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Monday, February 24, 2014 at 4:16PM "Deliver me from L.L.Bean!"
As an iconic description of upper-class and upper-middle-class life in America, the 'L.L.Bean' culture has been described as "nothing less than Preppy Mecca." The verbal disdain spewed out about this classic kind of Americana lifestyle is hilariously depicted in the 1988 comedy movie 'Beetlejuice'. It's an ultra-zany story of rural couple Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara Maitland (Geena Davis), who accidentally get killed and witness a tasteless couple moving into their house, who they can't scare out as they don't see them, forcing them to hire "bio-exorcist" Beetle Juice (Michael Keaton) to rid them from their house.
A memorable scene unfolded as this tasteless couple's equally tackless interior decorator was opening a door while seeing one of the rooms and is absolutely aghast at the preppy decor while disgustedly blurting out, "Deliver me from LL.Bean!"--that saying has earned a well deserved place in memorable Hollywood funny lines.
"Deliver me from LL.Bean!" is the ultimate catch-all descriptive for anything tacky or over-the-top--a perfect way to say "UGH!".
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