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[just after getting food at Dick's Drive-In]

Luke: [takes a sip of milkshake] "That's a pretty fuckin' good five-dollar milkshake!"

Eric: [small laugh] [long pause] What?

Luke: What?

Eric: That shake didn't cost five dollars.

Luke: Didn't you see Pulp Fiction?

Eric: Not all of it.

Luke: Did you see the part with the five-dollar milkshake?

Eric: No. I mean, if I had, I probably would have laughed at your joke.

Luke: Oh. Well, it was really funny.

Eric: The movie?

Luke: No, my joke.

[long pause]

Eric: Oh. [polite smile]