Not everyone in my household had seen the Da Vinci Code movie, so it was recently rented, and I caught a couple lines in the background.

There is one unintentionally funny line right in the middle. Tom Hanks and the lovely Audrey Tautou are fleeing across Paris. Tension is high. Suddenly, Tom Hanks realizes he needs help with a clue. He looks up and exclaims:

“Get me to a library!”

Naturally, the filmmakers exorcised the library scene from the film (though it’s in the book). They knew that inserting a library scene would murder the movie as surely as curator Jacques Sauniere was laid out at the Louvre. High drama doesn’t go with the Dewey Decimal system.

Still, I’d like more thrillers to stop in the middle and have the characters shout out similar comments.

“No, please – please – I’d like some quiet time!”

“Wait! Oh no! I think I left the casserole in the oven!”

“Oh God we can’t go on! I need to…go play some golf!”