Wesley: A few more steps, and we will be safe in the Fire Swamp.

Buttercup: We’ll never survive.

Wesley: Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.

[Later after some adventures in the fire swamp.]

Buttercup: We’ll never succeed. We may as well die here.

Wesley: No. No, we have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the fire spurt. No problem. There’s a popping sound preceding each. We can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand. But you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.

Buttercup: Wesley, what about the R.O.U.S.s?

Wesley: Rodents of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist.

The Princess Bride, movie edition

A Pittsburgh area family must have seen The Princess Bride.

Headline Tribune-Review: Popping sounds scare off family

When they started hearing popping sounds in their house, they didn’t wait around for the R.O.U.S.s to show up. Thankfully they didn’t fall into any lightning sand as they fled.