The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
The irony-definition exchange wins; the Bonnie Franklin–Schneider line and several harsh or romantic lines are alternatives.
In the discussion (7)
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- The Bonnie Franklin and Schneider sexual-tension line is a personal favorite because the image itself nearly proves the joke.
- The statement that the character is under no orders to make the world better is proposed as a strikingly dated line.
- The claim that sex is the quickest way to ruin a friendship is another proposed line.
- The compact promise that all they need is each other and five bucks is another proposed line.
- The Brady Bunch response that Mr. Brady died of AIDS is chosen as a harsh but precisely 1994 line.
- You look like a doily is another concise favorite.
- The exchange defining irony is selected as the best twenty-second encapsulation of the movie and Troy’s defensive intelligence.