BINARY

                   MIA (OS)
        Now I'm gonna ask you a bunch of
        quick questions I've come up with
        that more of less tell me what kind
        of person I'm having dinner with.
        My theory is that when it comes to
        important subjects, there's only
        two ways a person can answer.  For
        instance, there's two kinds of
        people in this world, Elvis people
        and Beatles people.  Now Beatles
        people can like Elvis.  And Elvis
        people can like the Beatles.  But
        nobody likes them both equally.
        Somewhere you have to make a
        choice.  And that choice tells me
        who you are.

                    VINCENT
        I can dig it.

                    MIA (OS)
        I knew you could.  First question,
        Brady Bunch or the Partridge
        Family?

                    VINCENT
        The Partridge Family all the way,
        no comparison.

                    MIA (OS)
        On "Rich Man, Poor Man," who did
        you like, Peter Strauss or Nick
        Nolte?

                    VINCENT
        Nick Nolte, of course.

                    MIA (OS)
        Are you a "Bewitched" man, or a
        "Jeannie" man?

                    VINCENT
        "Bewitched," all the way, though I
        always dug how Jeannie always
        called Larry Hagman "master."

                    MIA (OS)
        If you were "Archie," who would you
        fuck first, Betty or Veronica?
                           
                    VINCENT
        Betty.  I never understood Veronica
        attraction.

Filmgoers will immediately recognize the above exchange from Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino’s magnum opus.

The premise of the scene is that there are, in many areas of life, two choices, and one must come down on one side or the other. You cannot straddle the fence.

Do you know where you stand?

Elvis or the Beatles.

Betty or Veronica.

Bewitched or I Dream of Jeannie.

Dick York or Dick Sargent.

Contemporary Western Civilization or Radical Islam.

And, possibly most important of all...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)


Baby Bottleneck (1946)

Disney or Warner Brothers?

[Tip o’ th’ Elisson fedora to John Kricfalusi for putting up these fine animated clips.]