On Wednesday, enjoy the ‘Pulp’

In honor the the Spokane International Film Festival’ s special screening of “Pulp Fiction,” part of SpIFF’s ongoing Professor’s Series, which will take place at 7 on Wednesday, I’m gonna share 10 of my favorite family-friendly quotes from Quentin Tarantino’s groundbreaking film.

If you go, feel free to quote them to my wife, Mary Pat Treuthart , who will be presenting the movie and then leading a post-screening discussion.

The quotes:

[Jules shoots the man on the couch] “I’m sorry, did I break your concentration? I didn’t mean to do that. Please, continue, you were saying something about best intentions. What’s the matter? Oh, you were finished! Well, allow me to retort. What does Marsellus Wallace look like?”

” ‘What’ ain’t no country I’ve ever heard of. They speak English in ‘What’?”

“Would you give a guy a foot massage?”

“I ain’t eat nothin’ that ain’t got sense enough to disregard its own feces.”

“Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.”

“If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.”

“Hamburgers. The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.”

[Mia Wallace tells a joke] “Three tomatoes are walking down the street - a poppa tomato, a momma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and smooshes him… and says, ‘Catch up.’ ”

“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon thee.”

And the classic bit of dialogue:

Vincent : And you know what they call a… a… a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?
Jules : They don’t call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?
Vincent : No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn’t know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is.
Jules : Then what do they call it?
Vincent : They call it a Royale with cheese.
Jules : A Royale with cheese. What do they call a Big Mac?
Vincent : Well, a Big Mac’s a Big Mac, but they call it le Big-Mac.
Jules : Le Big-Mac. Ha ha ha ha. What do they call a Whopper?
Vincent : I dunno, I didn’t go into Burger King.