Pleasantville
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David: Yeah, where's our lawyer?
Big Bob: Oh, I think we want to keep these proceedings as pleasant as possible.

Jennifer: I did the slut thing, David. It got kinda old.

TV Weatherman: Well, it looks like we're going to have another sunny day - high 72, low 72, and not a cloud in the sky.

Jennifer: I was thinking of wearing that red thing... it's not slutty... it's fun.

Jennifer: I knew you'd pay a price for this. I knew you couldn't be so hopelessly geek-ridden for so long without suffering some really tragic consequences.

Skip: Hiya, Bud.
David: Hiya, Skip.
Skip: Hiya, Bud.
David: Hiya, Skip.
Skip: Bud, can I ask you a question?
David: Sure.
Skip: Well, if I was to go up to your sister... What I mean is, if I was to go up to Mary Sue.
David: Oh my God... are we in that episode?

Big Bob: My friends, this isn't about George's dinner. It's not about Roy's shirt. It's a question of values. It's a question of whether we want to hold on to those values that made this place great. So, a time has come to make a decision. Are we in this thing alone or are we in it together?

Bill Johnson: ...Don't you think?
David: I think you should try not to think about that anymore.

Bill Johnson: Must be awfully lucky to see colours like that. I'll bet they don't know how lucky they are.

David: Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire... Cat?

Jennifer: Hello! I've got like three pounds of underwire on here.

Skip: I don't know if I ever told you this before, but I think you're just about the keenest girl in the whole school.
Jennifer: Oh, really Skip? The keenest?

Bill Johnson: It's just... where am I going to see colors like that?

Jennifer: This place gives me the creeps! Did you know that the books are blank?
David: What?
Jennifer: Yeah, I was in the library and I looked, and they have covers and there's nothing inside of them.
David: What were you doing in a library?
Jennifer: I got lost.

Jennifer: Hey, can I ask you a question?
David: Sure.
Jennifer: How come I'm still in black and white?
David: What?
Jennifer: I've had, like, ten times as much sex as the rest of these girls, and I still look like this. I mean, they spend, like, an hour in the back seat of some car and all of a sudden they're in Technicolor?
David: I don't know. Maybe it's not just the sex.

Factual error: You can see the 3 point line painted out on the basketball court, they never had 3 point lines in the 50s. (00:21:55)

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Trivia: In the courtroom scene, all the people that have turned to color have to sit on the upper level. This is reminiscent of "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1963) where, in a similarly-built southern courthouse in the 1930's, all the "colored people" (African Americans) were relegated to the upper level.

Krista

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Question: I'm sure I'm missing something, but the ending didn't quite gel with me. I didn't get the significance of George Parker becoming Bill Johnson off-screen. Was it that given the fictional nature of the world/show, they were both different sides of the same person, or what? (01:51:45)

Jon Sandys

Chosen answer: I agree. I think there are a couple ways you could interpret this, but I took it to mean that Bill Johnson essentially became the new man in Betty Parker's life and that the show would continue reflecting this change.

Lynette Carrington

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