elaine said:
Is that the only clever line in the movie? 'Cus that's the only one I ever hear quoted.
The movie's VERY quotable. Jean Shepherd was a writer and a radio personality (decades before Stern and Imus).
"It's a major award!"
"He looks like a deranged Easter Bunny."
"You used up all the glue... ON PURPOSE!"
"Oh no, it was the classic mother BB-gun block, 'you'll shoot your eye out'. That deadly phrase uttered many times before by hundreds of mothers was not surmountable by any means known to kid-dom."
"Mothers know nothing about creeping marauders burrowing through the snow toward the kitchen, where only you and you alone stand between your tiny huddled family and insensate evil."
"In the heat of battle (with the furnace), my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan."
"Only one thing in the world could have dragged me away from the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window."
"Now it was serious. A double-dog dare. What else was left but a triple-dare-you, and finally, the coup-de-grace of all dares, the sinister triple-dog-dare."
"I triple-dog-dare you!"
"Hmm, Schwartz created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple-dare and going right for the throat."
" 'Fra-gi-le' -- it must be Italian!"
"Over the years, I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. My personal preference was for Lux, but I found Palmalive had a nice piquant after-dinner flavor -- heady, but with just a touch of mellow smoothness. Lifebouy, on the other hand... Yuch!"
Early April fools joke?
And how about the "Major Award" lamp in the window?
