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Favorite reverend Jim moments

posted 10 years ago by monstermayhem32
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I would say that one of my favorite moments with reverend jimis when he took the drivers license test and kept asking bobby what does a yellow light mean.

[–] TxMike 10 years ago

"Slow down"!

My favorite was when he was at the party and the entertainment failed to show up. He started playing the piano badly, everyone was cringing when he suddenly began to play wonderfully. He looked up and said "I must have had piano lessons."

TxMike
Make a choice, to take a chance, to make a difference.

[–] TxMike 10 years ago

Another was when he explained why he took the last name "Ignatowski."

"It is 'flower child' spelled backwards."

TxMike
Make a choice, to take a chance, to make a difference.

[–] deforest-1 10 years ago

Two great Jim moments: 1) When all are explaining their strangest experience. Jim's (can't remember whether it was a dream or trip) was a visitation by a UFO -- this was the era of Close Encounters and ET -- but in the reenactment you don't get strange little men, just the craft descending, Jim watching out his apartment window, and then shaking his head and saying: "Boy! You guys are funny-lookin'".

2) Jim moonlights as a door-to-door salesman, trying one product after the other. He finds someone to let him in the door to demonstrate his new wonder-cleaner-vacuum. He spreads oil on the carpet, dirt, cigarette butts and ashes from the residents' ashtray -- all to their patient objections -- rubs it all in and takes a skate on the slimey mess, all the time reassuring them that he'll clean it up in a jiffy and they'll love his product. Then he opens up his case and there's a set of encyclopedias.

[–] Fletcherj119 10 years ago

Haha! He removes one of the volumes and asks the woman where he can plug it in!

[–] mike-848 10 years ago

When he's living in the condemned building and he has a wall made out of old doors when there is a knock and he's confused which is the door to open.

[–] markb63 10 years ago

This exchange always made me laugh:

Latka comes in with pieces of toilet paper on his face from shaving cuts.
Alex: You need a styptic pencil.
Jim removes a pencil from behind his ear and hands it to Alex.
Alex: No, Jim, a styptic--
Alex examines the pencil and it turns out it is indeed a styptic pencil.
Alex: Jim, why do you have a styptic pencil behind your ear?
Jim: In light of what just happened, the question shouldn't be why do I have one, but why don't you?!

I thought of that this morning when I cut myself shaving!

[–] brihev 10 years ago

the whole licence episode was great.
He was gonna buy at the bar one day, emptied his pockets and said "is any of this currency?"
something about a talk show. "Phil looked scared. And Donahue ain't scared of nothin'."

[–] MichaelMovieLoft 10 years ago

My favorite is when his father passes on, opens his trunk, finds the suit with a cassette for him. He plays it and it's "You Are The Sunshine of My Life" by Stevie Wonder. He sits back and smiles because finds that his father always loved him.

MM

[–] bluestrat70 9 years ago

Jim walks into the garage after an apparently long absence. He's asked where's been and replies something about it being a long weekend. Alex (I think) says "you've been gone for 9 days" to which Jim says "uhhhh, we switched to the metric system" That kills me everytime I just think about it.

"everything i say, by definition, is a promise." CARMINE SABATINI -(The Freshman)

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