This is something that has bugged me for 25 years. In the scene in the motel courtyard right after "Kiss" begins to play, a young man walks up to Rose and it sounds like he says, "Quarter pounder, please." Rose responds, "Better not." Now, I know that young man can't possibly be asking for a McDonald's menu item from Rose. What the hell is he saying?
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wtf?When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
LOL, in the uncensored version Rose responds in a suggestive purr "You want fries with that?"
A hotdog with mustard on would be more to the point.
shareSuch misunderstandings are not uncommon in film. I remember the first time I saw "Citizen Kane". Like many people, I thought he whispered, "Perpendicular."
Other examples of misheard lines:
In "The Wizard of Oz", when the Wizard says, "Pay no attention to the donkey with the Chapstick."
From "Dirty Dancing": "Nobody puts bay seasoning on a Klondike."
And probably the best known, from "The Sixth Sense": "I see Rosebud in the corner, Toto."
When I was a little kid in the late '50s and early '60s tv announcers used to say "stay tuned for (whatever show was coming up next)". I thought they were saying "state ooned" and I could never figure out what that meant.
shareLOL, in the uncensored version Rose responds in a suggestive purr "You want fries with that?"
There may have been somewhat similar sounding slang for prostitution in WWII but it couldn't have been "quarter ponder" - McDonalds wasn't even around until the 1950's and the Quarter Ponder sandwich (which I'm fairly certain was a term they invented) wasn't around until the late 1970's or early 1980's. Also fairly certain that Fox would have never used rough slang for any sort of prostitution or vice activity in a 1950's film, the censors would have never allowed it back then.
shareIt does sound like that!
I think he said "How about it, __________?" I couldn't catch the last word at all.
He's asking her to dance.
I think he said "How about it, __________?" I couldn't catch the last word at all.The last word in the quote is lady.
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Watching the bluray yes I can see how you came to the Quarter Pounder assumption the dialogue is garbled
shareHe is saying, "How about it, lady".
shareHow about it, lady? She says, "better not".
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