Ode to the Rom-Com

On a rainy day, downtown in a big city, an uptight businessman and a spirited hippy woman reached for the same soy latte, and a genre was born.

I love a good romantic comedy. To anyone who says those movies are all the same, I say, “Of course they are!” But that doesn’t make them any less enjoyable. Here are some quotes from a few of my favorite rom coms that I submit as proof:

“I'm not Josie Grossie anymore!”

“You see that is what happens when people get hooked on the new age life they end up sitting at home burning candles for mister right, when mister good enough for right now is waiting at the corner bar!”

“But the worst thing is: that Me, Fatty, Sideburns Lady, and the mutants over at Table 9, will never ever find a way to better the situation, because apparently we have nothing to offer the opposite sex.”

“Now that was when people KNEW how to be in love. They knew it! Time, distance... nothing could separate them because they knew. It was right. It was real. It was... “

“A movie! That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.”

“Listen, Lucy, when I told my mother I was getting married to my wife, her intestines exploded. You tell them the truth now, you may as well shoot grandma.”

“When people tell me they are happy, my ass begins to twitch.”

“I'm not a god. That's just a rumor my mother started.”

No, I’m not going to say what movies these quotes are from. I will give you a hint: they all involve a guy and a girl finding love unexpectedly.

As a final note, I tried to find a good quote from City Lights, but for some reason I couldn’t find any…