A.M.O.M.Y., R.: Funny Farm

Stands for "Awkward Moments Of My Youth, Remembered".

Anybody else here remember Funny Farm? I will always remember it as Chevy Chase' Funny Farm, but I'm pretty sure the actor's name wasn't in the title. It was a 1988 Chevy Chase comedy that sort of billed itself as National Lampoon's Vacation To The Middle Of Nowhere.

Anyway...

There's a scene towards the beginning of Funny Farm in which Chase's character Andy and his wife are in their new house in the country waiting for the furniture to arrive. Andy asks his wife "when's the last time we fooled around in the middle of the day?" to which she responds "six years ago"--or some such--"when we were both down with the flu". This transits into a would-be sex scene that is immediately interrupted by a doorbell or phone or something else. Standard 80's-PG-comedy fare.

We had rented this movie when I was... I dunno... 9, maybe 10, and at this point in the movie my mother interrupted to ask me "you know what that's okay?"

I really had no idea what she was talking about, but I went with it.

"Because they're married," she said.

B'der... I love my mother dearly, but this particular incident stands out. I mean, the joke is that you're supposed to have a quick mental image of two sick people attempting to copulate. To most of the world it's a not-terribly-effective-but-at-least-fairly-casual sex joke. To my mother, it's a teachable moment for her 9-year-old.

This has been another awkward moment of my youth, remembered.

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