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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) is a tour de force of W.C. Fields' off-beat humor, double-takes, broad comedy and priceless lines and sketches. The screenplay by John T. Noville and Prescott Chaplin was based upon Fields' own original material (under nom de plume Otis Criblecoblis). The film is an absurd, irrational, surrealistic, innovative and wacky film with no real plot - it was cut so severely that it appears to be an erratic hodge-podge, full of holes and loose ends without cohesion and continuity. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film consists mainly of a series of flashbacks (the script's action is read by a film producer played by Franklin Pangborn) - a number of disjointed, funny and bizarre scenes spoofing his own cinematic career, Hollywood and the filmmaking industry.
The film opens with the bemused Great Man (W. C. Fields playing himself), a film scriptwriter, walking on his way to Esoteric Studios on the West Coast for a story conference. He stops in front of a large billboard sign to admire an advertisement for his most recent movie (The Bank Dick (1940), produced for Universal, not Esoteric). He is insulted by two boys who criticize his film, calling it a "Buptkie." Then, he makes a pass at a pretty girl: "Hi ya tootie-pie. Everything under control?" He doesn't realize she is accompanied by a husky enraged boyfriend, and he is punched in the face and knocked over a gate. He declares: "All five of 'em hit me at once."
In the memorable restaurant-ordering scene, he enters the Cozy Corner Cafe, a greasy-spoon restaurant run by a fat, obnoxious waitress Tiny (Jody Gilbert). He requests a menu and asks: "Is there any goulash on this menu?" She wipes a spot off the menu and replies: "It's roast beef gravy." He asks about the steak: "Is that steak New York cut?" She crosses if off the menu - it is unavailable. Pouring him a glass of ice water, she becomes distracted and he ends up with the overflow on his lap. He jokes:
No extra charge for the cold shower I hope.
Struggling to order something, he asks: "Do you think it's too hot for pork chops?" That also is crossed off the menu, along with a number of other items. He wonders: "That, uh, practically, uh, eliminates everything but ham and eggs...No ham." He is forced to order two four-minute eggs in a cup, white bread, and milk. He mutters:
I don't know why I ever come in here - The flies get the best of everything.
On Stage 6 at Esoteric Studios, his niece Gloria Jean (Gloria Jean playing herself) is doing a test shoot, performing "Estrella." Her mother Mlle. Gorgeous (Anne Nagel) also works at the studios as a trapeze artist double.
Back at the restaurant, the classic run-in with the fleshy waitress continues:
Waitress: And another thing. You're always squawking about something. If it isn't the steak, it's something else.
Fields (muttering): I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.
Waitress (sneering): You're as funny as a cry for help.
(As she approaches the table, he gives her an underhanded compliment.)
Fields: You used to be an old Follies girl?
Waitress: You know, there's something awfully big about you. (Long pause) Your nose.
Fields: (Looking at her big behind, and insulting her under his breath): There's something awfully big about you too.
Paying his tab, he asks: "What's the amount of the insult?" Before he leaves, she advises:
Waitress: And another thing, don't be so free with your hands.
Fields: Listen honey. I was only trying to guess your weight. You take things too seriously.
She catches him trying to replace his damaged straw hat with an undamaged look-alike on the hat rack.
Gloria Jean continues to rehearse, singing the first of two musical interludes: "Hot Cha Cha" (accompanied by the two younger boys, Buddy and Butch from the billboard scene) and then "Voices of Spring." She is required to rehearse through the entire lunch hour by a nervous and upset Producer (Franklin Pangborn playing himself). After finishing, she greets her uncle at the front gate of the studios. He is on his way to have the studio read and buy his new script.
When he enters the Producer's outer office, the receptionist (Carlotta Monti) is having a loud conversation with someone on the phone:
The film opens with the bemused Great Man (W. C. Fields playing himself), a film scriptwriter, walking on his way to Esoteric Studios on the West Coast for a story conference. He stops in front of a large billboard sign to admire an advertisement for his most recent movie (The Bank Dick (1940), produced for Universal, not Esoteric). He is insulted by two boys who criticize his film, calling it a "Buptkie." Then, he makes a pass at a pretty girl: "Hi ya tootie-pie. Everything under control?" He doesn't realize she is accompanied by a husky enraged boyfriend, and he is punched in the face and knocked over a gate. He declares: "All five of 'em hit me at once."
In the memorable restaurant-ordering scene, he enters the Cozy Corner Cafe, a greasy-spoon restaurant run by a fat, obnoxious waitress Tiny (Jody Gilbert). He requests a menu and asks: "Is there any goulash on this menu?" She wipes a spot off the menu and replies: "It's roast beef gravy." He asks about the steak: "Is that steak New York cut?" She crosses if off the menu - it is unavailable. Pouring him a glass of ice water, she becomes distracted and he ends up with the overflow on his lap. He jokes:
No extra charge for the cold shower I hope.
Struggling to order something, he asks: "Do you think it's too hot for pork chops?" That also is crossed off the menu, along with a number of other items. He wonders: "That, uh, practically, uh, eliminates everything but ham and eggs...No ham." He is forced to order two four-minute eggs in a cup, white bread, and milk. He mutters:
I don't know why I ever come in here - The flies get the best of everything.
On Stage 6 at Esoteric Studios, his niece Gloria Jean (Gloria Jean playing herself) is doing a test shoot, performing "Estrella." Her mother Mlle. Gorgeous (Anne Nagel) also works at the studios as a trapeze artist double.
