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• Speed of Sound Tour

About The Big Lebowski

• Released in 1998
• Directed by Joel Cohen, Ethan Cohen
• Produced by Polygram Filmed Entertainment

The Big Lebowski Scenes

• There Was This Fellah
• Ever Thus to Deadbeats
• That's Your Name, Dude
• Not Literally His Children
• I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowksi
• Blow On Them
• Over the Line
• Calmer Than You Are
• Tomorrow's Already the Tenth
• That's a Bummer, Man
• Dios Mio, Man
• Her Life is In Your Hands
• Let's Take That Hill
• Shomer Fucking Shabbas
• Separate Incidents?
• The Story is Ludicrous
• I Got a Rash
• The Royal We
• Forget About the Fucking Toe
• Nice Marmot
• They Got Us Working in Shifts
• I Need My Fucking Johnson
• A Lot of Ins, a Lot of Outs
• She Hit Me Right Here
• Bulk of the Series
• Is This Your Homework?
• You're Not Dealing With Morons
• Did the Pope Shit in the Woods
• Fucking Fascist
• I Hate the Fucking Eagles
• Erev Shabbas
• Like an Irish Monk?
• Lingonberry Pancakes
• From Moses to Sandy Koufax
• I'm a Fucking Veteran
• Bush League Psycheout Stuff
• They Killed My Fucking Car
• Goodnight, Sweet Prince
• The Dude Abides

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Jeffrey Lebowski

Maude Lebowski

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The Untold Truth Of The Big Lebowski

"The Big Lebowski" is a quirky, charming cult film that dances a fine line between being completely random yet somehow still grounded. There are so many odd details about the 1998 Coen brothers comedy to obsess over that people are still discussing new theories, making new connections, and swapping trivia. Did you know, for instance, that the Dude's sweater is called a Westerly Cardigan and is based on a style created by indigenous Canadians ? Did you know the "The Dude abides" quote is actually a butchered Bible verse ? With this article, we're gonna dig a bit deeper, but try not to get too far out of our element.

The Dude never actually bowls at any point in the movie

One of the most grounding elements of an otherwise spiraling film of dream sequences, kidnapping, porn, and morose German philosophy are the scenes inside the bowling alley. They bring an earthy, working-class realness to the core protagonists. Oddly enough, however, at no point in the film is the "hero" (of sorts), the Dude, actually shown bowling. The closest we get is the dream sequence when he does a sort of "bowling dance" with a Viking costume-clad Maude, but even then, she is the one that rolls the ball.

Maybe it's a stylistic thing — a reflection of the Dude's passive nature. Even in the course of engaging with something he is passionate about, the events still simply happen around him, rather than being shaped at all by his will or action. Maybe Jeff Bridges doesn't actually know how bowling works ?

The Dude is actually based on a real person

Jeff Bridges' performance of the Dude character has a sort of general "Hey, I know a guy just like that!" resonance, but believe it or not, he was based on a real person. They're not even subtle about it in the film, listing actual autobiographical details of Jeff Dowd, the man the character was based on , in an afterglow scene where Lebowski and Maude talk post-coitus .

Jeff Dowd really was one of the "Seattle Seven," an actual anti-war activist group during the '60s, and The Port Huron Statement was a real document authored by the group. The Metallica "Speed Of Sound" tour is fictional, however, and Dowd had no connection to that group at the time of the film. In a strange twist of fate, however, he did end up working on Metallica's documentary film Monster, and we'll leave it up to you to decide whether that plot twist was fortunate or not.

In real life, after his protest activism slowed down, Dowd was very active in the film industry as a producer and filmmaker, very unlike the slacker image presented in the film. Among his other work, he was the co-producer of FernGully: The Last Rainforest and... wait, what? FernGully ? Really? Wild.

The homework found in the back seat of a stolen car plotline is a true story, as well

The "homework" scene, also known as the " Find a Stranger In The Alps " scene, thanks to the absurd censorship the film receives on basic cable, is one of the most iconic in the film. Once his stolen car is recovered, the Dude finds homework he believes belongs to the car thief in the back seat. This sends the Dude and Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) on a wild goose chase that winds up with two cars destroyed and the protagonists gaining nothing in their search for the truth behind the kidnapping/ransom. As bizarre as it sounds, it's also loosely based on a true story , and points to the real life person (or at least one of them) Sobchak was based on.

Walter Sobchak is an amalgamation of a few people the Coen brothers have known, but many traits were generously borrowed from the life of Paul Exline, the man who greenlit the 1987 Coen brothers film Raising Arizona . He did have a car stolen that he had to track down to the impound lot. He did find a kid's homework in the car, and he brought along his friend to interrogate the kid. He even put the homework in an evidence-like bag and wore a suit to more fully play the detective role. The house was even owned by an elderly man in an iron lung.

However, there's no mention by Exline of crowbars or his opinion of Alpine strangers, which is probably for the best. Some things are best left a mystery.

There is a legally recognized religion based on The Big Lebowski

In these trying times, if you are having a bit of a spiritual crisis, you could do a lot worse than converting to Dudeism . Founded by Oliver Benjamin, The Church Of The Latter Day Dude is a bit more complex than you may immediately suspect. Followers find as much solace in its blend of Taoist and Epicurean philosophy as they do in obsessively reciting lines from the film while ordering White Russians until you find someone else to sit next to at the bar.

As a legally recognized religion, ordained priests of Dudeism are able to perform legally recognized rites like marriages , and seem pretty progressive about who they will give their blessing to. So maybe even if you are not interested in converting, you could still keep them in mind for taking on any number of normally stuffy, traditional events you have coming up in a more casual, laid-back manner.

The word dude is used 260 times throughout the movie

This may be a bit of a cheat, because technically this is the chosen name of the protagonist, but when shown back-to-back in a viral supercut, the amount of times "dude" is said in the film seems absurdly excessive. The f-word is even more prominent in the film, rating the movie about halfway between Eddie Murphy: Raw and Goodfellas in frequency. Seriously . If you count variations of the f-word, like mother-etcetera, it actually outdoes Goodfellas . There's a supercut of that too, but it's a bit spicy for this site.

The film structure is that of a Raymond Chandler-style detective noir

The Big Lebowski has a very unusual narrative structure from first glance. It's not quite a buddy movie, it's not quite a comedy of errors, and there's all this very strange espionage going on by increasingly shady and bizarre characters double-crossing each other. It makes a lot more sense when you realize the film is essentially a classic detective film , except the protagonists are under-qualified, accidental detectives. This lends a lot of the humor to the movie, as the protagonists are completely over their head and have no idea how to navigate the machinations going on around them.

It has all the tropes. For instance, like detective movie protagonists, the Dude appears in literally every scene of the movie, just occasionally shoved so far in the background that he only "appears" as the van he is in through the window at the diner where the nihilists are ordering pancakes. The whole movie takes place in the vicinity of wherever he happens to be. There's even a scene where the Dude is accosted by a detective that acts as if he is playing some sort of 4-D chess spy game, rather than just constantly blundering into wherever the action happens to be. It's an incredibly clever reversal of expectations that even devoted fans of the film may miss.

The television show Veronica Mars was wall-to-wall Big Lebowski quotes

Rob Thomas — creator of the cult hit television show Veronica Mars not the singer of the Carlos Santana song "Smooth" — is a huge fan of The Big Lebowski . The show was chock-full of references to the show, and for good reason . The show featured an accidental, amateur detective and also took place in Lebowski 's Southern California. Speaking to Vulture, Thomas insists that they would have snuck the entire movie into the show line-by-line if they could, but at least got their favorite lines in before the show was canceled after three seasons.

Steve Buscemi almost turned down his role for the exact reason the Coen brothers wanted him in it

On his first read of the Coen brothers script, Steve Buscemi was dismayed at the treatment his character Donny received. He just could not wrap his head around the abuse Donny's friend Walter constantly barraged him with, to the point where he became uncomfortable with the idea of performing in the film. Out of respect for the Coen's work, he went ahead and read the script through to the end. In the final act of the film, the way Walter attempted to protect and then later eulogized the fallen Donny moved him, and he was sold. Seeing the whole character arc play out, he realized a brotherly connection between the two characters that sealed the deal for him.

Incidentally, all that abuse that initially turned off Buscemi was absolutely intentional by the directors as an in-joke. Buscemi had previously played Carl Showalter in Fargo , and in that film his character was constantly talking. Just would not stop. The idea of having a character constantly screaming at Buscemi to shut up in their next film was deliciously funny to the Coens, who included it in the script.

The I hate the Eagles, man line was a blessing and a curse for the film

Despite being a fairly passive, laid-back character, there are a few things one definitely knows about the Dude. He loves bowling and White Russians, and he hates the Eagles. Jeff Bridges himself is much more apathetic, or at least much less apoplectic, about the band than his character, but that didn't stop him from getting chewed the heck out by Eagles singer/guitarist Glenn Frey several times at parties the two attended. Apparently Bridges and Eagles drummer Don Henley are on much friendlier terms, and the supposed slight hasn't affected how the two interact.

The line worked out well for the film itself, however. Music producer T Bone Burnett was really interested in ending the movie with Townes Van Zandt's cover of the Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers," a song that was incredibly tricky to secure, since Van Zandt had died the year before. Turns out the rights to the song were owned by former Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein, who initially demanded $150,000.

