Just like this
“Boy, if life were only like this”
The “Marshall Mcluhan scene” is popular enough for YouTube to suggest it whenever I type “Annie Hall” into its search bar. The scene is funny/memorable in its original pre-internet 1970s context but is much more interesting now, in our world of wikipedia and smart phones. The irony is that ubiquitous internet access actually has given us the ability to (ok, figuratively) pull Marshall Mcluhan into the scene and refute neighboring loudmouths (and, by extension, salve our own neuroses (maybe?)). The “boy, if life were only like this” wish that Woody Allen makes with the audience has been fulfilled thanks largely to the media environment that Marshall Mcluhan predicted.
