Daily Dialogue — April 8, 2015

WILBUR: Lewis, I told you to stay in the garage!
LEWIS: I did, but I went up the tube, and I ran into your family, and I…
WILBUR: You met my family?

Scene changes to dark room. Wilbur pulls string to light single hanging bulb.

WILBUR: Pop quiz. Who have you met, and what have you learnt?
LEWIS: Okay. Bud, Fritz and Joe are brothers. Fritz is married to Petunia, and is she…
WILBUR: Cranky? Yes.
LEWIS: Tallulah and Laszlo are their children. Joe is married to Billie. Lefty is the butler. Spike and Dimitri are twins, and I don’t know who they’re related to.
WILBUR: Neither do we. Go on.
LEWIS: Lucille is married to Bud, and your dad, Cornelius, is their son. What does Cornelius look like?
WILBUR: Tom Selleck.
LEWIS: Okay, Cornelius is married to Franny, and her brothers are Gaston and Art.
WILBUR: You’re forgetting something.
LEWIS: Forgetting? Oh, right. Wilbur is the son of Franny and Cornelius.
WILBUR: And nobody realized you were from the past?
LEWIS: Nope.
WILBUR: Whew.
LEWIS: Thank you. Thank you. Hold your applause. Thank you very much.

— Meet the Robinsons (2007), screenplay by Jon Bernstein, Michelle Bochner, Don Hall, Nathan Greno, Aurian Redson, Joseph Mateo, Stephen J. Anderson

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Interrogation. Today’s suggestion by Will King.

Trivia: Based on a book called “A Day With Wilbur Robinson”.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Will: “A delightful spoof of the blacked-out room interrogation scene. The joke the animators pull here is when Lewis asks what Cornelius looks like and Wilbur tells him he looks like Tom Selleck, so the empty picture frame suddenly fills with Selleck’s life-like portrait (the only real-life image in the entire film). In actuality, Selleck voices Cornelius.”

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