History Funny / TheSilenceOfTheLambs

* "Precious? Are you up there you little ''shit?"'' *trying desperately to make a kissy-face*

--> '''Starling:''' If you didn't kill him, then who did, sir?
--> '''Lecter:''' Who can say? Best thing for him, really. His therapy was going nowhere.
** "Oh, and senator just one more thing! [{{beat}}] Love your suit."
** [[spoiler: "I'm having an old friend for dinner."]]

* Near the end, after Clarice tells Catherine she's safe, then runs off to find Buffalo Bill.
--> "Where is he?"
--> "How the fuck should I know?"
-->(Starling looks over the rim of the hole, then backs away).
--> "Don't you leave me here, you fuckin' bitch! [[BigNO NOOOOOO!]]"

* When Starling brings the moth cocoon to the Smithsonian, Dr. Pilcher gets comfortable quickly.
--> '''Pilcher:''' What do you do when you're not detecting, Agent Starling?
--> '''Starling:''' I try to be a student, Dr. Pilcher.
--> '''Pilcher:''' Ever go out for cheeseburgers and beer? Or the amusing house wine?
--> '''Starling:''' ''(coquettishly)'' Are you hitting on me, Doctor?
--> '''Pilcher:''' [[BluntYes Yes]].

--> '''Jack Crawford:''' You think nuts don’t apply to the FBI? We get 'em all the time. A man in a [[Film/TheThreeStooges Moe]] hairpiece applied in St. Louis last week. He had a bazooka, two rockets, and a bearskin shako in his golf bag.
--> '''Dr. Danielson:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Did you hire him?]]

--> When you get Buffalo Bill, don't bring him to me just because I've got an opening, okay?

--> He had refused to speak, [[{{Troll}} but responded by folding for them an origami chicken that pecked when the tail was manipulated up and down]]. The senior officer, furious, had crushed the chicken in the lobby ashtray as he gestured for Starling to go in.
* When Starling rings Buffalo Bill's bell and he stumbles upstairs, muttering, "All right! I'm coming!". There's something vaguely amusing about seeing this psycho just as annoyed as anyone else about an incessant knock at the door.

** [[spoiler: "[[DeadlyEuphimism I'm having an old friend for dinner.]]"]]

** [[spoiler: "I'm having an old friend for dinner."]]

** In the film, Lecter gives the Senator Bill's name as "Louis Friend," which Clarice figures out is an anagram for Iron Sulfide, or Fool's Gold. In the book, the name he gives is Billy Rubin. It's revealed later in the book that "bilirubin" is a pigment produced in the bile ducts, and gives shit its colour. It's also the colour of Chilton's hair.

** And earlier, when questioned about feeding Raspail to his dinner guests. "Haven't you had company coming and no time to shop? You have to make do with what's in the fridge." Literal FridgeHorror , there.

* When Starling rings Buffalo Bill's bell and he stumbles upstairs, muttering, "All right! I'm coming!". There's something vaguely amusing about seeing this psycho just as annoyed as anyone else about an incessant knock at the door.

--> '''Starling:''' Are you hitting on me?
--> '''Pilcher:''' Yeah.

** "Precious? Are you up there you little ''shit?"'' *trying desperately to make a kissy-face*

(Starling looks over the rim of the hole, then backs away).

--> '''Pilcher:''' Yeah.

** MoodWhiplash, though, as Catherine's fear and exhaustion creep back into her voice.

--> Where is he?
--> How the fuck should I know?

--> Don't you leave me here, you fuckin' bitch! [[BigNO NOOOOOO!]]

** "Precious? Are you up there you little ''shit?"''

* Of the darkly comic variety, as ''Silence'' ends with the wit of Hannibal Lecter: [[spoiler: "I'm having an old friend for dinner."]]
* Hannibal's atheistic funeral service: [[spoiler: "Mischa, we take comfort in knowing there is no God. That you are not enslaved in a Heaven, made to kiss God's ass forever. What you have is better than Paradise. You have blessed oblivion. [[MoodWhiplash I miss you]] [[TearJerker every day]]."]]
* The Scene in Hannibal when Starling is listening to tapes being recorded of her sessions with Lecter. Krendler decides to be a jerk and ogle a nude sketch Hannibal drew of Starling in the letter he sent her, not knowing Starling is in the room with her with the lights barely on. Just to troll him, she yanks her headphones out of the recorder, causing Hannibal's Voice to echo in the loud speakers scaring the living crap out of Krendler.
* Some lines from ''Silence:''

* In the film adaptation of Hannibal, [[spoiler: a lobotomized Krendler comments that the piece of his brain that Hannibal is sautéing smells good, and Hannibal [[{{Autocannibalism}} allows him to try it.]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice He likes it.]]]]
* Hannibal suffering a trip in an airplane's coach section, between a mother and baby and her bratty older son.

* Some notable lines from ''Silence:''

* In the film adaptation of Hannibal, [[spoiler: a lobotomized Krendler comments that the piece of his brain that Hannibal is sautéing smells good, and Hannibal [[{{Autocannibalism}} allows him to try it.]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice He likes it.]]]]

** "Oh, and senator just one more thing! [{{beat}}] Love your suit."

* "Precious? Are you up there you little ''shit?"''

* The Scene in Hannibal when Starling is listening to tapes being recorded of her sessions with Lecter. Krendler decides to be a jerk and ogle a nude sketch Hannibal drew of Starling in the letter he sent her, not knowing Starling is in the room with her with the lights barely on. Just to troll him, she yanks her headphones out of the recorder, causing Hannibal's Voice to echo in the loud speakers scaring the living crap out of Krendler.

* Hannibal's atheistic funeral service: [[spoiler: "Mischa, we take comfort in knowing there is no God. That you are not enslaved in a Heaven, made to kiss God's ass forever. What you have is better than Paradise. You have blessed oblivion. [[MoodWhiplash I miss you]] [[TearJerker every day]]."]]

* Of the darkly comic variety, as ''Silence'' ends with the wit of Hannibal Lecter: [[spoiler: "I'm having an old friend for dinner."]]

* Of the darkly comic variety that reveals the wit of Hannibal Lecter: [[spoiler: "I'm having an old friend for dinner."]]