Hold the Chicken - Five Easy Pieces (3/8) Movie CLIP (1970) HD
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Bobby (Jack Nicholson) outwits a stubborn waitress (Lorna Thayer) and then insults her in legendary fashion.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
A disaffected man seeks a sense of identity in one of the key films of Hollywood's 1970s New Wave. Once a promising pianist from a family of classical musicians, Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson, in his first major starring role) leads a blue-collar life as an oil rigger, living with needy waitress girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black) and bowling with their friends Elton (Billy "Green" Bush) and Stoney (Fannie Flagg). Feeling suffocated by responsibilities, Bobby seeks out his sister, Tita (Lois Smith), and, discovering that his father is gravely ill, he reluctantly heads back to the patrician family compound in Puget Sound with a pregnant Rayette in tow. After a road trip featuring a harangue from hitchhiker Palm (Helena Kallianiotes) about filth, and Bobby's ill-fated attempt to make a menu substitution in a diner, he tucks Rayette away in a motel before heading to the house. There Bobby seduces his uptight brother Carl's cultured fiancée, Catherine (Susan Anspach), but Rayette shows up unexpectedly. As Rayette's crassness collides with the snobbery of the Dupea circle, Bobby loses patience with both sides. After trying to reconcile with his mute father, Bobby departs, unwilling to give in to either destiny. Director Bob Rafelson and screenwriter Adrien Joyce (aka Carole Eastman) used the creative control afforded by the low budget to craft a European-influenced character study, catching a cultural mood of anomie and resentment as it was embodied in Bobby. Neither older generation nor hippie, Bobby fits in nowhere, and his desire for independence conflicts with his emotional emptiness. Nicholson's nuanced performance of simmering frustration resonated with 1970 audiences caught between Nixon's "silent majority" and the troubled counterculture; a substantial hit, Five Easy Pieces was nominated for several Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor, and established Nicholson as a star. Offering no "easy" answers to Bobby's existential crisis, Five Easy Pieces is one of the pre-eminent films in the early-'70s cycle of alienated American art movies, as even the fantasy of rebellion is reduced to merely running away.
CREDITS:
TM & © Sony (1970)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Toni Basil, Karen Black, Helena Kallianiotes, Lorna Thayer
Director: Bob Rafelson
Producers: Bob Rafelson, Richard Wechsler, Harold Schneider, Bert Schneider
Screenwriters: Carole Eastman, Bob Rafelson
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This scene was filmed at a Denny's in my town, Eugene, OR. It's still decorated the same way, and every time I go there I get Jack's booth! I'm a little bit nicer to my waitress, though.
Can you ask for a side order?
But is your waitress nicer to you? Because she was a monster!
I'll have to get there from up here in Portland and I will order the same thing as Jack!! 😂😂😂😂
Awesome, I didn't know this was in Oregon
You sure it's Eugene, OR?? There's something outside the window. It seems to be sunlight. Weird. Jk btw
Love the way Jack calmly puts on his sunglasses before he clears the table with a sweep of his arm.
Hey that's jack!!
Yup, he dismantled the diner lol
Famous deleted scene from the shining 'Jack on the route to the overlook' I never believed it could be true. Great scene it gives us an insight into Jack Torrances' volatile nature before they arrive, but I understand why they cut it, time limitations and Nicholson's maybe too humorous.
He did that in real life. He showed up late to a meeting at a diner and the other guys had been there for an hour or so. The female proprietor of the restaurant asked them to leave because they needed the table, so Nicholson said "Ok you want us to leave? Fine." And he cleared the table exactly like in that scene.
If he did that, he was being a jerk in real life.
They've served toast there ever since...
Always if it was Michael Douglas in falling down
😂
Bahahaha
Chicken optional
Good one
You can't handle the booth!
Quite funny, actually!
Oh, very good!
Instead of ordering the code red, he ordered the omelette
@@TheOusooner56 Haha!
@@TheOusooner56 Code Red would have been with ketchup.
Jack’s demeanor and the originality of this scene will forever be one of the most memorable of Nicholson movies. He’s just as funny as he is mean. Classic Jack !!
Never upset a Jack Nicholson character who is demanding something - he WILL go nuts.
Tell him, "Just a minute, sir," then sneak out the back door for a very long cigarette break and perusal of the want ads.
I SAID OVEREASY!
