I don't know if this has been discussed before, so I apologize in advance if this is "old hat." But I was talking to my friend's mother a few weeks ago. My friend had taped the Godfather Saga for me in Sept. His mother made me laugh when she said, "Wasn't that awful when they were shooting those people on the church steps during the baby's baptism?"

I said to her, "Margaret [not her real name; I'm protecting her privacy ], none of those shootings took place near the church. They all took place elsewhere while scenes from the baby's baptism were intercut among them. The scene you're thinking of was the murder of mob boss Barzini, which took place outside a court house." My friend had to corroborate before she would believe me .

This leads me to pose this question: The first time you (or someone you know or heard about) saw any of the Godfather movies, did you (or they) misinterpret a scene and think that something totally different was going on? This can get especially humorous if you (or someone else) first saw the movie(s) when you were very young (teen or pre-teen), since the finer plot points could at first be missed.

Or did you hear about someone having a really funny (or laughably strange) explanation or theory for something that happened in the film(s)?

The funnier the better... and you don't have to use real names (to save your friends and acquaintances from embarrassment )