“I like you a lot, but the things I don’t like about you… I hate.”
[To offscreen character] “Hi, Mom.”
[eight seconds of shocked silence, pan for reactions]
[fade to black]
Attractive But Deeply Disturbed Businesswoman: “Did you do this for me because I slept with you?”
Charmingly Irresponsible, Rakish and Rugged Male Authority Figure: “Yes.”
ABDDB: “Really?”
CIRRMAF: “No.”
ABDDB: “Do you think anyone knows we slept together?”
CIRRMAF: “Yes.”
ABDDB: “Really?”
CIRRMAF: “No.”
[later]
Brittle Redhead: “Everyone knows you two are sleeping together.” [beat] “Well, everyone does.”
[whispered] “It’s a bomb.”
ABDDB: “You’re my boss/President/commanding officer! I can’t have sex with you.”
[later]
ABDDB: “I can’t believe we had sex.”
CIRRMAF: “Want to do it again?”
ABDDB: “…Yes.”
“I demand to be treated with respect!”
“We treat you with respect. Don’t we treat him with respect?”
“We treat you with respect all the time.”
“You told me I look like a baby [version of Important Job].”
“You do look like a baby [version of Important Job]. I respect babies. Babies are the future.”
“I am not the future. I am here now. I am the present!”
“[Rattles off list of rules at a near-incomprehensible speed.]”
[Struggling to keep up down the hallway] “Wait, could you repeat that last one?”
“I never repeat anything. That’s the last one.”
“You can’t die. I’ll kill you. You can’t die. If you die, I’ll never get the chance to kill you for making me watch you die, so you can’t die.”
“You look so happy today.”
“Thank you!”
“Stop it.”
[Image via Hollywood Reporter]
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yeah, that sounds about right
Ah, but you’ve forgotten my absolutely favorite variety of Shonda Rimes dialogue!
“Why does this sort of thing keep happening to us?!”
“It has been a crazy, intense year. We just need to make it through – some day, good things will start happening.”
“First X died in a horrific car crash, then there was that sink hole that opened in the ground, then the gunman, then the time someone literally cut my baby out of my body… I think we all deserve something good by now.”
“Does the universe hate us?! Is everyone this traumatized all the time?! When will it end!!??”
[It will never end. Shonda is your God.]
I think the best one is the grey’s anatomy one when yang is packing up the truck:
Yang: Well, yeah, I am. I’m fleeing, like bambi from a forest fire, and so should you, ’cause horrible things happen here.
Meredith: No, something horrible happened, and we should stick together.
Cristina: You know what? We have stuck together. And we’ve grown together, like two gnarled trees twining around each other, trying to survive.
Meredith: Survive what? Cristina, this is life. Bad things happen. It’s hard. You find your people, you find your person, and you lean on them.
Cristina: Oh, god love you, Mer. You know, so many horrible things have happened to you, and maybe you’re okay with it, but you shouldn’t be. Go to Harvard, anywhere except here, seeing your dead sister around every corner. Hey, your mother died here. Your husband was shot here. George died here.
And that’s only a short version!
Repeated as monologue every third episode: “I’ll do any ethically questionable thing you ask of me because you took a chance on me when I didn’t deserve it. My loyalty is actually indebtedness. [Something gladiator something, something secret hand tremors something.]”
“Who the hell are you to promise anything? You never promise a patient’s family/client a good outcome. Don’t ever promise an outcome we can’t deliver.”
Variations of this speech on early episodes of both Grey’s and Scandal.
Brittle Redhead is my idol. Or my spirit animal. One of those.
The last one is a great example of Shonda Invocation Cadence (TM). I assume she uses it to summon more hours of primetime.
Pick me, choose me, choose me, pick me, pick me, choose me.
You’re my person?, you’re MY person, you’re my person!
Earn me. So earn me. Earn ME.
Eat the muffin, blah blah, eat the muffin, blah blah, I SAID, EAT THE MUFFIN
I will watch every single thing she makes. I don’t care. I was a religious private practice consumer.
Shonda has a very musical ear when it comes to writing dialogue. In the midst of the crazy goings on & endless slumber parties, its her dialogue that keeps me coming back for more. Unabashed resident of Shondaland for a decade lol.
ABDDB: “You’re my boss/President/commanding officer! I can’t have sex with you.”
[later]
ABDDB: “I can’t believe we had sex.”
CIRRMAF: “Want to do it again?”
ABDDB: “…Yes.”
Shonda Rhimes for head writer of Mass Effect 4!
Have we all read this profile: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/magazine/shonda…? I watch Grey’s Anatomy every single week and there are so many things that are terrible about it, but also so many great things, and I don’t want to hide my love anymore!
I ate that profile FOR BREAKFAST, and Grey’s is my dessert every single week.