Daily Dialogue — July 28, 2010

“Don’t you mean the ‘virgin’ Connie Swail?”

 — Pep Streeback (Tom Hanks), Dragnet (1987), written by Dan Aykroyd and Alan Zweibel and Tom Mankiewicz

The Daily Dialogue theme this week is notable last lines. Dragnet suggested by @MissLA15 on Twitter.

Trivia: In real life, Dan Aykroyd is a huge fan of Jack Webb, the original Joe Friday, and as a tribute to him Aykroyd gives many of his characters the ability to spit out complex technical jargon the way Joe Friday recites laws and police procedures. Examples are in Ghost Busters (1984) (when Ray Stanz “orders” the demi-god Zuul to leave New York), The Blues Brothers (1980) (when Elwood describes the specifications of the “Bluesmobile”), and 1941 (1979) (when he explains the function of the anti-aircraft gun to Ned Beatty).

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