Mr. Burns and his Glasses

From "The Mummy" (1999) -- Mr. Burns (Tuc Watkins) explains how blind he is without his glasses ("Without my glasses I can't see the deck to cut it!", never mind the fact that the deck is SIX INCHES from his face) then hilariously loses his glasses when running from a scarab invasion and ends up with them shattered as Beni steps on them to a foreboding 4-note motif.

Am I the only person to find this fucking hilarious?

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[Bootsoneyes]

"Am I the only person to find this fucking hilarious?"

No, as a matter of fact I always LMAO when some poor blind bastard gets his glasses stomped on. The sound of the lenses crunching under foot is intoxicating. I think the Woody Allen movie "Take the money and run" was a laugh riot. He was always at the mercy of someone intent on crushing his glasses into crumbs. I find it fucking hilarious even though I wear thick RX glasses myself. And no, I wouldn't care if someone

stomped on mine.

[coffeeintheface]

@Bootsoneyes You would if a mummy was chasing you in a dark-ass cave!

[Okooka]

If your sight is that bad, no glasses are gonna help you.

Never. Srsly. The Mummy sucked so much ass.

[coffeeintheface]

Yeah, lol. Should've taken eyes that worked. Or at least gotten the glasses too, if Beni hadn't stepped on 'em. lol, imagine the regenerating Imhotep wearing glasses.

[CountTentacula]

No, I find it pretty funny, too.

But it seems to me that you'd find the novelisation just as funny: after Burns loses his eyes and is faced with the mummy in disguise (the scene where Burns spills the tea cup), the funniest line was added (shown here free of speech impediment, as was written in the book): "Sorry, eyes aren't what they used to be".

[coffeeintheface]

Haha. I actually thought it was kind of disturbing when his eyes got taken out. I honestly felt bad for him. But the whole thing about him being blind without glasses is just funny as hell, probably because I too am blind without my glasses!

I just love on the boat when he says he can't see the deck of cards without his glasses. They're IN his hand, like 6 inches from his face!

[Pullisto]

@coffeeintheface Yeh, I'm 20/20 and when I met my partner who has -6 vision, he couldn't see I was wearing HIS glasses though less than a metre away, never realised his sight was so poor till then. He'd barely see cards in front of his face either or least not see what was on them, has to read 1cm fonts on phone if without glasses, from just 2 cm away... hope I'm around if he ever loses them, to help. I'd be terrified to have vision like that, sorry for anyone who does.

[pollo20x6]

glasses cause you to die in movies.

this guy.

the fat guy from jurrasic park.

Velma from scooby doo. if it wasnt a kids show, she'd be dead

[tristanm5]

@Bootsoneyes I remember in grade 11 we watched this and I got detention for laughing

[19torento]

@mrtekbunny Only once or twice? o_0 You must be around some really smart people on the Internet. I see stupid people all the time on the Internet.

[mrtekbunny]

@19torento

... no. just no. i WEAR glasses and this is funny. its just a clip on the internet.

no no no, my friend, you are the crying drama queen. "boohoo! dont laugh at people who's glasses get stomped on! its the same as laughing at people dying of disease, famine and dysentery!"

if you can say that and say youre not drama, then sadly maybe youre just stupid. =-( ive seen it happen on the internet once or twice before.

[19torento]

@mrtekbunny You're the drama queen. You're starting an argument for no good reason.

[mrtekbunny]

@19torento

dude. shutup. those two things arent even remotely close to eachother.

internet drama queens... =-P

[19torento]

I don't understand why making people with glasses and speech impediments look pathetic is funny. Schaddenfreude (enjoyment from the misery of others) never ceases to amaze me. Next thing you know people will be laughing at starving people in Africa.

[Bootsoneyes]

@coffeeintheface I was hoping that Brendan Fraser would be the one to smash those glasses wearing those totally hot knee high boots! Mummy chasing me or not, I'd have tossed my glasses in the sand just to watch that stud and his boots destroy them, LOL!!