Daily Dialogue — April 3, 2012

Katzenberg: Let me tell you something, Mr Death…

Grim Reaper: You do not understand!

Katzenberg: Just one moment. I would like to express on behalf of everyone here, what a really unique experience this is…

Jeremy: Hear hear.

Angela: Yes, we’re so delighted that you dropped in, Mr Death…

Katzenberg: Can I finish please…

Debbie: Mr Death… is there an after-life?

Katzenberg: Dear, if you could just wait please a moment…

Angela: Are you sure you wouldn’t like some sherry?

Katzenberg: Angela, I’d like just to say at this time…

Grim Reaper: Be quiet!

Katzenberg: Can I just say this at this time, please…

Grim Reaper: Silence!!! I have come for you.

[Pause as this sinks in. Sidelong glance. A stifled fart.]

Angela: … You mean to…

Grim Reaper: … Take you away. That is my purpose. I am Death.

Geoffrey: Well that’s cast rather a gloom over the evening hasn’t it?

Katzenberg: I don’t see it that way, Geoff. Let me tell you what I think we’re dealing with here, a potentially positive learning experience…

Grim Reaper: Shut up! Shut up you American. You always talk, you Americans, you talk and you talk and say ‘Let me tell you something’ and ‘I just wanna say this’. Well, you’re dead now,
so shut up.

— Katzenberg (Terry Gilliam), Jeremy (Simon Jones), Angela (Eric Idle), Debbie (Michael Palin), Grim Reaper (John Cleese)

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is facing death, suggested by @tiffanyleigh and @al_grinter. Today’s suggestion by Mike Boles.

Trivia: This movie has grown to folklore status in my marriage. Being a huge Monty Python fan, I wanted to see The Meaning of Life, but my wife convinced me to see The Hunger instead. Hated it. So I dragged her back to the theater the next night to make recompense for her egregious error in judgment. And I’ve never let her forget it!

Dialogue On Dialogue: That last side is one of my favorite all-time bits of Python dialogue. I mean how can you not love, “Well, you’re dead now, so shut up!”

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