Daily Dialogue — June 15, 2014

Peppers: She’s a beauty, ain’t she?
Frank: Yeah, what kind of gun is this?
Peppers: It’s a tranquilizer gun. If any of these little fuckers decide to freak out on the kids, I get to take them down. Ain’t that right? [yank’s on the mule’s reigns] Oh, what? That’s what I thought. Shut up.

Frank cocks the gun.

Peppers: Hey, hey. Careful with that. That’s the most powerful tranq gun on the market. Got her in Mexico.
Frank: Cool.
Peppers: Yeah, it is cool. They say it can puncture the skin of a rhino from…

Frank shoots himself in the neck with the dart.

Peppers: YES! That’s awesome!
Frank: What?
Peppers: You just took one in the jugular, man.
Frank: What? I did.

Feeling his neck.

Peppers: YES!
Frank: Oh, my God. Is this bad? Is this bad?
Peppers: You better pull that shit out, man. That shit is not cool.
Frank: Wait. What? Pull what out?
Peppers: You got a fucking dart in your neck, man.
Frank: [laughing] You’re… you’re crazy, man. I like you, but you’re crazy.

— Old School (2003), screenplay by Todd Phillips & Scot Armstrong, story by Court Crandall and Todd Phillips & Scot Armstrong

The Daily Dialogue theme for this week: Birthday.

Trivia: The Writer, Court Crandall, an alumni of University of New Hampshire (‘87), based the story on his experiences at Phi Kappa Theta fraternity and his role as a husband and father of two boys.

Dialogue On Dialogue: One of the more memorable moments from this comedy. 

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