Saturday, January 5, 2008

"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die"

Steve and I have started watching Criminal Minds. It's this really cool show about the a team of profilers at the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) at Quantico, Virginia. We started watching at the end of season two and have watched all of season three so far. So in order to catch up on the back story and all that, we Netflixed seasons one and two. We just finished watching season two when I decided to look up the actors on imdb.com, internet movie database. It also list tv shows, video games, broadway, pretty much everything that is entertainment. Most of the actors have been on other tv shows and a few had big movies that we had actually seen. The one big surprise is that of the actor who plays Jason Gideon in season one, two and part of three, Mandy Patinkin. He was in a movie that we have all seen. And we have all used his quote one time or another. If you haven't figured it out yet, let this help you out.

That's right. Mandy Parinkin played Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride. We couldn't believe it. How could this old guy play one of the coolest Spaniards there ever was? Parinkin has the weird smile that he did a lot on Criminal Minds that reminded us of someone, but we could never put our finger on it. It wasn't until I went through the list on imdb that it all made sense. Inigo Montoy did the same type of smile. And when we thought about it, Steve could see the resemblance, where I could hear the voices of Inigo Montoy and Jason Gideon as the same. So today we are going to watch The Pricess Bride so we can see Parinkin play our favorite Spaniard. Too bad Parinkin left Criminal Minds, he was probably my favorite character on the show. It's a really good show that everyone should start watching. If you like CSI or Law and Order or any other crime type show, then you'll like this show. And rent, if you can, seasons one and two so you can see Mandy Parinkin as Jason Gideon and to see for yourself if you can see Inigo Montoy at all in Parinkin. 

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