Thread: And now, not so deep thoughts
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Old 07-03-2006, 08:58 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor
Why oh why do they still put that scene in books and movies where the married/engaged/unavailable man is caught at home by his wife/future mother-in-law while a girl wearing his bathrobe walks out of his bedroom...yet of course he never slept with her and he's a victim of ridiculous circumstance? For God's sake, we've seen it. It was funny the first 3,722 times. Now it is cliche and no longer even partially interesting.
The same scene is in
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Proven Guilty, the latest in the Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher.
Exact same scene, and of course the "discoverer" doesn't stop to see if she could possibly be wrong it.
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