Your favorite scene


My favorite scene is when Max is cruising along in his fishing boat, singing "Maria." He takes a little bit of liberty with the lyrics, "and suddenly I see, she's not that b---h I thought she'd be."

Ironically, I was in a stageplay of 'West Side Story' the weekend before I saw this movie, so the music was still fresh in my head. My pals and I absolutely lost it. People in the theatre were looking at us like we were nuts.

I also love everything Burgess Meredith says or does (in this movie or any other). He was such a talented performer.


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"I hope you have a big trunk... because I'm puttin' my bike in it."

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Max singing in the boat was funny...I also like when he starts filming John posing in the nude while Ariel sculpts him. That was too funny. "Putz!" God, I miss Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.

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Got to be in the supermarket and not becuase of the scene but more because of the line. "Well you can wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which ones gets filled first." Now that is a classic line.

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the scene when john and max are arguing after when Lucky chased Slick.

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My favourite scene is when Sophia entered the bar in that red dress and let the ice melt between her cleavage :) Damn that was nice...

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When Max recites the pick-up line about woman floating in the river to Maria and screws it up. Then he walks up the stairs and says, "I didn't say it right." LMAO!

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I love the lecture about the bacon and how it "goes to show you" :)

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Burgess Meredith telling his granddaughter about Goldilocks shooting the bears with a rifle with a hair trigger! LMAO!

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some of the hippest bits is the "bloopers" that you see at the end of the movie while the credits are rolling.
like when Matthau is in the bathtub, and he says - "for another million, i would have done a nude scene."
and also where Matthau is supose to give Sophia Loren a kiss, but he loses control and is all over her. then Sophia Loren says "he should be arrested." or "he's a criminal". or something like that.
walter matthau - "i ama thief of hearts. i am a gangster of love."
jack lemmon - "gangster huh? well was it more of a hold up than a stick up?"
walter matthau - "not even your witty penis jokes can ruin this day."

a guy said - man, arent you gonna sing a song about the atum,
i said - man, that season is so depressing, i wouldn't think of it,
when the bare trees starts to show,
they still stay high, though i stay pretty low,
makes me think about everybody i knew, who's slipped away,
and i'm not the same,
where have they all gone,
i'm left out here alone,
the world rushes by, and a new day is here,
i couldn't keep it up, so i'm lost.. somewhere,
and these colorful leaves, on the maple trees,
doesn't help to ease, this sentimental mood i'm in,
as the years rushes by, like a waggon without breaks,
you hardly notice it's night time, before a new morning breaks,
i wish i could go back, to the warm summers that's been,
becouse i can't stand to see everything witter and die, and to feel the chill of the atum wind,
yes, everything outside seem to witter and die, and the air turns so chilly and cold,

- no man, you'll never hear me singing a song about the fall.. atum, or whatever it's called.

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Bloopers were maybe the best parts of both movies. One of the most likable scenes is that holy-moly mamma mia kissing scene.

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My cousin and I were watching this the other night, and we must've rewound the outtakes at he end about twenty times! Especially when Walter Matthau and Sophia Loren crash their shopping carts together, and Matthau is like "Jesus CHRIST! Why don't you watch where the (BLEEP) you're goin'!" I almost pissed myself when I first saw that way back when...and it never gets old. Also, the outtake when Matthau is like "Some SCHMUCK...with his fish and my fish and your fish...on the (BLEEP)in' wall!" It must've been so fun working on that movie with Walter Matthau (RIP). LOL..."I can't, I farted and I'm afraid to move!"

Within the actual movie, here are some of my faves:

* When Maria comes into the bar, and asks Max a question...and he can only answer "heooooo" (or something like that)

* "BAIT-AH SHOPPEEEE!!!"

* When John is begging to be let into Max's house because he's cold...and Max opens the window, hands John a box of matches, and says "Go set yerself on fire!"

God, I could keep going...but it would take me forever. I guess I pretty much love any scene that Walter Matthau was in...which is most of the movie!

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I love when Allie the lil granddaughter eats a quarter and her mom freaks out and Grandpa Gustafson was like 'ah dont be so worried kids eat quarters all the time'

Melanie Gustafson: really?

Grandpa Gustafson:yeah but if she craps out 2 dimes and nickle then you should be worried.

'people are like toast...they always land butter side down'

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Too many, but alot of the ones that have been mentioned here already.

Most likely Matthau singing about Maria in the boat, LMAO!!!! Wouldn't Maria have heard him singing that? He wasn't that far away!

Any scene with Burgess Meredith, especially when he tells his version of Goldilocks & The Three Bears. "Somebody's been sleeping in my bed, and the bastard's still there!" LMFAO!!!!!!

And if the outtakes at the end count, most or all of those!! I bet they even have outtakes for the outtakes....

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I think the outtakes during the credits were the best part of the movie.

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Best scene in the film is when Sophia Loren walks into the bar!

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Mama Ragetti: We could of went to Hawaii
Pop: I have been to Hawaii!
Mama: Which island?
Pop: Cmoniwannalayya

Pretty much everything Burgess Meredith does or says in the movie's great. He really makes it worth the while, ya know.

Ironically, my favorite scene and what I remember the most is actually a blooper scene. Sophia Loren bangs into Walter Matthau's cart really hard.
Sophia: Ox!
Walter: Jesus Christ!


"QUIIIIEEEET!! My dumb dumb want to speak."

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