The Coens invited him to watch an early cut of the film, and at the Eagles-disparaging line, Klein stood up in the middle of the showing and insisted they could just have the song for free. That's a way deeper burn against the Eagles than the line itself.

The exact car used in the film was in an X-Files episode

Throughout the film, it's not like the 1973 Gran Torino the Dude drives is in particularly great shape, and it gets worse as the movie progresses. The final indignity the car suffers, however, was reserved for years later. It made a brief appearance in the 1999 buddy-cop film Blue Streak , and then was wrecked while filming the 2001 X-Files episode "Salvage."

However, the car lives on in a 1/43 scale diecast model , so this isn't entirely a sad ending for the poor, beleaguered vehicle.

There was a short-lived store that sold exclusively Big Lebowski merchandise

Little Lebowski was a Greenwich Village store that sold nothing but The Big Lebowski -related merchandise, and it stayed open for a surprisingly long time doing exclusively that. Owner Roy Preston started out running a children's bookstore in the same location starting in 2007, but just could not get the level of business he needed to keep the bills paid. Realizing he was close to closing down, he went out on a limb and started stocking t-shirts for his favorite film. This brought in some new business, but he still struggled.

Jeff Bridges' 2010 Oscar win, and the resulting boost in interest in his films, was a godsend to Preston. His store finally in the black, it became a wall-to-wall shrine to the then more than twenty-year-old film. The film played on loop on a television inside, the store had a mini-bowling alley in back, and, as well as t-shirts, they also sold bobble-heads, cardboard cutouts of the characters and even rugs. You know, to tie the room together. Preston would even sell White Russians to customers stumbling in from nearby bars to help boost interest.

From 2011-2014, the store did really well, but eventually Preston had to close shop. He now sells Lebowski-related trinkets online, but it's not the same, man.

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18 Things You Didn't Know About 'The Big Lebowski'

Vote up ‘The Big Lebowski’ trivia you never knew.

The Big Lebowski is a special kind of cult classic. First off: The Dude. Jeff Bridges drinking White Russians will forever have a place in our special box of '90s nostalgia, man. Second, how many films do you know that have their very own festival? How about their very own store in Greenwich? Better yet, how many movies have inspired an entire religion?!

Needless to say, there's nothing quite like  The Big Lebowski . Trying to summarize or describe the film is like trying to get The Dude to like The Eagles... it's futile. Instead of trying to put this cinematic experience into words, we've decided to dig up some facts you may not know about the film masterpiece. So kick back, relax, pour yourself a White Russian, and enjoy.

The Dude's Wardrobe Came From Jeff Bridges's Closet

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A lot of The Dude's clothes in the movie were Jeff Bridge s's own clothes , including his Jellies sandals.

T Bone Burnett Is The Reason The Dude Hates The Eagles

T Bone Burnett acted as music consultant on the movie and helped Joel and  Ethan Coen  establish The Dude's taste in music. Burnett selected many of the songs on the film's soundtrack, and also suggested The Dude's hatred towards The Eagles ( Burnett himself is not a fan ). One of the band's members, Glenn Frey , was reportedly so dismayed about this that he once angrily confronted Jeff Bridges about it  when they ran into each other. 

Can The Dude Actually Bowl? We'll Never Know

The Dude Is In Every Scene Of The Movie

That's right ! He's even in the scene where the Nihilists are ordering pancakes - through the window, you can see the van the Dude and Walter are driving. This is in keeping with the traditional film-noir style, in which the protagonist is the narrator and acts as the audience's guide throughout the film.

The Film Received A Proud Endorsement In Norway

Norwegian posters and video cassettes featured the text , "anbefales av norsk bowling forbund," which translates to, "recommended by the Norwegian Bowling Association."

The Dude's Car Later Starred In 'The X-Files'

The Dude's car is a four door 1973 Ford Gran Torino , which was also used during the filming of  The X Files .

In the original script, The Dude drove a Chrysler LeBaron , as Jeff Dowd (film producer and real life inspiration for The Dude) once owned one, but that car wasn't big enough to fit John Goodman.

Metallica Was Flattered By Their Scripted Cameo

The Dude tells Maude he was a roadie for Metallica  on their (fictional) "Speed of Sound" tour and refers to the band members as a "bunch of a**holes." Metallica themselves were flattered to be referred to in a Coen Brothers movie, with guitarist Kirk Hammett  once noting in an interview that they'd tried to think of a way to incorporate that scene into their live shows.

The Rug Really Tied The Movie Together

People mention peeing on the Dude's rug 17 times . They also say the rug "really tied the room together" five times.

The Coens' Sneaky Details Reveal A Lot About The Dude

A s The Dude writes the 69 cent check at Ralph's, he watches George H.W. Bush give the "This aggression will not stand" press interview live on TV. President Bush gave the interview on the White House lawn on Sunday, August 5, 1990, three days after the Iraqi Army invaded Kuwait. The Dude's check, however, is dated September 11, 1991, indicating that The Dude is so broke, that he had to post-date a 69 cent check by over one year.

The Main Tagline Is A Bible Reference

The line, "The Dude abides," is a reference to Ecclesiastes 1:4, "One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but the earth abides forever." This is a reference to how The Dude, much like the Earth, can weather change and chaos around him, but still remain the same.

The Film Is Littered With Clever Callbacks

The Dude has a habit of repeating phrases he hears from other characters. For example, the George H.W. Bush  "This aggression will not stand" speech is repeated by the Dude.

Maude Lebowski uses the phrase, "parlance of our times," and The Dude repeats this one in the limo. The Big Lebowski says he "will not abide another toe!" at the end of the movie and threatens Larry with castration, like the nihilists did in his bathroom.

Two Particular Words Pop Up A Lot

The Dude says "man" 147 times in the movie, and "Dude" is said 160 times. 

Walter Shutting Up Donnie Is A Sly Nod To 'Fargo'

The reason Walter (John Goodman) is constantly telling Steve Buscemi 's character, Donny, to  "shut the f*ck up!"  could be that Buscemi's character in the Coen Brothers' film Fargo   was such a mouthy chatterbox .

All The F-Bombs Earned The Movie Its R-Rating

The F-word, or a variation of it, is used 292 times in the film. That's more times than in Scarface !

The Dude Enjoys Nine White Russians Throughout The Film

The Dude drinks nine White Russians during the course of the movie (though he drops one of them at Jackie Treehorn's mansion).

What's the recipe for making a proper White Russian ? Two parts vodka, one part coffee liqueur (such as Kahlúa) and one part cream, served with ice in a low ball glass.

Creative Editing For TV Created An Iconic Line

In a version of The Big Lebowski that was edited for television broadcasts, the famous line "This is what happens when you f*ck a stranger in the a**!" was changed to "This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!" The line is regularly cited as one of the most "creative" edits made to a film for a TV broadcast .

Virtually Every 'Man' And 'Dude' Was Scripted, Not Improvised

Although the characters speak so easily that much of the film feels improvised, John Goodman has explained that the actors largely played by the script. Their natural performances come from several weeks of rehearsal. 

There Was A 'Big Lebowski' Store In Greenwich Village

The Little Lebowski Shop , located in New York City's Greenwich Village, was devoted exclusively to the film. The store sold merchandise related to the film, including memorabilia and t-shirts, before closing in 2015.

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You Haven’t Seen The Big Lebowski Until You’ve Seen It On 35mm.

The cult classic returns to the clinton street theater on 35mm for the holiday season. catch a million little details you missed the first fifteen times you watched it..

Among stoner cousins, ponytailed uncles and second-wave coffee-shop enthusiasts, Ethan and Joel Cohen 's 1998 comedy The Big Lebowski is an infinitely rewatchable tale about a heroic everyman who embodies a live-and-let-live ethos in a hostile world. This week, the Clinton Street Theater is playing the cult classic on 35 mm for achievers and squares alike.

Last week, we watched the test run of the print. Here are the things we noticed for the first time.

They Call Los Angeles the City of Angels…

• The Compton-based Ralphs is the Dude's supermarket of choice. It's where we're introduced to him, and later the Dude's rewards card is his only form of ID.

• Bunny Lebowski ( Tara Reid ), real name Fawn Knudson, is from Moorhead, Minn ., a city that abuts Fargo, N.D . The Coens' film prior to The Big Lebowski ? Fargo .

• Bunny offers to fellate the Dude for $1,000—that's $1,772.05 in today's money. If the Dude had found a cash machine, and if Brandt ( Philip Seymour Hoffman ) wanted to watch, it would have cost him $177.20 in today's money.

• When you see the Dude, Walter and Donny   ( Steve Buscemi ) enjoying their burgers from the In-N-Out on Camrose, the colorful paper cup Walter drinks soda from is definitely not an In-N-Out cup, which are white with a distinctive red palm tree pattern.

• On Maude Lebowski’s ( Julianne Moore ) coffee table, there’s what appears to be a copy of LA Weekly . We asked two people at LA Weekly to identify the issue, without success. LA Weekly did a Lebowski -themed issue in 2013 but didn’t mention it.

Fuck It, Let's Go Bowling

• All of Donny’s embroidered bowling shirts are named—Austin, Art and a few more—but not a single one of them with “Donny.”

See, Let Me Tell You a Little Something About the Dude…

• In the film's first scene, Lebowski pays for his 69-cent carton of milk with a whale-themed personal check. The date is 9/11/91. That's exactly 10 years before 9/11 and the day that George H.W. Bush gave his famous "New World Order" speech following the Gulf War.