THE CHIEF RAISED HIS HAND
Hey that’s waitress was bugging him. Bugging me too 💥
@Plaheeeeres johnni
At least he's willing to pay for the chicken salad sandwich full price. Just give him the wheat bread and toast it up. Godly!!!
Sorry, no substitutions
@@TheOusooner56 the rules are the rules after all..
I've done that... for instance at Home Depot. I bought a nozzle for the spray bottle. I have plenty of bottles, just needed a sprayer. The clerk didn't know what to do, so I found a loose nozzle in the bin, let him charge me for the whole thing and bang, I had the nozzle without the unneeded bottle.
Anything with Jack is AWESOME!!That scene is one of his classics that never gets old! One of thousands!!
a waitress like nurse retched.
Jack has been qouted " I don't make movies, I make classics." Lol.
This diner still stands in Eugene, Oregon. It's a Denny's restaurant on Glenwood Dr. That's Interstate 5 in the background. I've driven past it any number of times but just haven't gotten around to going in and asking for toast.
Go in! And tell us how it went. Did you get toast? I need to know this, lol
I've eaten there many times, always getting Jack's booth! They willingly serve toast, too.
Quinn Lawless
As a Brit who loves 70s film - that is waay cool bro!
Wow, please reply. I have always wondered what Karen Black was staring at so intently out the window. What would have been in her line of vision
MrRJMGREEN I think it's a lot full of CAT construction equipment. Either that or a billboard. Really nothing good to look at in that part of town!
What the fuck kind of diner doesn't serve toast??
just to show you Denny's has always been a shit diner
Rene Gonzalez Nah this was just a movie,Denny’s is great irl
Those in movies.
A movie one so they can set up the scene.
one that dosent have a toster. Lol
a true legend, some of the best movie quotes in the history of motion pictures
Written by Carole Eastman who also wrote The Shooting, which has Nicholson in a smaller but just as memorable role. ❤
Back when Hollywood was great.
It's funny how an old clip like this can dredge up memories. One of my old friends from work, who is no longer there, used to be able to do the whole skit by memory. Happened to hear it today on 97.1 talking about 1970.
Love it !
The whole skit? All 120 seconds? Wow, he should be like, an actor or something.
A reminder that you are NEVER too old to throw a disgusting tantrum.
Jack is a New Jersey native like me, and I can tell you this is not acting...this is as real as it gets!
Exactly. Jack said he did exactly this once at a diner. That was the inspiration for this lol
LOL, can only imagine the daily tantrums if a Jersey diner tried to act like this!
Good acting is the real thing, that`s what makes it good.
NJ native as well. There's NJ, then there's the rest of America.
@@DoctorCyan- Fun fact: New Jersey is famously known for all the diners. No other State has as many.
This is such a fantastic scene. He was truly one of the greats.
What do you mean "was?"
Always love seeing JJ in random places!
The behind the scenes photo's of this scene is great because you can see them all rehearsing the scene and sitting down as friendly actors with the actress who plays the waitress in her regular clothes. It's an interesting contrast to the aggressive nature of the scene.
The waitress was actually pretty good in this scene.
Most actors are waiters/waitresses as day jobs
Her ability to portray a Karen is stunningly accurate. It must come naturally.
He made it easy for her and yet she still had a bad attitude.......
@@josephbahri1403 YOU NAILED IT!
@@josephbahri1403 if you’re asking for substitutions when the menu says no substitutions, he’s not making it easy on her
Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Isiah tyler you want me to hold the chicken huh
GHOSTRIDER4991 you see that sign sir? Yes you all have to leave I'm not taking anymore of y'alls smartness and sarcasm
Orangesandpeanutbutter ya see this sign?
😂😂😂
Ok, hold the chicken? Fine, bon appetit! Now were all happy, praise jesus! That's how I'd respond.
I've got one word to say about this scene-classic! This is my favorite scene from this movie! Jack Nicholson-a great actor.
Yup. He is hugely underrated.
This is one of those scenes I always watch multiple times. Everything is perfect. Even the view of the morning out of the window.
What he tries to order you can imagine sitting in the diner eating while sipping your cuppa coffee.
The acting is perfect from jack and the waitress in the argument (which technically the waitress wins).
And it all finishes with some Jack Nicholson sunglasses and polo neck craziness. Awesome.
