Never seen this movie, but I was hoping someone could bring light to a reference I heard.
In the show "Friends," the gang is playing Pictionary. Rachel draws a picture that looks like a bean. She taps at it insistently with her pen, and Joey calls out, "The Unbearable Likeness of Being!"
Is this a joke I don't understand because I haven't seen the movie?
Sparrow
In the show "Friends," the gang is playing Pictionary. Rachel draws a picture that looks like a bean. She taps at it insistently with her pen, and Joey calls out, "The Unbearable Likeness of Being!"
Is this a joke I don't understand because I haven't seen the movie?
Nope. The joke has nothing to do with the novel or the movie, beyond the title. The only things you need to know to get the joke are recognition of the title; an understanding that "being" and "bean," and "lightness" and "likeness," have similar pronunciations; and the knowledge that Joey is something of a dim bulb. The joke is that dim Joey somehow comes out with the correct answer from an extremely subtle clue that relies not only on knowing the title, but also on recognizing a drawing of a bean as meant to convey "likeness of bean," and on making the mental leap from "likeness of bean" to "lightness of being."
-- TopFrog