Guy: I'd like my bill please
Reception: Certainly sir
Guy (looks suprised): This is a bit expensive, why is it so much?
Reception: You ordered some movies sir, it's detailed in your bill
Guy (checks bill followed by indignation): What? I never ordered Girls in Custard III...this must be some mistake
Reception (scornful): Yes, you did sir, you watched it at 1:30, 3:30 and then again at 5:30
Guy (People waiting behind are chuckling,now embarassed): No I did not...(whiny)
Grudingly pays bill and slopes off
1. Was this scene ever funny in the first place?
2. Why everytime a guy checks out of a hotel in a TV show or film is it repeated?
3. What other equally predictable scenes can you think of?
― jel --, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I always thought it was kinda common (well, it happened in both
friends and rat race). It must reflect on the kind of things I watch.
― jel --, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
It's happened to me. It's awful and humiliating. They immediately
offer to take it off of your bill, in this very eye-rolling humoring-
the-customer way, and you're stuck standing there saying "No, but
really, seriously, I quite honestly did
not watch
Naughty
Night Nurses 19."
I'm convinced that hotel employees occasionally slip into room during
the daytime for extended breaks, knowing full well that the only
effect will be the massive embarrassment of the guy who the clerks
simply won't believe didn't watch Splatman or whatever.
― nabisco, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
haha. I saw
rat race in the czech republic. did you feel
cheated when smashmouth appeared at the end? I just thought that it
compromised the whole picture...
― RJG, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
This joke turned up in 'Friends' just the other week (Joey: "hey I
thought they said movies weren't itemised on your final bill" or
somesuch haha)
Cartoonist Sam Henderson does a great feature called 'It's Always
Funny' - eg it's always funny when... a little old lady who claims to
know nothing abt cards cleans up at the poker table.
― Andrew L, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
this nearly happened to me once on a business trip! a hotel
room in frankfurt, and for like 1 second i found myself with poor
quality porn on my tv (i'd try to explain how that happened, but it
would sound like i was protesting too much). i was petrified that
it would appear on the bill next day. The trip was just me and my
immediate boss. it didn't show up. i lost some sleep.
― Alan T, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Yeah, on some German systems they give you a one minute preview of
the in-room video, inclusing the hard stuff. This was explained to
me once on a business trip when I called the front desk in a complete
panic -- I had only wanted to watch "Zero Effect"!
― Colin Meeder, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)