This has got to be one of the best customer orders ever... I would not have said the last thing to upset the waitress but the way he ordered it was classic
Yeah but you’re not in the movie! Not sure anyone would say that, but it made the scene
Jack is so gorgeous here.
he's such a uniquely photogenic person
I mean how does a breakfast place not serve toast smh. I wouldn't have half the patience he did lmao
Lol this never gets old, iconic scene.
It's 3 :10 am . I can't sleep and for reason thought of this classic clip .he was so cool 😊
A great scene with Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Helena Kallianiotes, Toni Basil, and Lorna Thayer as the waitress. Well written and well played.
You left out Patricia Scone, Samantha Ross and Norman Garth, I don’t know who the others are though
Toni Basil? "Micky" singer?
@@dquinn8344 yup
The actress who played the waitress nailed it.
@@dquinn8344No, it's Toni Basil the infamous Hollywood choreographer and trend-setting dancer. Mickey was just a side project. 😊
It's 45 years later and people are the same........ Giving people a hard time over nothing. 😀😀😀😀😀
+locomotivebrain ......😀
“Shut up.” Lol
Gah. Of course someone had to comment on how this confrontation was unnecessary. A huge part of the movie has to do with how the character played by Nicholson made things hard for himself. In the the moments after this scene, that character rejects the congratulations of another character by saying something like "well, I didn't get my toast, did I." I enjoy this scene because the character does something I'd love to do, but never would. The fact that the situation could have been handled differently does nothing to diminish my enjoyment of the scene. Not everything has to play like some scene from a training video on non-confrontational communication.
right on. great scene great movie not one false note plus no special effects no car chases explosions guys getting kicked in their balls and esp no Adam Sandler or David spade
Well analyzed. Still, if you feel the need to act this way: get help!
Karsten If that's how you feel then the whole world needs a therapist.
FAKK2f If I look at the current state of affairs on our mutual world, I don't think this is such a bad idea! A therapist for everyone - at least for every person that is regularly on online forums ;-)!
Personally, I cannot remember that I ever felt the need, to act this way, just because a waitress, or another low paid service person, lacked a little bit of flexibility or was just doing their job halfheartedly (and she didn't make the rules in this diner anyway). O.k., granted, I saw the scence again now and she acted quite bitchy. I could very well imagine myself being frustrated in such a situation. But what the character, Jack plays, does at the end, is a little bit over the top. I mean it's a great scene and very well acted by both. I agreed very much with tdmoose analyse.
I wouldn't go so far to say that such behaviour is truly sick, but I think such behaviour shows lack of empathy (not just with the waitress, but with the other diner guests). Now, I read that tdmoose said, he would never act this way, but he sometimes wished he could.
This didn't escape my attention.
Impulse control is very important and certainly one sign of sanity. Maybe I came off a little bit to judgemental. I still wonder, why he would feel such anger in such a situation. It seems totally out of proportion to even have such urges and I know that supressed anger is self-destructive and also people can one day just snap and do things that they'll very much regrett, when they don't confront their anger issues in time.
I certainly made an offhandish remark that might have come across a little bit arrogant or rude toward a person that I don't know and who didn't really say something offensive. Cut me some slack though.
tdmoose if you were a normal human being you would just watch the clip and shut up.
Dunno how that diner stays in business... won't give toast? Toast comes automatically with practically everything at a diner.
It's a movie. They wrote it so that Jack could have kind of reaction that he did. Is reality there probably isn't a diner that doesn't sell toast.
OMG did your parents have any children that lived?
This is five easy pieces not full metal jacket
I have to imagine the ridiculousness of that is intentional so you don't just think he's a complete douchenozzle
I'm surprised Jack Nicholson held his temper for as long as he did
Yeah, he was actually going easy on the waitress, for a while there! 🤣
He bottled it up until he exploded. That’s the worst kind of temper.
"You've got bread...and a toaster of some kind?"
"You want me to hold the chicken, huh?"
"I want you to hold it between your knees!"
I said that to a waitress at waffle house after seeing this when I was nine, and she played her part perfectly.
upload it and lets see if u nailed Jacks part Jack !
No u didnt
Did you swipe all the glasses off your table too?
BULLSHIT
r/thathappened
"hurry up with my order. Laker game starts in a half-hour"
And what's more there are Jews at my table!
Soft spoken Jack Nicholson. I love his voice and his acting. Good man right there.
he just spazzed out over a diner menu lol. Good man?
