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*** The exchange right before Bertie launches into his rant:
-->'''Bertie:''' ''(having been asked to demonstrate some of the swears he knows)'' Well...bugger to you, you...beastly bastard.
-->'''Lionel:''' Oh, a public school prim could do better than that.
-->'''Bertie:''' ''(completely deadpan)'' Shit.
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* "Queen Wallis οf Baltimοre." "Unthinkable."
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* The scene with Logue and his two youngest sons, where he's reciting Shakespeare. It reminds this troper so much of herself, her sister, and her father on a normal evening at home... minus the Shakespeare.
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* Bertie doing his exercises... with his wife sitting on top of him.

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* Bertie doing his breathing exercises... lying on the floor, with his wife sitting on top of him.
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*** This last bit elicited a roaring applause from the L.A. Film School screening (which screenwriter David Seidler attended). [[Film/TheAviator Who doesn't like tits]]?

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*** This last bit The swearing rampage elicited a roaring applause from the L.A. Film School screening (which screenwriter David Seidler attended). And anyway, [[Film/TheAviator Who who doesn't like tits]]?
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*** Lionel's son, who's just heard his father's patient cursing up a blue streak from all the way upstairs, calling down to him in a concerned voice if everything's okay down there.
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*** This last bit elicited a roaring applause from the L.A. Film School screening (which screenwriter David Seidler attended). [[TheAviator Who doesn't like tits]]?

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*** This last bit elicited a roaring applause from the L.A. Film School screening (which screenwriter David Seidler attended). [[TheAviator [[Film/TheAviator Who doesn't like tits]]?
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-->'''Albert''': They've all been knighted.

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-->'''Albert''': They've all been knighted.[[UsefulNotes/KnightFever knighted]].
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* Just before the final speech, King George is muttering one of his tongue-twisters into the microphone. [[IsThisThingOn Elizabeth hastily reminds him to make sure that it's switched off]] (it is).

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* Just before the final speech, King George is muttering mutters one of his tongue-twisters into the microphone. [[IsThisThingOn Elizabeth hastily reminds him to make sure that it's switched off]] (it is).
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* Just before the final speech, King George is muttering one of his tongue-twisters into the microphone. [[IsThisThingOn Elizabeth hastily reminds him to make sure that it's switched off]] (it is).
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** While Lionel and Bertie are hiding in the other room:

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** While Lionel and Bertie are hiding in the other room:room like a couple of trapped schoolboys:
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** While Lionel and Bertie are hiding in the other room:
-->'''Bertie:''' "Logue, we can't stay here all day."
-->'''Lionel:''' "Yes, we can!"
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**** It's ".. not Ma'am, as in Palm". Ma'am can be pronounced "Mam", correctly, or "Marm", incorrectly.
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** [[{{Pun}} I don't care how many royal assholes have sat in this chair.]]
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*** [[GeorgeCarlin But tits doesn't even belong on the list!]]

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*** [[GeorgeCarlin [[Creator/GeorgeCarlin But tits doesn't even belong on the list!]]
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*** Elizabeth saying to Mrs. Logue, "that's ma'am, as in ham, not mum, as in palm." Of course, for decades, she came to be known as the Queen Mum.
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*** Triply funny given the end credits, which indicates that Lionel was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, which, though a high honor, does NOT entitle its holder to be called "Sir," i.e. Lionel was explicitly NOT knighted.
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-->'''Lionel:''' Oh come on, Bertie!

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-->'''Lionel:''' Oh come on, Bertie!Oh, Bertie.
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** Later in the film
--> '''Albert''': How can I thank you?\\
'''Lionel''': Knighthood?
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The final speech: if for no other reason than it's ''Beethoven'' playing over the speech. The very German Beethoven, whose music Hitler co-opted for the Reich, playing over the very British milieu. Doubles as a very low-key, very epic TakeThat.

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* The final speech: if for no other reason than it's ''Beethoven'' playing over the speech. The very German Beethoven, whose music Hitler co-opted for the Reich, playing over the very British milieu. Doubles as a very low-key, very epic TakeThat.

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The final speech: if for no other reason than it's ''Beethoven'' playing over the speech. The very German Beethoven, whose music Hitler co-opted for the Reich, playing over the very British milieu. Doubles as a very low-key, very epic TakeThat.
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* The final rehearsal, in which Bertie brings out almost every technique he's learned to get his speech across.

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPmdCmQMDxk The final rehearsal, rehearsal]], in which Bertie brings out almost every technique he's learned to get his speech across.
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-->'''Lionel:''' Do you know the F-word?"

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-->'''Lionel:''' Do you know the F-word?"F-word?
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* If Logue is talking and it's not a CMOH, it's usually one of these.

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* If Logue is talking and it's not a CMOH, heartwarming, it's usually one of these.
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*** [[GeorgeCarlin But tits doesn't even belong on the list!]]
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* When Lionel tells Bertie to try singing, since he doesn't stutter when he sings:

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* When Lionel tells Bertie to try singing, since he doesn't stutter when he sings:sings to Camptown Races' tune:
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-->In this... grave hour, fuck fuck fuck, perhaps the fateful in our history, bugger shit shit, (singing) ''I send to every household of my...'' (normal) a peoples, both at home and overseas... this message, (to the tune of Clamptown races) ''dooh-dah, spoken with the same depth of feeling, dooh-dah-day'' (normal) to each one of you, as if I were able to shit ''FUCK'' BUGGER cross your threshold and speak to you... bloody well heard, bloody well heard, bloody well heard, ''myself!'' (Moving around the room, singing to the tune of the Sleeping Beauty Waltz) '' Foooor theeeee second time in the lives of'' most of us, we are...

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-->In this... grave hour, fuck fuck fuck, perhaps the fateful in our history, bugger shit shit, (singing) ''I send to every household of my...'' (normal) a peoples, both at home and overseas... this message, (to the tune of Clamptown Camptown races) ''dooh-dah, spoken with the same depth of feeling, dooh-dah-day'' (normal) to each one of you, as if I were able to shit ''FUCK'' BUGGER cross your threshold and speak to you... bloody well heard, bloody well heard, bloody well heard, ''myself!'' (Moving around the room, singing to the tune of the Sleeping Beauty Waltz) '' Foooor theeeee second time in the lives of'' most of us, we are...
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*** "It's held in place with a large rock!"
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--->'''Lionel:''' And up goes Her Royal Highness... And down goes Her Royal Highness...

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--->'''Lionel:''' -->'''Lionel:''' And up goes Her Royal Highness... And down goes Her Royal Highness...



--> '''Lionel:''' When speaking with a prince, one waits for the prince to choose the topic.
--> '''Bertie:''' Waiting for me to … commence a conversation, one can wait a rather long wait.

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--> '''Lionel:''' -->'''Lionel:''' When speaking with a prince, one waits for the prince to choose the topic.
--> '''Bertie:''' -->'''Bertie:''' Waiting for me to … commence a conversation, one can wait a rather long wait.

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