Would You Eat a Worm for Your Cause?

What is it about swallowing bugs that is so darn funny? One of my favorite movie scenes of all times is the uppity socialite Joanna Stayton (Goldie Hawn) riding in the back of good ol’ boy Dean Proffitt’s (Kurt Russell) pickup truck in the movie “Overboard” and declaring with her upper-crust elocution, “I just … ate … a bug.”