Strange Dialog on "Sorry Right Number" (Payphone Episode) - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Jack1000 · 04-27-2009, 04:16 AM

Help me out with this please,

I just watched this episode on DVD and it is complete and uncut, running over 25 minutes. I am examining the scene with Alice and Sam in the kitchen. Sam comes in to the kitchen and Alice says, "Hey, watch it with that meat cleaver, you don't have to prove you're a butcher." But I am looking at the scene and I cannot see anything in Sam's hand that would cause Alice to say this line. Than after they make some more small-talk, Alice says something like, "I'll be alright, soon as I get this thing in a cast." Is Sam holding something in his hand that I am not seeing? Could this be a continuity error where the script might have had him holding a meat cleaver, but they took out that prop, and mistakenly left the line in? Something is illogical about that scene and dialog. And even if Sam was holding a meat cleaver in the Brady kitchen, why? Alice's lines make no sense.

Jack

treky · 04-29-2009, 01:22 AM

I don't know dude; I haven't seen "THE BRADY BUNCH" in years.

comedyfreak · 04-29-2009, 12:26 PM

I'll have to check that one out.

sixfingers · 04-30-2009, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jack1000

Help me out with this please,
I Sam comes in to the kitchen and Alice says, "Hey, watch it with that meat cleaver, you don't have to prove you're a butcher." But I am looking at the scene and I cannot see anything in Sam's hand that would cause Alice to say this line.
[...]
Alice's lines make no sense.

Jack

You're being too literal! "Meat cleaver" refers to Sam's hand. He had grabbed
her on the back of the shoulder and the idea is that he had grabbed her too hard. If he had been mechanic, she might have said "pliers."

04-27-2009, 04:16 AM	#1
Jack1000 Member Senior Member Join Date: Dec 05, 2001 Posts: 2,055	Strange Dialog on "Sorry Right Number" (Payphone Episode) Help me out with this please, I just watched this episode on DVD and it is complete and uncut, running over 25 minutes. I am examining the scene with Alice and Sam in the kitchen. Sam comes in to the kitchen and Alice says, "Hey, watch it with that meat cleaver, you don't have to prove you're a butcher." But I am looking at the scene and I cannot see anything in Sam's hand that would cause Alice to say this line. Than after they make some more small-talk, Alice says something like, "I'll be alright, soon as I get this thing in a cast." Is Sam holding something in his hand that I am not seeing? Could this be a continuity error where the script might have had him holding a meat cleaver, but they took out that prop, and mistakenly left the line in? Something is illogical about that scene and dialog. And even if Sam was holding a meat cleaver in the Brady kitchen, why? Alice's lines make no sense. Jack

04-29-2009, 01:22 AM	#2
treky star trek fan Eternal Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Feb 25, 2002 Location: Conshohocken, pennsylvania Posts: 14,490	I don't know dude; I haven't seen "THE BRADY BUNCH" in years.
	__________________ the Clampetts are in a fancy Beverly Hills jewelry store. Granny points to a tray of rubies. Granny: "How much fer one o' them red diamonds?" clerk: "Madam, those are rubies." Granny: "OK ask her kin we buy one offa her." clerk: " The ruby I am talking about is not a lady." Granny: "Lissen, how she got them diamonds is her business. I'm just sayin' ask her kin we buy one from her."

04-29-2009, 12:26 PM	#3
comedyfreak Cheers! Forum Fanatic Join Date: Dec 14, 2005 Location: Sunny California Posts: 11,058	I'll have to check that one out.
	__________________ www.facebook.com/comedyfreak