(the lion tamer is whipping a bunch of poor lions)
Joel: John Turturro?
Well, the guy looks like John Turturro. He’s got the hair, the long face—I’m pretty sure he is John Turturro based on the evidence provided. John Turturro is one of the best character actors in the Biz today (along with—in my opinion—William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, and Joe Vitterelli). He’s usually in a lot of the Coen Brothers’ movies like Raising Arizona and Barton Fink. My favorite would have to be O Brother, Where Art Thou? which is about a trio of fugitives from a chain gang (Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and George Clooney) who travel the Southern countryside looking for secreted money. It’s worth seeing for the soundtrack alone (the soundtrack topped the charts for a very long time), and to hear George Clooney cry, “Damn! We’re in a tight spot!” several times.
(clowns are boxing)
Joel: It’s a full contact version of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?!
Crow (in a Richard Burton voice): Don’t talk about our clown, Martha.
Wow, another reference to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? And a Richard Burton impression thrown in for good measure. Burton’s actual line is something like, “Don’t talk about the kid, that’s all.” The kid being their son, who just turned sixteen and is returning home from…running away? Gee does what I just wrote seem pointless. You’ll see why. Although George (Burton) and Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) seem to like abusing each other verbally, I don’t believe there was actual hitting involved. Actually, Burton might’ve thrown Taylor against a car. Pretty sure that wasn’t in the script though. If you want to hear a really good Richard Burton impression, watch Scrooged; Bill Murray does a great impression in a scene at the homeless shelter.
(lions are growling and standing on their haunches and sticking their paws in the air)
Servo (growling): Stella!
Man, how he did that was funny. He’s imitating the famous scene from…no, not Gone with the Wind but close…Streetcar Named Desire! Yes, that’s it! Ah ha ha ha! Marlon Brando stands at the foot of the steps of his and Kim Hunter’s rather nice New Orleans (or “N’Awlins”) home and yells “Stella!” to make her come down. She does. He does it again at the end of the movie, but this time she doesn’t come down. He keeps yelling. Boy is it funny. Vivien Leigh is in this. As if you didn’t know.
(a woman is being tossed around by elephants)
Joel: Three elephants and a little lady!
Three Men and a Little Lady was the sequel to the somehow-popular Three Men and a Baby, which starred Ted Danson, Tom Selleck, and Steve Guttenberg. I didn’t much care for Three Men and a Baby when it came out, so I definitely didn’t care for its sequel. It bombed, if I remember correctly. The first was about three men who, well, take care of a baby, and one can only assume that the sequel was about three men who took care of the baby-turned-little-girl. Babies have a way of doing that. Not all the time (sometimes they turn into little boys) but sometimes, if biology class taught me anything.
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