i think the movie reference in southpark’s most recent two-parter is pretty obvious.
however, if you haven’t seen either the cloverfield movie or the respective southpark episodes, here’s the juxtaposition:

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courtesy of doug savage, savagechickens.com

this may be an old one, but i still have to laugh everytime i stumble across it.

another good one

remember the old hot&cold days?
on the top of zugspitze, larry had the idea of doing both in one photo:

markus, anton, cindy, larry - hot & cold on zugspitze

people usually stared when we did hot&cold in the past, but this time, at +1 degree centigrade with notable winds, some obviously thought we were completely insane.

i’m not sure why, but dating seems to be an integral part of dendrochronology. ;-)

a few days ago, two english-speaking friends family, a friend and i drove back up from bolzano towards innsbruck, and not too long after we crossed the austrian border¹, we got pulled over by a police car - including emergency vehicle lighting and a hand stuck out of the window in front of us, pointing to the exit we should take.

here’s the short dialogue that emerged:

police officer: sind sie gerade aus dem (raststätten-)parkplatz mit vollgas herausgefahren und haben uns geschnitten?
(roughly: did you just cut in front of us when you left the car park at full speed?)

larry: erm... do you speak english?

police officer: yes, (speaking more loudly:) YOU DRIVE OUT PARK PLACE?

that was about the time i used my german language skills to ask what was going on and explain that we weren’t the ones they were looking for.

as larry later put it, the officer probably thought that the question was "can you say some english words in no particular order, please?"

while the austrian branch of spar supermarkets is the country’s first grocery store that (1) lets you do self-checkout, (2) gives cashback and - most importantly - (3) accepts credit cards, ikea apparently tries to further decrease accommodation costs by dealing with the cause, not the symptoms:

i’m not kidding: this was taken in an ikea restroom just two days ago.