Because "Kate & Leopold" combined a sweet love story between two very different people from two very different worlds with a clever time-travel motif and several big laughs, and because it may have been the last hurrah for Meg Ryan in a romantic comedy, I found it a delightful film. As I said in my review, which obviously only I have read. Humph.

John

haha. the general of electric. that cracks me up :p

Ok, I think I may have to go rent "Kate & Leopold" now. I never did get around to seeing it, but that's pretty freakin funny!

From Kate and Leopold. The part is a bit long, but cracks me up.
(Dinner at Kate´s)
Leopold, giving up on his overfried chicken: "May I have the next course?"
Kate: "There is no next course. Ha!"
Leo: Where I come from a meal is a result of reflection and study. Manues are prepered in advance, timed to perfection.
(Next morning smoke detector goes off at Leo´s, Kate rushes in, the room is full of smoke)
Leo: That thing is a damned hazzard!
Kate: It´s just a toaster!
Leo: Well. Insertion of a bread into the so called toaster produces no toast at all, merely warm bread. Inerting it twice produces charocoal! Clearly, to make a proper toast it requires one and a half insertions, something for which the aparatus does not begin to allow. One would think that when the General of Electric built it he might have tried using it. One assumes that the General might take pride in his creation instead of wasting it on a non-suspecting public.
Kate: Nobody gives a rat´s ass that you have to push your toast down twice, because everybody pushes their toast down twice!
Leo: Not where I come from!
Kate: Oh, because where you come from the toast is a result of reflection and study?

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Since were talking TV shows now, heres a few from Seinfeld...
(this is a conversation between Jerry and Kramer)
"Hey Kramer, if I killed someone would you turn me in?"
(pauses for a few seconds)"Absolutely"
"What? Why would you do that?"
"Well what are you doing going around killing people?"
"Im sure if I killed someone I would have a good reason for it"
"Well how do I know Im not next?"
"But you know me"
"I thought I did"

(Between George and his boss)
"I have just been informed that you and the cleaning women have engaged in sexual intercourse on the desk in your office. Is that correct?"
"Who said that?"
"She did"
(George pauses for a long time) "Was that wrong? Should I not have done that"

(Jerry getting a rental car from a car rental place)
"Ah, yes I have asked for a Ford Taurus full size"
"Im sorry sir, we have no full sizes left"
"But I made a reservation, dont you have my reservation?"
"Yes we have your reservation, but unforturnetely we seem to have run out of cars"
"But the reservation keeps the car here, thats why you have a reservation"
"I know why we have reservations sir"
"I dont think you do, see you now how to take the reservation, you just dont know how to hold the reservation, and that is really the most important part."

(Mystery Science Theater 3000 "the movie")

(characters "Mike" & "Tom Servo" square dancing to "Cro" MC-ing)

Cro: Now grab your partner do si do, spin 'em around now don't let go.... now swing 'em left 'n swing 'em right, turn 'em round and hold on tight... (Cro now screaming like the lead singer in "Green Jelly") NOW THROW 'EM ACROSS THE ROOM, PUNCH 'EM IN THE FACE!! ANARCHY!!! ANARCHYYYYY!!!...... now prominade!"

That's why Tim is the highest-paid member of our staff. Mind like a steel trap. Information goes in and stays in forever. He's kind of like the black hole of reviewers.

John

wow. was that from memory?

Austin Powers:

Speech by Dr. Evil -

"The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it. "

:D

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Austin: "Owww! Who throws a shoe? I mean come on man! Owww! Thats gonna leave a scar!"