Saw it on VHS way back when, did not remember anything except the casino scene. Rediscovered it, have watched 4 times in the past month or so
Just brilliant, so many great scenes, most beautifully understated.
Favorite scenes or lines?
That’s everything?" Brooks asks.
“Except leather,” the dealer says.
“For what I’m paying, I don’t get leather?” Brooks asks, aghast.
“You get Mercedes leather.”
"Mercedes leather? What’s that?‘’
“Thick vinyl.”
Love this movie, where/how did you watch it?
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ETA: Nest egg
I saw it many years ago, on VHS as well. The only thing I remember is “nest egg”. Should definitely give it a re-watch.
“Well, it’s time to get out. We have to touch Indians…”
“I was on the road to nowhere. Do you know the road? It’s a nowhere road. It goes nowhere!”
“Maybe he doesn’t mean us.”
“No, he’s gonna pull us over and tell us who he really means.”
“You would think it would come with leather.”
“Tell you what. Buy the car, I’ll put some shoes in it.”
“I have seen the future! It’s a bald man from New York!”
“I’m tired. Let’s live here.”
“The Desert Inn has heart. The Desert Inn has heart. The Desert Inn has heart…”
“You said ‘schmucks see Wayne Newton’. That makes me a schmuck?!”
“I dunno.” [Bellhop showing the “Junior Bridal Suite”.]
Hah, hah, the famous MB-Tex. It still comes standard on many models and Mercedes dealers are still trying to make people believe it is superior to leather.
My favorite scene wasn’t even in the movie.
In the beginning, when Brooks tosses his watch out of the Winnebago and the soundtrack cranks up Born to Be Wild, some totally pretentious cinema snob in the theater said “Ugh, how blatant!”
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“We didn’t get a tennis court”
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“We don’t play tennis”
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"We don’t have a court. "
“I’m not going to sleep in the garage. I’m not an animal. I am not an animal.”
“This is a joke, right. Somebody is going to burst in and say it’s a joke. Who’s going to burst in?”
How Julie Hagerty says “Der Wienerschitzel.”
"You know nothing about the ‘next egg principle’ - you left yolk all over the casino ! "
While watching porno movies with her husband.