Daily Dialogue — November 14, 2014

Pam Byrnes: I had no idea you could milk a cat!
Greg Focker: Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
Jack Byrnes: [He reacts] I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me?

— Meet the Parents (2000), screenplay by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg, story by Greg Glienna & Mary Ruth Clarke

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Embarrassing Moment.

Trivia: Writer Jerry Stahl, whom Ben Stiller portrayed in Permanent Midnight (1998), co-wrote the “cat milking” scene.

Dialogue On Dialogue: First, there’s the whole cat-milking moment. But then the champagne cork hits the urn with Grandma’s ashes. And then the cat thinks the ashes are a litter box. That’s building comedy upon comedy upon comedy… and all of it embarrassing.

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