While watching Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy tonight on HBO I was suddenly struck with a moment of insight: Tridents are spectacularly comical, especially if someone dies from a trident-wound. For my money, tridents aren’t used in movies as much as they should be, and I think any movie would benefit by the addition of a few trident-deaths.
Just look at Steve Martin from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”¦the picture alone makes me laugh:
Anyway, that’s what I was thinking about”¦the comedic value of tridents.
Hmmm, you know, I may need to get a hobby of some sort.