My Cousin Vinny/Funny

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • "What is a 'yoot'?"
  • Anytime Vinny refers to grits in the singular form, e.g. "A grit".
  • "Imagine you're a deer. You're prancing along; you get thirsty. You spot a brook. You put your little deer lips down to the cool, clear water... BAM! A fuckin' bullet rips off part of your head! Your brains are lying on the ground in little bloody pieces! Now I ask you: would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing?"
  • When Vinnie is testing the eye sight of an elderly witness by holding his fingers up from across the courtroom.

Judge: "Let the record show the counsel is holding up two fingers."
Vinnie (in a 'what the hell?' voice): "Your honor, please!"
Judge (realizing, embarrassed): Oh. Sorry.

    • "Now, Mrs. Reilly... and only Mrs. Reilly." Cue stink-eye from the judge.
  • Sleeping with a look of complete peace on his face, while he's in the middle of a prison riot, has to count for something. Ah, the sounds of home...