Spoons of course! What else would one use (not solely, but mainly) to dig a way out of the city in order to escort the highly illegal alien from their home. For the uneducated or just unlucky I am of course referring to Monsters Inc. I’m not entirely sure why, but ever since I heard Mike Wazowski  (the one eyed green pea) utter the immortal line “I think I have plan here – using mainly spoons we dig a tunnel under the city and release it into the wild” it has stayed with me as one of the finest movie lines of all time. In my opinion its right up there with Rutger Hauer’s “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe….” dialogue from the glorious Bladerunner.

I think what I like about it is the fact that it’s only mainly spoons – we don’t find out what other item (or indeed items) might be used to supplement the sturdy dessert shifting tool. Perhaps, on assumption of it being in close proximity to the spoon, it might be a pastry fork which would surely be useful to get through any tougher items on account of the prongs and the slight blade like design on one of the prongs (someone please tell me there are left and right bladed pastry forks and even double sided ones out there, because things like that also make me smile) or maybe the dessert or breakfast bowl itself would be a better companion for the spoon? Once the spoon has done the hard work, the bowl just swoops in moves great swathes of material away and takes credit for having the biggest impact despite only being the partly member of the partly and mainly parts of the digging team.

Anyway, all is in vain and Mike’s elaborate plan collapses like a poorly conceived Victoria sponge with the utterance by Sully (the big blue fluffy one) of the single word “Spoons”.

So, the moral appears to be that  a partially developed escape plan involving a single item of stainless steel cutlery is doomed from the outset. Thankfully though, with this experience in mind I’ve never had any tunnel excavation plans suffer the same fate!