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One of my favorite scenes in Sports Night: --- Dan Rydell: I've got the intellectual property cops crawling up my butt. Isaac: The intellectual property cops
by minikites 11y ago
One of my favorite scenes in Sports Night:
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Dan Rydell: I've got the intellectual property cops crawling up my butt.
Isaac: The intellectual property cops?
Dan Rydell: Yeah.
Isaac: Are crawling up your butt?
Dan Rydell: The heat's all over me.
Isaac: What the hell are you talkin' about, Dan?
Dan Rydell: I sang happy birthday to Casey on air.
Isaac: When?
Dan Rydell: Well, on his birthday, Isaac...
Isaac: Someone holds the copyright to "Happy Birthday"?
Dan Rydell: The representatives of Patty and Mildred Hill.
Isaac: Took two people to write that song?
Dan Rydell: Go figure.
- zik 11y agoIt's even more impressive since they only claim the lyrics - the melody came from an earlier song called "Good Morning". And since there were two sisters and only four unique words in the song that's basically two words per sister.
- gohrt 11y agoOnly 2 of the words are unique to HBTY. The others are taken from GMTU
- c3534l 11y agoSo?
- itsybitsycoder 11y agoSo they each wrote one word. One and a half if you count "dear".
- phire 11y agoIt's five words, you forgot the "dear"
- cookiecaper 11y agoThere's just always been something grating to me about the cadence of Sorkin's "warring dialogue". It's very distinctive and it just rubs me the wrong way, you can always see it on programs where he was a writer. Disappointing because he's involved with a lot of good stuff.