- This exchange with a customer when Rob's having a melancholy moment:Customer: Hi, do you have soul?
Rob: That all depends. - Rob's reaction when he finds out that Barry is in a band called BarrytownRob: Fucking hell, is there no end to your arrogance?
- Rob's Imagine Spot of Laura having sex with Ian.
- Also, Rob's delayed reaction after Liz tells him Laura is with "that Ian guy".
- Rob, Dick and Barry are all sitting around the store. The door opens. Liz stomps in.Rob: Hey, Liz.Liz: Hey, Rob. [pause, glares at him] You FUCKING ASSHOLE!
[She stares at him for a moment, then turns around and stomps out again.] - Rob's Imagine Spot confrontation in the record store, with Ian, which escalates from yelling for Ian to get out of his store, to going mental and having to be held back by Dick and Barry from assaulting Ian, to Rob, Dick, and Barry kicking the living shit out of Ian, culminating in Dick dropping an air-conditioning unit on Ian's head.
- The variation in the book (the confrontation is over the phone this time) is just as funny, especially Rob's faux-intimidating threats ("Watch your step, boy.")
Shall we leave it at that, then?I've already left it, you pathetic, rebound fuck! Now get your PATCHOULI STINK outta my store! - In the book (and a deleted scene from the movie), Rob comes across a woman (Beverly D'Angelo) selling a priceless record collection for $100. It turns out her husband left her, then asked her to sell the collection and send him the money (This is a reworking of a well-known urban legend that usually involves a car). The double-take when he finds an original Sun Records single by Elvis Presley is particularly good.
- This leads to an amusing confrontation when Rob tries to insist on paying over a thousand dollars for the collection, and the woman will barely rise her asking price to ninety. They have a reverse haggle, with him reluctantly lowering how much he's prepared to pay and her reluctantly raising the price, until he eventually admits that he can't do it. He does, however buy a vintage Roy Orbison single for fifty dollars, which she accepts.Woman: You saw that Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen"?Rob: Yeah.Woman: [smirking] That's free.
- This leads to an amusing confrontation when Rob tries to insist on paying over a thousand dollars for the collection, and the woman will barely rise her asking price to ninety. They have a reverse haggle, with him reluctantly lowering how much he's prepared to pay and her reluctantly raising the price, until he eventually admits that he can't do it. He does, however buy a vintage Roy Orbison single for fifty dollars, which she accepts.
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