Daily Dialogue — September 5, 2010

Colonel Sandurz: Try here. Stop. 
Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie? 
Colonel Sandurz: Now. You’re looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now. 
Dark Helmet: What happened to then? 
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then. 
Dark Helmet: When? 
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We’re at now now. 
Dark Helmet: Go back to then. 
Colonel Sandurz: When? 
Dark Helmet: Now. 
Colonel Sandurz: Now? 
Dark Helmet: Now. 
Colonel Sandurz: I can’t. 
Dark Helmet: Why? 
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it. 
Dark Helmet: When? 
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. 
Dark Helmet: When will then be now? 
Colonel Sandurz: Soon. 
Dark Helmet: How soon?

 — Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis), Colonel Sandurz (George Wyner), Spaceballs (1987), written by

Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan & Ronny Graham

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is character’s breaking the 4th wall, suggested by Joshua James.

Trivia: Of all the many jokes in this film, Mel Brooks says that the two he is most proud of are the running gag about merchandising (“Spaceballs: the Breakfast Cereal”, “Spaceballs: The Tee-Shirt”, etc.) and Col. Sandurz’s renting Spaceballs (1987) before it was finished. 

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