History Literature / TheSilenceOfTheLambs

* NervesOfSteel: A disturbing off-screeen example is mentioned by Chilton; Lecter once faked illness to attack a nurse while undergoing an EKG, his pulse never rose above 85, not even ''when he was eating her tongue''.

''The Silence of the Lambs'' is a 1988 novel by Thomas Harris (''Literature/BlackSunday''), and the second after ''Literature/RedDragon'' in the Franchise/HannibalLecter series. Notably, unlike later sequels in the series, this book is somewhat self-contained (for one, Will Graham doesn't reappear and is only briefly mentioned in an expository narration), and the reader does not need to be familiar with the events of ''Red Dragon'' in order to understand this novel.

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The book was [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted]] into a 1991 film directed by Creator/JonathanDemme, starring Creator/JodieFoster as Clarice and Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Lecter, followed by a sequel ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}'' (1999) and a prequel ''Literature/HannibalRising'' (2006).

The book was [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted]] into a 1991 film directed by Creator/JonathanDemme, starring Creator/JodieFoster as Clarice and Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Lecter, followed by a sequel ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}'' (1999) and a prequel ''Literature/HannibalRising'' (2006). Like the book, the film adaptation of ''The Silence of the Lambs'' is self-contained, and features even ''less'' references to both ''Red Dragon'' and its 1986 film adaptation, ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'' (though a number of visual motifs from that movie carry over here), to say nothing of this movie recasting every role that had previously appeared in its predecessor (in part because Creator/BrianCox wasn't available to return as Lecter, with the rest of the ''Manhunter'' cast never being approached afterwards). A {{sequel series}} to the film, titled ''Series/{{Clarice}}'', premiered in February 2021 on Creator/{{CBS}}.

* AbortedArc: In the book, a major point is made of Clarice discovering an envelope inside Catherine's jewelry box that was missed by the police. It contains photographs of her with a person she was clearly romantically involved with in the past. The photos are confiscated by Krendler and Catherine's mother. Clarice also finds evidence that Catherine has taken LSD in the form of blotter acid discovered in her room. All of this hints at Catherine's private associations being key to finding out how Buffalo Bill found her, but in the end this turns out to have no bearing whatsoever on the conclusion of the story.
** This is a red herring, but it also provides some motivation for Starling - not only does it keep Catherine humanized and real to Starling (she makes a big deal of feeling out the victims as actual people, rather than getting waylaid thinking of the crimes), but her mother the Senator accuses Starling of being a thief by taking the photos, which burns Clarice up inside, and adds to her grit and determination. It's also fairly realistic: the LSD is referred to again very late in the novel with the DEA running a check on the batch, in an example of needless bureaucracy when the story is almost over.

* AdaptationalHeroism:
** In the film, Clarice uses her own investigative skills and methods of deduction to figure out why Buffalo Bill needs his victims' skins, while in the book it’s Lecter who reveals it to her during one of their conversations.
** Benjamin Raspail in the book enters a relationship with Gumb even after he murders his boyfriend, citing a male version of AllGirlsWantBadBoys; in the film, however, he's understandably freaked out when Gumb murders a transient and it appears that this is why Gumb ultimately ended up killing him.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange:
** The cocoons Buffalo Bill used were from black witch moths in the book but the film understandably went with the more iconic death's head (although at least one death's head moth does show up later in the book).
** Precious, Jame's beloved and very spoiled pet dog, is a poodle in the books but a bichon frise in the movie.
* AdaptedOut: Many of the minor characters and short scenes from the book are missing from the film, due to time constraints. One notably missing is the Johns Hopkins surgeon, whose scene with Crawford might have covered some of the more problematic representation of transgender people (although not entirely, as the views shown were somewhat out of date). As it is, an argument that Bill isn't transsexual and a line that "transsexuals are very passive" handwaves this in the film.

* AnswerCut: At the beginning of the movie, when Crawford is warning Clarice about Lecter, he tells her, "Never forget what he is", to which Clarice asks, "And what is he?" Cut to Dr. Chilton at the asylum Lecter is imprisoned at, telling Clarice, "Oh, he's a monster."