• The Dude might look like a bum, but he has upper-class taste. His Pendleton sweater retails for $240 and his Vuarnet 1307 sunglasses go for $200.

• He was also a co-author of the "original" 1962 Port Huron Statement , issued by Students for a Democratic Society , "not the compromised second draft." There was both an original Port Huron Statement and a second draft with a disclamatory introduction.

• The Dude mentions that he was a roadie for Metallica on the Speed of Sound tour. There was no such tour, but the band is, in fact, a "bunch of assholes."

• When rich Lebowski pulls the Dude into his limo for an interrogation, he's wearing a shawl-collared sweater very similar to the Pendleton sweater the Dude wears.

• The Dude bathes with Mr. Bubble .

SEE IT: The Big Lebowski screens in 35 mm at Clinton Street Theater . 7:30 pm Thursday-Tuesday, Dec. 22-26.

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The Dude : [repeated line by The Dude and others]  That rug really tied the room together.

The Stranger : Take it easy, Dude.

The Dude : Oh, yeah!

The Stranger : I know that you will.

The Dude : Yeah, well - the Dude abides.

[Exits with beers in hand] 

The Stranger : [to the camera]  The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners.

The Dude : Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

The Dude : Walter, I love you, but sooner or later, you're going to have to face the fact you're a goddamn moron.

Blond Treehorn Thug : [holding up a bowling ball]  What the fuck is this?

The Dude : Obviously you're not a golfer.

Jesus Quintana : Are you ready to be fucked, man? I see you rolled your way into the semis. Dios mio, man. Liam and me, we're gonna fuck you up.

The Dude : Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.

Jesus Quintana : Let me tell *you* something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you, and stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger 'til it goes "click."

The Dude : Jesus.

Jesus Quintana : You said it, man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.

[walks off] 

Walter Sobchak : Eight-year-olds, Dude.

The Big Lebowski : Are you employed, sir?

The Dude : Employed?

The Big Lebowski : You don't go out looking for a job dressed like that? On a weekday?

The Dude : Is this a... what day is this?

The Big Lebowski : Well, I do work, sir, so if you don't mind...

The Dude : I do mind, the Dude minds. This will not stand, ya know, this aggression will not stand, man.

[being forced into a limousine] 

The Dude : Hey, careful, man, there's a beverage here!

The Dude : Rug pee-ers did not do this. Look at it: a young trophy wife, marries this guy for his money, she figures he hasn't given her enough, you know, she owes money all over town.

Walter Sobchak : That, fuckin' - bitch...

The Dude : It's all a god damn fake, man. It's like Lenin said: you look for the person who will benefit, and, uh, uh, you know...

Donny : I am the walrus.

The Dude : You know, you'll uh, uh - well, you know what I'm trying' to say...

Walter Sobchak : That fucking bitch!

The Dude : Oh yeah!

Walter Sobchak : Shut the fuck up, Donny! V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!

Donny : What the fuck is he talking about?

Bunny Lebowski : I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars.

Brandt : Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited.

Bunny Lebowski : Brandt can't watch, though, or he has to pay a hundred.

Brandt : Ah haha. That's marvelous.

The Dude : Uh, I'm just gonna go find a cash machine.

The Dude : God damn you, Walter! You fuckin' asshole! Everything's a fuckin' travesty with you, man! And what was all that shit about Vietnam? What the *fuck* has anything got to do with Vietnam? What the fuck are you talking about?

The Dude : Mr. Treehorn treats objects like women, man.

Walter Sobchak : I'm saying, I see what you're getting at, Dude, he kept the money. My point is, here we are, it's shabbas, the sabbath, which I'm allowed to break only if it's a matter of life or death...

The Dude : Will you come off it, Walter? You're not even fucking Jewish, man.

Walter Sobchak : What the fuck are you talkin' about?

The Dude : Man, you're fucking Polish Catholic...

Walter Sobchak : What the fuck are you talking about? I converted when I married Cynthia! Come on, Dude!

The Dude : Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...

Walter Sobchak : And you know this!

The Dude : Yeah, and five fucking years ago you were divorced.

Walter Sobchak : So what are you saying? When you get divorced you turn in your library card? You get a new license? You stop being Jewish?

The Dude : It's all a part of your sick Cynthia thing, man. Taking care of her fucking dog. Going to her fucking synagogue. You're living in the fucking past.

Walter Sobchak : Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax...

[shouting] 

Walter Sobchak : YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I'M LIVIN' IN THE FUCKIN' PAST!

Walter Sobchak : Am I wrong?

The Dude : No you're not wrong.

The Dude : You're not wrong Walter. You're just an asshole.

Walter Sobchak : Okay then.

[Maude shows the porn video starring Bunny to the Dude] 

Sherry in 'Logjammin' : [on video]  You must be here to fix the cable.

Maude Lebowski : Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here.

The Dude : He fixes the cable?

Maude Lebowski : Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.

Maude Lebowski : What do you do for recreation?

The Dude : Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.

Younger Cop : And was there anything of value in the car?

The Dude : Oh, uh, yeah, uh... a tape deck, some Creedence tapes, and there was a, uh... uh, my briefcase.

Younger Cop : [expectant pause]  In the briefcase?

The Dude : Uh, uh, papers, um, just papers, uh, you know, uh, my papers, business papers.

Younger Cop : And what do you do, sir?

The Dude : I'm unemployed.

The Dude : Walter, ya know, it's Smokey, so his toe slipped over the line a little, big deal. It's just a game, man.

Walter Sobchak : Dude, this is a league game, this determines who enters the next round robin. Am I wrong? Am I wrong?

Smokey : Yeah, but I wasn't over. Gimme the marker Dude, I'm marking it 8.

Walter Sobchak : [pulls out a gun]  Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain.

The Dude : Walter...

Walter Sobchak : You mark that frame an 8, and you're entering a world of pain.

Smokey : I'm not...

Walter Sobchak : A world of pain.

Smokey : Dude, he's your partner...

Walter Sobchak : [shouting]  Has the whole world gone crazy? Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules? Mark it zero!

The Dude : They're calling the cops, put the piece away.

Walter Sobchak : Mark it zero!

[points gun in Smokey's face] 

Walter Sobchak : [shouting]  You think I'm fucking around here? Mark it zero!

Smokey : All right, it's fucking zero. Are you happy, you crazy fuck?

Walter Sobchak : ...It's a league game, Smokey.

The Dude : Walter, what is the point? Look, we all know who is at fault here, what the fuck are you talking about?

Walter Sobchak : Huh? No, what the fuck are you... I'm not... We're talking about unchecked aggression here, dude.

The Dude : My rug.

Walter Sobchak : Forget it, Donny, you're out of your element!

The Dude : Walter, the chinaman who peed on my rug, I can't go give him a bill, so what the fuck are you talking about?

Walter Sobchak : What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, "chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.

The Dude : Walter, this isn't a guy who built the railroads here. This is a guy...

Walter Sobchak : What the fuck are you...?

The Dude : Walter, he peed on my rug!

Donny : He peed on the Dude's rug.

Walter Sobchak : Donny, you're out of your element! Dude, the chinaman is not the issue here!

Walter Sobchak : He lives in North Hollywood on Radford, near the In-and-Out Burger...

The Dude : The In-and-Out Burger is on Camrose.

Walter Sobchak : Near the In-and-Out Burger...

Donny : Those are good burgers, Walter.

Walter Sobchak : Shut the fuck up, Donny.

The Dude : Nobody calls me Lebowski. You got the wrong guy. I'm the Dude, man.

Blond Treehorn Thug : Your name's Lebowski, Lebowski. Your wife is Bunny.

The Dude : My... my wi-, my wife, Bunny? Do you see a wedding ring on my finger? Does this place look like I'm fucking married? The toilet seat's up, man!

[while dunking the Dude's head in the toilet] 

Blond Treehorn Thug : Where's the money, Lebowski? Where's the fucking money, shithead?

The Dude : It's uh... uh... it's down there somewhere, let me take another look.

The Dude : We dropped off the damn money...

The Big Lebowski : We?

The Dude : I! The Royal "we"! You know, the editorial...

The Stranger : There's just one thing, Dude.

The Dude : And what's that?

The Stranger : Do you have to use so many cuss words?

The Dude : What the fuck you talking about?

The Stranger : Okay, Dude. Have it your way.

The Dude : Fuck sympathy! I don't need your fuckin' sympathy, man, I need my fucking johnson!

Donny : What do you need that for, Dude?

Walter Sobchak : Were you listening to The Dude's story, Donny?

Donny : What?

Walter Sobchak : Were you listening to The Dude's story?

Donny : I was bowling.

Walter Sobchak : So you have no frame of reference here, Donny. You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know...

The Dude : (interrupting) Walter, Walter, what's the point, man?

Walter Sobchak : There's no reason - here's my point, dude, there's no fucking reason why these two...

Donny : Yeah, Walter, what's your point?

Maude Lebowski : Does the female form make you uncomfortable, Mr. Lebowski?

The Dude : Uh, is that what this is a picture of?

Maude Lebowski : In a sense, yes. My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal, which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina.

The Dude : Oh, yeah?

