Seems Merchant Ivory plagiarized a Jack Benny joke

 

Seems Merchant Ivory plagiarized a Jack Benny joke 1/2 pic.twitter.com/ab7K1bnYzR

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) November 6, 2020

Anthony Hopkins 's character is trying to explain the birds and the bees 🐝🐦 to Hugh Grant 's character - who protests that he's more interested in fish 🐠 pic.twitter.com/VzLPhIrEel

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) November 6, 2020

Jack Benny asks Dennis Day - after he mixes up male & female fish 🐠 -whether his parents ever taught him anything about life . Dennis answers yes - just the birds & bees but not about fish pic.twitter.com/czEx8ufGOa

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) November 6, 2020