A character in The Monkey (2025)

Bill Shelburn quotes from The Monkey (2025)

A line from Bill Shelburn

What do, uh, fathers and their estranged sons say to each other? "Road trip"?

Scenes with Bill Shelburn

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Bill Shelburn

You wouldn't happen to remember if, uh, my aunt had a wind-up toy monkey at the yard sale?

Barbara

Oh, not a cherished childhood memory now, was it?

Bill Shelburn

The monkey must be vanquished.

Hal Shelburn

Why won't you vanquish it, huh, Bill?

Bill Shelburn
[Beat]

You're smaller. You go.

Bill Shelburn

Does it hurt very much when you think, Ricky?

Thrasher

Well um...

Bill Shelburn
[Mockingly]

-Uh, -uh, -uh, -well, -well... Did you know that, uh, twenty-seven percent of all English-speaking people will either say 'horseshit' or 'holy shit' before they die? Now, it's funny, because death is the one big thing that'll happen to all of us, and yet we still can't help but be somehow surprised by it.

Thrasher

Right on, man.

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