The best video store in the world carries only one movie

I want to walk in there, ask if they have “Serenity”, get dissed, walk out, then walk back in and again ask for “Serenity”.

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“Groundhog Day” might also have worked.

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This was circulating a while back:
http://imgur.com/ArqGb

I remember having difficulty at the time determining exactly where it came from. Seems it’s this guy.

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Do you see what happens, Jerry!?

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While you’re there, ask if they have any grapes.

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Godfather Pt 2, or Jerry Maguire? :wink:

I wouldn’t say either are as good as their reputations suggest. And Cuba Gooding Jr is the worst actor to ever get an acting Oscar.

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Two goats at a garbage dump. One finds a VHS of “Jerry McGuire” and gobbles it down. The other asks, “How was it?” The first goat replies, “Not bad. Not as good as the book …”

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Re Godfather 2, the popular consensus seems to be that it’s better than Part 1. Why would that be, and why do you disagree?

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Dunno. Because it has De Niro in it rather than a mumbling Brando?

I haven’t watched any of them in years. Thought they were all a bit overlong and dull, to be honest. Give me Goodfellas any day.

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Oooh, I’ve never seen a picture of that, thanks!

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You should find yourself a copy of Stories From The Nerve Bible (linked above). Fascinating read.

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That’s correct. I think she called it Holiday on Ice, if I remember correctly (saw her talk about it in a lecture once, but that was years ago!). Can’t remember where it was, though.

Edit: or Duets on Ice, if everyone else in the universe is right!

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By several orders of magnitude, I would imagine.

I don’t think movie studios were releasing movies on Betamax any more by 1996.

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I’m watching it right now. Really.

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I think this is where the over-subscription reserves are kept

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No, that wouldn’t have worked because the film is already surreal. Why “Jerry Maguire” works for this is precisely because the movie is so “normal”.

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Yep, I get it. Ya know, Larson later saw the film, enjoyed it, and apologized for his cartoon.

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Godfather Part II and Empire Strikes Back (and sometimes Toy Story 2 or 3) are the default “exception that proves the rule”* answers when the ever-recurring question arises, usually on daytime radio, if any movie sequels ever surpass the originals.
I agree with those answers, FWIW. There are many more too but that’s a separate conversation, at least until The Cruiser decides to make Jerry Maguire: The Quickening or whatever.

* Yes, I do know this isn’t what “exception that proves the rule” really means. I am using it incorrectly on purpose, irregardless ;-0

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Perhaps stashed in their break room.