Daily Dialogue — August 30, 2018

Ted Kramer: [while Billy brings ice cream to the table] You go right back and put that right back until you finish your dinner… I’m warning you, you take one bite out of that and you are in big trouble. Don’t… Hey! Don’t you dare… Don’t you DARE do that. You hear me? Hold it right there! You put that ice cream in your mouth and you are in very, very, VERY big trouble. Don’t you dare go anywhere beyond that… Put it down right now. I am not going to say it again. I am NOT going to say it AGAIN.

Billy eats ice cream. Ted grabs him.

Billy Kramer: Ow! You’re hurting me!
Ted Kramer: Ow! Don’t you kick me!
Billy Kramer: I hate you!
Ted Kramer: You’re no bargain either, pal! You are a spoiled, rotten little brat and I’ll tell you right now…
Billy Kramer: I hate you!
Ted Kramer: And I hate you back, you little shit!
Billy Kramer: I want my mommy!
Ted Kramer: I’m all you got.

— Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), screenplay by Avery Corman, novel by Avery Corman

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Ice Cream.

Trivia: In the famous “fight scene” where Ted and Billy fight over the ice cream, the flavor is chocolate-chocolate-chip. This is the exact same flavor that Dustin Hoffman brings to his date with Teri Garr, in Tootsie (1982).

Dialogue On Dialogue: This is a key scene in the movie, perhaps the lowest of the low moments in the relationship between father and son… and at the center of the scene is ice cream.