Best Show Lines 2012

[happywaffle]

"Well, there's a prophecy..."
- Tim Orr of Improv Playhouse, Improvised Play Festival, 4/14, in one of the best examples of narrative heightening I've ever seen.

Said with an air of resignation that was delightful from an improviser perspective

I told about eight different people about this moment. It was fantastic. His gears were visibly turning right before he said it—God, this is stupid, should I say it? Yes, yes I should.

PROTIP: "There's a prophecy" works to raise the stakes in any scene ever.

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

"Well, there's a prophecy..."
- Tim Orr of Improv Playhouse, Improvised Play Festival, 4/14, in one of the best examples of narrative heightening I've ever seen.

Said with an air of resignation that was delightful from an improviser perspective

I told about eight different people about this moment. It was fantastic. His gears were visibly turning right before he said it—God, this is stupid, should I say it? Yes, yes I should.

PROTIP: "There's a prophecy" works to raise the stakes in any scene ever.

in a similar vein:

"So...it begins."
"This will be his/her darkest hour yet!"
"All the pieces are finally in place!"

etc.

[happywaffle]

Said with an air of resignation that was delightful from an improviser perspective

I told about eight different people about this moment. It was fantastic. His gears were visibly turning right before he said it—God, this is stupid, should I say it? Yes, yes I should.

PROTIP: "There's a prophecy" works to raise the stakes in any scene ever.

in a similar vein:

"So...it begins."
"This will be his/her darkest hour yet!"
"All the pieces are finally in place!"

etc.

PROTIP: Ask Jordan T. Maxwell to guest with your troupe just so he's available to deliver this line. (Also acceptable: Marc Majcher, Kayla Freeman)

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

I told about eight different people about this moment. It was fantastic. His gears were visibly turning right before he said it—God, this is stupid, should I say it? Yes, yes I should.

PROTIP: "There's a prophecy" works to raise the stakes in any scene ever.

in a similar vein:

"So...it begins."
"This will be his/her darkest hour yet!"
"All the pieces are finally in place!"

etc.

PROTIP: Ask Jordan T. Maxwell to guest with your troupe just so he's available to deliver this line. (Also acceptable: Marc Majcher, Kayla Freeman)

Bonus PROTIP: Have Peter Rogers on standby to explain how the prophecy/master plan/triple crossing bank heist/mad science plot/entirety of time and space work together in the last five minutes of your show.

[Brad Hawkins]

"So...it begins."
"This will be his/her darkest hour yet!"
"All the pieces are finally in place!"

etc.

I'm a fan of "so it's come to this" and have been using it wherever possible.

[Kayla Lane]

I told about eight different people about this moment. It was fantastic. His gears were visibly turning right before he said it—God, this is stupid, should I say it? Yes, yes I should.

PROTIP: "There's a prophecy" works to raise the stakes in any scene ever.

in a similar vein:

"So...it begins."
"This will be his/her darkest hour yet!"
"All the pieces are finally in place!"

etc. :P

PROTIP: Ask Jordan T. Maxwell to guest with your troupe just so he's available to deliver this line. (Also acceptable: Marc Majcher, Kayla Freeman)

Ha!

Jordan T. Maxwell: booming voice
Marc Majcher: booming voice
Kayla Lane Freeman: ... ?

I am flattered, but confused.

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

Kayla, could you keep it down in here? people are trying to work...

[Ryan Hill]

You have your own version of booming.

[jesspasc]

You have your own version of booming.

Could we have a separate thread for best lines of the forum?

[happywaffle]

You have your own version of booming.

Could we have a separate thread for best lines of the forum?

I often instinctively look for the "Like" button when reading comments on the forums.

[thedward]

"My perfect woman would have the lower half of a millipede and the top half of that girl from Blossom, but like she is now not when she was young because I'm not creepy."

-- Nick Jimenez (Maestro 2012-04-22)

[happywaffle]

Nick Jimenez won Maestro last night with the greatest status-battle victory I've ever seen. He and Caitlin were playing workers in a factory, and Caitlin seemed to be walking away with it—Nick was talking about how down on his luck he was, how nothing ever seemed to go his way. I was just about to interject and make sure Nick understood how status battles work, when:

"Gosh, the only good thing that ever happened to me is when I was 5 and an angel appeared to me and said that when I was 30 I was going to save the world."

Caitlin's face at that moment was priceless. She knew she was sunk.

[kaci_beeler]

"You may have the form of a young and curious child, but I feel that if I were to pull off the barest, thinnest layer of your skin I would see the form of a devil's whore straight ahead of me...DO YOU THINK YOU'RE TOO YOUNG FOR WICKEDNESS?" - Curtis Luciani as The Bull Frog Creek town Preacher

The Amazon & The Milksop Present Catchin' Frogs, in the Free Fringe, 4/19/12

[davealley2]

Maestro 04/21/12 Scene on a yacht

Nick J: I regret smoking tobacco out of a seagull's mouth for the last hour.

Mike K: You're going to die either way. May as well go quick.

Nick: You know what they say?

Mike: That's right. See a broad and bootie yack 'em. Lay'em down and smack'em yack'em.



Awesome Airplane! ref, Mike!

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

scene between Lisa Jackson as a priest and Lauren Zinn as a young girl

Lisa: You look more like a woman every day.
Lauren (kneeling): Well, you're standing at the right angle.

Lisa (later in the scene): God hears you. He just doesn't understand you.

-Free Fringe, 4/26/2012