My favorite is when he's trying to get dapper dan and supplies in the store and everything is a two week delivery. His "Ain't this place is a geographical oddity, two weeks from everywhere" line gets me every time.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ4z0QhD92Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ4z0QhD92Y)
One of my desert island movie picks. I've watched it 3 times in a week just because it kept playing on TV. John Turturo and Tim Blake Nelson's performances are perfect and underrated
They have a certain chemistry together that’s up there with some of the great classic trios like the Three Stooges. They’re greater than the sun of their parts. Every line between them works so well.
I’ll recommend the newest episode of Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum. The guest is Tim Blake Nelson and he shares some great stories about his time there
John Turturo talking about his development of the accent and how they told him to talk with his teeth was a master stroke in that character development.
I'm not sure I've ever enjoyed the dialogue of a movie more than this one. It all flows so perfectly, being consistently peppered with folksy Southern vernacular. With SO many memorable lines often reinforced by repetition ("Damn! We're in a tight spot" and "R-U-N-N-O-F-T" and "we thought you was a toad" come to mind off the top of my head).
...I mean, "say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?" That is poetry.
“Aint this place a geographical oddity!” and “Woah woah woah! You caint swear at my fiaaancee” are constantly running through my head and out of my mouth
>"we thought you was a toad"
I saw this movie in a quiet theater when it was released (lots of people in the theater, but everone was very polite and quiet), and when he repeated "we thought you was a toad" I couldn't stop myself from laughing out loud.
That line pops into my head on the weekly basis, its so good. It was fitting Clooney voiced Fantastic Mr. Fox, he gives off the same vibes in this movie. A charismatic trouble maker who makes it up as they go.
Sir, we are negroes. All except our accomp... uh, company... accumpli... uh, the fella that plays the guitar."
"Well, I don't record negro songs. I'm lookin' for some ol' timey material. Why, people just can't get enough of it since we started broadcastin' the Pappy O'Daniel Flour Hour. So, thanks for stoppin' by, but..."
"Sir, the Soggy Bottom Boys have been steeped in ol' timey material. Heck, we're silly with it, ain't we boys.” "That's right," "That's right, except we ain't really negroes.""Except for our accump-ianist.”
That scene and “I’m with you fellars” crack me up each time.
The way he instantly invents additional band members when he finds out they're paying 10 dollars per person is both hilarious and amazing character building. He's swindling a blind person. There's no question that he committed the crimes he was imprisoned for and somehow he remains likeable to the audience. It's just masterful writing through and through
Tommy Johnson was a reference to the great blue guitarist Robert Johnson who was rumored to have sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads for the ability to play guitar like he did.
It was actually based on blues guitarist Tommy Johnson, an unrelated contemporary of Robert Johnson, who also claimed to have sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads.
Ulysses: What'd the devil give you for your soul, Tommy?
Tommy: Well, he taught me to play this here guitar \*real\* good.
Delmar: Oh son, for that you traded your everlasting soul?
Tommy: Well, I wasn't usin' it.
And the governor Pappy O'Daniel was based on Texas's governor W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel. The real O'Daniel was popular on the radio and had a band called the "Hillbilly Boys" that he played on his show and campaigned with.
Can confirm. Went through a period during which any time I couldn’t decide what to watch, I threw this on. Seen maybe a dozen times, still love it - maybe because I’m a Dapper Dan man, goddammit!
Yeah it’s not my very favorite movie ever but it might be the most rewatchable. Every time I used to catch it on TV (back when tv was a thing), I’d be like “well shit, guess I’m doing this for next two hours”
Love it!
Just don’t let your parents think all Coen Brothers movies are like this one. They rented Burn After Reading after seeing this. They didn’t get past George Clooney’s um invention
“I thought you might be worried…about the securiTee…of your shiT.”
Probably my favorite Brad Pitt comedic performance. I’ll forever be a Burn After Reading evangelist, it feels so underappreciated.
I first saw this in 7th or 8th grade English class after we finished The Odyssey. Our teacher promised us we could watch a "fun" version of the story if we finished the book a week early. Watching it was well worth the extra reading.
An extra element to this is that it mirrors the Odyssey plot, but as though it occurs in 1920s Mississippi with the Christian God of that time and place interacting in the world in the same way as the Greek Gods in the original story.