0:09 - They both have that "This will not end well." look.
The actress doing the waitress is damn good also.
@@rickandosca8262 - I do have to wonder what kind of dining establishment doesn't have toast though. Terrible.
The person who MAKES this scene is not Jack, but his adversary, the waitress as portrayed by the late Lorna Thayer. She is PERFECT. Anyone else would simply not do. She was about 50 years old when this was filmed. It cannot have been "easy" being middle-aged at a time when youth was celebrated above just about everything else. You basically can imagine her entire life story through this brief scene. She's angry and at odds with the youth culture. She is hostile to Jack and his party even before any words are spoken. She's twitchy. She's damaged. Although Jack is seemingly the one who EXPLODES - who gets frustrated and loses it - - it is actually the waitress who explodes first - she has had enpugh of Jack's "smartness" and "sarcasm", but really it is so much more than that.
I was on her side when this film first came out. And I was 20. I believed (and still believe) that people who bully wage slaves (waitresses, clerks, nurses, teachers, etc.) are mean and cowardly. If you can't place the order the way you want to, you can always get up and quietly leave. It ain't the only restaurant in the vicinity.
@@constantreader8760 yeah well I’ve never heard of a restaurant never giving the customer exactly what they want. If he wanted toast she should’ve respected that. If a restaurant wants to stay in business then they shouldn’t say “no substitutions”
Excellent, truthful analogy. Nicholson is excellent but the waitress really is just so perfect. It would have been easy to just walk through her role.
Her deep-rooted, restrained hurt and soaring anger at life is immediate & steals the scene. Lorna Thayer deserved an award for making such a
stressful scene work to perfection. A whole film could have been made based on her character alone.
@@jeh500 hey thanks - I was hoping that more ppl would discuss this aspect of the situation- I really appreciate your comments
But jack was a mid-aged balding man lol
“You can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs.”
I was just in that restaurant a few days ago. It's a Denny's on I-5 in Eugene Oregon.
Cool......😀😀😀😀😀
Everyone who has watched this clip should do this at all diners across America!
Wait a minute, how the hell can a diner not have toast? Isn't that like one of the staples of diners? What bizarre fucked up diner doesn't have toast?
Neasyorc: Dude, they probably DID have a toaster to toast other stuff but this waitress was probably trying her luck and didn't wanna go to the extra trouble of bringing this guy some toast.
toast by itself wasn't invented til 1971.
Don't get violent dude.
The waites was probably just lazy
@@Aven-Sharma1991 probably lied about the rules. She had the prinitng place remove toast from the menu.
One of the greatest movie scenes of all times.
One of my favorite scenes. I adore Jack Nicholson
Honestly, though I hate customers who insist on ordering off menu, he was pretty well mannered and quite reasonable with his requests, even offering to pay the full charge for the sandwich. And she was actually kinda snooty, he *should've* talked to the manager after that whole ordeal instead of body slamming those drinks, he might not have been charged for the sandwich at all lol
hey if you don't like the restaurant rules, don't eat there, she was pretty clear about no substitutions and he kept trying to push her. knocking everything off the table and making the sexual remark was the last straw
@@essiewoo Still, her nasty attitude was pretty evident right from the start. It was clear he didn't understand the no substitutions policy at first, and yet her initial reaction was to take a belligerent tone as though she was reprimanding a schoolboy.
More importantly, what kind of diner or short order restaurant doesn't have toast as a side?
@@essiewoowell no restaurant should deny someone what they want if they wanna stay in business
….you know this is a movie right?
I love Jack! One of the best actors of all time! Amazing scene! This incredible voice! What a wonderful English language! Just a bow!
He does this in real life too. He once attacked a driver with a golf club, and smashed his car! 😅
@@kevinmalone3210 😂👍
The sweeping of the glasses off the table was apparently inspired by Nicholson actually doing this himself at one time while at a coffee shop.
How did you find that out?
He owned the mood, the script, the screen, everything. It takes extraordinary talents to make a simple scene like this become legendary. He was just about to turn into the Shining character towards the end when he says "hold the chicken." Too bad they left the best part out, when he destroys the entire table.
My goodness he was young in this!
Best scene AND performance ever! Jack Nicholson is the man!
Do you really think this is the best scene in all of cinema?
