A scene from The Meaning of Life 1983
Padre

[As Arthur Jarrett is chased off a cliff by a crowd of nearly naked women in motorcycle helmets...]

Arthur Charles Herbert Runcie MacAdam Jarrett, you have been convicted by twelve good persons and true... of the crime of first-degree making of gratuitous, sexist jokes in a moving picture.

Distraught Male Voice

I just can't go on. I'm not good any more, goodbye... goodbye... aaaargh... Aaaargh.

Distraught Female Voice

[a leaf falls to the ground]

Oh my God. What'll I do? I can't live without him... I... aaaargh.

Distraught Children's Voices

[Another leaf falls]

Mummy... Mummy... Mummy... Daddy...?
[Two more leaves fall] '

More Distraught Voices

Oh no! Aaaargh!

Geoffrey

[the rest of the leaves fall at once] [Geoffrey is confronted by a hooded figure with a scythe.]

Yes? [Pause.] Is it about the hedge?

Grim Reaper

[Death interrupts an elegant party.]

Silence! I... have... come... for... you.

Angela

You mean... to...?

Grim Reaper

Take you... away. That is my purpose. I... am... Death.

Geoffrey

Well, that's cast rather a gloom over the evening, hasn't it?

Howard Katzenberg

[I]

don't see it that way, Geoff. Let me tell you what we're dealing with here. A potentially positive learning experience that can—

Grim Reaper

SHUT UP! Shut up, you American! You always talk, you Americans. You talk, and you talk, and say "let me tell you something" and "I just wanna say this". Well, you're dead now, so shut up!

Howard Katzenberg

Dead?

Grim Reaper

Dead!

Angela

All of us?

Grim Reaper

All... of... you.

Geoffrey

Now, look here! You barge in here, quite uninvited, break glasses, and then announce, quite casually, that we're all dead. Well, I would remind you that you are a guest in this house, and—

Geoffrey

[With a bony finger, the Grim Repear pokes Geoffrey in the eye.]

Ah! Oh.

Grim Reaper

Be quiet! Englishmen, you're all so **** pompous. None of you have got any balls at all.

Geoffrey

How did we all die at the same time?

Grim Reaper

[the grim reaper points at one of the platters on the table]

The Salmon mousse.

Geoffery

Dearest, you didn't use canned salmon, did you?

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