The movie: “Mystery Men” (1999); dir. by Kinka Usher; starring Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, Janeane Garofalo, Hank Azaria, Paul Reubens, Geoffrey Rush, Greg Kinnear.
The moment: While shoveling piles of snow out of the driveway, I unearthed the frozen-solid corpse of a baby mouse. As I flung it off the shovel, it fell a few feet in front of the cat … who beat feet like Pete Doherty from a Narc-Anon meeting.
The correlation: I like to think that Dr. Heller would be proud of this, my discovery of the Deployment-Ready Mousenator, a new non-lethal weapon even simpler and more effective than, say, a Blamethrower.
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Dr Heller would indeed be proud, nay, inspired to whip up some new highly imaginative non-lethal weaponry!
I actually had a Mystery Men moment today too. My boyfriend invented the “Griddler” superhero as a parody of the Riddler, and when wondering if he’d wandered onto an untapped comedy goldmine, I told him a similar character called The Waffler was already in Mystery Men. He seemed a bit disappointed.
Let’s see … would the Griddler use a griddle iron? And maybe speak backward? He could put an original spin on it and Dane Cook’s blink-and-he’s-gone character would evaporate from memory!
haha I thought I was the only one who saw movie moments in my own life. But your device would be much more intense if it shot LIVE mice at victims!
The whole thing got started one day while I was walking to work and a feather — yes! a freakin’ feather! — floated down from some point above my head and landed by my foot. If it had been white, I’d have been convinced I tripped and fell into “Forrest Gump.”
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