] ==

* [[Beetlejuice]] has seen ''[[The Exorcist]]'' "about a hundred and sixty-seven times" (and it keeps getting funnier every time he sees it).

* In ''[[Strange Brew]]'', Bob says that Doug saw ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' 17 times.

* In ''[[High School Musical]]'', Chad mentions that his mother has seen ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' on Broadway 27 times.

== [[Literature]] ==

* Stacey in the ''[[Babysitters Club]]'' series states that her favorite film is ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' and watches it at least once a week, adding up to hundreds of viewings.

* In [[Bruce Campbell]]'s autobiography ''If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor'', Bruce describes the difference between a mainstream movie and a cult film as 1,000,000 people watching a movie 10 times and 10 people watching a movie 1,000,000 times.

* In ''[[American Psycho]]'', Patrick Bateman mentions that he has rented ''Body Double'' 37 times. One chapter follows his train of thought at a video rental store as he picks the movie out "as if he'd been programmed." He also pretends to ignore "the horrified reaction" of a store employee who recognizes Bateman upon being handed the movie box when renting it out for what would be the 38th time. He sometimes likes to describe some of the film's more violent moments to both the reader and other characters throughout the story. "The drill power scene" is Patrick's favorite part.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* In ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'', when Carlton's ex-girlfriend comes back with a baby she claims is his, Will explains to Phil and Vivian that the baby belongs to "a young man who has seen ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' 8 times."

* Humorously used in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAzwTHBLGOg#t=00m15s this scene] in ''[[The Wonder Years]]'' episode "Eclipse" where Chuck, who is uncomfortable with the creepy man who picked him up while he was hitchhiking, tries to lighten the mood by sharing how he's reminded of an ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' story about a man with "a big butcher knife" who was picking up hitchhikers. Getting creeped out by the man again, Chuck decides to drop the discussion, leading to the following exchange:

'''Creepy Guy:''' 27 times! ''[creepy stare]'' }}

:: Chuck quickly leaps out of the moving pickup truck.

{{quote|My friends are getting kinda worried,

They think I'm turning into some kind of freak.

[[Arc Number|Twenty-seven]] times this week. }}

* From the song "Nineteen Something" by Mark Willis:

'''Sally:''' I am. I'm watching ''Citizen Kane'' for the eighth time. }}

* In a series of ''[[FoxTrot]]'' strips, Roger gets concerned over Andy watching ''[[Titanic]]'' way too many times. She even admits going all the way to the cinema and watching it ''twice in a row''.

{{quote|'''Peter:''' To which showing?

'''''Star Wars'' Fanboy:''' One of each, obviously. }}

'''Paige:''' I'm confused.

'''Jason:''' Guess who has tickets to four consecutive showings of ''[[Star Wars]]''? }}

 

== [[Print Media]] ==

* According to some stories, Alec Guinness (Old Obi-Wan Kenobi) was once asked for an autograph by a fan who claimed to have watched the first ''[[Star Wars]]'' film a hundred times. Alec gave him the autograph but only under the condition that he never watch it again.

** Guinness' autobiography ''A Positively Final Appearance'' confirms that the story did indeed happen. Guinness, however, states that the boy's mother dragged her crying son away after Guinness' request, and he never mentions actually giving the autograph. To elaborate, Guinness was becoming very religious at the time, and was worried about the boy's quasi-religious obsession with the movie. He was (perhaps unneccessarily) worried that the boy would treat ''[[Star Wars]]'' as like a religion, rather than as a movie.

** [[Conan O'Brien]] saw the film five times during the first three weeks of release and even learned Na'vi (which he demonstrated on one of the last episodes of his run on ''[[The Tonight Show]]'').

* Fans of [[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]] are well known for this. Somebody who's seen the film twenty times is still a neophyte. A few fans claim to have watched the film over 1,000 times, equivalent to [[Fridge Horror|once a week for twenty years]].

* In the first of his autobiographies, ''[[Moab Is My Washpot]]'', [[Stephen Fry]] stated that in his schoolboy days, he and a few friends went to see ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]'', ''[[The Godfather]]'' and ''[[Cabaret]]'' over and over, each one having different elements that appealed to him at the time. He ended up cutting a lot of school to do it, however, and was eventually expelled.

* Apparently, a fan once approached [[Edgar Wright]] and asked him to sign his ticket stubs for ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]''... all 55 of them.

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