Atheists & Agnostics
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(17,505 posts)Merlot
(9,696 posts)and will probably never look at it again without thinking of this...thanks!
laconicsax
(14,860 posts)At the height of a dramatic build (you know, the music has swelled and everyone is looking tense) imagine the characters on screen are thinking "who farted."
Invented by Peter DeLuise.
iris27
(1,951 posts)Every time I notice that, I think of a scene from Friends, where Joey is describing his work on a soap opera.
Chandler: Whoa, she's pretty. (Mentioning the girl on TV)
Joey: Yeah, and oh she's really nice too. She taught me all about how to work the cameras, and smell-the-fart acting.
Rachel: I'm sorry, what?
Joey: It's like, you got so many lines to learn so fast, that sometimes you need a minute to remember your next one. So while you're thinkin' of it, you take this big pause where you look all intense, you know, like this. (Does this intense look where it looks like he's smelling a fart.)
Chandler: Oh, ok.
Joey: (there's a gunshot on TV) There's my scene, there's my scene. [Joey on tv] "Mrs. Wallace, I'm Dr. Drake Ramoray, your sister's neurosurgeon. I'm afraid the situation is much worse than we expected. Your sister is suffering from a...(does the smell-the-fart look.)...subdural hematoma."