Maude Lebowski : Yes, they don't like hearing it and find it difficult to say, whereas without batting an eye, a man will refer to his dick or his rod or his Johnson.

The Dude : Johnson?

Walter Sobchak : That rug really tied the room together, did it not?

The Dude : Fuckin' A.

Donny : And this guy peed on it.

Walter Sobchak : Donny, please.

The Dude : Walter... what am I going to tell Lebowski?

Walter Sobchak : I told that fuck down at the league office... who's in charge of scheduling?

Donny : Burkhalter.

Walter Sobchak : I told that kraut a fucking thousand times that I don't roll on Shabbos!

Donny : They already posted it.

Walter Sobchak : Well they can *fucking unpost it*!

The Dude : Who gives a shit! They're gonna kill that poor woman, man! What am I gonna tell Lebowski?

Walter Sobchak : C'mon, Dude, eventually she'll get sick of her little game and, you know, wander on back.

Donny : How come you don't roll on Saturday, Walter?

Walter Sobchak : I'm shomer shabbos.

Donny : What's that?

The Dude : Yeah, and in the meantime, what do I tell Lebowski?

Walter Sobchak : Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. That means that I don't work, I don't drive a car, I don't fucking ride in a car, I don't handle money, I don't turn on the oven, and I sure as shit *don't fucking roll*!

Donny : Sheesh.

Walter Sobchak : Shomer shabbos!

The Dude : Walter, how am I going to...

Walter Sobchak : Shomer fucking shabbos.

The Dude : Oh, fuck it. I'm out of here.

Walter Sobchak : Come on, Dude...

[rolls his eyes at Donny] 

Walter Sobchak : Fucking *baby... *

[Donny nods] 

The Dude : This is a very complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous. And, uh, a lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Lotta strands in old Duder's head.

The Dude : What's in the fuckin' carrier?

Walter Sobchak : Huh? Oh, that's Cynthia's dog. I think it's a Pomeranian. I can't leave him home alone or he eats the furniture. I'm watching him while Cynthia and Marty Ackerman are in Hawaii.

The Dude : You brought the fuckin' Pomeranian bowling?

Walter Sobchak : What do you mean brought it bowling, Dude? I didn't rent it shoes. I'm not buying it a fucking beer. He's not taking your fucking turn, Dude.

The Dude : Man, if my fuckin' ex-wife asked me to take care of her fuckin' dog while she and her boyfriend went to Honolulu I'd tell her to go fuck herself.

Walter Sobchak : Also, let's not forget - let's *not* forget, Dude - that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either.

The Dude : What are you, a fucking park ranger now?

Walter Sobchak : No, I'm...

The Dude : Who gives a shit about the fucking marmot!

Walter Sobchak : You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me.

The Dude : Yeah, but Walter...

Walter Sobchak : Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish. These fucking amateurs...

The Dude : Look, just stay away from my fucking lady friend.

Da Fino : Hey, I'm not messing with your special lady.

The Dude : She's not my special lady, she's my fucking lady friend. I'm just helping her conceive, man!

The Big Lebowski : What makes a man, Mr. Lebowski?

The Dude : Dude.

The Big Lebowski : Huh?

The Dude : Uhh... I don't know sir.

The Big Lebowski : Is it being prepared to do the right thing, whatever the cost? Isn't that what makes a man?

The Dude : Hmmm... Sure, that and a pair of testicles.

The Dude : Just take it easy, man.

Walter Sobchak : I'm perfectly calm, Dude.

The Dude : [shouting]  Yeah, waving the fucking gun around?

Walter Sobchak : Calmer than you are.

The Dude : Will you just take it easy?

The Dude : I dropped off the money exactly as per... look, man, I've got certain information, all right? Certain things have come to light. And, you know, has it ever occurred to you, that, instead of, uh, you know, running around, uh, uh, blaming me, you know, given the nature of all this new shit, you know, I-I-I-I... this could be a-a-a-a lot more, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, complex, I mean, it's not just, it might not be just such a simple... uh, you know?

The Big Lebowski : What in God's holy name are you blathering about?

The Dude : I'll tell you what I'm blathering about... I've got information man! New shit has come to light! And shit... man, she kidnapped herself. Well sure, man. Look at it... a young trophy wife, in the parlance of our times, you know, and she, uh, uh, owes money all over town, including to known pornographers, and that's cool... that's, that's cool, I'm, I'm saying, she needs money, man. And of course they're going to say that they didn't get it, because... she wants more, man! She's got to feed the monkey, I mean uh... hasn't that ever occurred to you, man? Sir?

[the Dude, Walter, and Donny walk out of the bowling alley, to find the three Nihilists waiting in front of the Dude's car, which has been torched] 

The Dude : Well, they finally did it. They killed my fucking car.

Nihilist : Ve vant ze money, Lebowski.

Nihilist #2 : Ja, uzzervize ve kill ze girl.

Nihilist #3 : Ja, it seems you have forgotten our little deal, Lebowski.

The Dude : You don't HAVE the fucking girl, dipshits! We know you never did!

[the Nihilists, stunned, confer amongst themselves in German] 

Donny : Are these the Nazis, Walter?

Walter Sobchak : No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of.

Nihilist : Ve don't care. Ve still vant ze money, Lebowski, or ve fuck you ups.

Walter Sobchak : Fuck you. Fuck the three of you.

The Dude : Hey, cool it Walter.

Walter Sobchak : No, without a hostage, there is no ransom. That's what ransom is. Those are the fucking rules.

Nihilist #2 : His girlfriend gave up her toe!

Nihilist #3 : She though we'd be getting million dollars!

Nihilist #2 : Iss not fair!

Walter Sobchak : Fair! WHO'S THE FUCKING NIHILIST HERE! WHAT ARE YOU, A BUNCH OF FUCKING CRYBABIES?

The Dude : Hey, cool it Walter. Look, pal, there never was any money. The big Lebowski gave me an empty briefcase, so take it up with him, man!

Walter Sobchak : And, I would like my undies back.

[Stunned, the Germans confer amongst themselves again] 

Donny : Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?

Walter Sobchak : No, Donny. These men are cowards.

Nihilist : Okay. So we take ze money you haf on you, und ve calls it eefen.

Walter Sobchak : Fuck you!

Malibu Police Chief : Mr. Treehorn draws a lot of water in this town. You don't draw shit, Lebowski. Now we got a nice, quiet little beach community here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet. So let me make something plain. I don't like you sucking around, bothering our citizens, Lebowski. I don't like your jerk-off name. I don't like your jerk-off face. I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off. Do I make myself clear?

The Dude : [after a pause]  I'm sorry, I wasn't listening.

Walter Sobchak : Is this your homework, Larry? Is this your homework, Larry?

The Dude : Look, man...

Walter Sobchak : Dude, please? Is this your homework, Larry?

The Dude : Just ask him about the car.

Walter Sobchak : Is this yours, Larry? Is this your homework, Larry?

The Dude : Is that your car out front?

Walter Sobchak : Is this your homework, Larry?

The Dude : We know it's his fucking homework! Where's the fucking money, you little brat?

Walter Sobchak : Look, Larry. Have you ever heard of Vietnam?

The Dude : Oh, for Christ's sake, Walter...

Walter Sobchak : You're entering a world of pain, son. We know that this is your homework. We know that you stole a car.

The Dude : And the fucking money.

Walter Sobchak : And the fucking money. And, we know that this is your homework.

The Dude : We're going to cut your dick off, Larry.

Walter Sobchak : You're killing your father, Larry!

Maude Lebowski : It's a male myth about feminists that we hate sex. It can be a natural, zesty enterprise. But unfortunately there are some people - it is called satyriasis in men, nymphomania in women - who engage in it compulsively and without joy. Yes, Mr. Lebowski, these unfortunate souls cannot love in the true sense of the word. Our mutual acquaintance Bunny is one of these.

The Dude : Listen, Maude, I'm sorry if your stepmother is a nympho, but I don't see what it has to do with - do you have any Kahlúa?

The Dude : Jesus, man, could you change the channel?

Cab Driver : Fuck you man. If you don't like my fuckin' music get your own fuckin' cab!

The Dude : I had a rough...

Cab Driver : I pull over and kick your ass out!

The Dude : Come on, man. I had a rough night and I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!

Jackie Treehorn : Interactive erotic software. The wave of the future, Dude. One hundred percent electronic!

The Dude : Yeah well, I still jerk off manually.

Walter Sobchak : When we make the handoff, I double back, grab one of 'em and beat it out of him! Huh?

The Dude : That's a great plan, Walter. That's fuckin' ingenious, if I understand it correctly. It's a Swiss fuckin' watch.

Maude Lebowski : Do you like sex, Mr. Lebowski?

The Dude : 'Scuse me?

Maude Lebowski : Sex. The physical act of love. Coitus. Do you like it?

The Dude : I was talking about my rug.

Maude Lebowski : You're not interested in sex?

The Dude : You mean coitus?

Da Fino, Private Snoop : I'm a brother shamus!

The Dude : Brother Seamus? Like an Irish monk?

Da Fino, Private Snoop : What the fuck are you talking about?

[the Nihilists invade the Dude's bathroom accompanied by a trained ferret] 

The Dude : Hey, nice marmot!

Walter Sobchak : Now that is just ridiculous, Dude. Nobody is going to cut your dick off. Not if I have anything to say about it.

