A scene from Stand by Me 1986
Teddy

Have you guys been watching The Mickey Mouse Club lately? I think Annette's tits are getting bigger.

Gordie

Yeah, I've been noticing lately that the "A"and the "E" are starting to bend around the sides.

Vern

Annette's tits are great.

Chris and Teddy

Yeah.

Vern

This is a really good time.

Chris

The most.

Teddy

A blast.

The Writer

[voiceover]

Vern didn't just mean being off limits inside the junkyard, or fudging on our folks, or going on a hike up the railroad tracks to Harlow. He meant those things, but it seems to me now it was more and that we all knew it. Everything was there and around us. We knew exactly who we were and exactly where we were going. It was grand.

Vern

[Teddy spits water at Vern; Gordie and Chris laugh]

Great! Spit at the fat kid. Real good. What time is it, Gordie?

Gordie

Um... [checks his watch] It's 1:15.

Vern

We better go get the food. Junkyard opens at 3:00. Chopper will be here.

Chris

Ooh, sic balls.

Teddy

[to Vern]

You go. You can pick us up on the way back.

Vern

I'm not going alone. We should all go.

Teddy

I'm stayin' right here.

Gordie

Yeah, man, I'm not goin'. I'm not goin' all the way out there.

Chris

Girls, girls, girls, cool it. We'll flip for it.

Gordie

Okay, odd man goes?

Teddy

That's you, Gordie, odd as a cod.

Gordie

[to Chris]

Flip or eat lead.

Vern

[The four boys flip their coins, and all have landed tails up]

Four tails! Oh, Jesus, man, that's a goocher.

Chris

Oh, come on, Vern. That doesn't mean anything. Let's go again.

Vern

No, man, a goocher. That's really bad. Remember when Clint Bracken and those guys got wiped out on Weed Hill in Durham? Billy told me they was flippin' for beers, and they came up with a goocher before they got into the car. And bang! They all got totaled! I don't like this, man, sincerely.

Teddy

Vern-o, nobody believes that crap about moons and goochers. It's baby stuff! Now come on, flip again. [to Vern] You gonna flip, or not?

Teddy

[They flip their coins again, and this time all show tails except for Gordie]

You lose, Gordie! [cackles] Gordie loses! Oh, Gordie just screwed the pooch! [laughs]

Gordie

Does the word "****" mean anything to you?

Teddy

Gordie, go and get the provisions, you morphadite!

Gordie

Don't call me any of your mother's pet names.

Teddy

[Gordie gets up to leave]

What a wet end you are, Lachance!

Gordie

Shut up!

Teddy

I don't shut up.

Vern, Chris, and Teddy

I grow up, and when I look at you, I throw up! [They point at each other's open mouths making gagging sounds]

Gordie

And then your mother goes around the corner and she licks it up.

Vern, Chris, and Teddy

Ooh!

The Writer

[voiceover]

Finding new and, preferably, disgusting ways to degrade a friend's mother was always held in high regard.

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