* AssholeVictim:
** Dr. Chilton is portrayed as sleazy, underhanded, uncooperative and a publicity hound, and almost costs Catherine Martin her life. At the end of the movie it's clear that Lecter will kill and eat him.
** Benjamin Raspail is portrayed as one in the book, carrying on an affair with Buffalo Bill despite already being in a relationship with a sailor named Klaus, being utterly dismissive of Bill's murder of a homeless woman and when Bill finally kills Klaus, Raspail seems more concerned about how it will affect his own life. Even in the movie where Klaus was AdaptedOut, and Raspail's insensitive remarks about the homeless aren't mentioned, he still went to Hannibal to have the murder of the homeless woman dealt with discretely rather than go to the police (although given that Gumb ultimatley killed Raspail, it's possible that this was Raspail's EveryoneHasStandards moment that motivated Gumb into killing him to prevent him snitching; the dynamic changes from Benjamin being a willing participant in the relationship to being a terrified abuse victim)

* BookEnds: An inter-film example: ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'' opens with a MurdererPOV shot of Dolarhyde breaking into the Leeds' home in the dead of night, as seen through the lens of his film camera and flashlight. ''The Silence of the Lambs'' ends with a similar POV sequence of Bill stalking Clarice through his darkened basement, as seen through the lenses of his night vision goggles.

* TheCameo: In the film Creator/RogerCorman appears as FBI Director Hayden Burke and Chris Isaak as a SWAT commander.
* CentralTheme: In the film, BeingWatched, as noted by Lecter: "We begin by coveting what we see every day. Don't you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don't your eyes seek out the things you want?" Many shots of the film are from Clarice's POV at people looking directly at her.
* ChekhovsClassroom: Inverted. Dr. Chilton instructs Clarice on the extremely stringent physical procedures in place for dealing with Lecter in his cell. By the end of the film, Clarice has violated almost all of them.
-->Do not reach through the bars, do not touch the bars. You pass him nothing but soft paper - no pens or pencils. No staples or paperclips in his paper. Use the sliding food carrier, no exceptions. If he offers you anything, do not accept it.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Dr. Chilton warns Clarice not to leave anything in Hannibal Lecter's cell and mentions several objects, among them ''pens.'' He himself leaves one there, and there’s a long shot of it. He later can’t find it for signing a document. Hannibal Lecter is then seen with a part of it in his hands... [[spoiler:He uses it to unlock his cuffs, allowing him to kill his guards.]]
** We also see Bill's night-vision goggles early in the movie, and they don't reappear until the end.
* ChekhovsSkill : In the book but not the film, Clarice's hand strength and firing speed are tested on the FBI range. It comes in handy later. Her trainer even lampshades the importance of this skill she might never use.

* CompositeCharacter:
** In the film, Benjamin Raspail, a flutist in the Baltimore Philharmonic Orchestra and a patient of Lecter's who was romantically involved with Jame Gumb, with Klaus, one of Buffalo Bill's victims and whose head is discovered by Clarice. The new film character has Raspail's name and history as a lover of Gumb, but the fate of Klaus, being killed by Gumb.
** Gumb himself is a composite of three RealLife serial killers. His WoundedGazelleGambit is a hallmark of Ted Bundy, his tactic of imprisoning women in his basement is that of Gary Heidnik (though unlike Heidnik, Gumb has no sexual interest in his captives), and his skinning the women in order to make a suit of them was part of Ed Gein's MO.

