What a coincidence to see this thread as I was JUST pondering this on a walk about an hour ago. Was listening to Dirty Rotten Soundrels and in the song Son of Great Big Stuff, Norbert sings "I get the dough, I get the broad, I'm gettin' rid of Sigmund fraud".
It seems unlikely the entire subplot of John Lithgow's character posing a pychoanalyist (or psychiatrist?) was reverse engineered so Yazbek could make this joke, playing off both Freud's profession and the wordplay of Freud/fraud. But I think it's just delicions. It's clever but also only works in a very specific way in reference to the plot of this show, which makes it even more impressive.
Another favorite of mine from this show is "She's down for fifty mil', in an addendum to his will, and where there's a will, there's a way". Also works on many levels at one time, being clever word play on its own, but also in service of the plot, manipulating someone for financial gain. |
