Funny / The Departed

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• Tension breakers are few but quite welcome. They're mostly provided by Dignam.
  Dignam: This is unbelievable. Who put the fuckin' cameras in this place?
  Police Camera Tech: Oh! Who the fuck are you?
  Dignam: I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.
  • During Sullivan's first meeting with Queenan and Dignam:
    Queenan: Congratulations on passing the detectives' exam, and welcome to the Special Investigation Unit.
    Dignam: Whoop-de-fuckin'-do.
  • This gem in the same meeting:
    Queenan: You're a worker. You rise fast.
    Dignam: Like a twelve year old's dick.
    • Sullivan's reaction to the line sells it, as if he can't quite believe he just heard that in a professional setting.
• Costigan witnesses a Sikh shopkeeper nonchalantly respond to a couple Providence mafiosos pitifully trying to shake him down.
  Mafioso: I cannot do this anymore. Please don't let me go back empty-handed. Please don't do this. I want to help you.
  Shopkeeper: Come to my store next Friday, I'll give you the money.
  Mafioso: This is Friday, Babu.
  Shopkeeper: You keep on calling me "Babu". It's Singh, motherfucker.
  Mafioso: I'm trying to help you.
  Shopkeeper: You keep telling me I'm your friend. You don't even know my fucking name.
• Ellerby to Sullivan (without a pause and in a jocular, good-natured tone):
  "I'm gonna go have a smoke right now. You want a smoke? You don't smoke, do ya, right? What are ya, one of those fitness freaks, huh? Go fuck yourself."
  • Ellerby in general is pretty hilarious at times. When talking about nabbing Costello, he grabs his crotch as he says "...and we are going to get him!" Also, during the Chinese exchange, he is excitedly shouting "PATRIOT ACT! PATRIOT AAAAAAACT!!" because of the surveillance now allowed. Double points for it coming from unabashedly liberal Alec Baldwin.
• This:
  Dignam: (as he turns to Ellerby) This shithole has more fuckin' leaks than the Iraqi navy.
  Ellerby: Go fuck yourself.
  Dignam: I'm tired from fuckin' your wife.
  Ellerby: How's your mother?
  Dignam: Good, she's tired from fuckin' my father.
  • Sullivan's "well, all right, then" reaction to seeing that exchange.
• Sullivan goes to meet with Frank in a porno theater (with Costigan attempting to tail him). The guy sitting in front of his is obviously masturbating, and getting louder. Just as it sounds as if he's about to orgasm, he stands up and shows his penis to Sullivan... only for it to turn out to be Costello with a black flesh-colored dildo sticking out of his pants!
• The cranberry juice scene. Just sheer shocking brilliant comedy.
• This zinger from Dignam.
  Man: Do you have anyone inside Costello's organization now?
  Dignam: Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe fuck yourself.
• Dignam walking by Sullivan's office with his middle finger up at him the entire time through the window. Why? Because why not?
• After Barrigan shows up and saves Sullivan's ass, Sullivan looks at him and then, almost innocently, blows his head off.
• The "F*ing Short Version" of the movie. Even when trimmed down to nothing but the various F-Bombs in the film, it is still nearly three minutes long.
• The guy throwing the toy duck at Costigan.
• Costigan kneecaps a criminal.
  I thought you were supposed to go into shock! I'm not in shock! It fuckin' hurts!
• The lecture about dumping bodies in the marsh from Costello to Fitzy.
  Costello: Are you soft, Fitz? When I tell you to dump a body in the marsh, you dump him in the marsh. Not where some guy from John Hancock goes every Thursday TO GET A FUCKING BLOWJOB!
  Fitzy: (cracks up laughing)
  Costello: (hits Fitzy) DON'T LAUGH! THIS AIN'T REALITY TV!
• Fitzy has a spot of black humor after they kill Queenan: "That cop was tough. We were excessive with the cop."
• "Cittizins".
• This exchange between Ellerby and Sullivan:
  Ellerby: How is your wedding coming along?
  Sullivan: Great, great. She's [Mandolyn] a doctor.
  Ellerby: That's outstanding.
  Sullivan: Yeah.
  Ellerby: Marriage is an important part of getting ahead. Lets people know you're not a homo. A married guy seems more stable. People see the ring, they think at least somebody can stand the son of a bitch. Ladies see the ring, they know immediately you must have some cash or your cock must work. (laughs)
  Sullivan: (laughing) Yeah, it's working... overtime!
  Ellerby: (completely serious) I'm glad to hear that.