Daily Dialogue — August 25, 2015

JAKE: Oh, please, don’t kill us! Please, please don’t kill us! You know I love you baby. I wouldn’t leave ya. It wasn’t my fault!
MYSTERY WOMAN: You miserable slug. You think you can talk your way out of this? You betrayed me.
JAKE: No, I didn’t. Honest…I ran out of gas. I had a flat tire. I…I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts! IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GAAAAWWWWWWWDDDDDD!

— The Blues Brothers (1980), written by Dan Aykroyd, John Landis

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

Trivia: The line, “They broke my watch!” occurs three times in the film, each time spoken or voiced over by a policeman on the losing end of a car chase with the Blues Brothers. The first line is in the shopping mall, the second is in the rollover ditch, and the third is in the pile-up under the elevated train line. The broken-watch theme starts when Jake’s broken watch is returned to him when he is released from prison at the beginning of the film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: I don’t know about you, but when confronted by a rifle-toting mad-woman, I’ve been reduced to hysterics a time or two myself.