[expat1000]

I love shows with that kind of dry, off-beat dialog! What’s that from? The movie?

[re_nortex]

That bit of dialog was indeed from the movie. Several years ago, while doing some multi-tasking, I had only the soundtrack of Fargo playing while doing other things. The dialog alone can carry the film.

[re_nortex]

Here's one more of my favorite scenes from Fargo, the film, with outstanding dialog...err, monologue, since Carl does nearly all of the yammering:

Carl: Hey, look at that. Twin Cities. That's the IDS Building, the big glass one. 
Tallest skyscraper in the Midwest - after the uh, Sears, in, uh, Chicago, or John Hancock Building, whatever. 
You ever been to Minneapolis?
Grimsrud: Nope.
Carl: Would it kill you to say something?
Grimsrud: I did.
Carl: "No." That's the first thing you've said in the last four hours. That's a, that's a fountain of conversation, man. 
That's a geyser. I mean, whoa, daddy, stand back, man. 
You know I'm sittin' here drivin', doin' all the drivin', man, the whole *****' way from Brainerd, drivin', just tryin' to chat, 
you know, keep our spirits up, fight the boredom of the road, 
and you can't say one *****' thing just in the way of conversation? Well, **** it. 
I don't have to talk either, man. See how you like it. [Pause] Just total *****' silence. Two can play at that game, smart guy. 
We'll just see how you like it. Total silence.

And of course Margie's scene toward the end as she's in the police car with Gaear is utter perfection.