Punny Tagline Puzzle

You’re listening to A Way with Words. I’m Martha Barnette.

And I’m Grant Barrett, and joining us once again is our quiz guy, John Chaneski. Hello, John.

Hi, Grant. Hi, Martha. It’s great to be back.

How are you?

I’m doing really, really well.

What’s sticking out of your pocket there?

What is sticking out of my pocket?

A puzzle, I hope. A quiz book or something?

Oh, that’s right. Oh, it’s a quiz. It’s a quiz in my pocket.

You brought us a quiz?

Yeah.

Well, you know, I’m a big fan of movies. I get a lot of movies in the mail, and my wife and I sit and we watch movies at home, basically because with the two kids, we don’t get to go out anymore.

So we have a giant TV and we make believe we’re watching the movies.

So we love movies.

Do you guys know what a movie tagline is?

I don’t know.

Is that like, just when you thought it was safe?

Exactly.

And that’s exactly right.

The tagline is sort of the subtitle of the movie’s title.

One of the most famous taglines is the one you just mentioned for Jaws 2.

And if you would say it again, Martha, you were so good.

Thank you.

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the library.

Go back into the water.

It’s A Way with Words, right.

Now, just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water is Jaws 2.

Oh, back into the water.

That’s right.

Now, I love it when studios get creative with their movie taglines.

For example, last summer there was a movie with the tagline, One Nation Underdog.

Now, that movie was Underdog, naturally.

I thought that was an especially creative tagline.

And what’s cool about some taglines is that you don’t have to have seen the movie to figure out which movie it is.

You just need a flexible mind, which I think you both have.

I’m going to give you a tagline, and you try to figure out the movie title, and I’ll give you plenty of hints.

Are you ready?

Yep.

Okay, here we go.

The tagline is, this summer, evil meets its moose.

Oh, these are real taglines?

These are real taglines from real movies, yes.

Oh.

This evil meets its moose?

Was it the Rocky and Bullwinkle movie?

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, exactly.

A year 2000, mostly live action film based on the animated television show.

Right.

Big trouble for Moose and Squirrel.

Moose and Squirrel.

Here’s the next one.

The tagline is, see it with a bud.

This has got.

Could be any of a number of films.

Right.

Selma and Louise.

No.

Cheech and Chong something or other.

Oh, that kind of bud.

Smoke a big one or whatever the name of it was.

You’re in the general area, which is probably a parking lot.

But I’ll give you some more clues.

The parking lot of the Grateful Dead concert.

That’s right.

This is a 1993 film that takes place in 1976 and chronicles the lives of high school and junior high students on the last day of school.

Oh, is Matthew McConaughey in that?

He is.

Yeah.

What is the name of that movie?

Parker Posey, Anthony Rapp.

Oh, I know the movie, but I can’t remember the title.

It’s blank and blank.

Because Matthew McConaughey plays the older kid who’s graduated who still hangs around the school, right?

Keeps hanging out in high school, yeah.

Oh.

I’ll have to throw the cards over on this one.

Not dumb and dumber.

No.

That’s us.

It’s Dazed and Confused.

Very beautiful.

Yes, that’s it.

Also you, Dazed and Confused.

That was a great movie.

It was very.

They just really nailed the period, didn’t they?

They just got it exactly right.

All right.

Let’s move on.

The tagline is, his story will touch you even though he can’t.

Boy in the Bubble.

I was going to say The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

That’s a good guess, but Diving Bell and the Butterfly just came out.

I know.

That’s okay.

This is an Oscar-nominated 1990 film starring Johnny Depp.

Oh, Edward Scissorhands.

Edward Scissorhands, of course.

Story will touch you.

I just watched his latest movie.

Even though he can’t.

The Sweeney Todd movie.

It was pretty good.

Sweeney Todd.

I enjoyed it very much.

He fits very well in those dark movies.

All right.

Let’s move on.

The tagline is, hear the pictures. See the music. Contains no dialogue.

It’s another Disney film.

Is it Fantasia?

It is Fantasia.

Oh, is it?

Okay, beautiful.

Not that I’ve seen it, but I’ve heard about it.

Hear the pictures, see the music.

Of course, if you see the movie with a bud, you could probably hear the pictures and see the music.

Any movie, you could hear the pictures and see the music.

All right, here’s another.

The tagline is, you can run, but you can’t Hydra.

Oh, my goodness.

Is there some Hercules movie or something?

That’s the movie.

It’s Hercules.

It’s the Disney film.

Is that Sylvester Stallone?

Who is it?

No, no, no.

This is the 1997 animated film.

All right, I got one more.

Here we go.

The tagline is, get back to your roots.

Does it have to do with the hair?

Hair spray?

It is hair spray.

Is it?

Very good.

Right out of the gate.

Good going, Martha.

It was a 1988 movie musical, which became a stage musical.

It was remade into a movie musical in 2007.

Right.

So I think the key here is you don’t have to have seen the movie.

You just have to like puns.

No, yes, exactly.

If you’re a fan of wordplay, you will be a fan of…

I like that movie, too.

Yes.

Well, is that it? Is that all you got for us?

Good times.

We vanquished you, mister.

Yes, that’s a dozen. You guys did very well, except for one.

I did get one out from underneath you.

We vanquished you, mister?

Yeah, that’s what I said.

Is that another movie line?

No, that’s my line. I speak like movies.

Hey, they call me Mr. Quiz.

Call me Israel.

Well, John, thank you very much.

Thank you, guys. It was a pleasure. We’ll see you soon. Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

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