> > Maybe the reason you never noticed it before is because it never happened before; maybe someone added it to the script after watching too many episodes of 'Wallace and Grommit'... :o)
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> > Paul
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> Yes, I'm sure that's what they did. It's a fairly common thing it seems, to switch or replace humor in plays/musicals/operettas with local inside jokes. Almost every musical I've ever been involved with has done it.

The line about cheese was actually in the original libretto of Annie (I was in a production of it many years ago). I think it was taken out of the movie, because it does sound kind of weird and out of place. Maybe the writer was a bit obsessed?

ding"where's the crackers?"dong