Hilarious Cable Info-Bar Description Of The Day: 'Pure Luck'/'Baby's Day Out'
Posted at 10:40 AM Nov 06, 2008
By Kenny Herzog
Welcome back to one of NSCDUV's most beloved daily features, which takes aim at the most confounding, misleading or abruptly hysterical info-bar synopses of the day's cable programming.
And while yesterday saw Matthew Broderick make his triumphant return to the land of cable-guide confusion, today we bring the first-ever Info-Bar double feature, bridging two seemingly disparate words via the use of one magical derogatory Yiddish phrase.
Today's double-feature entry is:
Pure Luck/Baby's Day Out
The Actual Story: In Luck, Martin Short is a bumbling goof forced to grow some cojones (with the help of Danny Glover) after getting mistakenly involved in an abduction plot, making it a spiritual sequel of sorts to Short's Innerspace. (This film is also notable for a bee-allergy scene, viewable above, that allowed Short to play around with his future Jiminy Glick fat-man's makeup.) Day Out, meanwhile, is a laughless derivative of Home Alone, except replace the somewhat believably self-sufficient 10-year-old with a virtual newborn. Heeeeelarious.
Cable-Info Bar Synopses: "A klutzy accountant is sent to Mexico with a private eye to find his boss' klutzy daughter."/"Baby crawls away from klutzy kidnappers."
What Their Descriptions Would Have You Believe: That somebody's been spending a little too much time plotzing with their bubbe before writing these things. And also, that the latter movie makes lighthearted would-be fun out of the initial premise of a baby-snatching. Always a formula for high marks. Especially when said infant-stealer is Joe Mantegna.
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