Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is a casual order for something horrible, which is what makes it so disturbing: the line sounds like a request for a waiter. Fans know it as the point where the film swerves from banter into nightmare, and it is quoted with a wince rather than a laugh.
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In context
Spoilers for Pulp FictionShow the scene
In "The Gold Watch", Marsellus Wallace and Butch Coolidge have been overpowered in the basement of Maynard's pawnshop and tied up. Maynard, played by Duane Whitaker, tells Zed to bring out the Gimp. Zed answers that the Gimp is sleeping, and Maynard tells him to go and wake him up. The scene is a cult shorthand for the film's most sinister stretch, when the story takes a sharp turn from hitmen's banter to horror.
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- Pulp Fiction (1994) script transcript, Springfield! Springfield!Pawnshop basement, 'The Gold Watch'Reference checked
- Pulp Fiction, WikipediaPlot summary and castReference checked
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