* ConversationCut: In a scene at the beginning of the film where Crawford is telling Clarice to be careful with Lecter, Crawford says "Never forget what he is." Clarice says, "And what is that?" Cut to Dr. Chilton at the asylum saying, "Oh, he's a monster. Complete psychopath."
* CreepyCrossdresser: Buffalo Bill, though it's not a straight example. Both the novel and movie go out of their way to tell the audience that being a transsexual, in and of itself, is not connected to violence--specifically, Clarice says (and Lecter agrees) that Bill ''cannot'' be a transexual because [[NoTrueScotsman transsexuals are not violent]]. According to Lecter, Bill only ''thinks'' he's a transsexual due to his "hatred of his own identity." This reflects the FairForItsDay but [[ScienceMarchesOn out-of-date psychology]] that the book and film relied on. Transsexuality was conflated with transvestism (crossdressing) and was at the time thought to be a mental disorder, albeit a benign one. Which is kind of the point here: no records or proven cases indicated that transsexuality predisposed a person to violence, and so Bill is dismissed as not being a "true" transsexual. Nowadays, a distinction is drawn between transvestism (crossdressing) and being UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} (having a gender identity which doesn't align with the one assigned at birth). Neither of these, in and of themselves, can affect whether or not someone becomes a homicidal maniac. Meanwhile, "transsexual" (having had a sex change operation) is now considered a transmisic term that reinforces the erroneous belief that gender identity and biological sex are synonymous.
** More specifically, Bill is sexually aroused by the idea of himself as a woman (itself [[ValuesDissonance also an outdated concept]] created to HandWave trans women who are not attracted to men as not being trans women). The film was heavily criticized in the trans community for portraying a transgender individual as a violent psychopath, and for its implications that Bill was turned down for surgery because he was too big and masculine to pass for a woman. The film left out a scene that clarified Bill was declined due to his psych assessment, because he had already murdered his grandparents and spent time in juvenile detention for the crime.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Miggs, the patient in the next cell over from Hannibal, does this and throws the results at Clarice when she's on her way out of the asylum basement. Hannibal is [[EvenEvilHasStandards so insulted]] that he agrees to help Clarice find Gumb to make up for it, and then talks Miggs into killing himself.
* DepravedHomosexual: Once again, handwaved away by the author in the novel, though not so much in the film. This resulted in a series of (perhaps justified) protests from the gay community about the insensitive portrayal of gay (or presumably gay) characters in cinema. Director Jonathan Demme, to his credit, [[Film/{{Philadelphia}} got the message loud and clear]].
* DerangedDance: Serial killer Buffalo Bill's infamous scene of him dancing in the buff and in makeup to "Goodbye Horses" in his disorganized basement, a scene that highlights his PsychopathicManchild and SissyVillain traits.

* EnemyRisingBehind: Hannibal does this to the paramedic inside the ambulance in the movie.

* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** After Miggs throws his semen at Clarice, the unnamed prisoners call him a "stupid fuck" and a "freak", but Lecter is the most affected, as he actually ''shouts'' for Clarice[[note]]the only time in all three films with Hopkins as Lecter that he actually raises his voice[[/note]] to return to his cell to talk to him, explaining that he cannot abide rudeness, giving her info about Buffalo Bill, and then loudly telling her to leave. While Crawford insisted that Lecter did it to amuse himself, he not only gave her the first important clue to Buffalo Bill, he also made Miggs kill himself for the inappropriate attack that he made upon Clarice.
** Buffalo Bill is an unrepentant serial killer, but when Catherine starts sobbing for her mother, he becomes genuinely distressed and drops his stoic demeanor. Discussions throughout the film suggest that Gumb ''wants'' to be an unfeeling monster with no standards, but can't suppress his empathy enough to do so.

* [[Foreshadowing/LiveActionFilms Foreshadowing]]:
** In the FBI Academy training exercise scene Clarice Starling forgets to check behind her after entering a room and an instructor behind her puts a gun to her head and "kills" her. At the climax, when Buffalo Bill sneaks up behind her in the dark and does a ClickHello she hears the sound, turns and shoots him to death.
** Every step of Lecter's elaborate {{prison break}} foreshadows some aspect of Buffalo Bill's M.O., possibly hinting that he was trying to leave Starling a few clues before he vanished. First, he mutilates one of the guards by [[spoiler:tearing flaps of skin from his back and splaying them out like wings]] hinting at Bill's obsession with moths. Then he gets out of prison by [[spoiler:cutting off a guard's face and using it as a mask]], hinting at Bill's desire to [[spoiler:change his identity by making a suit from women's skin]]. Finally, he confuses the police by [[spoiler:switching clothes with one of the guards and throwing the guard's corpse into an elevator shaft]], much like Bill [[spoiler:moves into his victim's house to confuse anyone who finds ''his'' old house]].
** In his first scene, Lecter says that his drawing is the "Duomo, seen from the Belvedere." [[spoiler:Buffalo Bill is in Belvedere, Ohio]]. Makes you wonder just how much Lecter was aware of before Clarice showed up. (In the book, Crawford suggests Lecter knew Buffalo Bill from the outset).
** Even the ''poster'' counts as this, it shows a moth covering the mouth of a ghostly female face. Part of Bill's M.O. is placing a moth in the mouths of the women he kills.

