Brilliance In Dialogue

[ShanghaiOrange]

Seinfeld.

[Fernando]

Seinfeld.

Oh yeah, a couple of examples.

The Pony Remark.

Jerry:  Horses. They're like big riding dogs.

Elaine:  What about ponies, huh? What kind of abnormal animal is that?
And those kids who had their own ponies . . . .

Jerry:  Oh, I know. I hated those kids. In fact, I hate anyone that ever
had a pony when they were growing up.

Manya:  I had a pony.

Jerry:  Well, I didn't--uh--really mean a pony per se--

Manya:  Vhen I vas a little girl in Poland, ve all had ponies. My sister
had pony. My cousin had pony. So what's wrong with that?

Jerry:  Nothing. Nothing at all. I was just merely expressing--

Mrs. Seinfeld: Should we have . . . some coffee? Who's having coffee?

Manya:  He was a beautiful pony. And I loved him.

Jerry:  Well, I'm sure you did. Who wouldn't love a pony? Who wouldn't
love a person that had a pony?

Manya:  You! You said so!

Jerry:  No. See, we didn't have ponies. I'm sure at that time in Poland
they were very common. They were . . . probably like compact cars.

Manya:  That's it. I had enough.

{Exit Manya.}

Isaac:  Have your coffee everybody. She's a little upset. It's been an
emotional day.

{Exit Isaac. Now for Jerry's finale.}

I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who
figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds
are on that? I mean in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats,
comin' in to New York Harbor, I never saw one of them sittin' on a pony.
W-why would anyone come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country
packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?


The Stand in.

KRAMER & MICKEY: Rock, paper, scissors match.

MICKEY: all right, rock beats paper.

(Mickey smacks Kramer on the hand for losing)

KRAMER: I thought paper covered rock?

MICKEY: Nah, rock flies right through paper.

KRAMER: What beats rock?

MICKEY: (looks at his hand) Nothing beats rock.

KRAMER: all right come on.

KRAMER & MICKEY: Rock, paper, scissors match.

KRAMER: Rock.

MICKEY: Rock.

[Leatherface]

Don't beat me but...American Werewolf in London has some of the greatest dialogue I have had the pleasure of listening to.  

[coffeebeetle]

The Shawshank Redemption...the chess scene between Andy and Red...I won't trash it by trying to paraphrase it. I apologize for not having the dialogue in front of me.

[aclockworkjj]

The Shawshank Redemption...the chess scene between Andy and Red...I won't trash it by trying to paraphrase it. I apologize for not having the dialogue in front of me.

do you mean this?
 
RED
   King me.

          ANDY
   Chess. Now there's a game of kings.
   Civilized...strategic...

          RED
   ...and totally fuckin'
   inexplicable. Hate that game.

          ANDY
   Maybe you'll let me teach you
   someday. I've been thinking of
   getting a board together.

          RED
   You come to the right place. I'm
   the man who can get things.

          ANDY
   We might do business on a board. But
   the pieces, I'd like to carve those
   myself. One side done in quartz...
   the opposing side in limestone.

          RED
   That'd take you years.

          ANDY
   Years I've got. What I don't have
   are the rocks. Pickings here in the
   exercise yard are pretty slim.

          RED
   How's that rock-hammer workin' out
   anyway? Scratch your name on your
   wall yet?

          ANDY
      (smiles)
   Not yet. I suppose I should.

          RED
   Andy? I guess we're gettin' to be
   friends, ain't we?

          ANDY
   I suppose we are.

          RED
   I ask a question? Why'd you do it?

          ANDY
   I'm innocent, remember? Just like
   everybody else here.

Red takes this as a gentle rebuff, keeps playing.

          ANDY
   What are you in for, Red?

          RED
   Murder. Same as you.

          ANDY
   Innocent?

          RED
   The only guilty man in Shawshank.[/size]

either way it's great.

[coffeebeetle]

Bingo.  Thanks man.

[kotte]

We...the royal we...the editorial...

I rank The Big Lebowski as no. 1 when it comes to dialogue.