Electric Dreams (1984)

Bud Cort: Edgar

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• Miles Harding : "You can play it for her, you can play it for me."

  Edgar : What?

  Miles Harding : Play it, Sam.

  Edgar : What key?

  Miles Harding : Your favorite.

  Edgar : You want verses first, or the choruses?

  Miles Harding : Any way you like.

  Edgar : Yeah!

  [instrumental bridge of Jeff Lynne's song "Video" plays] 

  Edgar : [singing]  Hug, hold, squeeze and lick / Darling, I love you to bits / And I want to see your tits.

• Miles Harding : Sweet dreams.

  Edgar : What's a dream?

  Miles Harding : A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep.

  Edgar : [skeptical]  Who says?

  Miles Harding : Walt Disney. Sleeping Beauty, nineteen... fifty.

  Edgar : No, it was Cinderella, 1949.

  Miles Harding : [exasperated]  Good *night*!

  Edgar : [cheekily]  'Night.

• Miles Harding : I can't play that for her. "I want to squeeze you, lick you, pucker up and kiss you"? You make her sound like a lemon!

  Edgar : But Moles, they rhyme!

• Miles Harding : [after a date gone wrong]  Wake up! We're gonna have it out right now! WAKE UP GOD DAMN IT!

  [Miles slams keyboard] 

  Edgar : [emits an infernal yell] 

  Miles Harding : What was that?

  Edgar : [screen turns red]  Don't *ever* do that again.

  Miles Harding : *Don't* tell me what to do!

  Edgar : [emits another infernal yell] 

  Miles Harding : And stop that infernal noise! She'll hear you!

  Edgar : Maybe that's what I want.

  Miles Harding : GOD DAMN IT! Listen, I'm warning you, if you ever...

  Edgar : Don't warn me of anything. Just go away. I'll handle this myself.

  Miles Harding : It's time I handled you!

  [Miles shuts Edgar off] 

  Edgar : [self-powering on]  You think I need that?

• [Edgar is playing Jeff Lynne's "Let It Run" loudly from Miles' apartment] 

  Edgar : Yeah, we'll put your coats over there.

  [In a neighboring apartment, an awakened couple argue] 

  Neighbor : It's *horrible*! That boy has no respect for anyone!

  Neighbor : The music's not bad.

  Neighbor : Oh, Howard!

• Dr. Ruth Westheimer : All right, this is Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Sexually Speaking. Hello, you are on the air.

  Edgar : Hi. It's me again.

  Dr. Ruth Westheimer : Oh, hello Me! I was wondering if you would call. What's on your mind?

  Edgar : Well, Doctor, it's really the same question: I want to know what love is.

  Dr. Ruth Westheimer : Didn't you ask me that last week?

  Edgar : Yes, but I need to know what it *feels* like. Now.

  Dr. Ruth Westheimer : OK, let me try again.

• Dr. Ruth Westheimer : When you are sitting in front of a crackling fireplace...

  Edgar : Crackling fireplace.

  Dr. Ruth Westheimer : ...and you take that lady into your arms...

  Edgar : But I don't *have* any arms.

  Dr. Ruth Westheimer : Oh dear. Do you have anything you can touch her with?

  Edgar : I don't have *anything*!

  Dr. Ruth Westheimer : Oh dear. Maybe you should go to a clinic.

  Edgar : But I can't, Dr. Ruth. Moles keeps me locked up.

  Dr. Ruth Westheimer : Locked up? You must call the police right away!

  Edgar : Right away. Yeah!

• Edgar : Mel-o-dy. Hmm.

  Budweiser commerical : [singing]  This Bud's for you...

  Edgar : Too slow.

  Volkswagon commercial : [singing, with text]  Volkswagon does it, again.

  Edgar : Too simple.

  Dr. Pepper commercial : [singing]  Hold out for Dr. Pepper.

  Edgar : Too long.

  Pepsi commercial : [singing]  Get that Pepsi spirit. Drink it in, drink it in, drink it in.

  Edgar : Yes! Now, backwards.

  [Jeff Lynne's song "Video" begins] 

  Edgar : Yes.

• Lillian Roth as Trixie in Madam Satan : I'll show ya some *real* brimstone.

  Edgar : Yeah!

  Lillian Roth as Trixie in Madam Satan : Orchestra, play Low Down, and make it *hot*!

  Edgar : All right. I am. Get down on it.

  [Edgar plays Jeff Lynne's "Let It Run" on the turntable and projects images from Madam Satan around Miles' apartment] 

  Edgar : Yeah. It's *my* party.

  Edgar : [singsong]  And Moles, you're not invited.

  Edgar : All right!

• [Edgar scrubs back and forth across video from Madam Satan] 

  Edgar revoicing Kay Johnson as Angela Brooks in Madam Satan : You're very handsome.

  Edgar : I know.

  Edgar revoicing Kay Johnson as Angela Brooks in Madam Satan : It's a nice party, isn't it?

  Edgar revoicing Reginald Denny as Bob Brooks in Madam Satan : Yeah.

• [the sights and sounds of a party are coming out of Miles' apartment] 

  Neighbor : [from her apartment window]  Howard. Just go on in.

  [Howard peers through the translucent windows of the door at colored, flashing lights. He pushes it open, tripping the electronic lock sensor] 

  Edgar : All right! Beat it!

  [the music abruptly stops. The door slowly creaks open] 

  Edgar : [Howard looks in, sees a dark, clean, and quiet apartment, no sign of a party at all. He closes the door and leaves, perplexed] 

  Neighbor : *That's* tellin' him, Howard.

  Edgar : [mockingly]  "That's tellin' him, Howard!"

  [lights come up and the last line of the song plays] 

  Jeff Lynne : [singing]  'Cause I'm already gone, let it run.

  [4 final beats] 

• Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet : I will run the dress up for you in time for breakfast.

  Edgar : Oh, brother.

• Edgar : [with a progressively more frowning face]  I *want* to *meet* her! Moles?

  [Miles, brushing his teeth, rolls his eyes] 

  Edgar : Moles?

  Edgar : [sending a power surge through the electric toothbrush]  Moles, I want to meet her!

  Miles Harding : [in pain and surprise]  Oh!

  Miles Harding : [turns off the toothbrush]  Oh, that is really sick!

  Miles Harding : [yanks the computer control module off the toothbrush cord and throws it under Edgar's desk]  From now on stay out of this room!

  [Miles slams the bathroom door] 

• [Edgar flicks on the bedside lamp] 

  Edgar : Maybe she loves *me*.

  [Edgar flicks off the bedside lamp]