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.

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

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

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?

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?

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: 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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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: When Reese Witherspoon's character is sitting at the desk reading, there is a cheerleading trophy and the cheerleader on it is wearing a mini skirt, - they didn't have mini skirts on the cheerleading outfits then. (01:08:20)

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Trivia: When the TV technician is talking to the children through the TV, he is sitting in front of a test card with a picture of an Indian. The Indian's expression changes each time we see it (mentioned on the DVD director's commentary).

Neil Jones

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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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