No, and it’s more than just a throwaway quote, too.The IMDB synopsis:
That I’m not sure of, but my mother always believed that Billy Joe McCallister jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge because either he was gay, or was discovered to be gay.
In my defense, the hair growing out of the mole really did make that tattoo look more like a monkey than it did her departed mother.
I had friends on that deathstar…
I thought it was the aborted baby.
“Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.”
“It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
“That’s, uh, quite a dress you almost have on…What holds it up?”
The Venture Bros. world is ridiculously full of weirdos only mentioned in passing and references to events, adventures, and mythology that the audience never sees. A couple random ones:
“I have watched you pull a man’s eyes from his head and make him dance like a marionette with his own optic nerves!”
“When I’m through with you, you’ll be a member of the elite agency that’s been thanklessly defending this big-ass country since the second American Revolution… the invisible one.”
Did we give up when the Nazis bombed Pearl Harbor?..
“They threw me off the hay truck about noon.”
It’s been a long time since I’ve read The Postman Always Rings Twice, but I don’t think Cain even explained just why they threw him off the truck or what he was doing on it in the first place, although I’ve always assumed he was just bumming a ride.
In a classic case of “dammit, I should have used that quote instead”, another Venture Bros. quote. Phantom Limb explaining to King Gorilla (For the unfamiliar, both are exactly as ridiculous villains as their names imply) why the guild wouldn’t help him get out of prison:
“Oh, what could we do? You eviscerated and sodomized Vince Neil on national television.”
“Hey, I only sodomized half of him! They wanted The Surreal Life, K.G. GAVE it to 'em!”
This is an awesome one. It’s also one that’ll never convey the same image as Gibson intended, since TVs nowadays tuned to a dead channel show (usually) a brilliant signal-generated blue instead of the grey-white static “snow” of an analog OTA tuner on a CRT raster-scan screen.
There’s already a generation that needs a Youtube video to depict what Gibson meant, but for my generation the visual is immediate and visceral.
“The dwarf lives until we find a cock merchant.”
"Did I not kill her with these hands?
"Did *I *not kill her with these hands?
And any of a thousand lines from “Little, Big” by John Crowley.
Chewbacca: ROOOOWER!
Hans Solo: I’m sure he’s forgotten about that, Chewy.
(Just after landing on Lando Calrissian’s city in the clouds.)
Call me Ishmael
Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.”
“Oh shit. Not again!” he said, when he woke up in the holding cell.
“It wasn’t a dark and stormy night.”
So shave your face with some mace in the dark, saving all your food stamps and burning down the trailer park.
I imagine it as the sequel to 8 Mile.
Want to know how I got these scars?
He had carried her across a burning desert in a plastic bag filled with water and fought ifrits and genies for her.
(“He” is sort of a cross between a pincushion and a voodoo doll, and “she” is a goldfish.)
The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.