Favorite Lines of Dialogue Ever!

[R Sinclair]

Okay. Well, I still don't get it, but it's okay. I guess it's the same way as I view JR and Babe on All My Children.

I guess I'm just not a fan of tortured love stories. Angst? Sure. Starcrossed? Why not. But such dark and twisted misery upon misery... not entertaining.

Thanks!

Back to our originally posted thread topic!

[Dan]

December to be exact, at least officially.

Not to try to change your opinion, but reading it doesn't do it justice. It's on Youtube if you ever want to look it up.

[brimike]

Dan, thank you SO SO SO much for this. I can't wait to dive back into this again tomorrow, and re-read it - I've been dying to get my hands on a copy of this. The thing is, I can hear Zaz and Garrett in my head, as I read it. It's so true to them, as both actors and characters.

R Sinclair, I can see where you might get JR and Babe from this words on the page, but there was something much more adult and mature about Roger and Holly (not referring to the actors' ages when I say that). JR and Babe always came across as petulant and melodramatic (to me, at least - just my personal opinion), and somehow, Roger and Holly never crossed that line. That, and the fact that they had twenty years of on-camera history behind them.

Roger and Holly never had an easy answer - in today's climate, they would have already been turned into a super-couple (a la Jake/Vicky in the last years of AW). It's crazy that the most complicated relationships (being the ones that generate the most drama) inevitably end up so over-simplified on soaps... and then are on the back burner, soon to be written out "in a storyline-dictated decision".

Anyway... my last response. I could talk about Curlee's GL for eons. My apologies.

Back on topic - Sylph, I'll try and dig out some of my old SB tapes, to transcribe some of my favorites.

[S&BFanForLife]

Lucy and Tracy insult each other, GH-1996

Starts at :30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCpQdCgzWeI

[SnCCorinthos4ever]

I loved this quote and then the bitchslap Lizzie got as well.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

The Roger and Holly dialogue at the Country Club, which was apart of Zaslow's Emmy's reel the year he won, do we know for sure who wrote it? Was it Courtney Simon or Roger Newman? Zas thanked both for "comprising the lucky reel" that year, in addition to thanking Curlee, Demorest, Mulcahey, and Williams Watt. I've never seen ANYONE name the writers they're thanking and not as many as Zaslow did, he's greatly missed.

[ReddFoxx]

One Life to Live

Viki: You are an evil witch. Go fly away.

Dorian: Somebody's having a low blood sugar moment, put something in that tummy.

[DavidEvanSmith]

I'm extremely disappointed that the divine Tracy Quartermaine is so poorly represented in this thread!

Tracy (to an apologetic Dillon): Sorry is for other people.

Tracy (to Brenda): Oh I remember you... Julia Barrett was your brilliant sister and you were the other one.

Tracy (to Lois): Where are you from dear? I can tell that English isn't your first language.

I just found this line from Edward to Tracy circa 1996: How big a fool do you think I am?! Oh yes, to my shame you are my daughter. But Lois has been more of a daughter to me than you ever were, even on your best day! Now if driving her away were all you had done, I would still be sickened by the sight of you, but you had to turn against all of us, and throw in with that cold-blooded reptile and try to destroy everything that I've spent a lifetime trying to build!

This is a DELICIOUS exchange between Tracy Q and Sydney Chase which was basically their "changing of the guard" as Morgan Fairchild was leaving "The City" and Tracy Q was landing as the main diva.

Tracy enters

Sydney: Don't be shy, come right in.

Tracy: Sweet of you to ask.

Sydney (to Maria the maid): Maria that's okay, I can handle this. Buh Bye.

Tracy: Oh, I don't think I like being referred to as "this" or being "handled" for that matter--

Sydney: Tracy what can I do for you.

Tracy: Well to begin with, you can be courteous enough to return my phone calls.

Sydney: Look, I've been very busy, I'm leaving for London.

Tracy: So I've heard.

Sydney: And, I was just walking out the door, so if we could make this brief.

