This is my favourite bit* of The Stepford Wives. It is the bit you learn off by heart at 17 and then recreate the minute you go round your friend’s house and find yourselves in the kitchen.
At least you do until your friend says, ‘If you say ‘When I was just going to give you coffee!’ one more time, I will rip that Fergie bow out of your hair and tell Darren Haslam that you binge eat scampi flavour Nik Naks at break.’
[In case you were wondering and even if you were not, ‘binge eat scampi flavour Nik Naks’ is a double-diss; inferring both a troubled relationship with food as well as a fondness for one’s own sex.]
You should not watch this video if you have not seen The Stepford Wives because it will spoil it. Although if you have not seen The Stepford Wives might I suggest your life is joyless and barren and that a marathon in which you put The Andromeda Strain and Westworld in front of your face should go some way to sorting this out. Also, how beautiful is Paula Prentiss here? Crikey me.
*This morning I cannot remember who sampled the ‘Yes! Yes, this! It’s wonderful!’ line at 0:58. I thought it was in Groove Is In The Heart or Theme From S-Express but it isn’t and if I spend any more time trying to work it out instead of doing hactual work someone somewhere will get annoyed with me and/or tell me off. If you can remember, please tell me on Twitter because it is driving me mentile.
[EDIT: It is sampled on S’Express’ Hey Music Lover. Thank you @martinwrites for pointing that out.]