Daily Dialogue — March 28, 2014

The Shoveller: What are we gonna publicise, Roy? The fact that we get our butts kicked, a lot?
Mr. Furious: Well, maybe if you didn’t smack me in the face with a shovel every time we went out, we’d have a few more victories to brag about.
The Shoveller: All right now, I’m sorry about that. I just have a tendency to lose my concentration when I’ve got a salad fork stuck in my rear end.
The Blue Raja: Oh, oh I get it, so YOUR shovel in HIS face is MY fault?
The Shoveller: You threw a spoon at the guy, Jeff!
Mr. Furious: Yeah, what was up with that?
The Blue Raja: I, I, I am embarrassed about that. I thought it was a fork.
The Shoveller: You’re the master of cutlery. You couldn’t throw a knife sometimes when someone’s trying to kill me?
The Blue Raja: No, I can’t! You couldn’t, uh, use a rake sometimes?
The Shoveller: No. I’m the Shoveler.
The Blue Raja: Well, I’m the Blue Raja. I’m not Stab Man, I’m not Knifey Boy — I’m the Blue Raja.
Mr. Furious: Yeah, that’s another thing…
The Blue Raja: What?
Mr. Furious: Well, you could work a little blue into the uniform somewhere. I mean you’ve got green, you’ve got this little flowery thing going on, but it’s like everything BUT blue.
The Blue Raja: Well, if we could just step out of our literal minds, just for a moment…

— Mystery Men (1999), screenplay by Neil Cuthbert, created by Bob Burden

The Daily Dialogue theme this week: Self-Deprecation, suggested by JasperLamarCrab. Today’s suggestion by Alejandro.

Trivia: According to the DVD commentary, the scene where The Spleen (Paul Reubens) accidentally ignites a blast of flatulence standing by a barrel with a fire in it was a happy accident. Apparently, a crew member had tossed a plastic lighter in the barrel. It happened to explode (a small explosion, but an explosion none the less) while filming Reubens. The reactions that followed were created after the fact, capitalizing on the moment caught on film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Alejandro: “Even superheroes suffer self-deprecation sometimes.” 

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