Funny / Scream 3

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• This exchange:
  Milton: You don't have to do this, Roman! Just tell me what you want, I can make it happen! Any picture, name your budget, script approval, final cut!
  Roman: I already have it.
  (Milton's throat is slashed)
• This exchange:
  Jennifer: Gale Weathers!
  Gale: [quietly] Shit.
  Jennifer: I know we've never met... and I know you never returned my phone call, but after getting into this project, I feel like I'm in your mind.
  Gale: Hmm, that would explain my constant headaches.
  Jennifer: You know, I'm sorry things didn't work for 60 Minutes II, but Total Entertainment, that's a pretty good fallback.
  Gale: Thank you. I'm sorry things didn't work out with Brad Pitt, but being single, that's a good fallback.
  Jennifer: Gives me more time for my work. After all, Gale Weathers, you're such a complex character.
  Gale: And to be played by an actress with such depth and range...
• This moment between Dewey and Randy.
  Randy: Well, if you're watching this tape, it means as I feared. I did not survive these killings here at Windsor College. And that giving up my virginity to Karen Kolchec at the video store was probably not a good idea.
  Dewey: Karen Kolchec?
  Randy: Yes, Karen Kolchec.
  Dewey: Creepy Karen?
  Randy: Shut up. She's a sweet person, okay? We were working late. We were putting away some videos in the porno section and ya know, shit happens.
• The out of nowhere cameo that is Jay and Silent Bob.
  "Holy shit, Silent Bob, it's that TV news chick Connie fucking Chung. Hey Connie, how's Maury? (Gale flips him off.) Dude, I think she likes me. Did you see how she was looking at me?"
  • He says he thinks Gale likes him after she's given him the middle finger.
  • Silent Bob's reaction is just as funny. After Jay says it's Connie Chung, Silent Bob smiles and waves all friendly. And then he seems genuinely shocked, confused and hurt by her giving them the finger.
• This one:
  Dewey's voice on phone: Stone, where are you?
  Stone: I'm just checking out your tin can, Dewdrop.
  Dewey: Well, come back inside and stay with Jennifer. Something's happened. I have to go to the police.
  Stone: Is that an order, Dewdrop? 'Cause Steven Stone doesn't work for you.
  Dewey: Get back in the house, Stone! Would I call you if it wasn't important? What are you doing in there anyway?
  Stone: Me, I'm just checking to make sure there's no killer in here waiting to off you like he did your little sister.
  Dewey: What did you say? I can't believe you said that. That makes me—
  [Ghostface pops out behind Stone with his knife and stabs Stone in the back]
  Ghostface: (in killer's voice) ANGRY!
  • And the kicker is that Stone actually puts up a good fight, only to be brought down... with a frying pan.
• The realistic moment that when a knife is thrown spinning towards someone, they're just as likely to get hit with the handle.
• Jennifer randomly jumping into her bodyguard Stone's arms during the middle of going on about how scary it is knowing a killer is out there.
  • Even funnier are the outtakes for the scene, where in one Parker Posey (who plays Jennifer) asks Patrick Warburton (who plays Stone) to sing to her while she's in his arms, with him breaking out a rendering of "Ol' Man River."
• Sarah in Roman's office, playing with his award. The phone rings and she drops it, breaking off the head. It's Roman on the phone, and she says she was "just looking at your music video award". Later on, Roman assumes that the award's head being broken is a message from the killer.
  • This becomes darkly humorous when it is revealed that Roman is the killer. He took advantage of Sarah's clumsiness to make himself look like the victim.
  • It's even funnier if you consider that Roman murdering her after she broke that award may have had an It's Personal element to it.
  • There's also something extremely funny about Sarah sloppily attempting to tape the award's head back on.
• The killer faxes in script pages to Jennifer's house, and they guess that he's inside, so they go outside. Jennifer tries to go back inside, saying she wants to find out what happens. Gale's response? "Wait for the fucking movie!"
• Gale spies on the Stab 3 set using a purse with holes in it so she can put a video camera inside. Dewey busts her for it - and she remembers he was the one who bought her the purse in the first place.
• Roger Corman's cameo is pretty hilarious; he's playing a studio executive who is trying to make the Stab movie less violent.
• Considering Sidney had never met Roman before he unmasked himself as Ghostface, it's possible to see her silence afterwards as less "oh my God" and more "...who the hell are you?" Forcing the killer to sheepishly confirm his identity after not getting the reaction he was expecting.
• Carrie Fisher playing an Identical Stranger to herself who claims she should have been cast in Star Wars, while dealing with both Gale and Jennifer. In addition to giving some clues about the murder, she also reveals that Jennifer is a Stage Name and her real one is Judy Jurgenstern, to Gale's amusement.
  • The late Ms. Fisher gets two amazing zingers.
    I was up for Princess Leia. Was this close. So who gets it? The one who sleeps with George Lucas.
    Now, did you need something? Or do you want me to tell you who you look like?
• Like the real-life Scream fans, the in-universe Stab fans were enraged upon learning that Randy died in the second movie. What makes this moment darkly comedic is that Randy is a real person and not a fictional character in the Scream universe, which essentially means that Stab fans were angry at Sunrise Studios for staying true to the facts and at Randy for dying in the first place.

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