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• Right off the bat—poor dude is having his head forcefully flushed through his toilet at the behest of two random thugs...
  Goon: WHERE'S THE MONEY, LEBOWSKI?! (shoves Dude's head in the toilet again) WHERE'S THE MONEY, SHITHEAD?!
  Dude: (legitimately confused) It's...it's...it's down there somewhere; let me take another look.
  • It very slowly dawns on them that they don't have the right place. "Isn't this guy supposed to be a millionaire, or something?"
    Goon: (discovers Dude's bowling ball) ...What the fuck is this?
    Dude: Obviously, you're not a golfer.
  • Inexplicably, the goons have switched outfits with each other when they return to The Dude's house.
• "DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS LARRY!? DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FUCK A STRANGER IN THE ASS!?!"
  • Made even funnier in the TV edits, which turn the scene into a surreal Big Lipped Alligator Moment.
  "DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS?! DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS LARRY?! DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FEED A STONER SCRAMBLED EGGS?!"
• The mere fact that Walter, a giant and alleged war veteran feels bested and "stonewalled" by Larry, a boy who doesn't even say a word.
• (see Spit Take at the main page): "What is that, yoga?", "It increases the chances of conception" ...
• The Jesus. That is all.
• The Dude barricades his door to prevent another breaking-and-entering. He forgot that the door opens the other way.
  • Even better later on, when the Dude trips over the barricade.
• Walter "commends" Donny's remains to the Pacific Ocean. But the wind commends them all the way into the Dude's face.
• The one and only line Walter delivers calmly: "And, I would like my undies back."
• When The Dude's car gets stolen (and his phone has been ringing for the past ten minutes of the movie):
  Donny: Where you going, Dude?
  The Dude: I'm going home, Donny.
  Donny: Your phone's ringing, Dude.
  The Dude: Thank you, Donny.
• "Yeah, well, y'know that's just like uhh...your opinion, man."
• The nihilists light Dude's car on fire. "Well, they finally did it. They killed my fucking car."
• The entire scene with Smokey.
  Walter: Smokey this is not Nam, this is bowling there are rules.
  Walter: Has the whole world gone CRAZY? AM I THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE RULES? MARK IT ZERO!
• The police chief in Malibu (combined with Nausea Fuel, because he makes you so sick) throwing the coffee mug right in Dude's face after he replies "Sorry, I wasn't listening" to his long and cautionary "The Reason You Suck" Speech (in a way, the irritant indeference makes it look even funnier while almost justified, nevertheless). Enhanced by Dude's reaction ("Ow, fucking fascist!").
• As The Dude is being hustled into Mr. Lebowski's limo, he yells out, "Hey, careful, man, there's a beverage here, man!"
• "Also, Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please."
  • And then when he proceeds to use the term "Chinaman" himself not a few moments later.
• The Dude trying to throw a lit joint out the (closed) window of his car, the hot embers burning his crotch. While trying to douse the burning (with beer) he swerves and crashes into a garbage bin.
• Donny's out of his element questions never cease to entertain.
  The Dude: I don't need your fucking sympathy, man [Walter]. I need my fucking Johnson.
  Donny: What do you need that for?

  The Dude: It's like Lenin said [...]
  Donny: I am the Walrus?
• Walter giving a damn about possession of wildlife inside a city when The Dude's Johnson is on the line:
  The Dude: What are you, a fucking park ranger now?"
• The Dude does not particularly abide Treehorn's adult software, he still jerks manually.
• The thug who defaces the rug pronouncing "Ever thus to deadbeats" in the process, as if making a political point a la "Syc Semper Tyrannis" in the assasinations of Gaius Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln.
• The Dude trying to pull a Royal "We" with Big Lebowski when he realizes he inadvertedly mentioned Walter came along.
• The Dude thinking the boys in the picture are Big Lebowksi's literal children from different mothers,
  Racially he's pretty cool huh?
• Many of the gratuitous echoes and words one character borrows from another, "parlance of our times", unchecked aggression which will not stand, coitus, johnson etc...
• He fixes the cable?, even funnier if it's taken as more clueless than snarky.
• Walter thinking the manipulative bastard Big Lebowski is Obfuscating Disability inmediately becomes -rather unsurprisingly- Comedic Sociopathy.
• The Dude, in good ol' Phillip Marlowe mode, shades a notepad with a pencil to highlight the impression made on the next sheet of paper, only to discover Treehorn just drew a man with a big phallus.
  • Made doubly hilarious by the fact that the man is shaped like a giant phallus himself from torso upwards. In other words, a giant anthromorphic penis with a long erect penis of his own.
• If you're mostly familiar with Philip Seymour Hoffman's serious roles, every one of his lines as The Comically Serious Large Ham Brandt becomes hysterical. Special mention goes to the limo scene:
  Lebowski: They did not receive the money, you nitwit! They did not receive the money! Her life was in your hands!
  Brandt: (adjusts glasses) This is our concern, Dude.