Dub over Dirty Dan
48 lines 3 characters 1:57 of footage Free · no account · phone or desktop
Take over every line of Dirty Dan and see how close you can get.
The scene
SpongeBob and Patrick beat each other with a stick over which of them is Dirty Dan. Forty-eight lines, and roughly twenty-five of them are some variant of I'm Dirty Dan
followed by a hit. SpongeBob has twenty-one, Patrick eighteen, and Sandy arrives nine lines from the end to ask which one is the real Dirty Dan and then beat both of them.
It is one joke repeated past the point of reason and then well past that, which is the joke. The escalation is entirely in delivery — the words barely change, so the scene lives or dies on how the same four syllables get angrier, more desperate and finally just exhausted. The last stretch is almost all heavy breathing and growling before Sandy throws SpongeBob and Patrick asks, from the floor, whether he won.
Who you'll be playing
Lines you'll be taking
all right pin head your time is up
Who you calling Pin head
I wanna be dirty dan
There are 45 more waiting in the studio.
Performing it
This is the rare scene where the script is no help at all: twenty-five near-identical lines means twenty-five different readings, and you have to plan the curve before you start. Begin cocky, get indignant, get frantic, end wrecked. The parenthetical hits are timing marks — let the hit land in the middle of the line and let it knock the word out of you. Sandy's nine lines should be flat and dangerous against all that squealing. In a room, SpongeBob and Patrick is the pair to split; solo, this is two minutes of shouting one phrase, so warm up first.
The dialogue is muted and everything else stays — the score, the room, the picture. You record each line over the silence and the scene plays back with you in the cast. How a dub is made · what the score measures.