Daily Dialogue — March 29, 2012

Cher: We got another notice from the fire department saying we have to clear out that bush. You said you’d get Jose to do it.

Lucy: He your gardener, why you don’t tell him?

Cher: Lucy, you know I don’t speak Mexican.

Lucy: I not a Mexican!

Lucy storms off.

Cher: Great, what was that all about?

Josh: Lucy’s from El Salvador.

Cher: So?

Josh: It’s an entirely different country.

Cher: What does that matter?

Josh: You get upset if someone thinks you live below Sunset.

— Cher (Alicia Silverstone), Josh (Paul Rudd), Clueless (1995), written by Amy Heckerling

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is snark, suggested by Gabe. Today’s suggestion by Teddy Pasternak.

Trivia: The films that Christian watches on video with Cher — Some Like It Hot and Spartacus provide clues to his sexual orientation. The first movie deals with cross-dressing men. The second includes the famous scene where a Roman master (Laurence Olivier) tries to seduce his male servant (Tony Curtis).

Dialogue On Dialogue: One key to snark is exaggeration which we see at work here.