Batman can you pass the salt

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Film — Live Action. The Burnhams in American Beauty have a fairly large dinner table in their living room. The increased space is symbolizing the estrangement between the family members when they dine together. When you're making a silent film in you need non-verbal clues to get the characters' emotional states across, so The Artist uses this to demonstrate the emotional gulf between George Valentin and his wife.

The first Batman movie does it. Bruce even makes a nice joke about it. The table's huge, the mansion's huge, has he even been in this room before? They decide to move into the kitchen with its much smaller table. Cinderfella : Jerry Lewis plays the titular stepson, who eats at the opposite end of a very long table from his stepmom and her two sons Citizen Kane puts him and his wife further and further apart as their tables get bigger.

To make this even more effective, it's only shown at the end of a montage showing their marriage breaking down. The final clip is a Reveal Shot showing the now long dinner table, with the previously loving couple sitting far apart and ignoring each other.

Parodied in Coming to America : the king and queen sit so far away from their son Akeem that he must talk to them through an intercom. He eventually gets frustrated and just walks to the other end of the table, much to the dismay of the others. King Jaffe: How long have you had a mustache? Discworld : Magrat and King Verence are seen doing this in Lords and Ladies , because Verence has to sit at the head of the table, and Magrat sitting at an angle to him makes conversation almost as awkward as sitting at the other end.

It's made awkward on several levels, not just because they're trying to have a conversation during dinner, but because they're engaged to be married. Magrat eventually gets fed up with Verence having to shout so she can hear him, and gets the butler to move her chair to the other end. It gets lampshaded, with Magrat noting that she's heard about this sort of thing but always thought it only happened in stories until it happened to her.

The trope is then further parodied by Granny insisting on dramatically Sweeping the Table despite the "acres" of empty space she could have used. Discussed in Making Money , but the narration then adds " Moist and Adora Belle didn't try it, but instead huddled together.

In the Lord Peter Wimsey book Thrones, Dominations , Harriet Vane, newly married to Lord Peter, is still getting used to some of his eccentricities, including "the passion for ritual that set ten feet of mahogany between husband and wife at a solitary meal. The Brothers Cabal : The Ministerium conspiracy holds a fancy dinner for six at a twenty-five-foot-long table, which is itself dwarfed by the gigantic, almost entirely empty dining hall.

The net effect is described as being somewhat absurd. Alluded to in the Redwall story The Pearls of Lutra when one of the riddles that hide the location of the titular Pearls involves a table. Apparently some minor aristocrat had got so fed up with this trope and all its drawbacks that he'd decreed that the huge table in the dining hall was to be used for special occasions only and had a much more manageably-sized one made for everyday use.

One of the Pearls was hidden in a secret compartment built into it. Live-Action TV. A subtle version takes place in the pilot episode, when Oliver Queen returns home five years after the yacht he and his father was on sunk. One change he doesn't like is that his mother has gotten remarried to his late father's business partner Walter Steele.

Oliver is seated down one end of the table with his best friend and kid sister, while his mother Moira and her new husband are seated down the other while Oliver studies them coldly. Done several times in Merlin , most often between Morgana and Uther to highlight the increasing emotional distance between the two. In NewsRadio , when Lisa goes over to Jimmy James' mansion, he had just bought a very long table that he insists she sit at the end of.

They have to yell at each other to talk. The Goodies. Tim's wealthy uncle dies, so he inherits his country seat and makes his former friends work as servants. This includes a gag of them trying to feed him from the opposite end of a long table, pumping coffee down a tube and serving eggs with slingshots. Eventually Bill loses patience and declares he's going to belt Tim , only he can't walk that far.

Graham hands him a tricycle which Bill rides down the table, falling through it after Tim blasts at him with a hunting shotgun. A furniture-building how-to show with a humorous angle ended with the two hosts at the ends of a massively long table like the cold distant couple in Citizen Kane , then segues directly into doing a scene from Jerry Lewis's Cinderfella where Lewis goes up and down the length of the table to pass the salt, jabbering incessantly.

Howell are shown to dine like this.