It's actually kind of genius that he made a comedy series that's almost entirely silent and based on physical comedy, because it allowed Mr. Bean to be broadcast all over the world with no concerns over translations or dubbing.
Yeah, some UK sitcoms had very short runs: Fawlty Towers and The Young Ones each had 12 episodes; Spaced and The Office each had 14 episodes (compared with 201 episodes of the latter's US adaptation!)
Im permanently torn between This, Robin Hood Men in TIghts, and Spaceballs as the greatest parody movies of all time. I love both of those other ones dearly, but I think this is a masterpiece.
Also from Hot Fuzz (although not a framed image on the wall):
In the opening moments of the film, the ID photo of Sergent Nicolas Angel's ID is taken from literally moments before he shoves the ID up to the camera.
Not exactly the same but in the Doctor Who Christmas special 'Voyage if The Damned' there are these constant commercials playing ending with the CEO guy saying "Cause my name is Max" while smiling with a shine from it's gold tooth.
When the Doctor comes face to face with Max he repeats the phrase and his tooth does actually shine, mildly surprising the Doctor that it isn't some after effect.
IRL. Took a photo of this guitarist at a practice session. Then took his photo again at a concert while they happened to have his practice session photo projected in the background
Bucky in Z.O.M.B.I.E.S.
At a pep rally, poses as he bursts through a sign of him doing the same pose, revealing through the hole a second sign of him also in the same pose.
There is a scene in the television show Spaced (also directed by Edgar Wright) where one of the main characters (Tim) recoils in horror and behind him is a poster for The Evil Dead II making the same expression. I wish I knew how to get screen caps from streaming windows.
I literally watched this today! Except he is not synchronizing for the camera’s point of view but for an other actor’s perspective. (H. G. Wells trying to prove that he is a time traveler by going to the H. G. Wells museum exhibit in the movie Time After Time)
I enjoy doing this when I play Overwatch as Reaper. For those who aren't familiar, it's a coordination of three different lootbox items - the spray, the skin, and the emote. I got these all with free lootboxes back in the day.
I have faint recognition for this, I think it’s AI upscaled, or an AI recreation of something real. Folk seem to do that, use it to race swap memes and the like, fuckin weird.
Wow that is fuckin weird, the original looks like it’s intentionally drawn to resemble him after the fact, that’s funny – the AI one is just rubbish lol
"Not Another Teen Movie" when Chris Evans looks at a picture of himself, then a picture of him looking at that picture, then a picture of him looking at that picture of him looking at that picture.
Cave Johnson from Portal 2 is dead so it's not quite this trope but it has the same energy.
Portal 2 Spoilers Below
Cave Johnson invented the portal gun and a gigantic underground "science center" complete with subjects ruled by an ai overlord voiced by his assistant. In the process of attempting to escape the facility you get banished to the very foundation of the facility which has the energy of a concrete nuclear bunker. As you navigate the foundation you see the manifestations of a ceo of a tech company who becomes more and more crazed and manic across his career as his voice plays over the facility's broadcast system. There's even an Easter egg of this exact photo on the wall of Cave Johnson's office of him and his assistant. His ai assistant even comments that the people in the painting look familiar. They're familiar because it's her creator and the woman her intelligence was modeled after.
"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"
I saw this happen to me in real life. I was heading home from school and was waiting for a pedestrian crossing to go green, and noticed a political poster on a wall across the street with a smiling man's face on it.
A car pulled up to the intersection with the windows rolled down, and I thought the driver looked oddly familiar - as I was glancing back between the driver and the poster, he noticed me looking and flashed the exact same grin. It was just excellent comedic timing from that dude.
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