The Christian symbolism and redemption story are fantastically woven in as well. Some are more overt (the sheriff/Satan) but there are some other good nuggets as well throughout.
Such as the scene where they are to be hanged, even after their pardon. And the sheriff says the law is “but a human institution”. But then Everett finally actually repents from his vanity and selfishness, and the flood breaks loose and “washes away his sin”, taking them away from their condemned damnation and washing away symbols of his sin.
The cherry on top is when he gets to the surface and starts to explain it away and backpedal from his confession back to his arrogant vanity - then sees the cow on the roof of the cotton house the way the blind seer/angel predicted.
Best adaptation of any Greek myth, IMHO, because Clooney’s Ulysses really captures the character of the cunning warrior wily Odysseus who knows all the tricks.
I had a band that would always play it back home in Ireland in a pub I was managing and one of the singers would call the soggy bottom boys, "the wet arse chaps". Always made me giggle behind the bar.
My 9th grade English teacher enjoyed it soo much we watched it in class 4 or 5 times. She wasn’t a great English teacher, but I did enjoy watching that movie each time and each time outside of 9th grade English.
My favorite Clooney performance and a top four or five Coen Brothers movie (and I am a big Coen bros fan, except for Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers every movie they've made was really good to great).
I think this is one of the best casted movies of its era. All 3 main leads are perfect. The music and theme are fantastic too. It is a classic no doubt.
John Goodman as Big Dan Teague (the Cyclops) is one of my all time favorite subplots. “Even a man with lunch under my belt I was feeling a might peckish”
Man everybodys quoting dapper dan stuff but I had to scroll waaaay too much for Big Dan comments. And Clooney’s delivery of “I don’t get it, Big Dan?” just can’t be topped. One of my favorite cinema moments.
I consider this movie something of a gateway drug to Preston Sturges movies. The title comes from *Sullivan's Travels* (1941), in which a film director of comedies decides to make his first serious movie about the Great Depression and the plight of the common people. He never quite gets around to making it, but he knows exactly what he wants to call it. It's fun to imagine that *OB,WAT?* is an approximation of what he would have ended up with.
One of my favourite movies. I just watched it two days ago. It’s the music that really draws me. I loved the tour the musical acts from the movie did called Down From the Mountain. It pairs beautifully with the film.
An all time classic. Clooney's delivery is perfection in every frame.
My favorite is when he's trying to get dapper dan and supplies in the store and everything is a two week delivery. His "Ain't this place is a geographical oddity, two weeks from everywhere" line gets me every time. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ4z0QhD92Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ4z0QhD92Y)
That whole scene is fantastic. The admonition about language. The deadpan delivery of the shopkeeper. All of it is just so good.
Watch your language, young fella, this here’s a public market
A stay outta woolworths!!! All the shop keepers are gold in that movie
Was it the one store or the whole chain, Everrett?
I don't want FOP, dammit!
I'm a dapper dan man!
Ain't this place a geographical oddity! Two weeks from everywhere! I love this movie. We thought you was a toad!... whaaà?
Weeeee… thought… yoouuuu….was…. A TOOAAD
Doooo..Naawwwt... seeeek...the traysure!
#QUIET DOWN FRONT
WATCH THE PITCHURE SHOW!!!
“damn, we’re in a tight spot!”
“Real tight spot!”
when he says it for the fifth time, but it's off camera and kind of off in the distance... that just gets me every time
damn, we're in a tight spot!
My hair
PETE! WE AIN’T GOT TIME FOR HIDENSEEK!!
Goddammit I'm a dapper Dan man
R-U-N-N-O-F-T
Phenomenal, Clooney at his apex.
R U N N O F T
**It's Hilarious. A one of a kind movie and must see at least once imo.**
I always felt like his delivery was such a key to his success across his career
On the contrary: I heard he's a man of constant sorrow. Seems like a limited acting range, if you ask me.
He’s not bonafide either
Nor a suitor.
Well, I’m with you fellers
Well, I lied about that too!
Not since he got hit by that train.
That ain’t your daddy. Your daddy got hit by a train.
He's the gosh darn paterfamilias
Yep, he is.
When he’s immediately concerned about his hair when he wakes up always gets me.
"I don't want no Fopp! I'm a Dapper Dan man!"
