What is your favourite scene???

"How much trouble can it be to take care of a baby?"

Even after all these years, this scene still sends me into gales of laughter, and I can't stop laughing: Tootsie's co-worker on the set, the doctor, starts serenading her outside the apartment building. An exasperated Michael, still in character as Dorothy, yells a southern colloquialism out the window: "are you out of your cotton-pickin' mind? Jesus!" Hilarious!

It's my all-time favourite film so it's hard to pick out one scene but the last scene, with Michael and Julie, slightly stands out. I used to rewatch it over and over when I discovered Tootsie as a teenager on video. It's just so, so satisfying - Michael realises that he's become a better person and Julie has her friend back. I think this is Jessica Lange's strongest scene in the film - she subtly plays Julie's simmering anger and the scene is so much better for it. I also love how Dave Grusin's score (shamefully not recognised by the Academy) is reintroduced just as Julie asks to borrow the Halston outfit and then Michael says she'll ruin the dress and then she admonishes him by saying his name...the tension is gone and they've reached a new understanding. Oh God, how can anyone not be smiling at this point? The song 'It Might be You' is very sweet and it's perfectly used here.

Could not love this glorious film more.

I think this reveal scene is one of the funniest scene ever...gosh the surprise and reaction...and of course the transformation from an aunts to a manly voice

Tough one since there are so many memorable scenes and exchanges.

But I think the one that does it for me, by a hair, is the scene in George Fields' (Sydney Pollack) office when Michael flies off the handle because he was such a hit off-Broadway playing vegetables. Also loved the line, "This is a coast, too, George. New York is a coast." And this exchange about Jeff's play, "Return to the Love Canal":

Michael: "But it's a true story! That really happened!"
George: "Who gives a sh_it, Michael?! No one wants to watch a play about people living next to nuclear waste! They can see that in New Jersey!"


I also loved the throwaway line Geena Davis had when signing a fan's autograph and responding to a question by saying, "I don't write this sh_it, you know." Probably something every actor has wanted to say to a fan at some point.


Finally, the perfectly deadpan exchange between the producer and the cameraman, with the latter giving one of the greatest deadpan deliveries on film:

Gloria Marshall: "I want to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back?"
Cameraman: "How do you feel about Cleveland?"

Lots of great scenes but the best for me was the end, when the soap opera (oops, that will cost me a dollar) has to reshoot a scene live. Michael is desperate to get out of an iron clad contract, and when Dorothy steps out on the balcony in the scene, "she" pauses for a number of seconds as a plan formulates, and as her expression shifts, there are lots of muttering about impending doom from the director, et cetera; and then the launch into "the big reveal", as everyone knows they are watching a veritable train wreck happening before them but are helpless to look away, fascinated to watch the storyline explosion being described by Dorothy, to the point that when she stammers over where exactly to take the story next, they are willing her to be able to continue the explosion add they have become mesmerized by it and have to see it through to the pile of wreckage when it is done.

A truly awesome scene!

Two words describe my favourite scene; "You Slut"

I also like the reveal. "I'm Edward Kimberly" If that was in a real soap, I could see that being the best twist ever.

Goth for LIFE!

"I'm not Emily Kimberly... I'M EDWARD KIMBERLY"

Basically anything past that moment in the scene. Their reactions are great. "That is one nutty hospital" is where it ends.

It's either that or the line "You SLUT"

Come to think of it, Bill Murry has ALL the best lines.

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