The other night I was battling insomnia by watching the 1964 Hammer Film The Gorgon. About half way through, a dying character bids farewell to his manservant with a heartfelt “Goodbye Hans”.
Around that time I had to stop watching. Bathroom break or cat fight or something. Maybe the wife woke up and I chatted with her for a bit. When I went back to my Nook HD to finish the movie I had lost my place. So I watched a different movie Seven Psychopaths, a black comedy released on Crowleymas 2012. I know of no reason for these two movies to have anything in common. Yet at one point, maybe halfway through, a character who is about to die turns to her reflection in the window and says, “Goodbye Hans”.
Turns out Christopher Walken’s character’s first name was Hans, a fact that I never paid attention to until then. Quite a cute little bit of coincidence but I have not run into that phrase since.