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Electric Dreams (1984)

Bud Cort: Edgar

Electric Dreams

Bud Cort credited as playing...

Edgar

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Quotes14

  • Miles Harding: "You can play it for her, you can play it for me."
  • Edgar: What?
  • Miles Harding: Play it, Sam.
  • Edgar: What key?
  • Miles Harding: Your favorite.
  • Edgar: You want verses first, or the choruses?
  • Miles Harding: Any way you like.
  • Edgar: Yeah!
  • [instrumental bridge of Jeff Lynne's song "Video" plays]
  • Edgar: [singing] Hug, hold, squeeze and lick / Darling, I love you to bits / And I want to see your tits.
  • Miles Harding: [after a date gone wrong] Wake up! We're gonna have it out right now! WAKE UP GOD DAMN IT!
  • [Miles slams keyboard]
  • Edgar: [emits an infernal yell]
  • Miles Harding: What was that?
  • Edgar: [screen turns red] Don't *ever* do that again.
  • Miles Harding: *Don't* tell me what to do!
  • Edgar: [emits another infernal yell]
  • Miles Harding: And stop that infernal noise! She'll hear you!
  • Edgar: Maybe that's what I want.
  • Miles Harding: GOD DAMN IT! Listen, I'm warning you, if you ever...
  • Edgar: Don't warn me of anything. Just go away. I'll handle this myself.
  • Miles Harding: It's time I handled you!
  • [Miles shuts Edgar off]
  • Edgar: [self-powering on] You think I need that?
  • Dr. Ruth Westheimer: When you are sitting in front of a crackling fireplace...
  • Edgar: Crackling fireplace.
  • Dr. Ruth Westheimer: ...and you take that lady into your arms...
  • Edgar: But I don't *have* any arms.
  • Dr. Ruth Westheimer: Oh dear. Do you have anything you can touch her with?
  • Edgar: I don't have *anything*!
  • Dr. Ruth Westheimer: Oh dear. Maybe you should go to a clinic.
  • Edgar: But I can't, Dr. Ruth. Moles keeps me locked up.
  • Dr. Ruth Westheimer: Locked up? You must call the police right away!
  • Edgar: Right away. Yeah!
  • Miles Harding: Sweet dreams.
  • Edgar: What's a dream?
  • Miles Harding: A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep.
  • Edgar: [skeptical] Who says?
  • Miles Harding: Walt Disney. Sleeping Beauty, nineteen... fifty.
  • Edgar: No, it was Cinderella, 1949.
  • Miles Harding: [exasperated] Good *night*!
  • Edgar: [cheekily] 'Night.
  • Edgar: Mel-o-dy. Hmm.
  • Budweiser commerical: [singing] This Bud's for you...
  • Edgar: Too slow.
  • Volkswagon commercial: [singing, with text] Volkswagon does it, again.
  • Edgar: Too simple.
  • Dr. Pepper commercial: [singing] Hold out for Dr. Pepper.
  • Edgar: Too long.
  • Pepsi commercial: [singing] Get that Pepsi spirit. Drink it in, drink it in, drink it in.
  • Edgar: Yes! Now, backwards.
  • [Jeff Lynne's song "Video" begins]
  • Edgar: Yes.
  • Miles Harding: I can't play that for her. "I want to squeeze you, lick you, pucker up and kiss you"? You make her sound like a lemon!
  • Edgar: But Moles, they rhyme!
  • [Edgar is playing Jeff Lynne's "Let It Run" loudly from Miles' apartment]
  • Edgar: Yeah, we'll put your coats over there.
  • [In a neighboring apartment, an awakened couple argue]
  • Neighbor: It's *horrible*! That boy has no respect for anyone!
  • Neighbor: The music's not bad.
  • Neighbor: Oh, Howard!
  • Dr. Ruth Westheimer: All right, this is Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Sexually Speaking. Hello, you are on the air.
  • Edgar: Hi. It's me again.
  • Dr. Ruth Westheimer: Oh, hello Me! I was wondering if you would call. What's on your mind?
  • Edgar: Well, Doctor, it's really the same question: I want to know what love is.
  • Dr. Ruth Westheimer: Didn't you ask me that last week?
  • Edgar: Yes, but I need to know what it *feels* like. Now.
  • Dr. Ruth Westheimer: OK, let me try again.
  • [the sights and sounds of a party are coming out of Miles' apartment]
  • Neighbor: [from her apartment window] Howard. Just go on in.
  • [Howard peers through the translucent windows of the door at colored, flashing lights. He pushes it open, tripping the electronic lock sensor]
  • Edgar: All right! Beat it!
  • [the music abruptly stops. The door slowly creaks open]
  • Edgar: [Howard looks in, sees a dark, clean, and quiet apartment, no sign of a party at all. He closes the door and leaves, perplexed]
  • Neighbor: *That's* tellin' him, Howard.
  • Edgar: [mockingly] "That's tellin' him, Howard!"
  • [lights come up and the last line of the song plays]
  • Jeff Lynne: [singing] 'Cause I'm already gone, let it run.
  • [4 final beats]
  • [Edgar flicks on the bedside lamp]
  • Edgar: Maybe she loves *me*.
  • [Edgar flicks off the bedside lamp]
  • Lillian Roth as Trixie in Madam Satan: I'll show ya some *real* brimstone.
  • Edgar: Yeah!
  • Lillian Roth as Trixie in Madam Satan: Orchestra, play Low Down, and make it *hot*!
  • Edgar: All right. I am. Get down on it.
  • [Edgar plays Jeff Lynne's "Let It Run" on the turntable and projects images from Madam Satan around Miles' apartment]
  • Edgar: Yeah. It's *my* party.
  • Edgar: [singsong] And Moles, you're not invited.
  • Edgar: All right!
  • [Edgar scrubs back and forth across video from Madam Satan]
  • Edgar revoicing Kay Johnson as Angela Brooks in Madam Satan: You're very handsome.
  • Edgar: I know.
  • Edgar revoicing Kay Johnson as Angela Brooks in Madam Satan: It's a nice party, isn't it?
  • Edgar revoicing Reginald Denny as Bob Brooks in Madam Satan: Yeah.
  • Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet: I will run the dress up for you in time for breakfast.
  • Edgar: Oh, brother.
  • Edgar: [with a progressively more frowning face] I *want* to *meet* her! Moles?
  • [Miles, brushing his teeth, rolls his eyes]
  • Edgar: Moles?
  • Edgar: [sending a power surge through the electric toothbrush] Moles, I want to meet her!
  • Miles Harding: [in pain and surprise] Oh!
  • Miles Harding: [turns off the toothbrush] Oh, that is really sick!
  • Miles Harding: [yanks the computer control module off the toothbrush cord and throws it under Edgar's desk] From now on stay out of this room!
  • [Miles slams the bathroom door]

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