Tracy: I was going to ask you for a small favor but now that I see the way you treat your friends, I'm not sure that I want to.

Sydney: Please! Just being seated together at the same table at a couple of charity dinners hardly makes us bosom buddies.

Tracy: My, aren't we forgetful. You are conveniently forgetting the Stockwell deal... that cute little chain of television stations...?

Sydney: Oh I remember it quite well. That little chain of television stations Jared and I bought, only to discover we were subject to an FCC investigation.

Tracy (laughs): Oh I was shocked.

Sydney: You were also sleeping with one of the commissioners.

Tracy: A consolation prize, to say the least. But that was in the past... we've won some, we've lost some.

Sydney: And that's about all we have in common, Tracy.

Tracy: Not quite. As I mentioned on the phone, when I was in Switzerland, I ran into... a close pal of ours. Malcolm Christopher.

Sydney: Oh yes, how is dear old Malcolm.

Tracy: As big a lech as ever.

Sydney: That always was Malcolm's weakness.

Tracy: Well he's got another one now. He drinks now, too. And double scotches tend to loosen lips.

Sydney: Well Tracy, I'm sure a combination of your charms, and a little booze would make Malcolm sing arias.

Tracy: Hm, thank you. He told me a very good story.

Sydney: You know I'd really love to hear it, but I'm gonna miss my plane.

Tracy: No I think you'll want to take the time to hear this one, it's a really interesting one. In fact, it's a page-turner... if you know what I mean. It's about gold. Hidden. In this building. Now in your possession, I believe. So Syd... did you report your little stash to the IRS? (Sydney hesitates, Tracy throws her head back and laughs) HhhaaaA! Naughty, naughty!

Sydney: So Tracy, what is this, are you trying to blackmail me?

Tracy: Oh, perish the thought.

Sydney: Good. What would you call it, then.

Tracy: I'd call it... an advance.

Sydney: On what.

Tracy: ... Why... on our friendship, of course.

(Cut)

Sydney: So friend, what's the deal?

Tracy: Umm... I have a bit of a cash flow problem, at the moment.

Sydney: Really...

Tracy: Some accounts were mis-managed, some stocks I can't get my hands on...

Sydney: ... and your family cut you off without the proverbial nickel.

Tracy: I beg your pardon.

Sydney: Well, you've done such a wonderful job of researching my life, I thought I'd... return the favor.

Tracy: Good job. Touche, Sydney.

Sydney: So it's true.

Tracy: It's a temporary situation.

Sydney: Mm, "temporarily disinherited"... funny, now I don't think I've ever heard that one before!

Tracy: It demands a temporary solution.

Sydney: Oh good, so what are we talking here, a... loan?

Tracy: No, I was thinking more in terms of a gift.

Sydney: Dream on...

Tracy: Sydney you're rolling in gold. You can afford to make a charitable donation.

Sydney: And I make a charitable donation every year... to the hundred neediest cases... so why don't you apply to them.

Tracy: I HAVE DANCED WITH YOU ENOUGH. Do I get what I want, or do I spread the word about your gold in so many places, it'll make your empire go up like a cheap rocket?!

Sydney: And if I don't?

Tracy: Sydney, I never bluff when I'm holding the cards! This is a full house!

Sydney (laughs): You know, you are a truly miserable person.

Tracy: (smiles) I would say it takes one to know one... but cliches are so boring, like those chairs over there. Did you actually shoot those leopards or did you just order the hit?

Sydney: Oh don't be silly honey, I bought them at auction. Leopards are an endangered species, just like you.

Tracy: Isn't this fun? Too bad you have to catch a plane. Should we wrap it up? Do I get what I want, or do I go to the IRS?

Sydney: And then what?

Tracy: You never hear from me again. Scout's honor.

Sydney: Right. I tell you what, Tracy, it wouldn't have been any fun at all if I didn't make you dance for it a little bit, but... um, I'm not going to give you money. I'm going to give you something better.

