Love Potion No. 9
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1992
- 92 min
- 434 Views
I took my troubles | down to Madame Ruth
You know, that Gypsy | with the gold-capped tooth
She's got a pad | on 34th and Vine
I told her that I was | a flop with chicks
I've been this way | since 1956
She looked at my palm
And she made | a magic sign
She said, | What you need is
She bent down | and turned around
And gave me a wink
She said, | I'm gonna mix it up
Right here | in the sink
It smelled | like turpentine
I held my nose, | I closed my eyes
I took a drink
I didn't know | if it was day or night
I started kissin' | everything in sight
But when | I kissed a cop
At 34th and Vine
He broke | my little bottle of
I held my nose, | I closed my eyes
I took a drink
I didn't know | if it was day or night
I started kissin' | everything in sight
But when | I kissed a cop
At 34th and Vine
He broke | my little bottle of
I held my nose, | I closed my eyes
I took a drink
I didn't know | if it was day or night
I started kissin' | everything in sight
But when | I kissed a cop?
At 34th and Vine
He broke | my little bottle of
Love Potion...
About once a month,
my friends and I | get together
and do something different | for fun.
Sometimes | we go bowling
or miniature golf
or a movie | or something.
One night,
we went down | to a Gypsy palm reader
on 34th and Vine.
Let me see | your palm.
You do very badly | with women.
No. I... I... I... | I do all right.
No, you don't.
There are | no women here.
What's this?
No women.
Are you | a boy-kissy-boy?
Excuse me?
You a homosexual?
No.
I want my sister | to see this.
No, I don't.
No.
I see no women | in your life
for a long, | long time.
Maybe...
forever.
Well, that's | kind of depressing.
Yes, it is.
But I have | something for you.
Let me see.
Number 17,
number 13.
Where the hell is it?
Ahh.
Number eight.
This is | what you need.
Dilute this with water | 1,000 to 1.
You don't want it | to be too strong.
You take a sip, | and you swallow.
And when you speak,
women will fnd you | fascinating.
I'm a biochemist.
You take this.
You'll be back.
So, tell me, | there was this woman
I saw you having lunch | with the other day.
Huh?
She's just... | just somebody I work with.
Uh-huh.
Were there any | romantic possibilities?
No.
No?
Why not?
No, you see, I'm...
She's, um, | she's not my type.
Oh, she's not | your type.
That was a lie.
Except for the fact | that she had
kind of a boyfriend,
Diane was exactly my type.
I'm a comparative | psychobiologist.
I put, uh, primates...
chimpanzees... | through tests.
I note the behavior | of the subject,
and I hope the results | are analogous to humans.
Do you put electrical things | in their brains?
No.
But that's done, | isn't it?
Yes.
Why?
You can measure | electrical activity,
or, with a minute | amount of current,
you can stimulate a feeling | or... or a thought.
You can stimulate | a feeling?
Yes.
For example,
there was | this experiment
where an electrode | was planted
in the pleasure center | of a monkey's brain.
When the monkey | hit a button,
it sent a signal | to the electrode,
in effect exciting | the monkey sexually.
You're kidding.
No.
Can you guess | what happened?
Was it a male monkey?
Yes.
He slammed the button | till he died.
Oh, so, you know | this experiment.
I know men, honey.
Oh, stop.
I think she is defnitely | Paul's type.
She's got that, | uh...
je ne sais quoi,
that, uh...
Very sexy girl.
You should go | talk to her.
Really.
You should do it.
Do it.
I don't know her.
Well, | that is the point.
You go talk to her,
then you'll | know her.
Well, maybe she doesn't | want to talk to anybody.
Maybe.
Maybe she does, huh?
You got to | keep taking chances,
keep rolling | the dice
till you fnd someone | who does want to talk.
Expert advice.
Go.
I'll tell you what.
I'll pay you $20 | to go talk to her.
$20. Just go | talk to her.
No.
$40.
I don't want to do it.
$60.
$80.
$100?
Oh, O. K., O. K.
?Born to lose ? ?I've lived my...
He trapped me | by the bathroom.
He keeps me | by the bathroom.
He won't let me pass.
Can you believe it?
It's just one ugly geek | after another
in this place.
If one more of these | Radio Shack clerks...
Hi. Hi.
Hi.
Uh-oh.
I don't believe this.
Can I, uh, uh,
can I buy you | a drink?
Can I ask you | a question?
Sure.
Why do you think | I'd be interested in you?
Did I look at you | or smile at you?
Did I flirt with you?
No.
Well, then what makes you | think I'd be interested?
Are you somebody special? | Is that it?
Do you do something | really fascinating?
What do you do | for a living?
Uh, I'm... | I'm a biochemist.
Do I look like | a biochemist groupie?
Well, biochemists | don't have groupies.
Why do you think | that is?
Well, it's not | a very glamorous job.
No, it's not one of your | drop-dead glamorous jobs.
I mean,
I'm sure that you fnd chemicals | very fascinating,
but do I look like somebody | who'd be interested
in a...
a... a...
a chemical person?
No. Hey, wait.
I'm doing this | for your beneft.
I mean, you wouldn't want this | to happen again,
would you?
No.
No. What's very | obvious to me
is not to you.
Look at your clothes
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