• sugar_in_your_tea
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    9 months ago

    I first heard it on Seinfeld. It’s amazing that it was used so much in pop-culture.

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      9 months ago

      There’s a movie with Sam Neil about this story. We had to watch it in high school, before the Seinfeld episode came out, and we all just about died with the mom yelling about the dingo eating her baby. it wasn’t supposed to be funny but it absolutely was.

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        9 months ago

        It’s one of those things where it was awful (and I always believed she was telling the truth), but it was also absurd and you really couldn’t help laughing and then feeling awful about it immediately.

        And with Elaine it was just played so perfectly to her character. “Maybe a dingo ate your baby.” “Whaaat?”

        “I said: Maybe… A Dingo… Ate… Your Baby.” Followed by a self-satisfied nod to acknowledge her zinger. She so clearly thought she had just won a dance contest and everyone else in the room was just WTF.

        Sorry for the recap, but it was such a great Elaine moment. Beautiful, well educated, but sometimes just an unhinged sociopath.