Funny / A Serious Man

• "SY ABLEMAN!?!"
• "There's another Jew over there, son!"
• The increasingly bizarre rabbis are pretty good too, culminating in an ancient, cryptic rabbi whose wisdom consists of quoting Grace Slick and smiling enigmatically.
  • "Just look at that parking lot."
  • "What happened to the goy?" "The goy? Who cares?"
• Danny's Bar Mitzvah.
• Every interaction with Clive.
  • Or the one with his father.
    Mr.Park: Please. Accept the mystery.
• "Well, Danny goes to Hebrew school, Sarah doesn't have time, she mostly... washes her hair. Apparently there are several steps involved, but you don't have to tell Marshak that."
• "THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE!"
• "Dese... are de members... of de AIRPLANE!"
• "The rabbi is busy." "He didn't look busy!" "He's thinking."
• Larry defending his character: "I am not an evil man! I went to the Aster Art once. I saw Swedish Reverie. It wasn't even erotic! Although it was, in a way."
• From the credits: "No Jews were harmed in the making of this motion picture."
• When Sy is trying to persuade Larry to check into The Jolly Roger for the sake of his kids until things settle down with the divorce, he offhandedly mentions that the hotel has a pool as a point in its favor. Much later in the film we finally see said pool. It is empty.
• "Been hunting?"^* Said to a father and son who have a massive gut-shot buck strapped to the top of their car
• The first dream sequence:
  Sy Ableman: While slamming Larry's head into a chalkboard "I fucked your wife, Larry! I seriously fucked her! That's what's going on!"
  • Each impact accompanied by a piano sting for extra emphasis.