The Dude : Thank you, Walter, that makes me feel very secure, it makes me feel very warm inside.

The Dude : You thought that Bunny had been kidnapped and you were fuckin' glad, man. You could use it as an excuse to make some money disappear. All you needed was a sap to pin it on! You'd just met me! You human... paraquat! You figured 'Oh, here's a loser', you know? A deadbeat, someone the square community won't give a shit about.

The Big Lebowski : Well, aren't you?

The Dude : Well, yeah!

The Dude : I hate the fuckin' Eagles man.

[when making the payoff] 

Nihilist : [on the phone]  Who is this?

The Dude : Dude. The bag man, man. Where do you want us to go?

Nihilist : Us?

The Dude : [to Walter]  Shit!

[to Nihilist] 

The Dude : Uh. Yeah, uh. Me and, uh, the driver. I'm not handling the money, driving the car and talking on the phone all at the same time.

Nihilist : Shut the fuck up.

Walter Sobchak : Dude, are you fucking this up?

Nihilist : Who the fuck is that?

The Dude : That is the driver.

[Nihilist hangs up] 

The Dude : Shit! Walter, you fuck... you fucked it up! You fucked it up! Her life was in our hands, man!

Walter Sobchak : Nothing is fucked here, Dude. Come on, you're being very un-Dude. They'll call back.

Walter Sobchak : Really, Dude, you surprise me. They're not gonna kill shit, they're not gonna do shit. What can they do? They're a bunch of fuckin' amateurs, and meanwhile, look at the bottom line: Who's sittin' on a million fuckin' dollars? Am I wrong?

The Dude : Walter?

Walter Sobchak : Who's got a fuckin' million fuckin' dollars sittin' in the trunk of our car?

The Dude : Our car, Walter?

Walter Sobchak : And whadda they got? My dirty undies... My fucking whites...

[They walk out of the bowling alley and see the Dude's car gone. The portable phone starts ringing] 

Walter Sobchak : Say, dude. Where is your car?

Donny : Who's got your undies, Walter?

Walter Sobchak : Where's your car, dude?

The Dude : You don't know, Walter?

Walter Sobchak : [clears throat]  It was parked in a handicapped zone, perhaps they towed it.

The Dude : You fucking know its been stolen.

Walter Sobchak : Well, certainly that's a possibility, Dude.

The Dude : Oh fuck it.

[the Dude starts walking away] 

Donny : Where you going, Dude?

The Dude : I'm going home, Donny.

Donny : Phone's ringin', dude.

The Dude : Thank you, Donny.

Nihilist : We believe in nothing, Lebowski. Nothing. And tomorrow we come back and we cut off your chonson.

The Dude : Excuse me?

Nihilist : I said

Nihilist : I zaid VE CUT OFF YA JOHNSON!

Nihilist #2 : Just think about that, Lebowski.

Nihilist : Yeah, your wiggly penis, Lebowski.

Nihilist #3 : Yeah and maybe we stomp on it and squoosh it, Lebowski.

The Dude : Yes, Walter, you're right. There is an unspoken message here. It's "FUCK YOU, LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!" Yeah, I'll be at practice.

The Dude : H-hey, this is a private residence, man!

Blond Treehorn Thug : [holding a bowling ball]  What the fuck is this?

The Dude : Obviously, you're not a golfer.

The Dude : These are, uh...

Brandt : Oh, those are Mr Lebowski's children, so to speak.

The Dude : Different mothers, huh?

Brandt : No.

The Dude : Racially he's pretty cool?

Brandt : [laughs]  They're not literally his children. They're the Little Lebowski Urban Achievers - inner city children of promise but without the necessary means for a - necessary means for a higher education. So Mr Lebowski is committed to sending all of them to college.

Jackie Treehorn : People forget that the brain is the biggest erogenous zone.

The Dude : On you maybe.

The Big Lebowski : So she's back. No thanks to you.

The Dude : Where's the fucking money, Lebowski?

Walter Sobchak : A million bucks from fucking needy Little Urban Achievers! You are scum, man!

The Big Lebowski : Who the hell is he?

Walter Sobchak : Who am I? Who am I? I'm the guy who's gonna kick your phony goldbricking ass, that's who I am!

The Dude : Man, we know the briefcase was fucking empty. We know you kept the million bucks for yourself.

The Big Lebowski : You have your story, I have mine. I say that I entrusted the money to you and you stole it.

Walter Sobchak : As if we would ever dream of taking your bullshit money!

The Dude : You thought that Bunny had been kidnapped and you were fucking glad, man. You could use it as an excuse to make some money disappear. All you needed was a sap to pin it on. You'd just met me, you... you human paraquat! You thought, oh, here's a loser, you know, a deadbeat, someone the square community won't give a shit about...

The Big Lebowski : Well? Aren't you?

The Dude : [beat]  Well, yeah, but...

The Dude : Fuckin' Quintana... that creep can roll, man.

Walter Sobchak : Yeah, but he's a pervert, Dude.

The Dude : Yeah.

Walter Sobchak : No, he's a sex offender. With a record. He served 6 months in Chino for exposing himself to an eight year old.

The Dude : Oh!

Walter Sobchak : When he moved to Hollywood he had to go door to door to tell everyone he was a pederast.

Donny : What's a... pederast, Walter?

The Dude : Ah, fuck it.

The Big Lebowski : Fuck it! Yes! That's your answer. That's your answer for everything! Tattoo it on your forehead!

Walter Sobchak : Those rich fucks! This whole fucking thing... I did not watch my buddies die face down in the muck so that this fucking strumpet...

The Dude : I don't see any connection to Vietnam, Walter.

Walter Sobchak : Well, there isn't a literal connection, Dude.

The Dude : Walter, face it, there isn't any connection.

The Stranger : I like your style, Dude.

The Dude : Well, I dig your style too, man. Got the whole cowboy thing goin'.

The Stranger : Thankee.

Walter Sobchak : Nothing is fucked here Dude. Nothing is fucked. They're a bunch of fucking amateurs!

The Dude : Walter, would you just shut the fuck... don't say a peep while I'm doing business here, man!

Walter Sobchak : Okay Dude. Have it your way.

[the Dude answers the phone] 

Walter Sobchak : But they're amateurs.

The Dude : And, you know, he's got emotional problems, man.

Walter Sobchak : You mean... beyond pacifism?

The Dude : At least I'm housebroken.

The Dude : Oh, fuck me, man! That kid already spent all the money, man!

Walter Sobchak : New 'Vette? Hardly, Dude. I'd say he's still got about $960 - $970,000 left, depending on the options.

The Dude : He's fragile!

Walter Sobchak : Well, I did not know that.

Donny : Phone's ringing, Dude.

The Dude : Who the fuck are the Knutsens?

The Dude : [on the phone]  Of course the car made it home, you're calling me at home. No, Walter, it did NOT look like Larry was about to crack!

Bunny Lebowski : Blow on them.

The Dude : You want me to blow on your toes?

Bunny Lebowski : I can't blow that far.

The Dude : [looks at man lazing in the pool]  Are you sure he won't mind?

Bunny Lebowski : Uli doesn't care about anything. He's a Nihilist.

The Dude : Ah, that must be exhausting.

Bunny Lebowski : You're not blowing...

Walter Sobchak : Your wheel! At fifteen m-p-h I roll out! I double back, grab one of 'em and beat it out of him! The uzi!

The Dude : Uzi?

Walter Sobchak : You didn't think I was rolling out of here naked!

The Dude : I mean we totally fucked it up man, we fucked up this payoff, we got the kidnappers all mad at us, and Lebowski, ya know, he yelled at me a lot but he didn't do anything, huh?

Walter Sobchak : Well, sometimes, it's a cathartic...

The Dude : No, I'm saying, if he knows I'm a fuck-up, why does he leave me in charge of getting his wife back? Because he doesn't fucking want her back! He no longer digs her, it's all a show! Ok, so then why doesn't he give a shit about his million bucks? I mean, he knows we never handed off the briefcase, but he never asked for it back. The million bucks was never in the briefcase! The asshole was hoping that they would kill her! You threw out a ringer for a ringer!

Tony the Chauffeur : So he says "My wife's a pain in the ass. She's always busting my friggin' agates, my daughter's married to a jadrool loser bastard, and I got a rash so bad on my ass, I can't even sit down. But you know me. I can't complain."

The Dude : Ahh fuckin'-A, man. I got a rash, man. Fuckin'-A.

The Dude : My only hope is that the big Lebowski kills me before the Germans can cut my dick off.

The Dude : I could be just sitting at home with pee stains on my rug.

The Dude : Look, nothing is fucked, here, man.

The Big Lebowski : Nothing is fucked?

The Big Lebowski : The god damn plane has crashed into the mountain!

The Dude : Would you come off it Walter? You're not even fucking Jewish, man.

Walter Sobchak : What the fuck are you talking about Dude?

The Dude : You're fucking Polish-Catholic!

Walter Sobchak : What the fuck are you talking about? I converted when I married Cynthia, Dude.

The Dude : Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...

The Dude : ...And five fucking years ago you were divorced man!

Walter Sobchak : When you get a divorce you get a new license? You turn in your library card? You *stop* being Jewish?

The Big Lebowski : Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski. Condolences. The bums lost. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

[the Dude walks out and shuts the door] 

The Big Lebowski : The bums will always lose!

Brandt : How was your meeting, Mr. Lebowski?

