Movies · 1945
Who's on first.
— Dexter Broadhurst ‧ The Naughty Nineties
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Dexter describes a baseball team whose players' names sound like ordinary questions. The apparently simple statement about first base keeps becoming another misunderstanding for his listener. Its comedy lies in two people using the same words while hearing entirely different meanings.
- AFI100 Movie Quotes, number 91; literal film wording and film synopsis.Reference checked
- Wikipedia / AFI-list tableNumber 91; secondary credit qualified against primary synopsis.Reference checked
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