Joss Whedon quips
 

What are the best and worst quips in Joss Whedon scripts?

The award for 'worst quip' might have to go to Age of Ultron:

*Iron Man shoots bad guys*
IRON MAN: Good talk.
BAD GUY: No it wasn't!

None.

Inb4 Plastron with more quips than a Joss Whedon script

I dunno, bad ADR is funnier to me than the most of the actual dialogue.

Sadly I'm not familiar with much of the guy's work, though one of my favorite episodes of Angel (which I didn't get into until the final season) was the one where the title character became a puppet. I think there were some funny Sesame Street references in that one, but I haven't watched it in ages.

"Do you know what happens when a toad is struck by lightning?"

Ha. Perfect.

Even though I like some aspects of its visual style, the script for Alien Resurrection feels like one really long string of bad quips.

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Mewling. Quim.

Lol, that's what happens when the MPAA review board doesn't have some sort of linguist on the team: you get a very naughty slang word past the censors.

That's actually a great one. Very clever :lol:

How did your brain even learn human speech?

Pretty much anything from Buffy or Firefly/Serenity:


This one instantly comes to mind; right at the end of the video.

One quip from him personally that I remember from Serenity's commentary track when he was talking about River's big fight scene on Miranda. Something like, "Now, we could have done this with a stunt double. But we didn't have a stunt double - we had a ballerina." (i.e. Summer Glau)

Wasn't his script for that movie changed a lot after the fact? I swear I read that somewhere.

Hahaha amazing. I heard some place that that line made sense in an earlier cut, as it was a reference to a running Toad gag that they excised for some reason. Ray Park's acing?

Whedon has said in interviews he was not expecting that particular line read. That it was supposed to be a whimsical off-the-cuff statement, but that Halle Barry instead said it as if she was in a Greek tragedy.

Whedon's critical mistake was that he thought that line could ever be funny at all.

Whereas I think the blame rests more on the shoulders of the casting director.

How can you hate on the lead actress of Catwoman!?

Every movie can't be a winner.