Line #49 Funny/GuysAndDolls


1	* In the opening scene, pickpockets keep stealing a gold watch from each other while a mob of people out to recover the watch try to frisk and arrest the original pickpocket, who isn't aware that he doesn't have it anymore and engages in a desperate attempt to escape.
2	* Nathan's men ask him how he could stoop so low as to fall in love with his own mistress once he considers finally acquiescing to her demands to get married.
3	* Big Julie is such a blatant cheater that he claims, "These dice ain't got no spots on them--they're blank!" "I had the spots removed for good luck, but I remember where the spots formerly were."
4	* "I'm REALLY sorry."
5	* "I will add nothin' to what Sky said, except to say that there are many here, upon who, if they get outta line, I would squeal with pleasure."
6	* "Adelaide's Lament" is an example of Crowning Music of Funny.
7	* The following sequence:
8	-->'''Sarah:''' You who drink too much, you who gamble at cards and dice and horse racing. Let us help you not to lose your money in gambling dens and bookie joints.
9	-->'''Benny Southstreet:''' This doll has captured my attention.
10	-->'''Sarah:''' Let us give you the strength to ''stop'' your drinking, to ''stop'' your gambling!
11	-->'''Benny Southstreet:''' She has lost me.
12	* And later:
13	-->'''Sarah:''' This may not be a church, but it is a mission! How dare you blaspheme!
14	-->'''Sky:''' How dare ''you'' misquote the Bible!
15	* EVERYTHING dealing with Nathan, Nicely-Nicely, and Benny Southstreet trying to persuade Joey Biltmore to let them use the garage for the game without paying the $1,000.
16	* Adelaide and Nathan discussing their relationship, and the lies Adelaide's been telling her mother about it:
17	-->'''Nathan:''' Of course we'll get married, sooner or later.
18	-->'''Adelaide:''' Nathan, after fourteen years it's already too late to be 'sooner', and if it gets much later, soon it'll be too late to even be 'later'. Besides, I don't know what to do anymore about Mother.
19	-->'''Nathan:''' Mother? What about your mother?
20	-->'''Adelaide:''' There is something I haven't told you ... but my mother, back in Rhode Island, she thinks that we're ... that we're already married.
21	-->'''Nathan:''' How could she think such a thing?
22	-->'''Adelaide:''' Maybe because I wrote to her that we were already married.
23	-->'''Nathan:''' That would make her think so.
24	-->'''Adelaide:''' Well, in Rhode Island, people do not ''stay'' engaged for fourteen years, they ''get married''!
25	-->'''Nathan:''' So how come it's such a small state?
26	-->'''Adelaide:''' Futhermore, after about two years ... after about two years, we -
27	-->'''Nathan:''' We got a divorce?
28	-->'''Adelaide:''' We had a baby.
29	-->'''Nathan:''' You wrote your mother we had a ''baby''?
30	-->'''Adelaide:''' Well, I ''had'' to, Nathan. Mother kept after me and after me and finally I just ran out of excuses.
31	-->'''Nathan:''' What type of baby was it?
32	-->'''Adelaide:''' It was a boy. I named it after you, Nathan.
33	-->'''Nathan:''' Thank you.
34	-->'''Adelaide:''' You're welcome.
35	-->'''Nathan:''' So tell me, what has Nathan Junior been up to all these years?
36	-->'''Adelaide:''' Well, right now he's in boarding school. As a matter of fact, I wrote Mother that he won the football game last Saturday.
37	-->'''Nathan:''' Wish I'd had a bet on it.
38	-->'''Adelaide:''' But Nathan ... That isn't all.
39	-->'''Nathan:''' You're not going to say we also have an Adelaide Junior?
40	-->'''Adelaide:''' ... All these years, Nathan. Mother believes in big families, and, and we had such an early start.
41	-->'''Nathan:''' Just give me the grand total.
42	-->'''Adelaide:''' ... Five.
43	-->'''Nathan:''' Adelaide! How could you do this to a nice old broad like your mother?!
44	-->'''Adelaide:''' Nathan, you don't even know my mother!
45	-->'''Nathan:''' But I'll be meeting her soon, and what'll I tell her I did with the five kids? Traded them to the Phillies?
46	** This is given a ''fantastic'' CallBack later on, when Adelaide explains that she and Nathan broke up to Sarah.
47	-->'''Adelaide:''' What will I tell my mother?\
48	'''Sarah:''' I'm sure your mother will understand. Just tell her the engagement is broken.\
49	''({{Beat}}.)''\
50	'''Adelaide:''' No, that'd just confuse her. Oh, maybe I'll tell her Nathan is dead! [[WomanScorned And see to it!]]
51	* Nathan and his buddies are listing possible places to hold the craps game:
52	-->'''Nathan:''' And things being how they are, the back of the police station is ''out''!
53	* After Adelaide and the Hot Box girls sing "A Bushel and a Peck," Nathan, who's just had an argument over the phone with Joey Biltmore, sings absently to himself under his breath.
54	--> ''"I love you, a bushel and a peck / That lousy Joey Biltmore, gonna break his little neck."''
55	* Benny's response to being asked to testify at the prayer meeting.
56	--> "I ain't no stool pigeon!"
57	* "Still you must admit that Mindy's cheesecake is the greatest cheesecake [[AnthropomorphicFood alive]]."
58	* Sky's CallBack to his story about his father: ''"Daddy, I got cider in my ear."''
59	* Sarah getting drunk in Havana, not thinking that the drink she was ordered had alcohol in it and is told it 'has milk'.
60	-->'''Sarah:''' on her 3rd or 4th drink You know, this would be a good way to get kids to drink milk!
61	* Sarah's enthusiasm about galoshes (listed as one of the "better things") in "Marry the Man Today."
62	** Even funnier if you consider that at the time the story is set, the slang word for "galoshes" was "rubbers." Which was also the slang word for condoms. (Sarah doesn't seem to share Adelaide's enthusiasm for big families.)
63	* In the movie, Lt. Brannigan bursts into the Mission right as Nicely is launching into his big number, and Nathan shushes the cop, removes his hat and hangs it on his hectoring index finger like a hook.
64	* Meta example: in the film, right from the start Creator/FrankSinatra had been hostile towards Creator/MarlonBrando, resenting him for getting his coveted role as Sky while he had to play the less musical role of Nathan instead. In revenge, during the "cheesecake or strudel" scene, Brando kept deliberately ruining it so that Sinatra ultimately became stuffed with cheesecake and filming had to be delayed until the following day, when things went right the first time.

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