Lenny quotes from That Thing You Do! (1996)

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.

How about The Corvettes?

Jimmy

Is that The Corvettes, or the Chordvettes?

No, Corvettes, like the car.

Jimmy

Well see, I was thinking like the Chord...[writes Chordvettes] Chordvettes, like chords in our music.

Lenny

Is that "Skitch" Patterson?

Here he is, Erie's lone beatnik.

How about the Tempos? Ya know, tempos?

Lenny

Not the Tempos, the Tempos. I was in a band already called The Tempos, and we were... terrible.

Hey Guy, weren't you the drummer for the Tempos?

Guy

Heard that.

Know what that is?

Lenny

Pres - idential flash cards?

A bonus. Do you know why?

Lenny

I have no idea.

To entice you back! The word is out on you O-neders!

Lenny

Hey, that's O-nedders!

Jimmy

She told me never trust a label. And I'm beginning to believe her.

Lenny

Well, sure. I mean, come on. They put us up in a first-class hotel, all-expenses-paid, while our record climbs the charts; bunch of lyin' snakes.

Jimmy

Sorry I'm buggin' you! I guess I'm alone in my principles. [leaves the room]

Lenny

Oh come on. Oh, there he goes off to his room to write that hit song "Alone in my principles."

Lenny

Skitch, how did we get here?

Guy

I led you here, sir, for I am Spartacus.