Daily Dialogue — August 25, 2012

George: I’ll tell you what I’m doing. I want to buy eight hot dogs and eight hot dog buns to go with them. But no one sells eight hot dog buns. They only sell twelve hot dog buns. So I end up paying for four buns I don’t need. So I am removing the superfluous buns. Yeah. And you want to know why? Because some big-shot over at the wiener company got together with some big-shot over at the bun company and decided to rip off the American public. Because they think the American public is a bunch of trusting nit-wits who will pay for everything they don’t need rather than make a stink. Well, they’re not ripping of this nitwit anymore because I’m not paying for one more thing I don’t need. George Banks is saying NO!
Stock Boy: Who’s George Banks?
George: ME!

— George (Steve Martin), Stock Boy , Father of the Bride (1991), screenplay by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett and Nancy Myers & Charles Shyer

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is comic set piece, suggested by Shaula Evans. Today’s suggestion by David Proenza.

Trivia: George’s middle name, Stanley, is named after Spencer Tracy’s character in the original Father of the Bride.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A small set piece, but a big moment where the Protagonist has reached their boiling point. Compare this to the famous F-word scene by Steve Martin in Planes, Trains & Automobiles.