Except, to repeat the lines from the movie, as if by rote, is a way of interacting with the joke. It makes the joke participatory instead if didactic. I don't

Except, to repeat the lines from the movie, as if by rote, is a way of interacting with the joke. It makes the joke participatory instead if didactic. I don't think anyone is trying to educate you. They're just immersing themselves in this forty year-old shaggy dog story.