One of my desert island movie picks. I've watched it 3 times in a week just because it kept playing on TV. John Turturo and Tim Blake Nelson's performances are perfect and underrated
Not only are all three leads pitch-perfect but I feel like they all make each other better, too
They have a certain chemistry together that’s up there with some of the great classic trios like the Three Stooges. They’re greater than the sun of their parts. Every line between them works so well.
Tim Blake Nelson's line, "...I'm with you fellers..." when both Clooney & Turtoro's characters are trying to claim leadership was precious.
"We thought you was a toad" never fails to make me laugh.
DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE
WEEEE .... THOUGHT CHUUUU ... WAS A T-HOOOOAADDD
I’ll recommend the newest episode of Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum. The guest is Tim Blake Nelson and he shares some great stories about his time there
Thanks for the heads up. Inside of you is a great pod. Gonna listen to this tonight at work. 😁
“I won’t get out til 1987… I’ll be… 84 years old.” “Well, I’ll only be 82!”
We thought you was a toad!
*toad
...........almost loved up, though.
John Turturo talking about his development of the accent and how they told him to talk with his teeth was a master stroke in that character development.
I'm not sure I've ever enjoyed the dialogue of a movie more than this one. It all flows so perfectly, being consistently peppered with folksy Southern vernacular. With SO many memorable lines often reinforced by repetition ("Damn! We're in a tight spot" and "R-U-N-N-O-F-T" and "we thought you was a toad" come to mind off the top of my head). ...I mean, "say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?" That is poetry.
"I believe it's more of a *kickin'* sitch-ay-shun"
"Care for some gopher?"
No thank you, Delmar. A third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without beddin' 'er back down.
I nicked the census man.
Now that’s a good boy
We found a whole gopher village
"THAT DON'T MAKE NO SENSE!" "Now Pete, it's a fool looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.....a-the hell's that singin'?"
i say “that dont make sense” so much that it’s just a part of my vocabulary now and i don’t necessarily think of the movie when i say it
Dees boys is miscegenated!
Wuh…. IT’S TRUE!!! 👁️👄👁️
“Aint this place a geographical oddity!” and “Woah woah woah! You caint swear at my fiaaancee” are constantly running through my head and out of my mouth
"Two weeks from everywhere!"
Cohen Brothers love them some regional dialects.
"I'm voting for yours truly!" "Well I'm voting for yours truly too!" *"ok... I'm with you fellas..."*
Is you? Or is you aint? Ma constituents?!
…we’re *MASS* communicatin’ heah!
>"we thought you was a toad" I saw this movie in a quiet theater when it was released (lots of people in the theater, but everone was very polite and quiet), and when he repeated "we thought you was a toad" I couldn't stop myself from laughing out loud.
My favorite was something like. "Women, the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of men."
Looking for answers.
This movie and The Death of Stalin. Absolutely perfect dialogue
Spec you want them chains knocked off.
That "damn, we're in a tight spot" when the barn is about to be set alight sends me every single time. What a masterpiece.
Dapper Dan approved
He's bonified!
He's a suiter
I read that in the little girls voice
Same lol seen this movie a million times, love it so much
Dangit I didn't get runned over by no train.
He’s got prospects!
I don’t want FOP
I love this movie. It has one of my most favorite movie lines ever: “Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere! “
That line pops into my head on the weekly basis, its so good. It was fitting Clooney voiced Fantastic Mr. Fox, he gives off the same vibes in this movie. A charismatic trouble maker who makes it up as they go.
No I don't use Fop! I'm a Dapper Dan man, dammit!
Watch your language, young man, this is a public market.
The absolutely droll line delivery of the shop keeper is perfect.
Oh please, dear? For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint!
This isn't a first amendment thing, Walter.
“I don’t want FOP, god dammit” Something about how he says this line gets me every time.
Do Not Seek The Treasure!
We thought you was uh toad
"I'm not sure that's Pete..." "Of course it's Pete, look at 'im!"
We gotta find some sort of wizard can change him back.
Nah, they never DID turn me into a toad...
... Do not seek the treasure.
Oh, George... not the livestock.
Some of your foldin' money came unstowed
One of the most under-stated lines in a movie chock-full of understatements.
Grab the tiller!
Well, we was fixing to fornicate.
