Non sequiturs in movies/TV that have been bouncing around in your brain for eternity

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"Excuse me, are you reading 'Yes I Can', by Sammy Davis Jr?"

fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Saturday, 21 January 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link

five months pass...

on It's Always Sunny there's a scene where they see a quack doctor named "Dr. Jinx" who is, for some reason, played by P. Diddy. when they walk into his house "The Right Stuff" by New Kids on the Block is playing loudly. One of them describes their symptoms and he goes "I got something that will make you feel better". and then he picks up a bass and starts playing "The Right Stuff"

frogbs, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 03:51 (ten months ago) link

I saw The Jerk when it was new, and was the only one in the theater laughing uproariously to the "cosmetologist" non sequitur. Amazed to find the clip on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev_-jivYR8A

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 14:08 (ten months ago) link

That’s awesome, thanks! Had no recollection of it. Sorry if I’m literal-minded, but is it really a non sequitur?

Looking For Mr. Goodreads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 14:17 (ten months ago) link

I thought that as soon as I posted it. It's "a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous statement," except that it does in Steve's mind, it's just a conflation of meanings. So I dunno...

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 14:27 (ten months ago) link

Non sequiturs can be responses that have nothing to do with the conversation or flawed conclusions “based” on what preceded them.

So yes, I think so.

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 14:31 (ten months ago) link

Oh, okay, didn’t know the second part. TIL…

Looking For Mr. Goodreads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 14:33 (ten months ago) link

"How ya doing, Buford"

"There's chicken shit in the oats"

from Daddy's Dyin, Who's got the Will?

sad Mings of dynasty (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 22:19 (ten months ago) link

I totally posted a non-non sequitur, it just becomes a non sequitur when it appears in my head unbidden

brimstead, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 22:58 (ten months ago) link

There's an SCTV sketch about an expensive French restaurant where celebrity gourmands, such as Orson Welles, go to have their most elaborate culinary fantasies realized; wherein the maitre-d' makes the bilingual non-pun "Mr. Welles likes his coq-au-vin prepared with real cocoa".

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:20 (ten months ago) link

That joke was also in a Three's Company episode, where Chrissy made dinner and Jack (who was a cook) says "That's the first time I've had coq-au-vin made with cocoa."

nickn, Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:33 (ten months ago) link


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