Movie  1982
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Sex Shop Salesman: Le Orgy Gel comes in lemon, mint, cherry or trail mix.
Paul: Trail mix?
Sex Shop Salesman: I was making a joke.
Paul: It's amazing what you can do with a cheap piece of meat if you know how to treat it.
Paul: Mary, I just killed a man.
Mary: He was a man. Now he's just a bag of garbage.
Sex Shop Customer: Have you got the latest issue of Nuns and Nazis?
Sex Shop Salesman: Tuesday.
Paul: Why don't you go to bed, honey? I'll bag the Nazi and straighten up.
Paul: [to Mary, after killing someone] Well, there's one consideration. If you'd done what he asked, he would have died anyway.
Susan - Swinger in Fur: We're into B&D but not S&M. We met at the A&P.
Mary: Why should we give up any of that money? We had to kill two people to get it!
Raoul Mendoza: You killed two people for less than a thousand dollars?
Mary: ...One of them shortchanged us.
Paul: A hundred-and-seventy-five-dollar-a-month rent increase! How are we going to pay that?
Mary: Don't worry. We can live on your insta-cash card for a month or so.
Paul: Don't you remember? It was canceled for non-payment.
Sex Shop Salesman: But I'm telling you - you're gonna need a lubricant for this vibrator. Unless your date's inflatable. Ha!
Paul: For your information, I'm buying this to use as a novelty cocktail stirrer!
Sex Shop Salesman: [shouts] Sure!
[Discussing cheap wine]
Customer: Really? Stomach cramps? But it's such a good buy.
Paul: Well, so is lighter fluid at three ninety-five a pint but I wouldn't serve it to my dinner guests.
Mary: At the store, can you buy a new frying pan? I'm a little squeamish about using the one we use to kill people.
Sex Shop Salesman: Okay, your vibrators start at $10.95 and go up. We've got the Salami, Man-o'-War and...
[pulls out huge vibrator]
Sex Shop Salesman: Alien.
Paul: Just give me the cheapest one.
Sex Shop Salesman: Wait a minute. There's nothing cheap about my store. You mean inexpensive don't you?
[pokes Paul on shoulder with "Alien" vibrator]
Sex Shop Salesman: Isn't that what you meant?
Paul: [intimidated] Yes.
Sex Shop Salesman: That's what I thought you meant!
Description
The Blands are a couple living in swinging Los Angeles with their ultra-conservative ways. They find it hard to live life in the midst of all of the completely obnoxious swinging bachelors. Their dreams of running a small restaurant seem to be in jeopardy until they devise a plan to off the swingers in their apartment building with the use of a frying pan to the head, dispose of the bodies and keep the wallets. This goes along quite well until one night a burglar named Raoul breaks in and cuts himself in for a piece of the action. Huge cult favorite comes to DVD for the first time!

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You'd think a black comedy about murder, tackiness, and sexual perversion would quickly become dated, but Eating Raoul (1982) feels surprisingly fresh and delightful. When Mary Bland (Mary Woronov) gets assaulted by one of the repulsive swingers from the neighboring apartment, her husband Paul (Paul Bartel) rescues her with a swift blow from a frying pan--only to discover a substantial wad of cash in the swinger's wallet. A lure-and-kill scheme follows, which nicely fills their nest egg until a slippery thief named Raoul (Robert Beltran of Star Trek: Voyager, making his film debut) stumbles onto the truth and insists on getting a share. When Raoul starts demanding a share of Mary as well, Paul has to take drastic steps. The key to Eating Raoul isn't the sensational content, but the blithe, matter-of-fact attitude Bartel and Woronov take to it; their sly underplaying makes the movie sparkle with wicked wit. --Bret Fetzer