"Say a man and a woman both need something to sleep in and both go to the same men's pajama department. The man says to the salesman, I just need bottoms, and the woman says, I just need a top. They look at each other and that's the meet-cute."
Here are a couple of my favorite meet-cutes:
It Happened One Night throws runaway heiress Ellie (Claudette Colbert) and world-weary ex-reporter Peter (Clark Gable) together in a dispute over the last seat on a bus.
In The Boatniks, Ensign Tom Garland (Robert Morse), a polite but remarkably clumsy fellow is transferred to a southern California marina area. His first encounter with Kate Fairchild (Stefanie Powers), who runs a local boat rental and sailing school, involves dumping an entire can of yellow paint all over her.
Jennifer Nelson (Doris Day) thinks Bruce Templeton (Rod Taylor) is a weirdo following her around - until she realizes that he is really her boss, in The Glass Bottom Boat.
And possibly my all-time favorite is from Return to Me. Bob Reuland finds an excuse to return to a restaurant in hopes of seeing the waitress he met during a discussion about "an imported Swiss water". When they finally (offically) meet, she's in her bathrobe and shower cap and he's been rooked into quite a game of poker.
What are some of your favorite meet-cutes?
