Des McGrath: Group social life has its place, but at a certain point other biological factors come into play. Our bodies weren't really designed for group social life. A certain amount of pairing off was always part of the original plan. (unknown)
Tom Platt: Actually, there's one theory that the environmental movement of our day was sparked by the rerelease of Bambi in the late 1950s. (unknown)
Alice Kinnon: There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. (unknown)
Ted Boynton: Barcelona is beautiful but in human terms, pretty cold. (unknown)
Des McGrath: I have a gay mouth? (unknown)
Jimmy: There's something deeply ingrained in human biology: women prefer bad over weak and indecisive... and unemployed
Josh Neff: I don't know about that.
Jimmy: You think they do prefer weak, indecisive, and unemployed? (unknown)
Des McGrath: [to Josh] Are you taking your medication? (unknown)
Des McGrath: I'm not an addict. I'm a habitual user. (unknown)
Jimmy: [to Alice] There's no chance of you getting infatuated with me again, is there? (unknown)
[Josh describes Lady and the Tramp]
Josh Neff: [referring to Lady and the Tramp] There is something depressing about it, and it's not really about dogs. Except for some superficial bow-wow stuff at the start, the dogs all represent human types, which is where it gets into real trouble. Lady, the ostensible protagonist, is a fluffy blond Cocker Spaniel with absolutely nothing on her brain. She's great-looking, but - let's be honest - incredibly insipid. Tramp, the love interest, is a smarmy braggart of the most obnoxious kind - an oily jailbird out for a piece of tail, or... whatever he can get.
Charlotte Pingress: Oh, come on.
Josh Neff: No, he's a self-confessed chicken thief, and all-around sleazeball. What's the function of a film of this kind? Essentially as a primer on love and marriage directed at very young people, imprinting on their little psyches the idea that smooth-talking delinquents recently escaped from the local pound are a good match for nice girls from sheltered homes. When in ten years the icky human version of Tramp shows up around the house, their hormones will be racing and no one will understand why. Films like this program women to adore jerks. (unknown)
Des McGrath: Yuppie stands for "young upwardly mobile professional". Nightclub flunkie is not a professional category. I wish we were yuppies. Young, upwardly mobile, professional. Those are *good* things, not bad things. (unknown)
Bernie Rafferty: So you don't know anything about this investigation.
Des McGrath: No!... Well, a sort of *acquaintance* of mine who now works in Morgenthau's office approached me, but... I didn't tell him anything.
Bernie Rafferty: You didn't tell me about that.
Des McGrath: I didn't think it was important, it only just happened.
Bernie Rafferty: When?
Des McGrath: Tonight - just now.
Bernie Rafferty: Why did you use the past perfect, then?
Des McGrath: I used the past perfect?
Bernie Rafferty: Yeah: "I was approached." It sounds like a while ago. (unknown)
Alice Kinnon: I'm sorry, I don't consider the guy who did the Spiderman comics a serious writer. (unknown)
Alice Kinnon: I think it's much better to wait until things happen naturally. Forcing things never works.
Charlotte Pingress: That's not true. Forcing things usually works beautifully. (unknown)
Jimmy: That's like something out of the Nazis! (unknown)
Alice Kinnon: That's odd he knew I drank vodka tonics. I never told him.
Des McGrath: It's uncanny.
Alice Kinnon: You mean it's a complete cliché? All women recent college graduates drink vodka tonics, or something like that?
Des McGrath: Well, maybe. (unknown)
Charlotte Pingress: [to Dan] What if in a few years we don't marry some corporate lawyer? What if we marry some meatball, like you? Or not you, personally, but someone with similarly low socioeconomic prospects. (unknown)
Charlotte Pingress: It's really important there be more group social life. Not just all this ferocious pairing off. (unknown)
Des McGrath: [indicating Van] I tease him a *little* bit...
Bernie Rafferty: No teasing, Des.
Des McGrath: No *teasing*? (unknown)
Des McGrath: Do yuppies even exist? No one says, "I am a yuppie," it's always the other guy who's a yuppie. I think for a group to exist, somebody has to admit to be part of it.
Dan Powers: Of course yuppies exist. Most people would say you two are prime specimens. (unknown)
Charlotte Pingress: You're not fit to lick the boots of my real gay friends.
Des McGrath: Well, I don't *want* to lick the boots of your real gay friends. (unknown)
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