* GenreMashup: ''Silence of the Lambs'' is one of the most famous horror films of the '90s, but it's got equal doses of PsychologicalThriller, PoliceProcedural, ReverseWhoDunnit, and ComingOfAgeStory.

* GlassyPrison: Hannibal Lecter's cell at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane is the only one in the unit to have a glass wall facing the hallway whereas the others have normal bars, as he's by far the most dangerous inmate there. In the book, his cell was normal bars with an extra net behind them to keep visitors safe; the director of the film chose glass because [[PragmaticAdaptation it made it easier to shoot both actors clearly without bars covering their faces up.]]

* HandCannon: Buffalo Bill's Colt Python.
* HandSignals: In the 1991 film a police officer and a SWAT team leader use them to communicate with other officers and each other when they think Lecter is nearby listening to them.

* {{Homage}}: Jonathan Demme took many of the asylum scenes from ''Film/FromBeyond'' and incorporated them into the film; Demme was well acquainted with Creator/StuartGordon in the New York underground film scene.

* IWantMyMommy: PlayedForDrama in the film. After attempting to sway Buffalo Bill with promises of a ransom or political favors, Catherine breaks down and starts sobbing desperately for her mother: "I wanna see my mommy!" It's so heart-wrenching that Bill himself is affected by it.

* KillTheLights: In the film, when Clarice Starling is hunting Buffalo Bill in his house, he kills the power and leaves her in darkness. He then dons his NightVisionGoggles and TheHunterBecomesTheHunted.

* MaleGaze: Played straight, even literal. A large portion of the film displays male gaze in close-up. Some critics consider this a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of the male gaze.
* MalevolentArchitecture: The basement of Mrs. Lippman's building is a hopelessly haphazard, labyrinthine maze of rooms. Kirsti Zea, production designer for the movie, also built the set to resemble a figurative descent into Bill's mind, a nightmarish clash of building styles in various states of disrepair and decay.

* TheMountainsOfIllinois: During the raid of Buffalo Bill's alleged hideout in Calumet City, large hills can be seen in the background. (The scene was actually filmed near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.)
* MurdererPOV: We get this through Bill's night vision goggles as he stalks Catherine and later Clarice.

* NightVisionGoggles: In TheFilmOfTheBook from 1991, Buffalo Bill uses these while carrying out surveillance of Catherine Martin and while hunting Clarice Starling through his darkened house at the climax.

* NominalImportance: The film sure places a lot of attention on that minor guard character going to the hospital, right? [[spoiler:Of course, it's Hannibal wearing his face. A possible case of Administrivia/TropesAreTools, since the knowledge that ''something'' is up with Pembry borders on DramaticIrony.]]

* NothingIsScarier:
** Subverted, or at least played with, in the ''Silence'' film's climax, when [[spoiler:Clarice is in Buffalo Bill's house]]. He turns out the lights, plunging the basement into darkness. We then see the scene through [[spoiler:Bill's night-vision goggles]], as he watches her stumble around helplessly. Played straight in that during this scene there is no soundtrack, and little sound of any kind other than the small noises Clarice makes as she stumbles around.
** Another version of this in the autopsy scene. When Clarice is taking note of the condition of the body, we don't actually see the body outside of a shot of the hand and some partial shots of its face. We know what condition it's in (rotting and with a bullet hole in the chest) because of Clarice's note-taking. Her facial expression says it all and makes it even more disturbing. [[spoiler:Then they flip the body over and we see exactly what it looks like and it is ''still'' fucking disturbing.]]
** The nurse that Lecter attacked during an EKG. Dr. Chilton shows Clarice a photo and describes the aftermath (and that Lecter ate her tongue). However, the camera never shows the photo, so the rest is left to the imagination, and our view of Starling's reaction to it.

