That Thing You Do! (1996)
Ethan Embry: The Bass Player
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Quotes
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Guy : Hey, Uncle Bob, when are we gonna get these records?
Uncle Bob : [thinks] Ah... Luke 21:19.
The Bass Player : And your patience possess ye your souls.
Lenny : Luke? Who's Luke? When are we gettin' the records?
Uncle Bob : Wednesday.
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Guy : If Jimmy's a genius, I'm U Thant.
The Bass Player : Who's U Thant?
Guy : He's the Secre... forget it.
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Faye : But I thought you already decided on The Echoes.
Jimmy : Nah, some band in Buffalo's the Echoes. And I wasn't wild about that.
Lenny : Let's just call us The - Band You're About To Hear.
Chad : How about The Corvettes?
Jimmy : Is that The Corvettes, or the Chordvettes?
Chad : No, Corvettes, like the car.
Jimmy : Well see, I was thinking like the Chord...
[writes Chordvettes]
Jimmy : *Chord*vettes, like chords in our music.
Lenny : [Guy walks in] Is that "Skitch" Patterson?
Chad : Here he is, Erie's lone beatnik.
The Bass Player : How about the Tempos? Ya know, tempos?
Lenny : Not the Tempos, Tempos. I was in a band already called The Tempos, and we were... terrible.
Chad : Hey Guy, weren't you the drummer for the Tempos?
Guy : Heard that.
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Phil Horace : I'm talking about Rock 'N' Roll shows in Steubenville, Youngstown, Pittsburgh, places like that.
The Bass Player : Pittsburgh?
Lenny : Steubenville?