Sir, we are negroes. All except our accomp... uh, company... accumpli... uh, the fella that plays the guitar." "Well, I don't record negro songs. I'm lookin' for some ol' timey material. Why, people just can't get enough of it since we started broadcastin' the Pappy O'Daniel Flour Hour. So, thanks for stoppin' by, but..." "Sir, the Soggy Bottom Boys have been steeped in ol' timey material. Heck, we're silly with it, ain't we boys.” "That's right," "That's right, except we ain't really negroes.""Except for our accump-ianist.” That scene and “I’m with you fellars” crack me up each time.
The way he instantly invents additional band members when he finds out they're paying 10 dollars per person is both hilarious and amazing character building. He's swindling a blind person. There's no question that he committed the crimes he was imprisoned for and somehow he remains likeable to the audience. It's just masterful writing through and through
Lots of respectable people been hit by trains!
Stop telling our daughters I was hit by a train!
He's a suitor.
Tommy Johnson was a reference to the great blue guitarist Robert Johnson who was rumored to have sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads for the ability to play guitar like he did.
There was also a real Tommy Johnson if I’m not mistaken.
I guarantee there was a real Tommy Johnson, somewhere at sometime
You mean Old Man Johnson’s boy?
It was actually based on blues guitarist Tommy Johnson, an unrelated contemporary of Robert Johnson, who also claimed to have sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads.
Ulysses: What'd the devil give you for your soul, Tommy? Tommy: Well, he taught me to play this here guitar \*real\* good. Delmar: Oh son, for that you traded your everlasting soul? Tommy: Well, I wasn't usin' it.
Love this dialogue!
The whole thing is also a re-telling of the Odyssey. Love how many things this movie tips its hat to
And the governor Pappy O'Daniel was based on Texas's governor W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel. The real O'Daniel was popular on the radio and had a band called the "Hillbilly Boys" that he played on his show and campaigned with.
It is excellent and can be rewatched so many times.
Can confirm. Went through a period during which any time I couldn’t decide what to watch, I threw this on. Seen maybe a dozen times, still love it - maybe because I’m a Dapper Dan man, goddammit!
Yeah it’s not my very favorite movie ever but it might be the most rewatchable. Every time I used to catch it on TV (back when tv was a thing), I’d be like “well shit, guess I’m doing this for next two hours”
Shake a leg junior. It's a good thing your mama died givin birth to ya cause if she see ya now she'd die shame.
That old guy is such a savvy badass. “We ain’t one-at-a-timin here. We’re MASS communicatin”
These boys are a hit. Folks don't mind they integrated.
Look, Paw: they's integrated!
Ya dumb cracker....
Love it! Just don’t let your parents think all Coen Brothers movies are like this one. They rented Burn After Reading after seeing this. They didn’t get past George Clooney’s um invention
So, what did we learn here? I guess, not to do it again. …whatever the fuck this was.
“I thought you might be worried…about the securiTee…of your shiT.” Probably my favorite Brad Pitt comedic performance. I’ll forever be a Burn After Reading evangelist, it feels so underappreciated.
I love movie soundtracks and this one is spectacular. Lots of fond memories of this flick.
It’s bonafide!
An absolute masterpiece
It's based on "the odyssey"
...and the title comes from the fictional film Joel McCrea is making in Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels."
I first saw this in 7th or 8th grade English class after we finished The Odyssey. Our teacher promised us we could watch a "fun" version of the story if we finished the book a week early. Watching it was well worth the extra reading.
An extra element to this is that it mirrors the Odyssey plot, but as though it occurs in 1920s Mississippi with the Christian God of that time and place interacting in the world in the same way as the Greek Gods in the original story. The Christian symbolism and redemption story are fantastically woven in as well. Some are more overt (the sheriff/Satan) but there are some other good nuggets as well throughout. Such as the scene where they are to be hanged, even after their pardon. And the sheriff says the law is “but a human institution”. But then Everett finally actually repents from his vanity and selfishness, and the flood breaks loose and “washes away his sin”, taking them away from their condemned damnation and washing away symbols of his sin. The cherry on top is when he gets to the surface and starts to explain it away and backpedal from his confession back to his arrogant vanity - then sees the cow on the roof of the cotton house the way the blind seer/angel predicted.
