13 brilliant (could be funny or dramatic or chilling) TV monologues. Name the series, the scene, the character giving the monologue and if possible post the scene.
1. Coupling - Steve Taylor - Lesbian Spank Inferno.
2. Family Ties- Alex's belief in God
3. The Andy Griffith Show - Barney Fife defends Andy Taylor
4. Babylon 5 - Londo's answer to the question "what do you want?"
5. Roseanne- Final episode
6. Knots Landing- Laura Says Goodbye to Greg
7. NYPD Blue - Andy Sipowicz's faith
Cannot find a video online, but it comes from Season 2, Episode 20 titled "The Bookie & the Kookie Cookie". The monologue ends the episode. Dennis Franz's Sipowicz has met with his soon-to-be-wife's priest ahead of their wedding and earlier in the episode we saw the beginning of their conversation but not the conclusion. That night at home Sharon Lawrence's Sylvia Costas asks how it went, what they talked about. Andy tells her.
ANDY SIPOWICZ
Terms of not filling out the questionnaire, beliefs and so forth.
I worked a case once. A couple's kid was missing. A 14-month-old kid, he wandered away in a park. And we're looking everywhere. And there's flyers we got out. And they're interviewed on the radio. The guy's a dog trainer in from the Midwest so he could take this special course with a German shepherd he's got. And the wife's half an oiler. You can tell she likes to drink. And I'm just getting this bad feeling from both of them. So I go at her a little bit. We're up in their transient apartment they rented. Finally she says, whatever happened, it wasn't her.
So now I'm looking at the husband. He's this...he's this horse-ball, tough guy. A fake Marine. And he's talking about how pets have to be disciplined, and the breakdown of discipline. And I'm getting worried what might have happened with this *******. And now she starts screaming it wasn't her. She was asleep.
The baby peed when the father was changing it. And it urinated in the guy's face. He threw the baby down and fractured its skull. And the baby lay there and died. "And what happened to the baby?," I wanna know. And she's still screaming. And I look at this dog. And this ******* is trying to get this dog away from me. Now I gotta cut open this dog's belly. I take him over to the vet center. We cut its belly open and we gotta murder this poor dog. And there's the pieces of the child inside the dog.
He wanted to know if I had lost my faith. I got faith in you.
*the irony that ABC television could use the word "*******" way back in 1995 but this site is still filtering it out never ceases to befuddle me