I love how he says "shut up" it's sexy 😂😂😂😂
Gay
You need to be put on a list, Mr. Dennis Mosher! Don't you understand how rough it is to be a woman these days?! Coward.
“shuddup”
and when he licked his lips after lol 🙃
I feel bad for the waitress. She was asked to do things that were beyond her comprehension. But this scene is about great lessons. It’s about creativity, pushing the limits of freedoms and the norms of society, testing people’s intelligence. What Nicholson was doing in that scene was being a reformer, preparing people like that waitress for things that were to come… Nicholson’s character was forcing people to think outside of the box…
Beyond her comprehension? No, just rude useless idiot liberals thinking everything has to bend to their way.
@@Akutikun This movie came out in 1970 and doubt that’s what the screenwriter was thinking when created this scene. It has nothing to do with liberals or conservatives. Jack forced her to think outside of the box and she wasn’t capable of doing so..
This made me laugh as I remembered the time my friend had a similar experience in New Orleans when he asked for an iced coffee. She said they don't do ice coffee, but they do coffee and they have ice, so.....
Classic classic classic … love it ❤love it ❤love it ❤… who hasn’t wanted to do this? I was 18 in college when i saw this … unforgettable 🎉🥳❤️
How can ordering a plain omelette, no potatoes, tomatoes, coffee & wheat toast be so difficult when it's just five easy pieces?
I see what you did there 😉
Omg you just cracked the code
@@connarmccain564 You can't make a plain omelette without cracking some codes
Jack would have been perfect to play Wolverine in his younger days.
Spot on! Jack did in fact play a character that starts taking on the characteristics of a wolf in the homonymous 1994 movie, which also stars Michelle Pfeiffer and James Spader.
Yep, with his temperament, he would've been perfect for that role.
I'd like a plain omelette. No potatoes, tomatoes instead. A cup of coffee and wheat toast.
This is just before M Douglas wanting a whammy breakfast 1 minute after breakfast stops in "Falling down"
But after Christoph waltz ordering cream for the strudel knowing its not kosher. "Inglorious Bastards "
Fantastic.😂😂
jack actually tried to work with her even said he would pay for chicken salad so she wouldnt break any rules
You tell em Jack.
'Evacuate the city, engage all defenses, and get Jack some wheat toast and tomatoes"
Terrific scene , very well underplayed by Nicholson. But the tag is missing, and it packs a bit of a sting; when they leave the diner the girls are all "Wow, man! That was GREAT!" to Nicholson. But Nicholson just sighs and says, "Yeah, but I didn't get my chicken, did I?" A great example in 70's cinema that shows sticking it to 'The Man' may not be as easy or fulfilling as you might think.
I don't know who else in Hollywood would have pulled off this scene the way Jack did, had someone else been cast in the role. Dustin Hoffman, maybe?
The obnoxious girl's delight in Jack's performance, clues us that what he did was very, very wrong. Throwing tantrums at wage slaves (waiters, salespeople, desk clerks) is weak and cowardly, no matter how "clever." Bet he wouldn't pull that nonsense with a loan officer, who would simply call security to escort him out.
@@constantreader8760 she could have just gotten him his chicken sandwich minus mayo, lettuce, butter and chicken
@@vincentsartain3061 Very similar to Dustin Hoffman knocking the glass into the wall while chastising Meryl Streep in Kramer vs Kramer.
@@constantreader8760 I think the waitress was rude and disrespectful before Jack (as his character) started getting ugly, so she's as much to blame for his tantrum as he is. But at least Jack (the actor) made the scene funny. 🤣
Jack Nicholson has been one of my favorite actors
I mean…I’m not excusing Jack Nicholson’s character reacting the way he did at the end, but the waitress was being pretty insufferable. I get that she wouldn’t want to get in trouble but the guy was giving her plenty of ways to avoid that and he was even willing to pay more for the chicken despite his request to not have it in favour of just the toast but she was still being difficult. At the end of the day, he wasn’t asking for a lot. Just tomatoes before he was told he can’t have it and then he changed it to toast only to be told he still can’t have it, even though he’s willing to pay more for chicken he know he won’t get just to have some toast. I’d get pretty annoyed too.