The Dude : Okay. The old man told me to take any rug in the house.

The Dude : Mind if I do a J?

Woo, Treehorn Thug : Ever thus to deadbeats, Lebowski.

[urinates on The Dude's rug] 

The Dude : Oh, man, don't do that. Not on the rug, man.

Woo, Treehorn Thug : You see what happens? You see what happens, Lebowski?

Walter Sobchak : [asked to be quiet at the coffee house]  Excuse me, dear? The Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint!

The Dude : This isn't a First Amendment issue, man.

The Dude : This is the fuckin' guy! I can find this fuckin' Lebowski guy!

Donny : His name's Lebowski? That's your name, Dude!

The Dude : Who the fuck are you, man?

Knox Harrington : [giggles]  Oh, just a friend of Maudie's.

The Dude : Yeah, a friend with a cleft asshole?

Walter Sobchak : That's not her toe, Dude.

The Dude : Then whose toe is it, Walter?

Walter Sobchak : How the fuck should I know?

Brandt : You never went to college...

The Dude : Oh, no I did, but I spent most of my time occupying various administration buildings... smoking a lot of thai stick... breaking into the ROTC... and bowling. To tell you the truth Brandt, I don't remember most of it.

Knox Harrington : So you're Lebowski. Maudie's told me all about you. She'll be back in a moment, sit down. Would you like a drink?

The Dude : [as he sits down]  Uh, yeah. White Russian?

Knox Harrington : The bar's over there.

Maude Lebowski : My father and I don't get along, he doesn't approve of my lifestyle and, needless to say, I don't approve of his. Still, I hardly wish to make my father's embezzlement a police matter, so I'm proposing that you try to recover the money from the people you delivered it to.

The Dude : Well, I could do that...

Maude Lebowski : If you successfully do so, I will compensate you to the tune of 10 percent of the recovered sum.

The Dude : [stunned]  A hundred...

Maude Lebowski : Thousand, yes bones or clams or whatever you call them.

The Dude : Hey, no, come on, Walter. We're ending this thing cheap, man.

Walter Sobchak : No, what's mine is mine.

Nihilist : No funny shtuff.

The Dude : Alright, alright, I've got four dollars, almost five...

Donny : Hey, I got eighteen dollars.

Walter Sobchak : What's mine is mine.

Nihilist : We fuck you ups, man. We takes the money.

Walter Sobchak : Come and get it.

Brandt : Her life is in your hands.

The Dude : Man, don't say that, man.

Brandt : Mr. Lebowski asked me to repeat that: her life is in your hands.

The Dude : Oh, shit, man.

Brandt : Her life is in your hands, Dude.

The Dude : Also, my rug was stolen.

Younger Cop : The rug was in the car?

The Dude : No. It was here.

Younger Cop : [eager]  Oh, separate incidents.

Maude Lebowski : [on answering machine]  Jeffrey, this is Maude Lebowski. I need to see you. I'm the one who took your rug.

Younger Cop : Well. I guess we can close the file on that one.

Walter Sobchak : Now so far, we have what appears to me to be a series of victimless crimes.

The Dude : What about the toe?

Walter Sobchak : Forget about the fucking toe!

Coffee Shop Waitress : Excuse me, sir. Could you please keep your voices down? This is a family restaurant.

Walter Sobchak : Oh please, dear? For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.

The Big Lebowski : Did I urinate on your rug?

The Dude : You mean, did you personally come and pee on my rug?

The Big Lebowski : Do you speak English, sir? Parla usted Inglese?

The Dude : Did you ever hear of "The Seattle Seven"?

Maude Lebowski : Mmm.

The Dude : That was me... and six other guys.

[after reporting the stolen car] 

The Dude : Do you find them much, these, stolen cars?

Younger Cop : Sometimes. Wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck though.

Older Cop : Or the Creedence.

The Dude : I'm sorry your stepmother is a nympho.

Walter Sobchak : Etz chaim he dude, as the ex used to say.

The Dude : What the fuck is that supposed to mean? What the fuck are we gonna tell Lebowski?

Walter Sobchak : Huh?

[blows out a cloud of smoke] 

Walter Sobchak : Oh, him! Er...

[mutters incoherently] 

Walter Sobchak : What exactly is the problem?

The Dude : Well, the problem is... W-what do you mean "what's the"... umph... Th-there was no... We d- we didn't eh... uhumph... They're gonna kill that poor woman! Man!

Walter Sobchak : What the fuck are you talking about? That poor woman... that poor SLUT kidnapped herself. Come on dude, you said so yourself.

The Dude : Man...! I said I THOUGHT she kidnapped herself... YOU'RE the one who's so fucking certain!

Walter Sobchak : That's right dude. One hundred percent certain.

Jackie Treehorn : Refill?

The Dude : Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Maude Lebowski : Jeffrey.

The Dude : ...Maude?

Maude Lebowski : Love me.

The Dude : That's my robe.

The Dude : This is a very complicated case, Maude. A lot of ins, a lot of outs. Fortunately, I'm adhering to a pretty strict drug regimen to keep my mind limber.

Walter Sobchak : You have got to buck up, man. You cannot drag this negative energy into the tournament!

The Dude : Fuck the tournament... Fuck *you,* Walter!

[pause] 

Walter Sobchak : Fuck the tournament? All right, I can see you don't want to be cheered up here, Dude. Come on, Donny, let's go get us a lane.

[being shown a picture Bunny's old farm home] 

The Dude : Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.

Walter Sobchak : You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course.

The Dude : Then you know he's got emotional problems, man.

Brandt : [the Dude is leaving after his first meeting with Lebowski]  Well, enjoy. And perhaps we'll see you again some time, Dude.

The Dude : Yeah, sure, if I'm... in the neighborhood and I, uh... gotta use the john.

The Dude : Uh, and then, uh, the music business, briefly.

Maude Lebowski : Oh?

The Dude : Yeah. Roadie for Metallica

Maude Lebowski : Oh.

The Dude : Speed of Sound Tour

Maude Lebowski : Mm-hmm.

The Dude : Bunch of assholes.

[repeated line] 

The Dude : They're gonna kill that poor woman.

The Dude : Who the fuck is Arthur Digby Sellers?

The Dude : Oh no, really, it's, ahh, not even... not even bruised anymore.

Walter Sobchak : [On the phone]  I'm not even supposed to pick up the phone unless its an emergency.

The Dude : This is a fuckin' emergency!

Walter Sobchak : I understand. That's why I picked up the phone.

The Dude : Walter, you fuck! We gotta go to Pasadena, man! Come pick me up or I'm off the fuckin' bowling team!

The Dude : What the fuck are you talking about?

The Dude : The Dude abides.

The Dude : By the way, do you think that you could give me that $20,000 in cash? My concern is, and I have to, uh, check with my accountant, that this might bump me into a higher, uh, tax...

The Big Lebowski : Brandt, give him the envelope.

The Dude : Oh, you've already got the check made out, that's great.

The Dude : Your money is being held by a kid named Larry Sellers. Real fucking brat, but I'm sure your goons can get it off him. I mean, he's fifteen.

The Dude : Flunking social studies.

[after recovering his car from the Auto circus] 

The Dude : Oh, Jesus, what's that smell, man?

Auto Circus Cop : Yes, probably a vagrant slept in the car. Or maybe just used it as a toilet and moved on.

Maude Lebowski : Uli Kunkol? Her co-star in the beaver picture?

The Dude : Beaver? Uhhhh, you mean vagina...? I mean, you know the guy?

Maude Lebowski : Oh, I might have introduced them for all I know.

[looks at Knox] 

Maude Lebowski : You remember Uli?

Knox Harrington : Mmmmm.

The Dude : I only said I THOUGHT she kidnapped herself. You're the one who's so fucking certain!

Walter Sobchak : That's right, Dude. 100% certain.

Maude Lebowski : Now, what happened to your face? Did Jackie Treehorn do that as well?

The Dude : Ah, no that was the chief of police of Malibu. A real reactionary.

[after the chief of police throws a coffee mug at his head] 

The Dude : Ow! Fucking fascist!

[the Dude has been drugged and is semi-conscious] 

The Dude : So if you could just write me my check for ten percent of a half a million... five grand... I'll go out and mingle.

The Dude : What do you do?

Knox Harrington : Oh, nothin' much.

[giggles] 

[singing while semi-conscious in the back of a police car] 

The Dude : He was innocent, not a charge was true, and they say he ran away... Branded!

The Dude : I was one of the original authors of the Port Huron Declaration. Not the compromised second draft...

The Stranger : How have things been going?

The Dude : Well, you know, strikes and gutters, ups and downs.

Brandt : Mr. Lebowski is prepared to make a generous offer to you to act as courier, once we get instructions for the money.

The Dude : Why me, man?

Brandt : He believes the culprits might be the very people who, uh, soiled your rug, and you are in a unique position to confirm or disconfirm that suspicion.

The Dude : He thinks the carpet pissers did this?

Brandt : Well Dude, we just don't know.

Da Fino : Well, maybe you and me could pool our resources, you know, trade information? Professional courtesy? Compeers, you know?

The Dude : Yeah, yeah, I get it, fuck off Da Fino. And stay away from my special - from my fucking lady friend, man!

The Dude : [smoking a joint]  Far out, man. Far fucking out!

The Dude : That's your perception.

