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Funny things you notice after multiple viewing..


For me it was:
Enid observing the pineapple at almost hitting that guy on the head with it!

"Well why do you want it?? I mean it'll look stupid on you anyway!" xP

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I always laugh at the smoking pregnant girl behind Rebecca when they go see the place they want to rent. She just walks by with a huge belly and a ciggarette.

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also, maybe it's my overactive imagination but I swear I saw a brief glimpse of some guys carrying a white sack/ body??

That's very Zen of you, you must smoke pot.

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I saw it too. I was like "what the heck." Also I believe she was carrying a bottle of bear.


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The crotch thrust that follows the term "general population".

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Dana explaining the movie The Flower That Drank the Moon. "It's GLORIOUS." And the look on Seymour's face after she says it! LOL!

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The crotch thrust that follows the term "general population".
The fact that the rap includes the line "achieved matriculation". That scene just kills me. As anyone knows who attended a high school assembly or graduation between 1990 and 2000, it's just so right. People were breaking into the doofiest, most misguided hip hop performances imaginable. This phenomenon really deserves to be studied further.

I'd like to also add the frustration of the art student after the teacher knocks over his piece and scatters his sticks everywhere. She apologizes, tries in vain to help him, turns away, then he throws down another stick to punctuate his anger. Priceless.

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Kid getting death-mask made in art class:
"I can't breathe... I can't breathe with this plaster on...."

Roberta, off-camera: "All artists must suffer."

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"Love means never having to say you're ugly." - the Abominable Dr. Phibes

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When Enid is scanning the bar at the Blueshammer gig and eyes a guy drinking a beer, he stifles a belch.

"Hey Eric, how's it going" at the record party.

The camera pan to the cowboy toy when Enid and Seymour have sex, riding his horse.

The 'pants' disapear after Seymour starts wearing blue jeans.

Poster for 'Crumb' in Enid's bedroom.

Clowes comic books in Zinephobia.

Thora's delivery of the line, "No." after being asked if they need any help, "Finding a particular masterpeice movie" by the stooge in the rental store. She just quietly, matter of factly states it. Similarly, after they first meet Seymour and watch him driving away, he swerves to avoid a truck and starts shouting at the driver and thumping his fist on the car seat. Thora looks at the scene and just states, "He's insane." It's all in her delivery.

When Enid is begging Seymour to go with her into the sex shop, a guy comes out and looks at them - Enid is moaning, "Pleeeease! Pleeeaase!" at Seymour. The look he gives them is terrific.

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He left a note. He left a simple little note that said "I've gone out the window."

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nice observation with the pants!!!

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I've watched this movie probably a half dozen times, but today's the first time I noticed that the graduation banner hanging outside the school is sponsored by Tropicana, Hostess, and Duncan Donuts.

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Yes! When she says "he's insane", she said it with delight, not horror.

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Can't think of anything it took me several viewings to notice but one little thing I find funny is the bit where Enid and Rebecca are looking through the mail outside Seymour's apartment then they "hear something" and discover the garage sale. What they hear is a woman on some Jerry Springer-type talk show going "Ma daughter is 38DD! She smothers her breasts all over the in-'er-net!" Her accent is hilarious.

Oh yes, one little thing I didn't spot until I discovered who Robert Crumb was when Enid looks through Seymour's records on sale and looks at a copy of Robert Crumb & the Cheap Suit Serenaders, she asks "What about this?" Seymour replies "Uh, that's not so good."

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The 'pants' disapear after Seymour starts wearing blue jeans.

LOL!


I don't have a license, but I drive very well, officer!

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Watching now, 1st time. Seymour trying to tear down an end cap in the Texaco store and a goofy looking guy, goofy glasses with white on them puts Num Chucks around his neck, Abu (Sidewinder Boss) comes out and asks what's going on, the guy says I'm trying to make a citizens arrest! He then gets frustrated and runs out.

Can you fly this plane?
Surely you can't be serious.
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley

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The girls were walking by the man waiting for the bus, one of them told him they closed this bus stop 3 years ago.
Towards the end of the movie Enied walks in front of a Radio Shack, it's early evening and the bus man stands up and a bus comes and he gets on.
A little later the bus comes again and stops at the stop, then pulls away and the movie darkens. "The End."

Can you fly this plane?
Surely you can't be serious.
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley

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I saw it for the first time today, and I noticed how one random guy walking behind Edi in a clip towards the end, looked like Super Mario, and I told my brother this. And then in the next clip, theres a sign in front of a restaurant or bar or whatever that says "Mario's"

Totally cracked us up.
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uh, Bitchin...

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The painted, plaster-of-Paris hands that Philip makes for art class and that the teacher mocks.

The framed Chinese characters in the shrink's office at the end of the movie.

The fancy blue bowl Enid's dad uses to mix his pancake batter.

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When Enid and Seymour are sitting in his car and right after Seymour yells at the women and kids for moving too slow a big black Hummer H1 goes by right behind them.

I don't know why but I find that funny!



Can we try with real bullets now?

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When Enid and Seymour are sitting in his car and right after Seymour yells at the women and kids for moving too slow a big black Hummer H1 goes by right behind them.

I don't know why but I find that funny!

Timing! I've never noticed that bit, but it sounds like Clowes's and especially Zwiegoff's sense of humor. Obviously that was not a randomly chosen vehicle. Hummers are inherently ridiculous, right down to the name.


I don't have a license, but I drive very well, officer!

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I'm watching the movie now and I noticed something new.

Enid goes to Seymour's apartment before the art show and wearing the red blouse and black skirt.

Seymour says something like, "Dana doesn't understand why I would hang out with someone so young." Then Enid leaves the apartment and when she is walking down the sidewalk she is walking in exact time with the music. I mean exact!

This is why Ghost World is one of my favorite movies. There are so many details that it does take multiple viewings to pick out. Not many movies like this.



Oh, God, man, what now? Wolves?

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Seymour says something like, "Dana doesn't understand why I would hang out with someone so young." Then Enid leaves the apartment and when she is walking down the sidewalk she is walking in exact time with the music. I mean exact!
Also, as soon as her feet go out of frame, the music tempo changes. That was awesome.

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