She should have said kiss my grits
*Alice* was not on yet when *Five Easy Pieces* came out
GREAT scene from a great movie. Jack is magnanimous in this. I have actually been to that Denny's in Eugene, Oregon. I was told when I was there that was the restaurant they filmed that scene at. The staff was much friendlier than this movie portrays, trust me, LOL
😊
You do that shit today, they call the cops and have you charged with damaging company property. Then you have a trespass order against you.
+Russell Nielsen People didn't do that shit back then either. It's a movie
People did, but actually restaurants were more accommodating back then. The idiocy shown in the rules and the waitress was just in its midpoint at that stage -- now it's full blown and people have been conditioned to it.
Nowadays the mentality of retail and restaurant workers is "you don't want to come here again? Fine with us. We don't need you. You're just one person. There are other customers that come in that are willing to make us money."
Or the patrons could call 911 and have the cops come down and get them to make toast for you.
I was arrested in a diner in downtown Buffalo for putting my feet up on the booth seats and being a smart ass about it. I spent the weekend in jail cause I had no money to pay the bail. True story from a life filled with at least 20 arrests. I had mostly forgotten about that though.
Jack Nicholson is the best :D
This movie deserves to be rereleased. This new generation lacks content like this. Then again, maybe they wouldn't get it.
Funniest thing today! I saw this movie 25 years ago.
That way you’re not breaking any rules.. lol why can’t she just get what he wants he’ll pay for both!
JFC why can't they make him his fking toast?
Well if they did that we wouldn’t have the typical over acted bs Hollywood scene
Great scene. Back when a movie rested on the screenplay and acting. Now it's CGI effects and blastem shootem with poorly choreographed fights that usually defy physics and human physiology.
Jack Nicholson can be categorised as a person with unconventional good looks👍
no such thing, you are either attractive or not
CLASSIC SCENE FROM A CLASSIC NICHOLSON FILM!!!!!!!!
Keep it between your knees amen Jack. ❤️👍
The customer's always right. 😆
The waitress represents the inflexible US establishment. Thanks to the Vietnam War, rebellious attitudes and feelings of outrage were in full flower by 1970, at least among the youth, and this scene was viewed as heroic to all who were fed up with following BS rules in all areas of society. These two-minutes cemented Jack Nicolson as America's quintessential nonconformist.
The waitress plays the part of someone who's tasked to uphold the management's rules but act charming and accommodating anyway. Today, Jack would be a natural to play a pitchfork & noose-shaking insurrectionist. Perhaps he's already been approached for the role. We'll see.
nerd
Yes. I read this scene as a form of rebellion, or at least challenging rigid, arbitrary rules and conventions that ultimately don’t help any party. Jack isn’t an agent of chaos who wants to get rid of rules, but finds creative ways to benefit both parties. He offers to pay full price for two menu items and subtract the parts that he doesn’t want. He gets what he wants and it costs the diner less to fulfill.
The waitress represents the bureaucrat who doesn’t want to make a judgment call and finds assurance in just following rules uncritically.
@@75aces97 or, she doesn't want to deal with customers who think they are smarter than the system, I'm sure she deals with people like this everyday
Freaking hilarious. I cant believe I've never seen that movie. Got to search for it
Doug Rice - You should. It's a good movie.
This movie is a cinematic masterpiece of character study. Everyone's acting is top level. This is a must see.
Bobby : I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee and wheat toast.
Waitress : [points at his menu] No substitutions.
Bobby : What do you mean? You don't have any tomatoes?
Waitress : Only what's on the menu. You can have a number two, a plain omelette, it comes with cottage fries and rolls.
Bobby : Yeah, I know what it comes with, but it's not what I want.
Waitress : Well, I'll come back when you make up your mind
Bobby : Wait a minute, I have made up my mind. I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes on the plate, a cup of coffee and a side order of wheat toast.
Waitress : I'm sorry, we don't have any side orders of toast. I'll give you an English muffin or a coffee roll.
Bobby : What do you mean you don't make side orders of toast? You make sandwiches, don't you?
Waitress : Would you like to talk to the manager?
Palm Apodaca : Hey, mac...
Bobby : Shut up.
[to the waitress]
Bobby : You've got bread and a toaster of some kind?
Waitress : I don't make the rules.
Bobby : OK, I'll make it as easy for you as I can. I'd like an omelette, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce, and a cup of coffee.
Waitress : A number two, a chicken salad sand. Hold the butter, the lettuce, and the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else?
