There's so many great ones to choose from.
I'm not sure why, but mine is when Marge is interrogating Jerry the second time and he has a little outburst and voice crack. "I would know! I'm the executive sales manager!" followed by "We run a pretty tight ship here." Always has me in stitches.
A close second is during the savage beating by Shep when he tosses the buttnaked Buscemi across the room flipping over the couch.
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Because the accent and the look on her face ... I love this exchange. And the fact that she's always eating.
Marge: Yah, it's this vehicle I asked you about yesterday. I was just wondering--
Jerry: Yah, like I told ya, we haven't had any vehicles go missing.
Marge: Okay, are you sure, cause, I mean, how do you know? Because, see, the crime I'm investigating, the perpetrators were driving a car with dealer plates. And they called someone who works here, so it'd be quite a coincidence if they weren't, ya know, 'connected'.
Mine is the meeting with Jerry, Wade and Stan
Jerry: No, no. I- I 'd, pay you back the principal, and interest. Heck, I'd go one over prime?
Stan: We're not a bank, Jerry.
Wade: if I wanted bank interest on seven hundred fifty thousand I'd go to Midwest Federal. Talk to Bill Diehl.
Stan: He's at Norstar?
Wade: He's at--
Jerry: Lundegaard:No, see, I don't need a finder's fee, I need a... finder's fee's, what, ten percent? Heck, that's not gonna do it for me. I need the principal!
Stan: Jerry, we're not just going to give you seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars!
Wade: What the heck were you thinkin'? Heck, if I'm only gettin' bank interest, I'd look for complete security. Heck, FDIC. I don't see nothin' like that here.
Jerry: Yah, but I... Okay, I would, I'd guarantee ya your money back.
Wade: I'm not talkin' about your damn word, Jerry! Geez, what the heck're you--
Stan: We’re not a bank, Jerry
Wade: Well, look, I don't want to cut you out of the loop, but this here's a good deal. I assume, if you're not interested, you won't mind if we move on it. Independently.
Let's face it, the entire script is brilliant and filled with hilarious dialogue. I've seen that movie a dozen times and I still find things I hadn't noticed previously.
shareA favorite line of mine is when Jerry is pitching his business deal to Wade and how this could be good for Jerry and Jean and Scottie, and Wade says, "Jean and Scottie never have to worry."
I also love the scene when Jerry goes up to Wade's office to meet with Wade and Stan, and Wade has that unusual looking thing for Jerry to sit on, not exactly a couch or a chair, a piece of furniture I have never seen before and I wonder if it was especially designed for the movie. It's almost like a very tall ottoman. I think you are supposed to lean your butt cheeks against it while you stand. You can see in Jerry's eyes he's thinking, "What the heck is this?".
In addition to the above mentioned:
When Margie says: "Sir, you have no call to get snippy with me! I'm just doing my job here."
Only Margie would use the word "snippy."
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When the wife has the hood over her face and tries to run away and the kidnappers just stand there watching her make an ass out of herself.
shareI think Fargo is a classic, but that scene is one of the cruelest in the movie. It's supposed to be funny, but I never laugh because I've seen the movie several times and I know she ends up dead, crushed like an insect. Fargo strips its victims of their humanity for comic effect. When you do that you eventually end up with..... the recent Live Facebook Torture video from Chicago. The young torturers thought their friends would think it was cool. Maybe even fun and entertaining.
Perhaps that scene in Fargo is a Rorschach test for audiences, kind of a humanity check. Or maybe the Coen brothers just have a sick sense of humor
Totally different things! That Chicago video was sick and disturbing.
The Fargo scene was hilarious, just like it was suppose to be. This thread doesn't have to be and shouldn't be political.
"I can't remember anything without you"
I wasn't making a political comment at all. You don't think there is any similarity between the sociopathy of the kidnappers in Fargo and the kidnappers in the Chicago video? Actually, the torturers in that video didn't kill their victim. Maybe they were more humane than the Fargo kidnappers, who were both murderers.
Hilarious, huh? Okaaaaaay.
Not to mention Fargo is 99.9% fictional...
"I can't remember anything without you"
When the cop gets killed.
I love that.
Humans are not the only species on earth.
We just act like it.
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Haven't read this entire thread, so I don't know if this has been mentioned, but when Jerry tries to talk Wade into financing his plan, Jerry says this could be a sweet deal for him, Scotty and Jean.
Wade says, "Jean and Scotty never need to worry."
I just realized how ironic that line is. Within a few days, Jean would be dead and Scotty would be made a virtual orphan. Oh and Wade....didn't work out too well for him either.
At the buffet:
"Hey Marge, how's the fricasee?
"Pretty darn good, you want some?"
"Ah no I just.... hey Norm I thought you was goin' ice fishin""
"{Nods affirmatively} After lunch."
At the Jose Feliciano show:
"How long you been working for the escort service?"
"I don't know, couple uh months."
"You enjoy that type of work, do ya?"
"What are yuh talkin' about?"
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LOL
shareI like the old guy telling the story. I guess it's more of a monologue than a line, but it always tickles me.
For a close second, I like the customer arguing with Jerry about the true coat. He says, "You're a liar. You're a ... FUCKING liar". Just the way he blinks and seems to have trouble saying the word fuck but forces it out anyway because he's just that upset is hilarious.
When Marge was talking to the two hookers and said "they were kinda funny lookin. And he wasn't circumcised!"
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