Back at the restaurant, the classic run-in with the fleshy waitress continues:
Waitress: And another thing. You're always squawking about something. If it isn't the steak, it's something else.
Fields (muttering): I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.
Waitress (sneering): You're as funny as a cry for help.
(As she approaches the table, he gives her an underhanded compliment.)
Fields: You used to be an old Follies girl?
Waitress: You know, there's something awfully big about you. (Long pause) Your nose.
Fields: (Looking at her big behind, and insulting her under his breath): There's something awfully big about you too.
Paying his tab, he asks: "What's the amount of the insult?" Before he leaves, she advises:
Waitress: And another thing, don't be so free with your hands.
Fields: Listen honey. I was only trying to guess your weight. You take things too seriously.
She catches him trying to replace his damaged straw hat with an undamaged look-alike on the hat rack.
Gloria Jean continues to rehearse, singing the first of two musical interludes: "Hot Cha Cha" (accompanied by the two younger boys, Buddy and Butch from the billboard scene) and then "Voices of Spring." She is required to rehearse through the entire lunch hour by a nervous and upset Producer (Franklin Pangborn playing himself). After finishing, she greets her uncle at the front gate of the studios. He is on his way to have the studio read and buy his new script.
When he enters the Producer's outer office, the receptionist (Carlotta Monti) is having a loud conversation with someone on the phone:
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Originally Posted by PsychoBen,Aug 12 2004, 04:21 PM
I already sent him the 4K and am expecting the car to arrive at my door any day now.
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Guys,
I hate to tell you this but Mario is on the "up and up"
he ran the Yahoo add last month, i sent him the deposit and sure enough the car showed up via DHL a few days later (you'll need a fork lift and a good pry bar to open the crate, be sure to save the crate in case you do need to send it back). Car is in good condition, don't tell anyone but i took it to a track for the weekend for some auto crossing and then called Mario and told him i wasn't really interested, the DHL truck was there the next day and he sent a check back real quick like for my deposit, i had to buy nails to nail the crate back together, i'm chasing mario down to pay me back for the nails but i thinks he's got me on that one.
BTW i left my Dave Matthews Band disc in the CD player if someone gets this car please send it back to me, after this whole thing with the nails mario is not returning my calls.
I hate to tell you this but Mario is on the "up and up"
he ran the Yahoo add last month, i sent him the deposit and sure enough the car showed up via DHL a few days later (you'll need a fork lift and a good pry bar to open the crate, be sure to save the crate in case you do need to send it back). Car is in good condition, don't tell anyone but i took it to a track for the weekend for some auto crossing and then called Mario and told him i wasn't really interested, the DHL truck was there the next day and he sent a check back real quick like for my deposit, i had to buy nails to nail the crate back together, i'm chasing mario down to pay me back for the nails but i thinks he's got me on that one.
BTW i left my Dave Matthews Band disc in the CD player if someone gets this car please send it back to me, after this whole thing with the nails mario is not returning my calls.
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From: At the Finish Line
Originally Posted by S2KNJ,Aug 13 2004, 07:43 AM
Guys,
I hate to tell you this but Mario is on the "up and up"
he ran the Yahoo add last month, i sent him the deposit and sure enough the car showed up via DHL a few days later (you'll need a fork lift and a good pry bar to open the crate, be sure to save the crate in case you do need to send it back). Car is in good condition, don't tell anyone but i took it to a track for the weekend for some auto crossing and then called Mario and told him i wasn't really interested, the DHL truck was there the next day and he sent a check back real quick like for my deposit, i had to buy nails to nail the crate back together, i'm chasing mario down to pay me back for the nails but i thinks he's got me on that one.
BTW i left my Dave Matthews Band disc in the CD player if someone gets this car please send it back to me, after this whole thing with the nails mario is not returning my calls.
I hate to tell you this but Mario is on the "up and up"
he ran the Yahoo add last month, i sent him the deposit and sure enough the car showed up via DHL a few days later (you'll need a fork lift and a good pry bar to open the crate, be sure to save the crate in case you do need to send it back). Car is in good condition, don't tell anyone but i took it to a track for the weekend for some auto crossing and then called Mario and told him i wasn't really interested, the DHL truck was there the next day and he sent a check back real quick like for my deposit, i had to buy nails to nail the crate back together, i'm chasing mario down to pay me back for the nails but i thinks he's got me on that one.
BTW i left my Dave Matthews Band disc in the CD player if someone gets this car please send it back to me, after this whole thing with the nails mario is not returning my calls.
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From: Eau Claire
Originally Posted by S2KNJ,Aug 13 2004, 10:43 AM
I'm chasing mario down to pay me back for the nails but i thinks he's got me on that one.
What - I don't believe it. You have to pay for your own nails? 
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guys, i am having a feeling that this guy is scamming me...as I told you guys before, I sent him a deposit for $4000 a few days back...here is what I did, I put 40 $100 bills in my mail box, and even stamped and addressed each one of them...now he's claiming that he didn't get not ONE of my $100 bills I mailed, but I now it has been mailed because the bills aren't in my mailbox anymore...do you think it's because I wrote the incorrect address? Did I need to put 2 stamps on each bill? I trusted this site, because it is YAHOO and they seem like a good company...do you think I should sue Yahoo? 