Bobby : Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a cheque for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Waitress : You want me to hold the chicken, huh?
Bobby : I want you to hold it between your knees.
[Palm Apodaca sniggers]
Waitress : [points at a sign behind her] You see that sign, sir? Yes, you'll all have to leave! I'm not taking any more of your smartness and sarcasm!
Bobby : You see this sign?
[he sweeps all the glasses off the table onto the floor]
That waitress actress, Lorna Thayer was pretty cute here at 50yo in 1970...Looked like a 60s TV mom...
That's why Jack has 3 women sitting with him and other men have 1 unhappy women with them.
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Just give the man his side order of wheat toast god damn it.
chicken salad sand lol i love them
LOT OF RESTAURANTS IN FRANCE WOULD ACCEPT THAT KIND OF TWISTED MENU: COME IN FRANCE!
Instead of chicken salad, I would’ve ordered a BLT on wheat toast, hold the mayo, discard the bacon and lettuce, you have both the tomatoes and the wheat toast, no fuss or broken glass.
Keep the lettuce. It was him dismissing everything that caused this foolishness. But your plan was better than mine.
Sorry to say, but he **tried** to be patient with her 👀😂😂 Love Jack Nicholson!!!
I kinda love to be reminded of how brilliant Jack Nicholson was early in his career (Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Chinatown, Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining) when I see clips from his films. I saw "Chinatown" as a h.s. junior in 1974, and to this day it remains my all-time favorite movie: it has everything in a good period crime drama, and Nicholson is the center of it all. Jack has never been what you'd call a cover boy, but he somehow had magnetic good looks as a young guy, and a brilliant smile. He and my late step dad had the same smile.
All those parts were amazing. Only Jack could so beautifully portray someone who is his own worst enemy but nevertheless charismatic. He could have played the title role in a 70s movie about Jim Jones or Charles Manson.
I dont think anyone could see that sign in that resolution
i died when this scene came to pass..
I would have doubted Nicholson's mental wellness if he hadn't done what he did at the end..
First of all kids, don't do that. You will end up in jail.
Now, if you didn't live as s teenager back then, then you can't really appreciate that scene. It wasn't rebellion. It was outrage that whole inflexible, stuffed, ridged, pompous culture that we had back then, and just being fed up with the people in power lying to us about Vietnam.
It wasn't truly rebellion it was a growing outrage.
Gatekeeping of the highest order
@LiveOakOkie in a lot of cases you are sadly correct, but in this comment section I recently made a similar explanation to someone who didn't seem to understand the motivation behind Jack's behavior at the diner and she proved to be receptive to my thoughts on the matter. 😊
That waitress had it coming.
I absolutely love this scene
This scene represented the underlying theme of the film: a guy trying to go against the norms and rules of society
Jack Nicholson wanted to one up that diner scene from Easy Rider.
Jack explained that the incident was, "First-person autobiography [even Jack's chicken-salad speech in Five Easy Pieces (1970) was autobiographical]. In those days, I used to do that sort of thing." www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/the-rolling-stone-interview-jack-nicholson-19860814
🎂Happy 78th Birthday to the great Jack Nicholson!🎂
In honor of him in this🏆 Five Easy Pieces scene🏆& today being Earth Day, & both having been " established in 1970, " let's all raise our mugs & eat toast! 🍞☕
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KNOW THE EXPRESSION: "The customer is always right"?
I looked up this clip because my wife just came back from Kate Spade - she had 4 items at checkout - 1 was a gift for my daughter's friend who graduated. My wife asked at checkout for a separate bag (paper bag with Kate Spade logo) for the gift item. The salesperson at checkout refused - "Only 1 bag per customer" he insisted - My wife's argument - what if I had 10 items, would you stuff them all in one bag? - what if I purchase one, and then get back in line? What if I left the store put my first purchase in my car and came back for a second purchase? To all scenarios he said as long as they recognized her they would not give a second bag. Absolutely refused. My wife (who normally is extremely polite and non-assertive) reached her boiling point and walked out telling them they just lost a customer. #NeverShopKateSpade !!!
@ralphmacchiato3761 retail worker is an idiot. Customer is buying 4 expensive items you treat them more nicely, give them that extra bag for free even if it is going to cost you 50cents
He should have had the waitress from “Hell or High water”!!!! So what don’t you want?
this scene has a silver lining in its playbook.
And a star is born.