* OhCrap: Downplayed, but the audience can clearly see this cross Starling's face in the film when the moth lands nearby. She clearly was unnerved and suspicious by Gumb's behavior up to that point but the minute she sees the moth, she realizes who she's now in the home of by herself...
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: [[spoiler:Hannibal Lecter]] walks away into the crowd.

* ScaryBlackMan: Played with in the movie. Our first shot of Barney the orderly (from Starling's POV) makes him look pretty grim, but WhenHeSmiles...

* ShoutOut: Silence'' closes with a ToBeContinued. After the Copyright notice and MPAA logo, a logo appears with the text "A Luta Continua"-- Portuguese for "The Struggle Continues" ("To be continued"). Which three other Creator/JonathanDemme films also have.

* SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModification: The film adaptation is a Type 4 (Near Identical Adaptation) and sticks close to the content of the book, only excluding the chapters that aren't essential to the main plot.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Anthony Hopkins holds the record for the shortest amount of screen time to win an Academy Award for Best Actor: he's only in the movie for around 18 minutes.
* SoundtrackDissonance:
** Dr. Lecter beats the life out of two police officers while the movie plays Bach's ''The Goldberg Variations''.
** Buffalo Bill creepily dancing to 80's song "Goodbye Horses" while Catherine Martin is in his basement well.

* TrivialTitle: It refers to an anecdote told in the story. It's also a TitleDrop as the last words of the novel (not of TheFilmOfTheBook).

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: In the book version (the film mostly dropped the plotline) Clarice is juggling her hunt for Buffalo Bill with her FBI training, knowing she's in danger of being held back for non-attendance despite being a brilliant student who's busy doing Bureau work.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Catherine, who lives in an apartment, is shown in the film to have a cat she didn’t have time to feed when she was abducted. It's never made clear whether anyone else fed the cat instead of her.

* KarmicDeath: Some of Hannibal Lecter's victims (at least in Lecter's mind).

** He shows some genuine gentleness towards a new inmate named Sammy; he asks his permission before telling Clarice about the violent crime he was imprisoned for and comforts Sammy when he becomes upset. When Lecter is transfered to Tennessee, he asks Barney to say goodbye to Sammy for him, as well as thanking Barney for the courtesy he had shown him during his imprisonment.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: There really are a couple of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%27s-head_hawkmoth types of moths]] that have skull-shaped patterns on them.

** Early in ''Silence'', we find that he has sent a note to Crawford expressing his sympathy for Crawford's wifes terminal illness.

* AbsenceOfEvidence: When Lecter gives his fake profile for 'Billy Rubbin' and can only remember that he had elephant ivory anthrax, Clarice knows that this information is fake because Lecter would never come away with so little information about someone he'd met directly, correctly deducing that he only knew of the real "Buffalo Bill" through second-hand information.

* StarMakingRole: AvertedTrope in-universe. By the start of Literature/{{Hannibal}}, Starling has not been the success one might have imagined from such a successful first case. She's become tainted by a reputation for violence and her career has plateaued.

* UncannyValley:
** Intentionally invoked by the acting of Ted Levine as Buffalo Bill, when he mocks Catherine's screaming. The flat, emotionless sound, combined with his completely blank facial expression create an effect that is entirely inhuman.
** Also employed by Hopkins, who did his best to never blink on camera.

Like [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]] and [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], Buffalo Bill was inspired by RealLife killer Ed Gein.

** Dr. Chilton warns Clarice not to leave anything in Hannibal Lecter's cell and mentions several objects, among them ''pens.'' He himself leaves one there, and there is a long shot of it. He later cannot find it for signing a document. Hannibal Lecter is then seen with a part of it in his hands... [[spoiler:He uses it to unlock his cuffs, allowing him to kill his guards.]]

** In the film, Clarice uses her own investigative skills and methods of deduction to figure out why Buffalo Bill needs his victims' skins, while in the book it is Lecter who reveals it to her during one of their conversations.

