Rent/Awesome

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • "Hey mister..." (Beat) "She's my SISTER!"
  • The Bag Lady's reaction to Mark filming her in "On The Street".
  • "Santa Fe"; all that dancing 'round on the streets of New York?
  • Maureen's first appearance in "Christmas Bells".

Company: And it's beginning to- and it's beginning to- and it's beginning to-!
Maureen: [Taking off her helmet] Joanne, which way to the stage?
Company: SNOWWWW!

  • Mimi's not-so-subtle ways of flirting with Roger in "Light My Candle" and his subsequent reactions.
  • Angel's story of how she got the money in "Today 4 U".
  • Mark's quitting Buzzline near the end of 'What You Own' sends shivers down this troper's spine every time, for as relatively subtle a moment as it is.

Mark: Alexi? Mark-- call me a hypocrite-- I need to finish my own film-- I quit!

  • Mimi recounts Angel's epic Take That against someone who was harassing her: "I'm more of a man than you'll ever be, and more of a woman than you'll ever get."