AOL: So Slow
My wife and I went to see the movie “The Stepford Wives” tonight since I decided to let her choose which movie we'd see. It definitely fell into the “chick flick“ category in my mind, but there was this one moment that made me glad I had sat through it.
During one scene, in which the Stepford husbands reveal that they are all former employees at major technology companies, the camera pans around the room as you hear, “Microsoft...NASA...Disney...AOL...”
just then Nicole Kidman's character interrupts to ask, “AOL? Is that why these women are so slow?”
I thought to myself, “Now there's a joke you just couldn't come up with without experiencing AOL.”
Kudos to whoever put that into the script.