18 WTF Moments From 2017's Summer Blockbusters

7. The Monsters Inc. Reference - Baby Driver

Baby Driver Jamie Foxx Kevin Spacey Edgar Wright Flea
TriStar Pictures

Early on in Edgar Wright's electric heist thriller, Baby (Ansel Elgort) is seen watching a snippet of Monsters, Inc. on TV, and when his antsy boss Doc (Kevin Spacey) gets angry at one point, Baby recalls a classic line from the film, telling him, "You and I are a team."

Baby then tries this a second time near the end of the movie, but this time Doc catches him and calls him out on it, shouting, "Don't feed me any more lines from 'Monsters, Inc.' It p***es me off!"

Though few probably expected to hear anyone quoting Mike Wazowski in an Edgar Wright movie, the payoff was absolutely hilarious and didn't seem remotely forced or desperate as pop-culture references so frequently do.

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