Line #24 Funny/DickTracy


1	!!''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' (the comic)
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3	* During the Flattop storyline, as the titular criminal is trying to lay low 'til the cops give up looking for him, he catches a roughly ten-year-kid picking his pocket, decides he likes the cut of his jib and after learning the kid's mom works at night and has a room for rent, decides to hide out at his house. Unfortunately for him, the kid realizes who he is and starts demanding money so as not to give him away. [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior The kid buys, a new coat, some knives, at least one cigar, and puts some money on the horses]]. Flattop's open-mouthed shock at seeing betting tickets in the boy's hands is hilarious.
4	** Before that, Flattop has Tracy down, a gun to his head...and suddenly changes his mind to blackmail his bosses for more money or he'll tell Tracy who hired him.
5	-->'''Tracy''': Listen, Flattop, the old ticker, will only stand for so much. Make up your mind, will you?!
6	* On [=5/29/66=], Tracy and Sam console Lizz after she gets shot by... displaying a wall of Tracy's bullet riddled hats.
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8	!!''Film/DickTracy'' (the movie)
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10	* The way the opening titles tease the viewer that Tracy is suiting up and leaving the room to go do some badass crime-busting only to be revealed that he was just getting ready to go on a date with Tess at the Opera Theater.
11	* Breathless having none of Lips Manlis' JabbaTableManners:
12	--> '''Lips:''' Breathless, that was beautiful, as always.\
13	'''Breathless:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I'm so happy you liked it]]. ''(Lips keeps slurping the oysters noisily)'' You mind if I leave?\
14	'''Lips:''' Why?\
15	'''Breathless:''' I get sick when you eat.\
16	'''Lips:''' You didn't used to.\
17	'''Breathless:''' You didn't used to be a zeppelin.\
18	'''Lips:''' [[SarcasmMode Your devotion is touching]].
19	* When Tracy beats the daylights out of Steve the tramp, his whole shack rocks left and right, evoking the visual of a cartoon house shaking and wobbling to contain some slapstick-ridden fight happening inside, before finally collapsing when Tracy punches him outside through the wall.
20	* "Wait a minute! I'm having a thought. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I'm gonna have a thought. It's coming... It's gone!"
21	* Tracy's deadpan snarkery throughout.
22	-->'''Tracy''' ''(completely deadpan)'': Take the bad men away. They scare me.
23	* Flattop being so good with a Thompson sub machine gun that he can write "Eat Lead Tracy" in bullets, across a brick wall, even with some stylistic flourishes.
24	* Pacino in LargeHam mode start to finish.
25	* Tracy's musings of what The Blank is ("Is the enemy of my enemy my friend...") that eventually confuses his partners.
26	* Seemingly every conversation Breathless ''has'' with Tracy is designed to seduce him. A particularly amusing set of lines:
27	--> '''Tracy:''' No grief for Lips?\
28	'''Breathless:''' I'm wearing black underwear.\
29	'''Tracy:''' You know, it's legal for me to take you downtown and sweat it out of you under the lights.\
30	'''Breathless:''' I sweat a lot better in the ''dark.''
31	* One of the gangsters at the meeting decides he's not going to accept Big Boy's authority over him, and walks out. The moment he steps into his car, it explodes, and most everyone in the room jumps to their feet in surprise and alarm-- except for...
32	--> '''Big Boy''' ''[deadpan]:'' Very upsetting.
33	* "''HEADS UP, COPPER!'' We gotta talk! I did ''not'' kidnap this woman!"
34	** "Where are ya? Come on. Just lemme see ya. I just wanna see your face. I just want -- [[ISurrenderSuckers I just wanna talk some sense]]. I wanna...I just wanna [[SuddenlyShouting TAKE YOUR HEAD, AND I WANNA]] ''[[SuddenlyShouting CRACK IT LIKE AN EGG!]]'' No! No, [[BlatantLies I didn't mean that]]!
35	* "When do we eat?"
36	* Another Tracy/Breathless exchange:
37	--> '''Breathless:''' Thanks for calling. I was beginning to wonder what a girl had to do to get arrested.\
38	'''Tracy:''' Wearing that dress is a step in the right direction.
39	** And yet another:
40	---> '''Tracy (to whom he thinks is Tess):''' Ice cream? What flavor is it? ''(door opens, revealing Breathless.)''\
41	'''Breathless''': Peach flavor. Better eat it fast. It's starting to run.
42	* "Thirty seconds, no more Dick! Thirty seconds, no more Dick!"
43	* Tracy is being questioned by an annoying reporter with a [[GagNose really big schnoz]], and tells him, "You should shave off that ridiculous [[BaitAndSwitch mustache]]".
44	* Just how fast Mumbles switches from incoherent rambling to understandable English is very amusing.
45	* At the end of the FailureMontage showing how the mob's rackets are being taken down, Mumbles delivers a BriefcaseFullOfMoney to Big Boy, but when he turns it outside down, only a few measly bills fall out. This makes Mumbles frown in confusion before a furious Big Boy [[ShootTheMessenger tries to strangle him out of frustration with the whole affair.]]
46	* Big Boy's epic OhCrap moment when he realizes the club has been bugged by the police. Adding to the hilarity of the scene is how the surveillance operative's [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep name is Bug]].
47	-->'''Big Boy:''' ''(Whispering)'' We're being bugged... We're being bugged... We're being bugged...
48	* The entire sequence with Big Boy's "kibitzing" during Breathless' rehearsal, with him singing along, darting in and out between the dancers... it's just utterly hilarious to behold.
49	* The scene were Big Boy and 88 Keys are jubilant over Tracy's arrest. From 88's braying laugh to Big Boy's forced guffaw at his own joke about running for mayor.

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