The Cable Guy

The Cable Guy is a 1996 film about a cable guy who stalks his customers after installing his cable.

Directed by Ben Stiller. Written by Lou Holtz, Jr.

There's No Such Thing As Free Cable!(taglines)

Chip Douglas

• I can be your best friend or your enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.
• I'll juice ya up!
• Hey, Steve. I'm on a pay phone, so if you're there, pick it up. Pick up, pick up, pick up, pick up, pick up, pick up, pick up. Well OK, call me back.
• Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules!
• The blue knight rules! The red knight sucks the big one! Down, down, down. Right knight goin' down. Down, down, down. Right knight goin' down.
• I just wanna hang out! NO BIG DEEEEEAAAALLL!!!

Dialogue

Chip: (eating chicken at Medieval Times) Can I have your skin?

Steven: Sure.

Chip: Check this out.

(places pieces of chicken skin over his face)

Chip: Silence the lambs!

(imitates Hannibal Lecter)

Chip: Hello, Clarice. It's good to see you again.

(bursts out laughing)

Steven: Oh lord.

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(Chip is danging over over a ledge above the giant cable dish)

Steven: You'll be fine. I'll be your pal, just come on up!

Chip: No. It's too late for me, but there are a lot of little cable boys and girls out there who still have a chance! Don't you understand, Steven? Somebody has to kill the babysitter.

(drops from ledge and freefalls towards dish)

Taglines

• There's no such thing as free cable
• Once you're hooked... you're his
• Are you ready to get wired?
• For Steven Kovacs, the price of cable is about to go up.
• He’s a real live wire
• He came... He saw... He tormented...

Characters

• Chip
• Steven Kovacs
• Robin Harris
• Earl Kovacs
• Rick

External links

• The Cable Guy quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• The Cable Guy at Rotten Tomatoes