NOTE: IN THIS ARTICLE I'M GOING TO SPOIL THE ENDINGS OF THE FOLLOWING MOVIES - PRESUMED INNOCENT, CITIZEN KANE. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THESE MOVIES AND DON'T WANT TO SPOIL THE ENDINGS DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
My first room-mate after University was a guy named Dom, whom I'd been friends with for two years before we found a place (with his sorta-girlfriend/foul temptress Mel, but that's another story...)
Dom and I worked opposite shifts: I had a nine-to-five day job and Dom would work as a waiter (ie. nights, weekends etc.) so a lot of times we were home at different hours and would watch different TV shows, but one of the ones we could definitely agree on was Kids in the Hall.
It usually wound up that Dom and I would watch Kids in the Hall on CBC on Thursday at 8pm. This was the original run of the show so we'd be waiting all week for the next one to air. One Thursday I was out drinking and asked him to tape the episode for me...
I came home quite inebriated and found Dom chain-smoking and drinking a ton of coffee, typical Dom behaviour...
He hadn't taped Kids in the Hall. GRRRRR!
He proceeded to tell me about the skits GRRRRR!
He tells me about a skit where one of the characters (Hecubus the spawn of Satan!) proves to a nightclub audience how evil he is by spoiling the end of Presumed Innocent.
Kevin: Evil! Evil! Impolite and Evil! Hecubus, have you seen the movie Presumed Innocent?
Dave: Yes I have master, and his wife killed her.
Kevin: But Hecubus, I haven't seen the movie yet. Evil! Evil!
Dom is laughing his head off as he sees the look of horror on my face. I look down to the just-rented videocassette I'm holding in my left hand and THROW IT at his head...
Three years later
The years have passed but I'm still bitter. We both have moved on, each of us with new room-mates (although his room-mate was more live-in wife wannabe than mine was.) He's talking on the phone about doing a classic film night: Citizen Kane and Casablanca.
"Have you seen them?" I ask.
"Not Citizen Kane."
"Remember Presumed Innocent?" I ask.
"What are you...?" Dom starts.
"In Citizen Kane, Rosebud is his SLED!" I yell into the phone. I slam down the phone as the sounds of screams and curses echo from the earpiece.
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