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They're ....DANCING!!!!

Who was she with?

Danny Terrio...of Dance USA

where Michael Caine announces he is getting married and Ruperict just says: 'Really!!!', and starts knocking the vases off the mantle piece. That bit just cracks me up!

When the butler says 'May i take your trident sir?'

and of course when Ruperict says 'Can i go to the bathroom?'


Probably the last genuinely funny film that Steve Martin made!




'left alone, in the dark, seeking out your lost soul.....'

When Ruprect is introduced to Lawrence's future wives
Ruprect: Mother?
Lawrence: No Ruprect - not Mother.
Ruprect: Not Mother?

Whe sitting at the dining table wearing an eye patch and holding a fork with a cork on the end "to stop him from harming himself" stabs himself in the eye.


Comic genius. As for as I'm concerned the Ruprect and Lawrence sequence makes the film.

Hey! - Killer boots man

I loved the line when Lawrence appears in Freddy's hotel room as "Dr. Schuffhausen."

"We'll take him back to my villa and I will really go to work on him." Also, the evil glare after he says it - it's one of my favorite scenes from ANY movie.

Also,

"To have an affair - zat eez French, to be caught, zat eez American!"

Freddy: I've got culture coming out of my ass!

Lawrence: Do you ever have a single thought that originates from above the waist?
Freddy: No!

"Welcome to Hell."

Freddy: As my Gram-Gram used to say, it is better to be truthful and good....than to not.

Freddy: Oooooh, LADY Fanny from Omaha.

Lawrence: She doesn't have the money.
Freddy: She does have the money.
Lawrence: Only by selling off everything she owns.
Freddy: Well, she's keeping the mink!

Freddy (moaning & laying in the hall): I heard the music so I pulled myself up the stairs and dragged myself down the hall. And here you are.....DANCING!!!!!

(Freddy banging pots and yelling "Oklahoma, Oklahoma...")
Lawrence: Ruprect will just love Oklahoma! Lots of open spaces for him to run.

Lawrence: Do you remeber what happened when Uncle Ted came to visit?
(Ruprecht puts on a rubber glove and applies lube)
Lawrence: Noooooo. After that. We apologize.

Freddy: James Jessington! Forrest Lawrenceton! Lawrence Jesturton!
(stomps foot in frustration)

Some of those are paraphrased, but close. I love this movie! I ran to watch it in the threater after I saw the trailer, (where Steve Martin pushes an old lady into the water). A few years later, I turned my dad on to this movie and he absolutely loved it. Both this movie and The Jerk are 2 movies I will always remember watching countless times with my father, rolling in laughter. Good stuff!

Lawrence: Do you ever have an emotion that originates above the waist?
Freddie: ...No!

"Take the boat, swear to me, never to tell. The secret you know, of the Angel in Hell."

Okay, seriously, best line ever-

"To be with another woman, that is French; to be caught, that is American." Said with the appropriate amount of French disgust for the dumb American scoundrel, there just isn't a more classic line in the move.

Everything our parents said was good is bad- sun, milk, red meat, college.-- Annie Hall