Daily Dialogue — September 13, 2017

Miles: Where do you live?
Buck: In the city.
Miles: You have a house?
Buck: Apartment.
Miles: Own or rent?
Buck: Rent.
Miles: What do you do for a living?
Buck: Lots of things.
Miles: Where’s your office?
Buck: I don’t have one.
Miles: How come?
Buck: I don’t need one.
Miles: Where’s your wife?
Buck: Don’t have one.
Miles: How come?
Buck: It’s a long story.
Miles: You have kids?
Buck: No I don’t.
Miles: How come?
Buck: It’s an even longer story.
Miles: Are you my dad’s brother?
Buck: What’s your record for consecutive questions asked?
Miles: 38.
Buck: I’m your dad’s brother all right.

— Uncle Buck (1989), written by John Hughes

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Babysitting, suggested by Gisela Wehrl.

Trivia: Uncle Buck asks Miles, who is interrogating him, “What’s your record for consecutive questions asked?” Miles replied, “38”. John Candy was thirty-eight-years-old at the time this movie was being filmed.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Classic John Hughes. The surly teen. The precocious child. The well-meaning, but witless adult. And the snappy back and forth interrogation by Miles directed at Buck. Great stuff.