One of the many bits I love in Being John Malkovich goes: Customer: I'm a fat man. I'm sad and... Catherine Keener: $200 please Partly the joke is that Keene

One of the many bits I love in Being John Malkovich goes: Customer: I'm a fat man. I'm sad and... Catherine Keener: $200 please Partly the joke is that Keener's character can't be bothered to listen, but I like to think it's also a writerly in-joke about characterization.