A "funny" thing happened in the movie last night...

If you've ever wondered if you could get yelled at for laughing too much in a comedy, i'm here to tell you the answer is "yes." Last night, my friend Holly and I went to see the movie, Baby Mama (which stars Amy Poehler (show stealer) and Tina Fey). Well, it was a pretty funny movie. There are some scenes that made Holly and I laugh....really hard.

Let me back up for un momento. When we arrived at the theatre, there was hardly anyone there. We chose our seats carefully -- no one sitting directly in front of us and blocking no one's view behind us. Also, I like to not sit directly in front of people because we all know that it's much more fun to watch a movie with your feet propped up on the seat in front of us. Gasp! Yes, I admit it; I do this.

So, we sit down, the previews are just beginning when these two ladies -- one old and one whose age is undiscernable. You know how it is when people are probably younger than you think, but either because they are overweight or are with much older people or are dressed older, they just seem older? Anywhoo...
The ladies sit down DIRECTLY in front of us. The gall. The nerve. Whatever. Holly suggested we scoot down. She's a smart girl and so innovative. So we scooted down a few seats. Ahhh, comfort. My feet immediately go up on the seat in front and all is well with the world.

Now, said old lady is a low, loud talker. She has the gutteral voice of a lifetime smoker and she's not from the South. It's obvious. I am praying that her running commentary during the previews does not extend into the feature presentation. Hoping and praying and wishing and....

There are a lot of one liners in this movie and situational comedy. It's funny, people. Holly and I are near tears at times. Well, I cannot remember which scene it was -- I'm thinking it's the lamaze class scene where the instructor has a speech impediment and instead of "crying" she says "cwying". So, we're laughing....hard. The old lady turns her head around (not quite Exorcist style) and tells us to stop (in effect) that some people want to hear and that we're being very inconsiderate! WTF? It's a comedy. It's supposed to make you laugh a lot. So that made us laugh even harder. People around us were laughing too --and not at the movie. It's hard to recover after that. Now we're sitting there paranoid about laughing for fear of incurring the wrath of the crotchety, SO not fun, old lady. Holly took the opportunity to laugh EXTRA loud at the next available funny scene. I sunk down in to my chair and covered my face with my hoodie.

It took a lot not to say anything to her, but we didn't. It really ticked us off actually, but whatever. We kept laughing and she didn't scold us any more, but I did notice some shaking of the head.

But seriously folks, if you're going to a comedy, please expect laughter and loud laughter. Laughter is good for the soul!