Inferior Quotations

IQ: 2025-12-01-1205 ok weird nashbille is unavbailble on criterionchannel.com but its still cached in the ipad app or whatever.

IQ: The following is a really rough and incomplete transcription begun on the last day Nashville was on our channel.

IQ: The red Beetle squeezing in.

Red sans serif text on yellow sign:
the
MINI ADULT
CINEMA

IQ: The reflection of Opal’s tape recorder.

IQ: Brilliant visual transition from one recording studio to the next.

Opal: I was making a documentary in Keenya.

[...]

Linnea Reese: Do you believe in Jesus.

Choir: Yes I do.

[...]

IQ: Ugh Frog’s clang on the keyboard, and then his exasperated gesture. Drool.

Haven Hamilton: Damn it to hell!

[...]

IQ: I love this transition across scenes:

Haven Hamilton: You getcher hair cut. You don’t belong in Nashville.

Green medium and bold sans-serif letters on white vertical panels:
WELCOME  TO
N A S H V I L L E

IQ: The aluminum frames for each sign are rickety, the O in WELCOME is nearly falling off. WELCOME uses a medium-bold weight geometric sans-serif style, and is smaller than N A S H V I L L E which is a taller, more [draftsman / mechanical / industrial / see PRAGUE sign] sans-serif style.

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White oblique sans-serif logotype on orange airplane tail: BI

Recorded audio of Hal Phillip Walker: As loyal citizens we accept our take-home pay, understand most of the deductions, and even to a degree come to expect them.

Black script on white airplane panel: BarbaraJean

Sueleen Gay: Eve’—kguh if we stay together ourr wholle lifetime throughh, I’ll never get enough I’ll never get enough I’ll never get enough o’ you.

White oblique sans-serif logotype on black panel on navy garment bag: BRANIFF

IQ: Maybe also INTERNATIONAL; I can’t see.

Arced white condensed sans-serif text on blue circle:
TENNESSEE
TWIRLING INSTITUTE

Red bold serif text on white circle inside blue circle: tti

Black outlined gold text nested inside a black and gold horseshoe decal on white 1974 Jeep CJ-5: HH

Three-dimensional metallic gold condensed text on orange background: studio1

Mr. Green: Hello Martha.! How are ya Martha?

L. A. Joan: I’m okay but uh listen—

Mr. Green: Pardon me.

L. A. Joan: –listen, uh I’ve changed my name—

Mr. Green: Oh..

L. A. Joan: —it’s El-A Joan, from now on.

Mr. Green: El-A Joan.

L. A. Joan: El-A Joan.

Mr. Green: ..wants to see you, is your aunt, Aunt Esther wants to see you, she’s in the hospital she duh’n feel too well—

L. A. Joan: Hang on, wait a minute.

Mr. Green: —an’ she’d like to see you.

L. A. Joan: Okay this guy’s a rock star. Wait hang on.. Can I uh, getcher autograph? You’re Tom aren’t ya. Tom Bill an’ Mary?

Tom Frank: Jesus you oughta stop that diet before you ruin yourself.

Bill: C’you believe this, they have our album here.

L. A. Joan: You know you an’ I were on the same plane.

Bill: Hey how’s it selling?

[Music-stand clerk]: What’s that?

Bill: Bill Mary an’ Tom.

[Music-stand clerk]: A little slow but we mostly sell country.

Bill: I’m the handsome one in the front I, don’t have my glasses on in the, picture but I.. wait a minute, wait a minute, Hal Phillip Walker looks exactly like Connie White.

Haven Hamilton: That’ll cheer her up, and Pearl shutup.

Haven Hamilton: Buddy say Hello to the people.

Bud Hamilton: Hi.

Haven Hamilton: Thank you Buddy.

Lady Pearl: Aw Buddy that’s lovely, ih’n that..

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IQ: Ugh the sleazy guy from The Conversation drool emoji.

