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It · 1986
The Losers' Club, It (1986)
Beep beep, Richie.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The phrase is a joke that is also a kindness: the Losers love Richie enough to tease him into silence, and it becomes a password to their childhood. Fans use it as the reply to any friend who is talking too much, and the 2017 film kept it as a running gag.
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Spoilers for ItShow the scene
In King's It, Richie Tozier does voices and cracks jokes at the worst moments, and the Losers learn to shut him up with "Beep-beep, Richie." The first use is in chapter 8. After Richie, Ben and Beverly escape Henry Bowers' gang in the alley behind the Aladdin theatre, they collapse on a bench outside the police station. Richie starts up a new Irish Cop voice at a policeman at a window, Ben tells him to shut up, and Beverly adds "Beep-beep." In 1985, at the reunion dinner, Ben holds his nose and cries it out again and the others join in.
Sources (2)
- It (1986), full text, Internet ArchiveChapter 8, after the alley fight behind the Aladdin; chapter 10, the reunionReference checked
- Richie Tozier, WikipediaComedy sectionReference checked
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