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Cultural Undermind
Jan. 13th, 2007 04:10 amBack on Monday I was watching the television show How I Met Your Mother. And during the episode Barney (Neil "Doogie" Patrick "Howser" Harris) tries to convince the others that he lost his virginity as a teenager, but the situation he describes is easily recognized as being the movie Dirty Dancing. Now I have never seen this movie. I have only seen bits of some of the famous scenes. This is because I am neither gay nor a girl. Thus the only Patrick Swayze movies my Y chromosome allows me to watch are:
1. Road House
2. Red Dawn
and 3. Black Dog
But I still twigged to what movie Barney was cribbing from pretty much instantly. As its assumed anyone would to make the joke work. And yet once again, I've never seen the movie. I wonder what other movies or shows or just scenes have become such a part of our cultural underpinnings that it is no longer necessary to have actually ever seen them...
1. Road House
2. Red Dawn
and 3. Black Dog
But I still twigged to what movie Barney was cribbing from pretty much instantly. As its assumed anyone would to make the joke work. And yet once again, I've never seen the movie. I wonder what other movies or shows or just scenes have become such a part of our cultural underpinnings that it is no longer necessary to have actually ever seen them...