The Big Lebowski : Are you surprised at my tears, sir?

The Dude : [Smoking a joint]  Dude, fuckin' A!

The Big Lebowski : Strong men also cry... strong men also cry.

The Dude : He just wanted the car. All the Dude ever wanted was his rug back. That really tied the room together.

The Dude : Far out, man!

The Dude : That's a bummer, man. That's a real bummer!

The Dude : Fuckin'-A!

The Dude : She's got to feed the monkey!

Auto Circus Cop : [Showing The Dude his car]  Highway patrolman found it last night in Van Nuys, lodged against an abutment.

The Dude : A what?

The Dude : How's the smut business, Jackie?

Jackie Treehorn : I wouldn't know, Dude. I deal in publishing, entertainment, political advocacy.

The Dude : Which one's "Logjammin'"?

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The Dude's Best Moments In The Big Lebowski Ranked By Coolness

Like its protagonist, the Dude ( Jeff Bridges ), the Coen brothers' 1998 film "The Big Lebowski" started out as a bit of a loser. The darkly comedic neo-noir got mixed reviews and struggled to recoup its budget at the box office. At least at first, people just didn't seem to get this movie, with its overly complicated kidnapping plot and its half-baked main character.

But over time, audiences began to see that there was more to the Dude and his story. "The Big Lebowski" is now regularly mentioned among the best comedies and best cult classics, and it's been preserved in the Library of Congress's National Film Registry on account of its cultural and aesthetic significance. The Dude has frequently been listed as one of the best characters of all time, including in compilations by Entertainment Weekly and Empire Magazine . A new "Big Lebowski"-inspired religion — Dudeism — even formed as the movie gained steam. Not too shabby for a low-budget flick about an unemployed and perpetually stoned middle-aged bowler.

"The Big Lebowski" opens with a mood-setting voiceover by Sam Elliott as the Stranger, who describes Jeffrey Lebowski as not quite a hero, but "the man for his time and place." The Dude and "The Big Lebowski" are exactly that: emblematic of 1990s America. The character is as cool and carefree as any of us will probably ever be again, and the movie, with its odd jumble of influences, only works because the Dude reaches mythical levels of chill.

10. The Dude shops

Like all cool people, the Dude does things his own way. He has a signature drink: the white Russian. He has a signature look: shabby loungewear and dark sunglasses. He does what he wants when he wants (which is easier since his career has slowed down, as he later tells Maude), and sometimes, that means going to Ralphs Supermarket late at night in a bathrobe for a carton of half and half so that he can make himself a white Russian. 

This is how we, the audience, first meet the Dude as the Stranger tells us scant information about him. We know that he's given himself his nickname and that he's probably the laziest man in Los Angeles County, which puts him high in the running for the laziest man in the world. From the moment he wanders into frame, it's clear that the Dude isn't someone who plans long-term. Here is a guy who lives in the moment. He picks two quarts of cream and appears to examine the expiration dates. After he chooses one, he opens it in the store to sniff it and make sure it's still good. Then he gets out his checkbook and writes a check for $0.69 as he and the cashier girl watch then-President George H.W. Bush give a speech about the War in Iraq.

The Dude is obviously a man of modest means and modest concerns, especially when compared to explosive international political situations. But he's still trying to live his best life without worrying too much about what anybody else thinks about it. He's comfortable, and he got what he came for. 

9. The Dude abides

By the end of "The Big Lebowski," the Dude and the audience have been on quite a ride together. It becomes clear that the Stranger is just someone who hangs around the same bowling alley and has gathered bits and pieces of the story. The Dude recognizes him from their prior meeting and starts up a second conversation with him, just as he's misusing his idiom from before ("sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you") in reference to Donny's (Steve Buscemi) death. The Dude is as genial as ever, but he's also eager to carry his beers back over to his lane and get back to playing. When the Stranger asks him how he's been, he answers, "You know, strikes and gutters, ups and downs." It's like a bowling-centric read on the Tao Te Ching and exactly what the Stranger needed to hear about the subject of his fascination.

"Take it easy, Dude," he says as Lebowski walks away. "I know that you will." "Yeah, well," our protagonist replies. "The Dude abides." The Stranger then repeats the line as if it's some piece of wisdom. "The Dude abides." What he means is, for all the craziness that's taken place in the last two hours, this Lebowski's life will go back to his version of normal, which means knocking back beers and knocking over pins with friends and seeing where the journey takes him. In the end, the Dude usually lands upon an unexpected yet just-right thing to say. 

8. Spy Dude

The Dude is the exact opposite of a tryhard, but even he finds himself pretending when he's escorted into pornographer Jackie Treehorn's (Ben Gazzara) swanky Malibu mansion. Jackie wants to know where the money ended up, and since the Dude has accidentally positioned himself at the center of everyone's lies and deceptions, he has the information Mr. Treehorn needs (or so they both think; at this point, the Dude hasn't figured out the truth yet). 

Jackie's phone rings, and he gets up to answer. He appears to take notes on a pad of paper, then peels off and crumbles the top sheet and excuses himself to another room. The Dude, assuming something nefarious has happened, leaps into action. Just this once, he actually thinks and acts like a spy. He sneaks over to the notepad, checking around corners for Jackie, then shades the next page with the edge of a pencil to make an impression of whatever it was Jackie wrote.

Turns out, he didn't write anything at all. Mr. Treehorn doodled an Ancient Greek-style primitive man with a comically oversized phallus. The Dude crams the piece of paper into his pocket, then sprints back to the couch, where he reclines just in time to have fooled his host. Though nothing comes of it (except the setup for a joke later at the police station), it's fun to see the Dude in James Bond mode, however temporarily, having and following through on a good idea.

7. The Dude meets the other Lebowski

It's often said that great drama comes from conflict and contrast. There's certainly conflict between the Dude and the other Mr. Lebowski (David Huddleston), and there couldn't possibly be more contrast between their personalities and communication styles. When the Dude arrives at Lebowski's mansion, he has to endure a tour of his accomplishments, led by his assistant Brandt (a hilarious Philip Seymour Hoffman ), before he's escorted in to discuss his rug with the purported businessman and philanthropist. What follows is one of the wittiest and most specific dialogues in modern film. 

The Dude tries to make his case to the elder Lebowski, but he dodges responsibility with his pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps ethos (that we know by the end is a ruse) and asks if every time a rug is "micturated upon in this fair city" he's expected to pay for it. Instead of replacing the rug, he calls his guest a bum and tells him to get a job. "Are you employed, Mr. Lebowski?" he asks as if he already knows the answer. By this point, our Lebowski has had enough. "Let me explain something to you," he says, now visibly annoyed. "I am not Mr. Lebowski. You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. That or His Dudeness, or Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing." 

Mr. Lebowski does no such thing and stays with his line of questioning. "You don't go out looking for a job like that, do you, on a weekday?" The Dude's response is priceless. "Is this a ... what day is this?" he wonders to himself. It's one of Jeff Bridges' funniest line deliveries of the entire movie. 

6. The Dude isn't intimidated

The Dude has to request a meeting with the other Jeffrey Lebowski because of what happens at his apartment the night before. Returning home from Ralphs with his half and half, he's assaulted by two men (we'll later learn that these are Jackie Treehorn's hired thugs). Before he can collect himself, they repeatedly dunk his head in his own toilet. The first time, his carton of half and half smashes against the seat and sprays all over his face. Each time after, the thugs scream, "Where's the money, Lebowski?" In between plunges, with his facial hair soaking in toilet water and cream, he says, "It's down there somewhere. Lemme take another look." 

Most people would instantly freeze up and fear for their lives should they come home to criminals having broken into their personal space, but the Dude — whose slovenly appearance and colloquial manner of speaking belie his razor-sharp wit — is completely unintimidated. When they reference a wife, he turns around, sits on the toilet, puts his sunglasses back on, and lights up a joint. "You see a wedding ring? Does this place look like I'm f***ing married?" The thugs, who haven't figured out there's been a case of mistaken identity, open his bowling bag, expecting to find cash. Instead, out comes a bowling ball. When they ask what the thing is, the Dude quips, "Obviously you're not a golfer."

5. The Dude makes love

Without really trying (at all), the Dude attracts Maude Lebowski (Julianne Moore), daughter of the other Jeffrey Lebowski. She's an avant-garde artist and the current manager of the Lebowski Foundation. When her goons punch the Dude in the jaw, she uses it as an excuse to have a doctor check the health of his sperm. Maude plans to get pregnant by the Dude, since she's looking for a partner who won't want any interest in having a lasting relationship or helping her raise a child. 

After an earlier exchange that makes fantastic use of the word "coitus," Maude shows up at the Dude's apartment naked underneath his own robe and declares that she wants him to love her. If you thought their courtship was charming in the way that only the Dude can be charming, then their post-coital pillow talk is even more on-brand. Maude asks him to tell her a little about himself. He says there's not much to tell, then pulls out a joint and rambles on in a monologue about his life. He was one of the authors of the Port Huron Statement (the original Port Huron Statement, mind you). He was a member of the Seattle Seven. Then came a brief stint in the music business as a roadie for Metallica on their "Speed of Sound" tour, followed by a little of this, a little of that. His career has slowed down a bit lately, he offers. Only the Dude could make transience sound sexy. 

