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Local sketch comedy group Meg and Rob

, also starring Rick "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" Moranis. Phillyist re-watched the movie recently and were struck by two things: (1) It's exactly as funny as we remembered it being. (2) Despite the funny, it's beginning to show its age. Case in point, a dialogue between Vinnie (Martin) and the manager of a supermarket. On his way out, the manager asks if Vinnie has any suggestions for things he'd like to see the store carry:

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For the rest of the month, we’ll be quoting Irving Berlin, the Jewish-American composer who, oddly enough, composed the music to . This week’s quote comes from the song “Choreography” in that well-loved Christmas classic. We chose it because, even though it’s December, we’re not exactly ready to celebrate the holiday season. Now, on with the listings!

This week, we’re starting something new. You see, we’ve just about run out of generic quotes about theatre to use for headlines, and the few times we’ve used less common quotes, we’ve had a few people contact us in rather a lot of confusion. So, we’re going to begin explaining the more, er, “in-quotes,” right here. If you’ve got any theatre-related quotes you’d like us to use, e-mail the quote, play/song, and context to us (contact info is at the end of each week’s listings), and we’ll be happy to use it sometime. This week, we begin with . The headline quote comes from Edmund’s monologue in 1.2; in it, Edmund has decided to ruin his family so that he can claim his half brother's inheritance. Good times are subsequently had by all. Now, on with the listings!

For those of you in town this weekend, recovered from the excess and debauchery of Thanksgiving dinner and nonplussed by the prospect of standing in line for a sold-out movie, why not come up to Northern Liberties to join the folks at Art Star as they celebrate the gallery-boutique's one-year anniversary? The joint venture of Tyler grads Erin Waxman and Megan Brewster, Art Star always provides at least a few things you didn't see last time-- or anywhere else in Philly. And the store's website promises "plenty of food, drinks, music and fun," which sounds a damn sight better than seeing Steve Martin humiliate himself in more family-friendly cinematic dreck.