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A Fish Called Wanda

Cast John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin
Year released1988
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Otto West holds a book authored by Friedrich NIetzsche (0:00)

Ken Pile stutters throughout the film.
Otto West: ”That’s quite a stutter you’ve got there, Ken.”
”I had a good friend in the CIA had a stutter.” (0:03)

Otto asks Ken, referring to animals, "You know what Nietszche said about them?" (0:06)

Otto, referring to Ken: “Twenty million dollars, he’s worried about an insect.”
"Stutteri’s not getting any better, is it, Ken?" (0:10)

Ken tells Wanda Gershwitz, referring to the others, "What morons." (0:12)

George: "Don’t worry about it, Ken." (0:21)

Otto pretends to stutter at the fish. (0:21)

Wanda tells Otto, "I’m not into necrophilia." (0:22)

Otto tells Wendy Leach, "So there’s no panic, ma’am."
Wendy: ”Not unless you’re congenitally insane or irretrievably stupid, no.” (0:49)

Wanda asks Otto, "Are you... crazy?" (0:51)

Burial of dog in cemetery (0:54, 1:04)

Otto tells Wanda, referring to the British, "Jesus, they’re uptight." (0:54)

Wand tells Wendy’s barrister husband Archie, "My mother gave it to me, on her deathbed." (0:59)

Archie asks Otto, "Are you totally deranged?" (1:01)

Wanda tells Otto, "... and you come loping in like Rambo without a jockstrap..."
”I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs...” (1:04)

Otto strikes Archie on the head with an antique bed warmer, rendering him unconscious. (1:08)

Wendy tells her daughter Portia, "Your father has finally gone completely mental." (1:10)

Otto tells Ken, "Friedrich Nietzsche. In which book did Nietzsche claim..." (1:22)

Wanda tells Archie, "Like Margaret Thatcher never lied." (1:32)

Archie asks Ken, "Have you got a stutter?"
”Don’t worry. Don’t worry.” (1:34)

Wanda strikes Otto on the head with a sap, rendering him unconscious. (1:38)

Otto strikes a passenger on the head with his pistol, rendering him unconscious. (1:39)

Otto tells Archie, "I was actually worried there for a minute." (1:39)

Ken: "Hey, I’ve lost my stutter." (1:43)

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