From where an entire generation learned about "tucking"
Monday, September 10, 2007 at 8:59PM Silence of the Lambs is EASILY one of the most disturbing movies of our generation, if not, ever made. It took creepy to a whole new level, and introduced us all to a new genre of the sick and twisted - without being a blood and gore chop house movie. After seeing it for the first time, I don't think I slept for weeks. And I'm telling you to THIS DAY I won't go near vans.
Yet somewhere along the way, a generation that was terrorized by Hannibal Lecter and his penchant for brains with a side of kidney beans and nice 'kee-ant-e' has started incorporating lines and scenes from the horrific tale into their daily lives. Really, for the longest time I thought it was only Jason, his ex-roommate Tom and I that would enter into fits of giggles when one of said "PUT THE FUCKING LOTION IN THE BASKET!" But slowly I learned that I was wrong. The mind-freak of SOTL has invaded us all. The once chill inducing tale that was SO WRONG on SO MANY different levels is now part of our generation's pop culture. As witnessed by scenes like this from Clerks 2:
Honestly, tell me you did not laugh your ass off at that.
We are a sad, demented generation.
LaLaLaLife 
Reader Comments (4)
HA HA HA HA!!
One of mine and Felipe's running jokes - for like 6 years - any time anyone says "lotion" - is to add "put the fucking lotion in the basket". And then we laugh like crazy. Don't ask me why. We are weird.
I just bought Clerks II for Larry... we love Kevin Smith movies! And SOTL scared the SHIT out of me... ESP since some of it "happened" in Memphis just blocks from where I work. And tell me that everytime you step into an elevator you don't look up to see if a skinned cop is laying on the top of it??? huh huh? Yeah.. Thanks Sir Anthony Hopkins... now I'm scared of elevators!!!and Vans!!! and schizo transvestites!!!!!
Maria - When Lucas was a baby, we actually kept the baby lotion in a basket on the changing table. Every single time we used it we "put the lotion in the basket" and laughed our asses off.
I like that song "Goodbye Horses"; it's on my mp3 player. And whenever I hand my lotion to my friend (she never has any on her) I say "It puts the lotion on it's skin or else it gets the hose again."