What I wouldn't give for a large sock with horse manure in it.

[Otto]

2006/9/25, Keith McMullen <keithsz at mac.com>:
> Flashback to Annie Hall where Woody Allen is in line at the theater
> with that guy behind him going on about Marshall McLuhan.
>
> MAN: It's the influence of television. Now, now Marshall McLuhan
> deals with it in terms of it being a, a high-- high intensity, you
> understand? A hot medium--
>
> WOODY ALLEN: What I wouldn't give for a large sock with horse manure
> in it.
>
> MAN: -- as opposed to the truth which he [sees as the] media or--
>
> WOODY ALLEN: What can you do when you get stuck on a movie line with
> a guy like this behind you?
>
> MAN: Now, Marshall McLuhan--
>
> WOODY ALLEN: You don't know anything about Marshall McLuhan's work--
>
> MAN: Really? Really? I happen to teach a class at Columbia called TV,
> Media and Culture, so I think that my insights into Mr. McLuhan,
> well, have a great deal of validity.
>
> WOODY ALLEN: Oh, do you?
>
> MAN: Yeah.
>
> WOODY ALLEN: Oh, that's funny, because I happen to have Mr. McLuhan
> right here. Come over here for a second?
>
> MAN: Oh--
>
> WOODY ALLEN: Tell him.
>
> MARSHALL McLUHAN: -- I heard, I heard what you were saying. You, you
> know nothing of my work. How you ever got to teach a course in
> anything is totally amazing.
>
> WOODY ALLEN: Boy, if life were only like this.
>
>

Thanks, my favourite Wooy Allen scene!