That Thing You Do! (1996)

Ethan Embry: The Bass Player

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Quotes 

• Guy : Hey, Uncle Bob, when are we gonna get these records?

  Uncle Bob : [thinks]  Ah... Luke 21:19.

  The Bass Player : And your patience possess ye your souls.

  Lenny : Luke? Who's Luke? When are we gettin' the records?

  Uncle Bob : Wednesday.

• Guy : If Jimmy's a genius, I'm U Thant.

  The Bass Player : Who's U Thant?

  Guy : He's the Secre... forget it.

• Faye : But I thought you already decided on The Echoes.

  Jimmy : Nah, some band in Buffalo's the Echoes. And I wasn't wild about that.

  Lenny : Let's just call us The - Band You're About To Hear.

  Chad : How about The Corvettes?

  Jimmy : Is that The Corvettes, or the Chordvettes?

  Chad : No, Corvettes, like the car.

  Jimmy : Well see, I was thinking like the Chord...

  [writes Chordvettes] 

  Jimmy : *Chord*vettes, like chords in our music.

  Lenny : [Guy walks in]  Is that "Skitch" Patterson?

  Chad : Here he is, Erie's lone beatnik.

  The Bass Player : How about the Tempos? Ya know, tempos?

  Lenny : Not the Tempos, Tempos. I was in a band already called The Tempos, and we were... terrible.

  Chad : Hey Guy, weren't you the drummer for the Tempos?

  Guy : Heard that.

• Phil Horace : I'm talking about Rock 'N' Roll shows in Steubenville, Youngstown, Pittsburgh, places like that.

  The Bass Player : Pittsburgh?

  Lenny : Steubenville?