Prymatt
Conehead [played by
Jane Curtin] [hearing that her
daughter’s porky teenage swain, Ronnie, was acting inappropriately on a date]: “He
was behaving like a flarndip?”
Connie
Conehead [played by
Michelle Burke]: [Stopping her
crying, in confusion]: “Flarndip?
Prymat:
“A masher, a hustler, an uninvited grasper of cone.”
Beldar
Conehead [played by Dan
Aykroyd]: [Overhears this, erupting] “FLARNDIP?”— Coneheads
(1993), screenplay by Tom Davis, Dan Aykroyd, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner,
directed by Steve Barron
Somehow, for nearly three decades, this movie
escaped my notice. Then this past Friday, while channel-surfing, I came upon
it, at a point when I needed it most, and surrendered constantly to great,
swelling belly laughs.
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