Stumble It!
Is anyone else fascinated with teaching your kids to say funny stuff, for your own amusement? Come on. You know you do it. A buddy of mine had it all set, so that when he would say to his daughter, “Stop!” she’d reply, “Hammer time.”
Brilliant.
When I got home from work yesterday, Raging Mom had taught Sonny to say this:
Which is, of course, based on Deniro’s amazing improvised bit from “Taxi Driver”:
I can’t even tell you how hard I laughed. At least I’m not the only one in this house who gets a kick out of this. Right after “There Will Be Blood” came out, she had Sonny calling out, “I abandoned my boy!” which was really funny, unless you hadn’t seen the movie. Then it was just weird.
Sonny is always more easily used for this kind of twisted humor than either Michael or Connie. Once I almost had Michael rapping “I’m ma-lell-o like ja-lell-o!” in his best Adrock voice, but he just wouldn’t go for it. I guess he’s no high plains drifter.
As soon as my boys were old enough to fit their fingers together, as in the heavy metal devil horns, I’ve been trying to get them do it regularly whenever they hear rock and roll music. This has caught on with Michael, but Sonny thinks it looks more like Spidey shooting out webs than throwing up metal. Ah well.
How’s this for the best statement ever: “You know what I love the most about Daddy? He loves the rock and roll.”
That’s what Michael said to Raging Mom last night. I guess I haven’t totally freaked them out with my strangeness.
For my next trick, thinking we’ll teach them the “Did you fuck my wife?” exchange from “Raging Bull.”
Great idea, right?!
Filed under: Sonny's movie impressions, questionable parenting decisions | Tagged: beastie boys, impressions, son, taxi driver, travis bickle
haha too funny! I also love the shadow dancing!
Oh yeah, the shadow dancing is brilliant. He may not be up for parroting film quotes, but the kid can groove!
That’s awesome. I think you should hold off for a few years on the Raging Bull scenario.
I had no idea that Joe Pesci was in that movie. Come to think of it, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen the whole movie.
It’s a classic. Pesci is great, but I prefer his “Casino” performance. Amd yeah, I’ll probably wait a bit on teachong them the lines…
I love him in GoodFellas – “Do I amuse you? Am I a clown?”
and then he gets shot in the head instead of made. Oops:)
Yeah, he’s brilliant in that too. Gee, his star has kind of faded in recent years, hasn’t it?
hahaha – we do the same things here. We taught S to say “I drink your milkshake”- also from There Will be Blood (and the SNL skit)
Ah, so much good material from that film… Glad you do it too! I figure the Duderino must have some fun with that.
Tres cute. What a sweetie. We got our daughter to say “Man – I’m the dude. You’re Mr Lebowski”. She’s 4 so we’re holding off on getting her to say “They peed on my fuckin’ rug man!”
Ah, but you could replace “fucking” with “frickin’”–just don’t make the SNL slip! If you can get that on tape, you’re my hero!
Hah that’s awesome…. I don’t see any flaw with that plan!
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your wife is amazing!
When my niece was around two, my brother taught her to answer the following questions:
What does a cow say?
Mooo
What does a grandma say?
Yes
What does a Buddhist say?
Namaste
What does a zombie say?
BRAINS!!!!
It was awesome. She also likes to say “Don’t let the man get you down.”
It makes me want kids.