wickedflea | "he hates these cans!!!"

When Eliza and I were at Urban Outfitters yesterday we saw a T-shirt that read "FUCK OFF" in funky letters so you had to look at it just right to know what it said. It made me think of a movie where there was a little kid with a shirt that had a similar obscene phrase on it--but I could NOT think of the movie or the exact phrase. The only possibility I could think of that I'd seen recently was The Jerk, but that didn't seem right because there weren't any kids in it. It bugged me all night.

So today I was walking through the grocery store and the realization stopped me right in my tracks: it WAS The Jerk. It was the scene in which Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters first meet. He's the engineer for the train at the circus, and she's looking for the little boy she's brought with her:

Have you seen a 5-year-old boy, blonde hair, and he's wearing a T-shirt that says "bull shit" on it?

No--there was this one kid earlier had a T-shirt that said "life sucks" on it . . .

And sure enough, right then, there comes the little boy driving the train, and he's got a shirt with "bull shit" on the back in those oh-so-'70s iron-on letters. That movie kicks holy ass. I hadn't seen it in years, so I got it from Netflix last week, and it's still just as good as I remembered it, if not better. And Bernadette was fine yo.

Anyway, I called Eliza to let her know that I'd solved the mystery. She was obviously relieved and said that she'll sleep much better tonight.