IQ: Oh my god this nerd Norman prank-tapping Bill and Mary on their opposite shoulders.

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Haven Hamilton: Alright twirlers, let’s twirl!

IQ: The rifle people’s shirts each have a paper tti badge affixed to the left side to cover screenprinted text. I can only make out part of it:

Red bold condensed serif text screenprinted on white shirt:
CUM[?]
CO[?]

Gold metallic italic serif text on small brown plaque on wooden podium:
TEMPODIUM
[TEMPLE STONE EQUIPMENT CO, INC.® ?]

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Barbara Jean: I’d like to thank you, for coming out to greet me today. It’s great to be home, ’t’s hot as a firecracker.

Haven Hamilton: Haha-hahahahahaa..

Barnett: Wha’n the hell is so funny about that?

IQ: Haha nothing he’s hamming it up for the cameras redrool emoji.

IQ: Ugh Wade’s car’s amazing.

Recorded audio of Hal Phillip Walker [not carefully transcribed]: Did you ever ask a lawyer the time of day? He taught you how to make a watch, didn’t he.

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Bronzish brushed metal kind-of Art Deco text on concrete wall:
NASHVILLE
AIRPORT

Black hand-painted bold sans-serif text on white metal sign:
DO
NOT
ENTER

White condensed sans-serif text on 1972 Datsun 620 red-orange tailgate: TERMITE and PEST CONTROL

Red condensed sans-serif text on 1972 Datsun 620 rear bumper:
DATSUN       MILLINGTON, TENN.

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Bill: ’s is terrific Norman, terrific Norman, you could’ve taken I-Forty.!

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Wade: Hey man get off my car man don’t lean on my car, don’t lean on it I just got this god damn thing fixed so don’t lean on it now.. Oh Jesus Christ, uh..

[Uncredited?]: Hey man get the hell off my car.

Wade: Hey man you almost made me fall.!

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Opal: It’s the sadness of it all.

Albuquerque: See what happened’s he made million dollars on a fly swatta, because it had a red dot, in the cen’a.

Star: Fly swatter..

Albuquerque: Tha’s right.

Star: ..with a red dot.

Albuquerque: Ah just a red dot. He was sittin’ in the buffett, an’ he was eatin’ an’ he saw a wom’n, an’ she was swattin’ flies, an’ uh she, uh he said W’what makes a difference between in fly swatters ’cause it has to do with the Industrial Revo-Revolution.

IQ: God she’s to die for.

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Albuquerque: An’ then I wanna go t’ the Gran’ Ole Opry to have this..

Star: Gran’ Old Opry—

Albuquerque: Yeah.

Star: —forget dat.

Albuquerque: No.

Star: God damn it–

Albuquerque: Because..

Star: –I don’t like music.

Albuquerque: ..I have to have my reco’d..

Star: I’m goin’ up front an’ see what the hell’s g’m’n..

Albuquerque: I have a gol’ reco’d, an’ it needs to be signed, an’ we’re goin’ to the Gran’ Ole Opry. Go on!

IQ: Haha a yellow seven inch.

Star: Get the hell away from my truck will ya. God damn it.

Albuquerque: Shit.

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IQ: Opal assuming every star in Nashville is white, not knowing she’s talking to Tommy Brown.

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Lady Pearl: WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE IT WAS A HIT!

IQ: Did someone make a spoof Wunda Wunda song?

IQ: Shelley Duvall in a hospital.

IQ: Opal’s seriousness with the microphone recording.

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L. A. Joan: Yeah I’ve got a sick aunt down the hall. I just got in from Los Angeles a few hours ago. I’m El-A Joan.

Bud Hamilton: Ellie Joan?

Albuquerque: I knew this would happen. Don’t say ya saw me.!

IQ: 2025-12-01-1604 criterion channel app on ipad can’t play nashville anymore.

IQ: One of my favorite moments in all the moments in movies I remember is Albuquerque singing It Don’t Worry Me.