Slings & Arrows/Funny
- Geoffrey trying to fulfill Oliver's final wish.
Reg Mortimer: How can we help you? |
- And then later, in the next episode:
Anna: [holding Oliver's skull] It's not that heavy at all! |
- Pretty much anything that comes out of Darren Nichols's mouth.
Darren: I am Darren Nichols. Deal with THAT. |
- Ellen's reaction to Oliver's death:
Ellen: I always thought he'd grow old and die in the arms of some Jamaican cabana boy. But no, he got run over by a pig truck. Oh God. And I'm alone, just me and my dehydrated chameleon. |
- Geoffrey and Darren's sword fight. Full stop.
- And then afterwards, when an outraged (not upset, outraged) Darren confronts Richard and demands "everyone be fired". And then this:
Darren: I'm used to being hated. That's my thing. But I can't function as a director unless that hatred is kept in check by a thin, calculated veneer of invulnerability. |
- This:
Ellen: This isn't a sitcom. |
- "I was trying to throttle a swan ... it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time."
- Especially for those very familiar with Shakespeare, the three different theme songs (1 for each season) are hilarious.
- Geoffrey and his attempt to encourage the insufferable Darren Nichols to put the life back into his "dull, anti-romantic, vaguely condescending" production of Romeo and Juliet. "Go- go break your legs!"
- In the first episode of season 2, episode 1, when Geoffrey is telling Ellen that they’ll be producing Macbeth instead of Antony and Cleopatra:
Ellen: Geoffrey that is thrilling! And it’s a better play than Antony and Cleopatra- |
- Oliver and Geoffrey collaborating on Macbeth together:
Oliver: The Scotsman is evil. Both he and Banquil encounter the witches, both their futures are foretold, but only The Scotsman goes on a killing spree. |
- Richard confronting Sanjay on his seemingly suicidal ad campaign for the festival:
Richard: Old people dying?? What is that supposed to communicate? |
- Geoffrey and Oliver's "couples' therapy" sessions. There's this clip. And also:
Oliver: My father was a brute. And absolute brute.... That's why mother and I drank. |
- When Sophie gives her airheaded roommate Megan the benefit of the doubt, and offers to go out with her and Michael to the bar:
Megan: I took a two-week workshop with Laurie Turbit at The Actor's Incubator. Do you know her? |
- Cyril regailing Frank ("Ducky") with the infamous incident of Geoffrey's nervous breakdown on stage:
Cyril: God knows what he'll do with Oliver's Hamlet. Play the lead himself? |
- This:
Geoffrey: Could I get a coffee, black? |
- The Macbeth when Geoffrey messes with Henry Breedlove (in an attempt to get a more honest performance out of him), is, if you'll pardon the overused expression, made of win:
Henry: [Furiously] I cannot function like this. This isn't theater, this is.... improvisation! |
- and
Ellen: [Tumbling out of closet as Nahum releases her] Nahum- how could you? |
- and
Ellen: [Backstage with Geoffrey] You bastard. |
- Nearly any scene with Darren Nichols, although the duel and "No horses, no fire, no flinging flaming horses at the audience." probably top out the list.
- "Do you mean... Macbeth?"
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