Funny / Best in Show

• Parker Posey's character freaking out over losing a dog toy named "Busy Bee".
  • “Thanks for your help you STUPID HOTEL MANAGER!”
  • Even more hilarious is the fact that the dog (which is allegedly very attached to the Busy Bee) isn't even reacting to the loss of the toy. The neurotic and high-strung owners are the ones screaming at one another, making a scene, and attacking hotel staff, while the dog is just sitting calmly on the table, clearly more agitated by the humans' yelling than the missing toy.
  • When she's unable to find Busy Bee she goes to a pet shop to purchase a replacement, only to lash out at the beleaguered cashier for not having a toy that fits the precise specifications and eventually settling on one that fits zero of them, despite having several reasonable alternatives to pick from.
• The scene where Christopher Guest's character lists all the different types of nuts: "Peanut, cashew nut, pine nut, pistachio nut, red pistachio nut, all-natural white pistachio nut..."
• Stefan and Scott's Shih Tzu calendar.
  Stefan Vanderhoof: [discussing the calendar] We're not gonna sell, just give it out to friends.
  Scott Donlan: I think we should try to sell it.
  Stefan Vanderhoof: Really?
  Scott Donlan: Yeah.
  Stefan Vanderhoof: Well, if we could give the money to Shih Tzu rescue.
  Scott Donlan: They have plenty of money.
  Stefan Vanderhoof: Well so do we.
  Scott Donlan: What Shih Tzus need rescuing anyway? You don't see Shih Tzus straggling around the streets in an old coat "help, alms for the poor".
  Stefan Vanderhoof: Like the little match girl.
• Almost everything Buck Laughlin says.
  • "To think in some countries, these animals are eaten!"
  • On watching a bloodhound go through the judging process: "Hey, you know what would be funny, I don't know if they can do this, why doesn't he put on one of those little Sherlock Holmes hats and put a little pipe in his mouth, are they allowed to do anything like that, dress them up in any way?...I'd get a kick out of it!"
  • This bit:
    Buck: I notice in these competitions, they don't do the basic, "sit up," "roll over," "fetch," "heel." They start at a higher level than that, don't they?
    Trevor: Those are the basic commands-
    Buck: And is that taken into consideration at the start, or, I mean, are you just judging by how well a dog is groomed?
    Trevor: .....
• Larry Miller's character describing the gory details of his job as a hostage negotiator during dinner.
  They all jump.
• Ed Begley Jr.’s hotel manager describing the Noodle Incident involving a rock group with complete incredulity as to why it happened at all.

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