Today on the train home from Vacation, I saw a Most Enjoyable Movie.
It was
Nothing to Declare (Rien a Déclarer, in the original French), and one of those movies where I was probably getting those "Why are you laughing so loud in public? Or, wait, are you choking to death, we can't tell, but either way it's rude!" looks* except I didn't really notice because, well, I was laughing pretty hard.
*Gotta love being surrounded by folks a minimum of ten years my senior, and clearly a foreigner, AND I was in the class up from cheapest-you-can-get because those were the only tickets left on this particular train
{It was about a French-Belgium customs office pre-EU, and I watched it in Spanish...}
Which I'm really really proud of myself for actually understanding the majority. Screwball comedy, absurd situations, a little gross humor, very enjoyable but not exactly deep, but there are bits that I still think about and smile.
Like the police car. The ridiculous tripped out dinky-but-actually-ridiculously-awesome little car. And the drug-runners.
So, they were putting the word "Ambulance" (ambulance in French, ambulancia in Spanish) on a car so that they could fly past the border really sneaky like, right? And the rather portly drug-boss and his probably-has-taken-too-much-of-the-product henchman are chatting about the business while they young kid, fresh from prison, puts decal-letters on the side of the vehicle.
They got to the end of the conversation, and looked over, and the kid had written "Amblance" on the side of the vehicle. So the drug boss goes over.
"You forgot the 'u'" he says.
The kid looks confused. "The 'u'?"
"Yes, the 'u'!" Drug Boss points energetically.
Kid is even more confused. "There's a 'u' in 'amblance'?
HE SPELLED IT THE WAY HE SAID IT. I <3 him. And eventually he (or his Spanish voice double) ended up saying "Ambubulancia?" in tones of the most sweet confusion ever and I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING.
I know this joke doesn't...transfer well. I really do. But doesn't mean it's not funny, right? :D