There's a serial killer on the loose, "Buffalo Bill," who abducts women, kills and skins them, and shoves [[MacabreMothMotif chrysalitic moths]] down their throats. Behavioral Sciences, the section of the FBI that deals with violent crime, is stuck; section chief Jack Crawford has no idea how to stop this guy. The game-changer comes in the form of ambitious young trainee Clarice Starling. Pulled into the investigation almost by accident, she is sent to interview another serial killer, incarcerated psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter-- "Hannibal the Cannibal"-- for insight into Buffalo Bill's psychosis. Having previously aided longtime adversary Will Graham in hunting down serial killer Francis Dolarhyde, Lecter agrees to fulfill a similar purpose for Clarice in exchange for her most traumatic memories, and the two develop a strange symbiotic relationship. And the clock is ticking, because Buffalo Bill's latest victim is the daughter of a US Senator, and if they can't get him now, all hell will break loose...

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Hannibal Lecter is a serial killer and a cannibal, while the worst Dr. Chilton has done is to be a smug, manipulative jerk who first obstructs and then takes credit for an investigation to boost his own reputation and ego. Most viewers were pleased to hear Lecter say that he's "having an old friend for dinner" when he sees Chilton walk by at the Caribbean resort.

* AloneWithThePsycho: Clarice' confrontation with Buffalo Bill.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Clarice kills Buffalo Bill, and she successfully rescues Catherine. However, Hannibal has already [[SequelHook escaped from police custody]], and he is now [[KarmaHoudini free and able to commit more carnage]].]] Cue ''Film/{{Hannibal}}''.

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: The cocoons Buffalo Bill used were from black witch moths in the book but the film understandably went with the more iconic death's head (although at least one death's head moth does show up later in the book).

* AssholeVictim: Dr. Chilton is portrayed as sleazy, underhanded, uncooperative and a publicity hound, and almost costs Catherine Martin her life. At the end of the movie it's clear that Lecter will kill and eat him.

* IgnoredExpert: Barney, who survived six years as Lecter's jailer without a hitch, warns the Tennessee police not to reduce the security measures around Lecter in any way. His advice goes unheeded and sure enough, Lecter's guards soon decide that one set of handcuffs is sufficient. The predictable happens.

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Some people complained that during the night-vision view scene, shadows could be seen even though the room was pitch-black. However, if the night-vision technology uses infrared, shadows can be seen as infrared light can cast them.

!!The Tropes, Clarice, tell me about the Tropes...

** One of the most famous lines in the movie has a second meaning that [[GeniusBonus most people miss]]. Hannibal Lecter tells Clarice, "A census taker tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. (Slurp sound effect.)" Now, Clarice – and most of the audience – believe Lecter is merely confessing to one of his crimes. What most people would not know is that a common treatment for Lecter's "brand of crazy" is to use drugs of a class known as [=MAOIs=] (monoamine oxidase inhibitors). There are several things one must not eat when taking [=MAOIs=], as they can cause fatally low blood pressure, and as a physician and psychiatrist himself, Dr. Lecter would be well aware of this. These things include liver, fava beans, and red wine. In short, Lecter was telling Clarice that ''he was off his medication''. Not surprising, but very subtly done.
** A more blatant example comes after Hannibal has been moved to Memphis, and he and Clarice have a conversation while he's in the temporary cell. He tells Clarice the clue is "simplicity." (Butterick's) Simplicity is the name of a series of sewing patterns.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lecter cannot abide rudeness. While Crawford insisted that Lecter did it to amuse himself, after Miggs assaulted Clarice sexually, he not only gave her the first important clue to Buffalo Bill--he also made Miggs kill himself for the inappropriate attack that he made upon Clarice.
** The only time Lecter raises his voice to shouting in the movie, or in the entire trilogy of ''Red Dragon'', ''Silence'', and ''Hannibal'' for that matter, is after Miggs attacks Clarice. The usually cool, calm, and collected Dr. Lecter is downright ''pissed''.
** The other prisoners at the penitentiary call Miggs a "stupid fuck" and a "freak" after he tosses a wad of his semen at Clarice.

* BankToaster: Stacy describes her job at the bank as "toaster giveaways and Barry Manilow on the speakers all day."