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*In the show ''[[Arrested Development]]'', one episode includes a joke where a group of kids are telling a version of this story, when Buster (who, if you are not familiar with the show, had one hand bitten off by an escaped seal, and had the hand replaced with a hook) stumbles out of the brush, his hook-hand glinting in the firelight. Then, after the kids run away in terror, he looks at his hand then looks up to the sky and screams '''"I'm a monster!!!"''' (One of the numerous running jokes within the show). |
*In the show ''[[Arrested Development]]'', one episode includes a joke where a group of kids are telling a version of this story, when Buster (who, if you are not familiar with the show, had one hand bitten off by an escaped seal, and had the hand replaced with a hook) stumbles out of the brush, his hook-hand glinting in the firelight. Then, after the kids run away in terror, he looks at his hand then looks up to the sky and screams '''"I'm a monster!!!"''' (One of the numerous running jokes within the show). |
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*[[Ernest P. Worrell]] ([[Jim Varney]]) tells a slightly altered version of the story to some camp kids in the movie [[Ernest Goes to Camp]]. |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
Revision as of 15:21, 23 May 2009
- "The Hook" is also a nickname for the Islamic preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri.
The Hook is a classic example of an urban legend. The basic premise involves a young couple parked at a dark lovers' lane. The radio plays music as the couple make out. The music is interrupted by an announcer who reports that a serial killer has just escaped an institution which is nearby. The killer has a hook in place of one of his hands. For varying reasons they decide to leave quickly. The legend ends with the discovery of the killers hook attached to the outside handle of one of the doors. Many variations include the sound of scraping on the car door.
References to this legend have been found from at least the 1960s.[1]
References in Popular Culture
- The tale is told in the slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer (film), by the group of teen protagonists. The killer of the film also uses a hook as a weapon.
- Bill Murray's character tells the story in the 1979 movie Meatballs
- Season 1 episode 7 of the television show Supernatural used the Hookman lore.
- In the Daria episode "Legends of the Mall" a similar story is told with the psychopath replaced by a disgruntled shop teacher and the hook with a pair of hand-forged steel dentures.
- In the show Arrested Development, one episode includes a joke where a group of kids are telling a version of this story, when Buster (who, if you are not familiar with the show, had one hand bitten off by an escaped seal, and had the hand replaced with a hook) stumbles out of the brush, his hook-hand glinting in the firelight. Then, after the kids run away in terror, he looks at his hand then looks up to the sky and screams "I'm a monster!!!" (One of the numerous running jokes within the show).
- Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) tells a slightly altered version of the story to some camp kids in the movie Ernest Goes to Camp.