(Cut. Tracy's holding the deed to the building.)

Tracy: What would I want with this dump?

Sydney: Landmark dump, please.

Tracy: Is that what the rats call it? No thank you.

Sydney: Well Tracy, that's my final offer. 51% of 212 Greene St, take it or leave it.

Tracy: I'm leaving it. Let's try door #1, Syd, the one with the gold behind it?

Sydney: The building's worth far more than any cash I could give you at the moment.

Tracy: Oh. A little cash flow problem of your own right now? No sale.

Sydney: Well you know Tracy, my darling husband, rest his soul, gutted my business, so I need the gold to revitalize the business, sort of slowly. As you so graciously pointed out, we can't have too many people asking too many questions, now can we.

Tracy: (reexamining the deed to the building) Alright so what am I supposed to do with it?

Sydney: I don't care. Sell it, burn it, wear it, for all I care. Here you go darling, here are the keys. Write if you get work.

Tracy: How do I know that this is not a phony? (holding up the deed)

Sydney: Oh. You see that name at the top?

Tracy: (examining) Jocelyn Brown?

Sydney: Right. She's one of my attorneys. Talk to her, she lives on the 5th floor.

Tracy: How do I know that SHE'S not a phony?

Sydney: Check with F. Lee Bailey, honey. Goodbye, Tracy.

Tracy: Parting is such sweet sorrow.

Sydney: Mmmm. Give my love to the tenants.

Tracy: What tenants?

Sydney: (smiles) Goodbye, Tracy. And good luck.

Of course the trick was, Tracy also inherited a million dollars in back taxes that were attached to the building.

[S&BFanForLife]

^^ITA. Tracy had some, if not all, of the best lines in GH history. I posted that YouTube clip of that Tracy and Lucy vocal catfight but that's just one of many great Tracy moments.

[All My Shadows]

AMC:

Erica, Brooke, Maria, Kendall, Opal, and Bianca all show up at the Valley Inn dining room for a meeting about the Miranda Center, but it turns out into a war of words amongst them all, until the only person who could ever get them all to shut up...does.

I'd transcribe, but there's just so many gems in here, I couldn't. My favorite actually comes from the character that I liked the least (at the time), Maria. Kendall taunts Maria because she's messing around with Zach while married to Edmund, and so Maria claims that Kendall makes a "whole fun day" out of tanking marriages, and then she goes "But you know what? Apple [pointing to Kendall], tree [pointing to Erica]."

[Y&RWorldTurner]

BTW, I found the Roger and Holly scenes from the Country Club on YouTube. It even includes the end credits! This episode, which this clip is from, originally aired on July 16, 1993, I believe.

The scenes are in various parts of this clip, of course:

[Khan]

ABC: Always Be Catty.

With all due respect, David, I don't think I like the Tracy/Sydney exchange too much. It's as if whoever wrote it (B&E?) attended the Spelling-Vincent School of Bad Dialogue Writing. Sure, it's "ear candy", and it helps digest the exposition more smoothly (although, I felt certain beats were replayed); but, does it say anything revealing about either woman? I'd say, not really.

[All My Shadows]

That they hate each other and they don't mind be mean girls to remind themselves (and the audience) of that? It's more Spelling-Vincent dialogue, since Goldberg was more involved in the crime dramas and Love Boat-type shows, but that's just the Spellingphile in me leaking out.

Proceed

[SFK]

Tracy and those chairs... I guess I'm more of a Sydney, I loved them. Tracy had them covered when she finally re-did the penthouse, in like the 2nd to last week of the show... why even bother ABC?? Yet I'm glad they did, I was interested in seeing what Tracy would do with the place. She couldn't quite get rid of those pesky painted brick walls though.

So to be more accurate, I guess you could say that The View inherited Tracy's penthouse rather than Sydney's as we're apt to say. But man did I love Sydney's PH.

Tracy: HhhhHA! Painted brick walls and animal print are hardly my style.

[Khan]

My bad.