darren nicholls is my pretentious demented horrific theater boyfriend

[schmerica]

One of the IMDB plot keywords for Slings and Arrows is "male nudity." I approve.

Jaci just reminded me of my very favorite quote from S+A ever, in her last entry.

"Everybody cries when they get stabbed! There's no shame in that!"

Now, you guys come and share your favorites in my comments while I go off and write my paper, okay? OKAY.

Comments

it's much lighter without the ego.

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

OMG. I can't believe you posted this. I was actually thinking earlier of posting something like this (except it would be lame, because like, three people on my flist watch S&A), because I wanted to make some icons, because so many of the lines delight me UTTERLY!!

Re: it's much lighter without the ego.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Omg, slod, you should SO make icons! Because your icons are PRETTY, and Slings and Arrows is AWESOME! It would be like chocolate and peanut butter.

Re: it's much lighter without the ego.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Can I encourage you plz to make icons? And let me have first pick so I can have some for my very very own because I hate sharing?

*encourages*

[corinna-5.livejournal.com]

I can't remember the exact phrasing, but, from the last episode of S1:

Jack: I think I'm gonna be sick.
Geoffrey: That's good. Use it!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, that is indeed a brilliant moment.

[serrico.livejournal.com]

"That's not a good position for prison, darling."

Jack's wookie imitation.

Geoffrey's weepy determination to get Darren his fresnelles.

"It's a beautiful day on East Hastings/I didn't wake up on the floor!/It's a beautiful day on East Hastings/For a whoooooore!"

I could continue, but I need to go to bed. So to sum up, my absolute favourite insult of all time:

"Greetings, actors! I have news from my planet: Darren Nichols is gone. He has been sent packing. You will no longer see him or his postmodern, pseudo-Brechtian, leather-clad schoolboy buggery of a production design again."

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

<3<3<3

[bkwyrm.livejournal.com]

"It is not weird and it is, in fact, notarized." has got to be my favorite quote, from the ep about removing and "rendering" the head.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

That entire scene is pretty much brilliant.

(I accidentally typed "season" for "scene", which is kind of true as well.)

[dealwiththat.livejournal.com]

I HAVE A SOUL! (Ep 2x06)

And what is possibly the best self-introduction ever--

"I am Darren Nichols. Deal with that."

[china_shop]

My favourite bit of s1 is that Jack says "motherfucker" when he comes. That made me laugh and laugh and laugh.

(Woe! Need icons!)

[metaphoracle.livejournal.com]

The two old men, who are like the two old men from the Muppet Show!

The crazy drama exercise! "One of those theatre stories".

Nude Darren. GLOW PAINT. Paisley shorty robe. SCARF!

Darren's catchphrase--"Life is fucking nuts, isn't it?"

The leather pants. Nuff said. Actually, all of Darren's wardrobe, which gets GAYER with each season even though no one believed it was possible.

The way that he was absolutely head over heels in love with Geoffrey ://

[hobbledehoy.livejournal.com]

i've come to do you a favor.
a favor?
you're fired.
thank you.
you're welcome.
i'm sick, of this place. i'm sick, of being stabbed.

:: continues watching said episode ::

[carla-scribbles.livejournal.com]

I cannot remember the exact quote -- but the scene where Ellen tells the woman doing her audit that she slept with her brother-in-law? Priceless.

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

"I'd have thought dying would make you...peaceful."
"Well, it doesn't! It pisses you off!"

[akite.livejournal.com]

I'll have to quote from season three because I haven't seen the other two YET. They're sitting under the Christmas tree for me. *g*

"My condolences on your limp dick."

"You leave my limp dick out of this!"

[lilac-one.livejournal.com]

You used my favorite quote in your entry. But this one's pretty good, too:

(holding Oliver's skull)"It's not that heavy at all!"
"It's much lighter without the ego."

"Cue up the bleets, for God's sake!"

[starfishchick]

OH, FUCK OFF LJ. It just ate my long and quote-filled comment!!

Sigh.

These aren't exact (shame!) but I love:

"Did you know there are three Geoffrey Tennants in Toronto? One of them is from Jamaica."

"I would begin with the less reputable firms."

When Geoffrey brings the cooler into the bar, and sees Ellen talking to Sloan: "Oh, you have a son!"
And when he does the little Oliver's-head voice? "That's right, Geoffrey!"

And I have watched, eight ZILLION times, the opening, with Geoffrey and the TOILET and the STORM.

"They had no phones in Ancient Greece, and their theatres did very well."
"They have assured me there will not be another fire."
"GO FOR IT, MAN."

Re: "Cue up the bleets, for God's sake!"

[lorem_ipsum]

OMGyes the opening! "Good news, everyone! I have fixed the toilet!"

Re: "Cue up the bleets, for God's sake!"

[starfishchick]

I love the whole opening. It's great.

"Case in point: I have just fixed a toilet."
"You're a genius, Geoffrey."

:D

[sadcypress.livejournal.com]

Mine HAS to be Maria's mid-duel rant:

ACTORS! You're allll the same! You're all a bunch of selfish, filthy, whiny children!

[sadcypress.livejournal.com]

Ok, except for what's my OTHER favorite moment in S&A- Terry, having just completed Macbeth's speech and receiving the praise from his coworkers. When he just looks up and lets out a ragged, 'Fuck, I love this.'

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Everybody's posting such lovely quotes! mmm.

I haven't exactly kept track, but I'm pretty sure that Ellen says "Sorry!" at least once (and usually many times) in every single episode.

I don't think she actually means it, though.

[starfishchick]

I have taken to using her intonation of 'sorry' in real life.

Though I have not yet used her "Sorry, sorry everyone. Sorry for CARING."

Eeeeeeee, Ellen!!!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Man, the thing is, it's hilarious every single time! The combination of the Canadian pronunciation, Martha Burns's delivery, and the lack of sincerity? GOLDEN.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

YES IT IS.

God I love that show.

[cyprinella]

"I dumped his ashes in the *river* and *swans* ate him."

[romancandles.livejournal.com]

"Coffee. Black."

"Cream and sugar?"

"Yeah. Black."

FAVORITE!

[metaphoracle.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love that! Paul delivers that line so wonderfully. Every time.

[sam80853.livejournal.com]

That's not a good position for jail, darling!

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

I don't believe this! Oliver Wells is DEAD! I poured him in the river and swans ate him.

That's the only one I can think of off the top of my head, dispite the fact that I just finished watching S2 on the bus this evening.

And oh, oh, "I can't comfort you, I'm on hold." Though I bet someone's posted that.

And my icon...

[lorem_ipsum]

Who'll do us when we're dead? Who'll do us?

[prettykitty-aya.livejournal.com]

i've only watched 4 eps of the 2nd season, but i think the delivery of Oliver's The air is just thick with irony' (or something like that)when the director of Romeo & Juliet falls off the stage is absolutely priceless...

and the swans ate him line? bloody brilliant.

[hobbledehoy.livejournal.com]

(don't throw pennies at the actors!)

[bohemian--storm.livejournal.com]

I kind of love, "And, fuck me blue, we're done."

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

"I'm not mentally equipped for the task at this time". I want a T-shirt that says this.

"Now, let's try it again without the Vietnam flashback."

"It was like having sex in public."
"I LOVE that."

"What is this obsession you people have with breakfast?"

There's a zillion more, but I'm tired and my brain hurts.

[lasergirl.livejournal.com]

I just really swoon everytime I watch Ellen and Geoffrey do their roll around the bed:

"Well surely you must have had other women..."
"No other women. Just you."
"For eight years?"
"well, first I was in the mental hopsital and then I never found the right woman..."

*MELTS*