4. The Dude is a good friend (and a bad tenant)

"The Big Lebowski" is full of stray characters and storylines that don't ultimately go anywhere, but they all add texture and depth to the Dude's world. One of these is the relationship between the Dude and his landlord, Marty (Jack Kehler), an incredibly meek and awkward man. In the middle of the chaos that the Dude has gotten himself into, Marty comes knocking. Their conversation is filmed in such a way that Marty, who's already shorter than The Dude, is looking up at his tenant from the stoop below. He nervously fiddles with his hands as he invites the Dude to attend his dance recital and give him some notes. "I'll be there, man," the Dude promises. Marty begins to walk away before gently reminding him that his rent is due. 

Later on, the Dude keeps his word and attends Marty's performance. For good measure, he's invited Walter (John Goodman) and Donny, too. Now, is it possible — and even probable — that the Dude is friendly to his landlord to make it harder for him to ask for money? Absolutely. What the slacker Lebowski has to barter with is his sparkling personality and free time, especially when it pertains to someone as socially inept as poor Marty. But as we see, that dance cycle would've been painful to sit through. No matter what benefit he reaps from his kindness, the Dude is a good friend, and there's nothing cooler than showing up for your friends when they need you.

3. The Dude takes a rug

When the Dude sees that the other Lebowski won't be persuaded to pay for or replace his rug, he gives up on that tactic. "I cannot solve your problem," the angry, wheelchair-bound man tells him. "Only you can." This seems to have given the Dude an idea. He gets up to leave as Lebowski rants about how his revolution is over and the bums will never win. Then, this bum waltzes out the door and immediately wins.

"How was your meeting with Mr. Lebowski," Brandt asks. "Okay," the Dude says nonchalantly. "The old man told me to take any rug in the house." Moments later, we see Brandt and the Dude strolling along together as an unnamed servant carries a large, rolled-up rug on his shoulder. In a manner of speaking, the Dude took Mr. Lebowski's advice. He solved his problem himself, and he relied on his own strengths and skills to do so. The visiting Lebowski didn't let himself get as worked up as the other Lebowski, so no one thinks to question him when he chooses another carpet that'll really tie the room together.

2. The Dude hallucinates

Perhaps the most famous interlude in "The Big Lebowski" is the Dude's drug-induced hallucination after he downs the spiked white Russian that Jackie Treehorn concocted for him. It's presented in both the style of a Busby Berkeley musical crossed with one of Jackie's smutty movies. It even has a title ("Gutterballs") and its own opening credits. The Dude first appears as a tiny figure in a vast gray hallway, his shadow reflected by a thin beam of light. He dances in pair of white work coveralls, but with the arms ripped off and a tool belt slung around his hips.

Myriad strange things happen in the three-plus-minute-long sequence. Saddam Hussein (Jerry Haleva) provides the Dude with his bowling shoes. Maude, dressed as a bowling-themed Viking, leads dancers who wear bowling pins as headpieces, styled as if they're plumes or flower arrangements.

Throughout the dance, the Dude is as cool as he is hot, especially as he continues his ever-more seductive choreography on a black and white staircase. The sexual tension reaches a fever pitch when he spoons Maude and teaches her how to lunge with the ball. Jeff Bridges' moves aren't particularly precise, but he oozes confidence and energy with his wide eyes and wicked smile. The "Gutterballs" scene is made even better by Roger Deakins' incredible cinematography and the just-right song choice of "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)."

1. The Dude has the perfect comeback

There are simply too many standout scenes in "The Big Lebowski" to warrant calling any one of them a standout, but this bit of business near the dark comedy's middle brings together the crime plot and the bowling plot, plus it gives the Dude a chance to show exactly how he deals with conflict. Suffice to say, he's cool under pressure. 

While John Turturro, who demonstrates in slow-motion Jesus' ritualistic roll-then-dance to The Gipsy King's flamenco rendition of "Hotel California," is iconic here, it's the Dude who gets the last word. As Jesus strikes poses in his extremely purple jumpsuit, the Dude explains his new gig to his friends. He gets 20 grand and a beeper, plus he gets to keep the rug he stole, all just for handing off a briefcase of money to Bunny's (Tara Reid) supposed kidnappers. That's when Jesus interrupts their banter to taunt Lebowski's bowling team about how badly his is going to beat them in the next round: "Liam and me, we're gonna f*** you up." To which the Dude reclines and retorts, "Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man."

The Dude — who is supremely secure in his identity — is unflappable in the face of ridicule. He delivers one of the all-time great comeback lines ... a casual yet brilliant rhetorical flourish that cannot be rebutted. For future reference, it works in just about every imaginable situation.

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And then the music business, briefly. Roadie for Metallica. Speed of Sound tour. Bunch of assholes.

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- Tell me about yourself, Jeffrey.

- Well, not much to tell.

- I was one of the authors of the Port Huron Statement. The original Port Huron Statement.

- Not the compromised second draft.

- Then I... You ever hear of the Seattle Seven? That was me. And there were six other guys.

- And then the music business, briefly. Roadie for Metallica. Speed of Sound tour. Bunch of assholes.

- And then, you know, little of this, little of that.

- My career's slowed down a little lately.

- What do you do for recreation?

- Well, the usual. Bowl, drive around, the occasional acid flashback.

- What happened to your house?

- Oh, Jackie Treehorn trashed the place.

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1. The fictional German techno-pop band in the movie, Autobahn, is a parody of or homage to the legendary electronic band Kraftwerk.

2. flea from red hot chili peppers plays a character in a band called autobahn. he is nihilist 2, kieffer., 3. almost all the music on the soundtrack is revealed to be playing on a radio or a type of pa system at some point., 4. charlize theron was considered for the role of bunny lebowski., 5. while being member of the bowling team, the dude is the only one never seen bowling throughout the movie., 6. in an interview with rolling stone magazine, john goodman stated that the dude referring to the big lebowski as a "human paraquat" was one of the only improvised lines to make it into the final film..., 7. ...paraquat is a herbicide. during the late 1970s, a controversial program sponsored by the us government sprayed paraquat on marijuana fields in mexico., 8. the word "dude" is used around 161 times in the movie. 160 spoken and once in text in the credits for "gutterballs" the second dream sequence., 9. when the john turturro's character jesus has to go door to door, sharing that he is a convicted sex offender, he has a large bulge in his tight pants. the bulge was formed by a bag of birdseed., 10. of all the different personalized bowling shirts donny wears throughout the film, none of them bears his name., 11. the dude drinks nine white russians during the course of the movie. he drops one of them at jackie treehorn's mansion., 12. recipe for making a white russian: 2 parts vodka, 1 part coffee liqueur such as kahlua and 1 part cream. served with ice in a low ball glass., 13. the dude is in every scene of the movie. even in the scene where the nihilists are ordering pancakes you can see the van in which the dude and walter are driving. this is in keeping with the traditional film-noir, in which the protagonist is the narrator and acts as the audience's guide throughout the film., 14. the 0.69 check the dude writes at ralph's for half and half is dated september 11, 1991, exactly ten years before the 911 attacks..., 15. ...while he is writing the check, george bush can be heard on the television railing against saddam hussein... which explains his appearance in this dream sequence, 16. while urinating on the dude's rug, the threehorn thug says "ever thus to deadbeats, lebowski" this is a play on the latin phrase "sic semper tyrannis"..., 17. ...meaning "thus always to tyrants", which was allegedly spoken by the murderers of gaio giulio cesare and abraham lincoln during the assassinations., 18. in a version that was edited for television broadcasts, the famous line "this is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass" was changed to "this is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps", which is regularly cited as one of the most "creative" edits made for a film to be aired on tv., 19. the dude's line, "the dude abides," is a reference to ecclesiastes 1:4, "one generation passes away, and another generation comes: but the earth abides forever." it is a reference to how the dude, much like the earth, can weather change and chaos around him, but still remain the same., 20. in an early draft of the script, the dude's source of income was revealed. he was an heir to the inventor of the rubik's cube. it was joel coen's idea to drop this and never say., 21. the dude tells maude he was a roadie for metallica on their fictional "speed of sound" tour and refers to the band members as a "bunch of assholes." metallica themselves were flattered to be referred to in a coen brothers movie., 22. a lot of the dude's clothes in the movie were jeff bridges's own clothes, including his jellies sandals., 23. when we're introduced to the dude's bowling arch-nemesis jesus, a flamenco version of the eagles song "hotel california" plays and is portrayed as playing on the bowling alley's pa system. later, we learn in the taxicab scene that the dude hates the eagles., 24. people mention peeing on the dude's rug 17 times. they also mention that the rug "really tied the room together" 5 times..., 26. the dude says "man" 147 times in the movie, nearly 1.5 times a minute., 27. the f-word or a variation of the f-word is used 292 times., 28. the dude meets a lot of new people throughout the story, outside his "tribe". but only three, brandt, jackie treehorn and the cowboy show enough "respect" for him to call him "dude"., 29. before filming a scene, jeff bridges would frequently ask the coen brothers "did the dude burn one on the way over" if they said he had, he would rub his knuckles in his eyes before doing a take., 30. "well, i dig your style too, man. got the whole cowboy thing goin'. ", 31. the reason steve buscemi's character, donny, is constantly being told to "shut the fuck up" by walter john goodman, is because buscemi's character in fargo would not shut up., 32. premiere voted this movie as one of "the 50 greatest comedies of all time" in 2006..

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