That's funny

My car died as well last week, leaving us down to one rental car for the family. It's back in working condition, but stress has been a little high. The other night Mark and I were discussing how much we should spend on a new car, when all of a sudden, Ethan commented, "money, money, money...", in the same ironic intonation people usually use with this phrase. Shocked (since we didn't know he even understood anything of what we were talking about), we looked over at him, burst out laughing and asked him where he had learned this completely appropriate phrase for the situation. Turns out Mr. Potato Head says it during the hold-up in the opening scene of Toy Story, after the piggy bank has been turned upside down.

We went to the DeCordova art museum last Sunday. Ethan did not like it at all. He kept protesting "That's funny! That's funny!" Now this is not at all what it might sound like. He's taken the phrase "Than's not funny" which is what we say to him when we're trying to get ready and he's laughing and being uncooperative, and transformed it into "That's funny" meaning something he's mad about. I think he just didn't hear the 'not' part of the phrase, but I'm not entirely sure on the origins of this phrase, which ironically, is indeed quite funny.