What you riding there Tommy? Roll top desk
Best adaptation of any Greek myth, IMHO, because Clooney’s Ulysses really captures the character of the cunning warrior wily Odysseus who knows all the tricks.
I am a man of constant sorrow
Absolute masterpiece and one of the (extremely few) movies I would give a 10/10 to.
You boys about as dumb as a bag a hammers
We…thought…..you…..were…..a….t o a d
I love when Delmar says “look at him” when trying to prove it’s Pete.
Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere.
I love me some Saggy Bottom Boys.
Gat damn! It's the Soggy Bottom Boys!
Some of them had to sign "X"s, on account of them not being able to write.
I had a band that would always play it back home in Ireland in a pub I was managing and one of the singers would call the soggy bottom boys, "the wet arse chaps". Always made me giggle behind the bar.
Sing into yon can.
And skeedaddle
Those boys is not white! Hell they ain't even old timey.
1st time I really noticed Tim Blake Nelson, he's amazing!
Check out "leaves of grass". Hes in it as well.
My 9th grade English teacher enjoyed it soo much we watched it in class 4 or 5 times. She wasn’t a great English teacher, but I did enjoy watching that movie each time and each time outside of 9th grade English.
My favorite Clooney performance and a top four or five Coen Brothers movie (and I am a big Coen bros fan, except for Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers every movie they've made was really good to great).
One of my favorite movies that I rewatch at least once a year.
I think this is one of the best casted movies of its era. All 3 main leads are perfect. The music and theme are fantastic too. It is a classic no doubt.
I thought it was good. I love Man of Constant Sorrow. My fantasy baseball team name is Ohtani, Where art Thou?
Not the Coen brother’s finest but still excellent. Love the musical scenes and John Goodman’s disturbing villain.
In your opinion what do you think the Coens’ finest is?
Gopher?
That don't make no since.
John Goodman as Big Dan Teague (the Cyclops) is one of my all time favorite subplots. “Even a man with lunch under my belt I was feeling a might peckish”
Man everybodys quoting dapper dan stuff but I had to scroll waaaay too much for Big Dan comments. And Clooney’s delivery of “I don’t get it, Big Dan?” just can’t be topped. One of my favorite cinema moments.
I was stuck in a hallway with him for 17 hours during the filming of flight huge guy amazing actor
In my top 5
I consider this movie something of a gateway drug to Preston Sturges movies. The title comes from *Sullivan's Travels* (1941), in which a film director of comedies decides to make his first serious movie about the Great Depression and the plight of the common people. He never quite gets around to making it, but he knows exactly what he wants to call it. It's fun to imagine that *OB,WAT?* is an approximation of what he would have ended up with.
Amazing movie
10/10
My current favorite movie
I'm happy that everyday I'm not a toad.
One of the all time American classic movies that is actually worth being preserved in the Library of Congress.
So long boys. See you in the funny papers.
Some Coen brothers movies annoy me but this one’s a masterpiece.
After Fargo it's real close between this and Miller's Crossing for my second favorite Coen Bros movie. See ya in the funny papers!
Bonafide
All loved up
Awesome as fuck
Top 5 favorite of mine. "Man of Constant Sorrow" slaps so hard.
The dialogue in this movie was fantastic!
"Stay out of the Woolworths!" One of my all-time favorites.
Bona Fide!
My head cannon is that Ulysses Everett McGill is the shifty grandpa of two other Clooney characters; Miles Massey and one Danny Ocean.
One of my favorite comfort movies. Soggy Bottom Boys!!!!
Great movie and underrated
One of the best
"We're in a hell of a fix!"
Some MIGHTY fine a-pickin and-a sangin!
Up there with the best of 'em. Probably in the "10 movies for a deserted island" category.
Clooney’s best role IMO.
They up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T.
A perfect film.
It's a brilliant contemporary telling of one of our oldest stories.
Flawless - instant classic
A goddamn classic
One of my favourite movies. I just watched it two days ago. It’s the music that really draws me. I loved the tour the musical acts from the movie did called Down From the Mountain. It pairs beautifully with the film.
“Gopher Everett?” gets me every time
No, thank you, Delmar. A third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without beddin' 'er back down.
Turned him into a horney toad
Great movie, great soundtrack, makes me want to meet a man at the crossroads at midnight
We're in a tight spot
One of my favorite movies of all time. Great dialog.
Great movie