quote of the day (May 23, 2008)

To wrap up our week of bad movies, we're going to start with a fresh one. We took a QOTD Bureau field trip to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull last evening, which was fun, but had a very underwhelming plot, especially given the fact that they had 20 years to come up with one. As the credits began to roll at the end of the movie, here was alert reader Mike Bufkin's comment:

"Okay. If we leave now and drive straight-through, we can be at the Skywalker Ranch in four days to kill George Lucas." (Lucas wrote the story for this movie)

If only the South Park kids had gotten to George Lucas first. But hey, at least there's no Jar-Jar in the new Indiana Jones movie...


But that's really just a preamble. Today's real exchange is from the greatest segment of late-night talk show we've ever seen. From Late Night with Conan O'Brien on December 15, 1997, the ever-perky Courtney Thorne-Smith discussed how she left Melrose Place to make a movie with the unfortunate Carrot Top. Norm MacDonald had been the previous guest, and was sitting in the chair next to Courtney, off-screen.

CONAN (to Courtney): "So, what's this new movie going to be called?"

NORM (interrupting): "I know what it's going to be called! If it's got Carrot Top in it, you know what a good name for it would be?"

CONAN: "What's that, Norm?"

NORM: "Box office poison!" (crowd laughter and applause)

CONAN: "All right. There's the 2-hour finale of Melrose Place. There's this movie coming out, title undetermined at this point..."

COURTNEY: "Chairman of the Board."

CONAN: "Oh, alright. (to Norm) Do something with that, you freak!"

NORM: "I bet 'bored' is spelled B-O-R-E-D." (huge laughter/applause)

Oh no! More GINGERS!