Tuesday, January 15, 2008

six degrees of HEY, IT'S THAT GUY

The other day, I mooched dinner off of my parents and we watched Knocked Up:

Dad: That lady looks familiar.
Me: She's been in lots of stuff. She's married to the director. The kids playing her kids in this movie are her real kids.
Dad: What else has she been in?
Me: Big Daddy.
Dad: Really?
Me: She was Big Boobs McGee. Jon Stewart's fiance?
Dad: Oh, the Hooters girl!
Me: Yes.
Dad: Are you sure?
Me: Positive.
Dad: But her boobs look smaller.
Me: Well, maybe she lost weight.
Dad: Hmm, I don't know.
Me: Or they made her wear a push up bra in Big Daddy, geez.
Dad: I'm not sure that's the same woman.
Me: Dad. Are you doubting me on movie trivia?
Mom: Uh oh.

I was slightly offended. In college, I was sort of famous (on the 10th floor of Tower Hall . . . OK, mainly just in my room) for being able to rattle off a list of movies anyone was in, regardless of whether I knew their name or not or if they'd only been in one other movie and their entire part consisted of standing behind the main character for a scene.

FOR INSTANCE, a typical conversations would go like this:

Friend: He looks familiar.
Me: He was in Urban Legend.
Friend: Never seen it. What else?
Me: He was also in an episode of The X-Files.
Friend: Nope.
Me: Um . . . One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
Friend: Yes! Thank you.

What can I say? It was a gift. One I squandered away by ruthlessly killing half my brain cells with alcohol, but what are you gonna do? At least I can say that, at one point in my life, I was a walking and talking IMDB.

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8 comments:

  1. the only website i visit more than imdb is wakopedia.

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  2. Without the internet to help me look up people (random guest stars on Law and Order, especially-- because what star hasn't started on L&O?), I don't know what I'd do. Probably ask you to move out here. Which you should probably do anyway.

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  3. kat! you don't really need any other ones. For information reasons, anyway.

    mg! you're right . . . I should really get on that.

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  4. i love love love big daddy. i feel like it's under appreciated and it warms my heart to know that you talk about it with such knowledge even if you do that with every movie.

    hootershootershooters!

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  5. I hate it on tape! Also, I had a fish named Scuba Steve in college but he only lived for like a week and then my other fish (Skippy) ate him. Or maybe it was the other way around. Hmm.

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  6. I am about 7 years behind on movies, but I am the IMDB of current celebrity gossip. Maybe I should stop refreshing TMZ and start watching some movies.

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  7. I love Leslie Mann. I also love STYX.

    "Is that the guy with the old balls?"

    Sonny: "frankenstein what do you want to eat"
    Frankenstein: "Thurwty pakits of kitchup"

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  8. I wish I had a pair of sunglasses that would turn me invisible.

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