A day usually does not pass here at BWE.tv headquarters without at least one Coming to America reference popping up in regular conversation. Whether it be me running my finger along the brim of Blagg’s fedora and saying “This is beautiful! What is that, velvet?”, or, more often, feeling myself bombing at one of our afternoon meetings and quickly segueing with “And while you’re all in the clapping mood…”, the movie has truly wormed its way into our everyday lexicon.

Which is why we were nothing short of FLABBERGASTED following last night’s heart-stopping (literally, it was -24 degrees) football game between the Giants of New York and the Packers of Green Bay, as the game’s outcome had, in fact, been predicted nearly 20 years earlier by noneotherthan the Prince of Zamunda himself, Akeem.

In case the video doesn’t work, here is the transcript:

Prince Akeem: Sir, did you happen to catch the professional football contest on television last night?
Cleo McDowell: No, I didn’t.
Prince Akeem: Oh sir, the Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. And in the end, the Giants triumphed by kicking an oblong ball made of pigskin through a big “H”. It was a most ripping victory.
Cleo McDowell: Son.
Prince Akeem: Yes?
Cleo McDowell: If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs.
Prince Akeem: Yes.

Seriously, what are the odds?

BONUS MARTIN LUTHER KING RELATED COMING TO AMERICA QUOTE:

Clarence: “Yeah, I met Dr. Martin Luther King in 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee. I’m walkin’ down the street, mindin’ my own business, just walkin’ along, feelin’ good. I walk around a corner. A man walk up, hit me in my chest, right? I fall on the ground, right? And I look up, and it’s Dr. Martin Luther King! I said, ‘Dr. King!’ He said, ‘Whoops, I thought you was somebody else.’” (Click here to listen)

And after the jump: Proof that Roger Ebert is the worst movie critic of our times… he gave Coming to America a THUMBS DOWN.

And now, in the words of Patrice McDowell, “Bah-ye!”